Oct 18, 2024 | Author Houses, Literary Landscapes, Nonfiction, Novelists, Ohio, Volume 15, Writers of Color
Toni Morrison Childhood Home Lorain, Ohio By Tara L. Conley “This region (Lorain, Elyria, Oberlin) is not like it was when I lived here, but in a way it doesn’t matter because home is a memory and companions and/or friends who share the memory. But equally important...
May 9, 2024 | Kansas, Kansas, Literary Landscapes, Nature, Nonfiction, Volume 14
Sarah Smarsh Rural Kingman County Murdock, Kansas By Taylor Krueger 🎧 Listen at HPPR During Sarah Smarsh’s childhood, driven by poverty and necessity, she moved frequently between the Kansas prairie and nearby metropolitan Wichita. Born on the precipice of the 1980s...
May 9, 2024 | Kansas, Kansas, Literary Landscapes, Nature, Nonfiction, Uncategorized, Volume 14
Miriam Davis Colt Vegetarian Settlement Company Allen County, Kansas By Pete Dulin 🎧 Listen at HPPR Concern loomed like a thunderhead in this untamed place. Miriam Davis Colt, her family, and other settlers intended to make their home in the Vegetarian Settlement...
May 4, 2024 | Kansas, Kansas, Literary Landscapes, Nature, Nonfiction, Volume 13
Jotham Meeker The California Road Franklin County, Kansas By Diana Staresinic-Deane 🎧 Listen at HPPR On a rise above Ottawa Creek in Franklin County, Kansas, a shallow depression roughly six feet wide hugs the southern boundary of a battered cemetery before it veers...
May 4, 2024 | Kansas, Kansas, Literary Landscapes, Nonfiction, Novelists, Volume 13
Truman Capote 1112 Gillespie Place Garden City, Kansas By Rosemary Hope 🎧 Listen at HPPR This is the story of my house and the foursome who gathered for dinner Christmas Day 1959: Truman Capote, Nelle Harper Lee, and my parents, Dolores and Clifford Hope Jr. It was at...
May 4, 2024 | Author Houses, Kansas, Kansas, Literary Landscapes, Nature, Nonfiction, Volume 13
Nellie Maxey Edwards County Historical Museum and Sod HouseKinsley, Kansas By Joan Weaver 🎧 Listen at HPPR Starting in Washington, D.C., you can drive U.S. Highway 50 all the way to San Francisco. Along the way is the small Kansas town of Kinsley with a towering sign...
