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Ken Dufour is going Hollywood, via LeClaire, Iowa.

Dufour, a Rockford businessman who may be best known here as a trustee of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, is the latest Rockfordian to be featured in an episode of American Pickers. He’ll be on this Monday, Dec. 12, to appraise an antique plane engine.

Ken Dufour at Emery Air in Rockford, Oct. 14, 2010. AMY J. CORRENTI | ROCKFORD REGISTER STAR

American Pickers is a popular History Channel show featuring the antique hunting adventures of Mike Wolfe and Frank Fritz, who search the country for treasures in barns and junk piles. Wolfe …

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