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Glenda Shepherd, Stanton County Kansas

Glenda Shepard

HPPR Radio Readers Book Club Contributor

Glenda Shepard is a native southwest Kansan who, born in Elkhart, grew up in Richfield and graduated from Rolla High School. If those names sound familiar, you’re probably a native southwest Kansan, too. Glenda is a listener and sustaining member of HPPR since its inception in 1980. She says she surely hopes she’ll be able to continue her support into the future.

  • Scenes and Incidents from the Recent Terrible Blizzard in Dakota on January 12, 1888 - The storm came with no warning, and some accounts say that the temperature fell nearly 100 degrees in just 24 hours. The blizzard killed 235 people including many children.
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    2026 Fall Read: Not a Garden
    Glenda Shepard
    I'm Glenda Shepard of Yucca Corners farm in rural Stanton County KS. On a 100 plus degree day in August, I have for you my Radio Readers BookByte of The Children's Blizzard by David Laskin.
  • A drawing of Burnett's Mound, located in Shawnee County, Kansas. It was originally called Webster's Mound and possibly known as Knox's Mound. 1850 - 1870
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    2026 Fall Read: Crucial Chapters
    Glenda Shepard
    I'm Glenda Shepard from Yucca Corners Farm in rural Stanton County KS. This is my third Radio Readers BookByte for And Hell Followed With It Life and Death in a Kansas Tornado by Bonar Menninger. In this BookByte I'm going to look at Chapters Two, Four and 19.
  • Menninger’s book includes a personal story about Bill Kurtis’s reporting of the infamous Topeka Tornado of 1966 which launched Kurtis into a whirlwind career in broadcast journalism. The story is told by Kurtis himself in his book Whirlwind, 2025.
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    2026 Fall Read: Favorites
    Glenda Shepard
    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?"
  • On June 8th, 1966, a tornado touched down at about 6:50 pm four miles south and a half mile east of Dover, KS (southwest of Topeka). The twister didn't lift until 41 minutes later just east of the Billard Airport (northeast Topeka).
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    2026 Fall Read: Direct Hit
    Glenda Shepard
    This is Glenda Shepard and my Radio Readers BookByte for And Hell Followed With It: Life and Death in a Kansas Tornado by Bonar Menninger. This book scores a direct hit with High Plains Public Radio's theme of wind and weather.
  • Tracks of all Tropical cyclones from 1900 to 1949 with effects in Florida, using the color scheme from the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale.
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    2026 Fall Read: A Mystifying Radio Readers BookByte
    Glenda Shepard
    I'm Glenda Shepard. This is my book byte for Florida by Lauren Goff. I never seem to read The Radio Reader's Book Club books in order. For this fall's list I first listened to Florida and next The Children's Blizzard as audio books.
  • “a sneeze is the Rolls Royce of bacterial vehicles”
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    2026 Fall Read: What has Changed?
    Glenda Shepard
    I'm Glenda Shepard from Yucca Corners Farm in Stanton County KS. This is my Radio Readers BookByte for Heaven's Breath: A Natural History of the Wind by Lyall Watson. When I first started this book, I was a little intimidated. It has thousands of scientific and Latin names, most of which I kind of glided over. Gliding is a frequent topic in the book.
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    2026 Spring Read: Radio Too Important to be Out Of
    Glenda Shepard
    Hello, I'm Glenda Shepard from Yucca Corners Farm in Stanton County KS. HPPR's 2026 Spring Radio Readers Book Club theme is Route 66: 100 Years on the Mother Road. In1926 Route 66 opened in Chicago and traveled to Santa Monica CA.
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    2026 Spring Read: The Shrinking American Dream
    Glenda Shepard
    This is Glenda Shepard from Yucca Corners Farm in Stanton County KS. This is my Radio Readers BookByte for The American Dream by Shing Yin Khor. This is the second book in HPPR’s Spring Read of 2026 for the Radio Readers Book Club.
  • Girl tending fire in shack home
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    2026 Spring Read: Muley Graves Survived
    Glenda Shepard
    The Joads and 2.5 million other Oklahomans and Midwesterners left the dust bowl for California. Grapes of Wrath chapter 19 “And then the dispossessed were drawn west—from Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico; from Nevada and Arkansas families, tribes, dusted out, tractored out.”
  • Cimarron County, Oklahoma
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    2026 Spring Read: The Joads Would Have Been Detained Today
    Glenda Shepard
    This is Glenda Shepard and my Radio Readers BookByte for Grapes of Wrath, part of the 2026 Spring Read for HPPR's Radio Readers Book Club. Imagine the Joad family trying to make its way from Eastern Oklahoma to California. I can think of one reason they could make the trip and at least 6 reasons for stopping them.