Spring returns to Freemartin on the wings of purple martins. Host Mary Swander describes the birds' behavior and habitats, their houses and the ways the Amish feed these birds. A neighbor traces the journey of a button from an old factory on the Mississippi River to the beak of a purple martin, to South America and back. Scenes from an Amish reunion in a one-room school house and a Mennonite child's discovery of a book on world mythology, a text that sends her on a journey of her own world travels.

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Today's episode was produced and mixed by Rick Brewer of Brewhaha Audio Productions.