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Today on All IN we talk with farmers and orchard owners about how they manage in the busiest season of the year. Many look forward to their annual trip to pumpkin patches and apple orchards to pick up fall treats and decor. How has the weather affected the crops this season? What keeps people coming back?

Students drop out of school for a variety of reasons - behavioral issues, truancy, or a lack of resources within the school to address a student’s particular needs. However, some Indiana schools are marking students that drop out as home-school transfers, which means the school’s graduation rate is unaffected.

The 28th Heartland International Film Festival, an 11-day celebration of independent film, begins this week in Indianapolis. Over 200 films from around the world are showcased at the festival, including some from Indiana.

About 20 years ago the White River experienced a toxic discharge from an auto plant that wiped out over 4 million fish. Since then, the river has been on a long journey of restoration.

The Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana Authors Awards were put on hiatus this year. The statewide nonprofit Indiana Humanities has taken over the contest, and is turning it into more of a book award than an award for an author’s body of work. 

We end every week at All IN with The Friday Pitch-In, where we catch up on some of the biggest news stories happening in Indiana. This week we cover a proposal to set aside the state’s old-growth forest land, a legislator’s proposal to restructure the state’s Board of Education, a challenge by religious conservatives to the RFRA fix, and an update on the United Auto Workers’ GM strike.

This month, which is National Bullying Prevention Month, Indiana University Kokomo will welcome spoken word poet Shane Koyczan to campus. Koyczan’s work is focused on bullying – being bullied and becoming one himself. His YouTube video “To This Day” has gotten over 23 million views, and led him to do a TED Talk on the topic. 

Towns in and around Brown County are already seeing more visitors than usual, and the leaves have barely begun to change. In a few weeks, traffic will be backed up along State Road 46, and the town of Nashville will be flooded with tourists. How does Brown County, Indiana deal with over a million leaf gazers in the span of just a few weeks?