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James C. Schaap

James Calvin Schaap is a retired English prof who has been something of a writer for most of the last 40 years. His latest work, a novel, Looking for Dawn, set in reservation country, is the story of two young women joined by their parents' mutual brokenness and, finally, a machine-shed sacrament of reconciliation. He writes and narrates a weekly essay on regional history for KWIT, public radio, Sioux City, Iowa. He and his wife Barbara live on the northern edge of Alton, Iowa, the Sgt. Floyd River a hundred yards or so from their back door. They have a cat--rather, he has them.

All about D-day

I didn't know him--couldn't have. He was killed four years before I was born. For years I wouldn't have known…
June 7, 2019

Remembrance

The only means of getting man and woman, beast and wagon across the rain-swollen Niobrara River was by rope, hand…
April 26, 2019

Our small corners

"Why are they called Canada geese?" our third-grade grandson asked us last week. It seems no one really knows; after…
March 29, 2019

When nothing is something

We visited Stratford-upon-Avon, of course, toured Shakespeare's house and watched the Royal Shakespeare Company perform Julius Caesar in the Royal Shakespearean Theater.…
March 15, 2019