• Age: 46
• Interview Date: 7/16/2008
• Interviewer: Mark R. DePue, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum
• Interview Length: 40 minutes Sit Down Interview, 67 minutes Walk and Talk Interview
• County: Calhoun
• Robert Wieneke was born in 1961 in Hardin, Illinois and grew up on the family farm dating back to his great-great grandfather who emigrated from Hanover, Germany. Robert discusses the evolution of his family farm, as well as the switch from growing apples to peaches and starting a wine operation.

Wieneke Farmstead, 1893: Charles and Mary Wieneke (great-grandparents), Bill, George, Rose, and RoyCharles and Mary Bush Wieneke with Family on Farm, 1940sGertrude Wieneke (grandmother), Leroyand Rosemary (parents), and ChildrenLeroy and Rosemary Wieneke (parents), 1960