What do we know about her? She was just a kid really, no more than two years old, but she…
James C. SchaapNovember 22, 2019
One of the cement plates standing in the park holds an image of the house she lived in here in…
James C. SchaapOctober 25, 2019
Religious visions were everywhere in the years preceding the Civil War. Boom towns out west here may have been hell…
James C. SchaapOctober 11, 2019
Out in the middle of nowhere, the old white frame building is all that remains of a heart-felt dream that,…
James C. SchaapSeptember 27, 2019
It's not a particularly good picture, but it'll have to do. That's our house up at the top, maybe fifty…
James C. SchaapSeptember 13, 2019
I don't know how exactly--or who--told me I had to read Beloved. I do remember having a single copy of three…
James C. SchaapAugust 30, 2019
George Catlin, Ioways--note feathered headman's pipe When you're nine, I'm guessing you don't think much about the word sacred. We were…
James C. SchaapAugust 16, 2019
Hattie says that just before her mother got married, she’d left the farm to start working in a grocery in…
James C. SchaapAugust 2, 2019
Let me tell you a story: Fifteen years ago, I was in line at a grocery store, behind two Hispanic…
James C. SchaapJuly 19, 2019
