For High Plains Public Radio Readers Book Club, I'm Shane Timson in Colby, Kansas, and today we are talking about the book The Wizard of Oz. In most cases, the movie never overshadows a book, but in this case, the movie definitely overshadowed the book.

In 1803 the United States acquired most of the Great Plains with the Louisiana Purchase. For more than 60 years the region, with its windswept seas of grass and wildflowers, represented America’s last frontier. However, the Homestead Act of 1862 brought, during the next 30 years, nearly six million settlers who tried to replace grass with agricultural crops.

I'm Glenda Shepard from Yucca Corners farm in rural Stanton County KS. I belong to a book club. We meet the last Wednesday of the month at whatever location works best for our members. Part of our discussion always includes "What was your favorite part of the book?"

Tune in to Classical Music Amarillo this week to hear the Amarillo Symphony perform an unlikely pairing of pieces!

Larry had to head over to the Choctaw Lodge early, so in this week's episode, he joins us from his truck...don't worry, he's not driving! Tune in to hear plans of our upcoming hunting trip together.

Yep, it's fall once again, and time to think both about what you can do to clean up this year's garden, and also what you can do now for next year's garden. Check out this week's episode to hear how you can get across the finish line this fall!

I’m Martin Fulmer from Goodwell, OK, here for the HPPR Radio Readers Book Club’s 2026 Fall Read. When I first encountered The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, I probably gave very little thought to Kansas. Like most people, I was interested in getting Dorothy to Oz.

Hello listeners, I’m Alysse Kathleen McCanna, here for Poets on the Plains. Today I’m thrilled to share a poem with you by Nicky Beer. Nicky Beer is a bi/queer writer, and the author of Real Phonies and Genuine Fakes, winner of the 2023 Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Poetry.

Bonar Menninger's and Hell Followed with It takes readers through several documentary perspectives of the 1966 EF-5 tornado that decimated parts of Topeka. Menninger’s clear interest throughout this book, beginning with the title and epigraph, is attempting to find the “why” and the “how” in the metaphysical explanations residents reached for in the storm's aftermath—the stories people sometimes must tell themselves to make sense of something so catastrophic.

A child born in Vermillion, Kansas, in 1881 and transported by covered wagon into the rugged Oklahoma Territory grew up to become "The Sagebrush Artist”, Oklahoma’s own Grandma Moses.