For High Plains Public Radio Readers Book Club, I’m Shane Timson in Colby, Kansas. Today we are going to discuss the Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck. I want to talk about the beginning and the end of the book before we get into the middle because the way Steinbeck frames it is just brilliant.

An almost forgotten episode in Kansas history concerns the establishment of a National Forest Reserve in the sand hills south of the R-Kansas (also called the Arkansas) River.

Hello, Radio Readers! I’m Jane Holwerda in Dodge City, Kansas, weighing in the American classic The Grapes of Wrath. Alluding to both the New Testament book of Revelations and the American abolition song The Battle Hymn of the Republic, the phrase “grapes of wrath” promises justice for those who suffer and to those who caused it.

Have you seen the price of meats at the grocery store lately? Game meat can go a long way to helping to lower your family's food bills, and this week, Luke talks about how!

This week Classical Music Amarillo is playing performances by the WT School of Music faculty!

Growing vegetables in your garden should be a joy, not a pain, but sometimes it helps to take a step back and think about how much you may be straining to maintain your plants. You can save yourself from this strain (and possible injury over time) by considering ways to make your plant caring easier, and less wear-and-tear on the gardener, which we'll discuss in this week's episode!

Hello. My name is Cheryl Berzanskis and I’m speaking to you from my local stretch of the Mother Road, Amarillo. High Plains Public Radio’s 2026 Spring Read features that beloved highway, all 2,400 miles of Route 66 across eight states and three time zones. As the historic highway turns 100, BookBytes aims to celebrate its past and present influence on America.

Hello, I’m Juan J. Morales, an assistant professor of English at Colorado College and a poet in Pueblo, Colorado, here for Poets on the Plains. Today I’m pleased to share with you a poem by Denver poet, Emily Pérez, titled I Wanted a Full Dose of Never-Mind of Not Ever.

Hello booklovers, this is Miriam Scott from Amarillo Texas for the HPPR Radio Readers Book Club. Today I want to introduce John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath. I have to tell you; it’s been a long time since I read this essential and unfortunately timeless book.

Early-day travelers on the Santa Fe Trail developed a shortened route that took them through the Southwest corner of Kansas. Known as the Cimarron Cutoff, or Dry Route, the sixty-mile stretch between the Arkansas and Cimarron Rivers was a perilous route for men and animals in dry seasons, when wagon trains often ran out of water.