May 9, 2024 | Kansas, Kansas, Literary Landscapes, Nature, Nonfiction, Volume 14
Sarah Smarsh Rural Kingman County Murdock, Kansas By Taylor Krueger 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 Farm Crisis,...
May 9, 2024 | Kansas, Kansas, Literary Landscapes, Nature, Nonfiction, Uncategorized, Volume 14
Miriam Davis Colt Vegetarian Settlement Company Allen County, Kansas By Pete Dulin 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 Company, a planned...
May 4, 2024 | Kansas, Kansas, Literary Landscapes, Nature, Nonfiction, Volume 13
Jotham Meeker The California Road Franklin County, Kansas By Diana Staresinic-Deane 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 north and vanishes...
May 4, 2024 | Kansas, Kansas, Literary Landscapes, Nonfiction, Novelists, Volume 13
Truman Capote 1112 Gillespie Place Garden City, Kansas By Rosemary Hope 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 the beginning of...
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 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 that announces...
Sep 30, 2023 | Author Houses, Literary Landscapes, Missouri, Nonfiction, Volume 12, Writers of Color
Peter H. Clark 1909 Annie Malone Dr.St. Louis, Missouri By Marc Blanc Peter H. Clark lived in St. Louis when it felt like its brightest days were still ahead. Relocating from Cincinnati to the north St. Louis neighborhood called the Ville in 1888, the teacher and...