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...
Oct 5, 2021 | Indiana, Literary Landscapes, Novelists, Volume 3
KURT VONNEGUT The Kurt Vonnegut Museum & LibraryIndianapolis, IN By Laura Beadling Like many, I found and loved Kurt Vonnegut somewhere in my miserable teenage years. Slaughterhouse-Five is now one of my favorite novels to teach, whether in Great American Books or...
Sep 17, 2021 | Literary Landscapes, Missouri, Nonfiction, Novelists, Personal Essay, Volume 2, Writers of Color
William Least Heat-Moon River-Horse PavilionColumbia, Missouri By Kit Salter In March 1995, my wife Cathy and I went to wish Godspeed to Columbia, Missouri, resident William Lewis Trogdon as he was leaving for New York City to begin a 103-day nautical journey, which...
Sep 11, 2021 | Author Houses, Literary Landscapes, Nebraska, Novelists, Volume 1
Wright Morris Boyhood HomeCentral City, Nebraska By Nathan Tye For Wright Morris, home was both a physical place and emotional ache. Born in Central City, Nebraska, in 1910, Morris made his life elsewhere, but returned to the Platte Valley in his writing and...
