Crocus or Pasque flower. Prairie sign of Spring
A site for those who love the prairies
and its people
Blogs and photos by Avis R. Anderson
Recommended reading:
(1) The Splendid and the Vile
by Eric Larson (2020 Random House)
(Churchill, his family, Germany and the blitz)
(2) This Tender Land
by William Kent Krueger (2019, Atria Books)
(A novel set in 1932 of four orphans running away.
Minnesota prairies and the Mississippi River.)
(3) **The Warmth of other suns:
the epic story of America's great migration
by Isabel Wilkerson. (wonderfully informative)
(4) "The Heart of Everything that is" :
the untold story of Red Cloud, an American legend
(Simon and Schuster, 2014)
by Bob Drury and Tom Clavin
(5) Being Mortal
by Atul Gawande / Henry Holt & Company, 2014
(6) Dakota by Kathleen Norris, 1993
(A spiritual geography of the prairies.)
To all earth's creatures God has given the broad earth, the springs, the rivers, and the forests, giving the air to the birds, and the waters to those who live in water, giving abundantly to all the basic needs of life, not as a private possession, not restricted by law, not divided by boundaries, but as common to all, amply and in rich measure. --Gregory of Nazianzus (Dakota)
A site for those who love the prairies
and its people
Blogs and photos by Avis R. Anderson
Recommended reading:
(1) The Splendid and the Vile
by Eric Larson (2020 Random House)
(Churchill, his family, Germany and the blitz)
(2) This Tender Land
by William Kent Krueger (2019, Atria Books)
(A novel set in 1932 of four orphans running away.
Minnesota prairies and the Mississippi River.)
(3) **The Warmth of other suns:
the epic story of America's great migration
by Isabel Wilkerson. (wonderfully informative)
(4) "The Heart of Everything that is" :
the untold story of Red Cloud, an American legend
(Simon and Schuster, 2014)
by Bob Drury and Tom Clavin
(5) Being Mortal
by Atul Gawande / Henry Holt & Company, 2014
(6) Dakota by Kathleen Norris, 1993
(A spiritual geography of the prairies.)
To all earth's creatures God has given the broad earth, the springs, the rivers, and the forests, giving the air to the birds, and the waters to those who live in water, giving abundantly to all the basic needs of life, not as a private possession, not restricted by law, not divided by boundaries, but as common to all, amply and in rich measure. --Gregory of Nazianzus (Dakota)
