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  • "Charlie's Ruts": Santa Fe Trail ruts, visible at historical-marker pulloff on U.S. Highway 50/400 between Lakin and Deerfield in Kearny County, Kansas. The ruts have formed swales; the camera is facing northeast, up one swale. The vegetation in the bottom of the swale is taller and appears darker than the short grass on the high areas between the swales.
    Landmarks of a Childhood
    I’m Raylene Hinz-Penner from North Newton, KS, retired professor of English and author of East of Liberal: Notes on the Land, published last year. I’m planning to be in Liberal at the Coronado Museum talking about that book on Sunday afternoon, February 25. I’d love to see you there.
  • Are We Capable in 80 Years?
    I’m Jarrett Kaufman for HPPR.The book in review is Lucas Bessire’s, Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains. The book was published in 2021 and garnered numerous honors, including the George Perkins Marsh Prize and the Bonney MacDonald Outstanding Western Book Award.
  • Haskell County, Kansas. Virtually every farm in the county is primarily dependent upon wheat, although a number of farmers plant sorghums and small grains for feed and sale, raise feeders or sheep, keep large flocks of hens and try in other ways to make part ot their income independent of the wheat crop. At this particular time the wheat was coming up well, and there had been sufficient rain. Prospects for making a crop were good, but in this country good prospects don't mean much. This picture shows one of the two irrigation wells in operation. This one can flood thirty or forty acres of land. Wells like these are very expensive, and while they practically guarantee a crop of sorghums on the land they serve, they cannot be used on the wheat land itself. No well could possibly irrigate a tenth of the wheat land that a farmer would need to make a living.
    Running Out Surprised Me
    Two years ago, in what now looks to be a great feat of prescience, my wife recommended I read a new book that was abuzz in the Social Sciences, Lucas Bessire’s Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains. At the time, I think I met the recommendation with a fair amount of skepticism.
  • The Water Thief by Nicholas Lamar Soutter, 2012
    Book Leader Jarrett Kaufman Discusses "The Water Thief"
    It’s the future and both air and water cost. Step out of line and you’re tossed into the lye vats. When Charles Thatcher finds a woman stealing rainwater, he sees opportunity to move up, to become an executive.
  • Ryman, one of the authors of the Mundane Science Fiction Manifesto and his collaborators believed that much of science fiction was too escapist and they thought that setting their stories in a world closer to our own would give the narratives more political and social power. This is their depiction of life on Mars.
    Mundane Science Fiction
    I’m Jarrett Kaufman for HPPR.The book in review is Nicholas Lamar Soutter’s The Water Thief. The novel was published in 2012 and was awarded the Clarion Foreword Science Fiction Book of the Year and the Kirkus Star.
  • Planting the Plains: Organic Fertilization Methods
    This week, we’ll talk about how to fertilize an organic garden! There are a number of natural fertilizers created using composted or dried organic matter that can easily be applied or incorporated into the soil with your plants. Let’s talk manure...and a lot more!
  • Corporations as Person Parody. “ Put your hand on your wallet and repeat after me . . . We the Corporations, transcending the boundaries of nations in order to protect us from the people, insure our right to extract and exploit, provide the defense of profit with impunity, and secure the blessings of wealth and privilege for those who have it already, do ordain and appropriate this Constitution of the United States of America.” January 21, 2011
    Corporations are not People
    I love satire but have to admit that I’m slightly frightened by what could be seen as seeds in today’s world blossoming in Nichola Lamar Soutter’s The Water Thief. Satire as realism is not particularly funny.
  • High Plains Outdoors: Striper
    Luke's guest this week is Bill Carey with Striper Express www.striperexpress.com on Lake Texoma. Bill gives some early spring striper catching tips and these two old friends discuss some great ways to turn those striper fillets into great table fare.
  • Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
    Self Interest vs Cooperation
    I’m Jarrett Kaufman for HPPR.This is the fourth and final review of Nicholas Lamar Soutter’s science fiction novel, The Water Thief.
  • Crossing the Arkansas River at Dodge City, Kansas between 1900 - 1919
    The Dry Ark and Lost History
    I'm Hannes Zacharias, former resident of Dodge City, speaking for High Plains public radio, radio readers book club. The book is Running Out by Lucas Bessire, published in 2021.
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