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High Plains Outdoors: Calling Wild Boars

In this episode of High Plains Public Radio’s One Small Step podcast, we meet Carole Geier and Debbie Reynolds.

Little Spouse On The Prairie: The Art Of Cooking

I’m so glad there are people in the world that view cooking as an art because I do love to eat. My husband, given the opportunity, would enjoy experimenting in the kitchen.

One Small Step Podcast: Episode 6

In this episode of High Plains Public Radio’s One Small Step podcast, we meet Nancy Harness and Eric Keller.

Virginia Cavaliers were royalist supporters in the Royal Colony of Virginia. An anonymous pamphlet published in London in 1649 gives a glowing account of Virginia, describing it as a land where "there is nothing wanting," a land of 15,000 English and 300 negro slaves, 20,000 cattle, many kinds of wild animals. Those who responded to the invitation to resettle were the ancestors of George Washington, James Madison, James Monroe, John Marshall, and of many others of the First Families of Virginia.

CRT: School and Comfort Lies – An Old Battle Continues

This is Mike Strong, in Hays, for HPPR. The graphic history book is “March” by John Lewis, in a three-book package, as a trilogy. The inspiration to create John Lewis’ “March” as a graphic book trilogy was a 1957 comic book about Martin Luther King. That same year, 1957, the state of Virginia published a work they had commissioned in 1950, a history of Virginia, a textbook to be used in the Virginia schools. Among its topics is slavery in Virginia.

New Orleans. Can’t Ride Together

This is Mike Strong in Hays, KS for HPPR. The book I'm reviewing is March, a graphic history by John Lewis that's a three-book trilogy.

It was the Hotel Albert in Selma, Alabama, at which Martin Luther King, Jr. attempted to register, an act which tested author and activist John Lewis’ commitment to nonviolence.

Moving Pictures

This is Mike Strong, in Hays, for HPPR. The graphic history book is “March” by John Lewis, in a three-book package, as a trilogy.

Graphic Novels – Worth a Thousand Words

Hello, Radio Readers. I’m Jane Holwerda from Dodge City, Kansas. Believe it or not, we’re just about to the end of our Spring 2022 Series “Graphic Novels: Worth a Thousand Words.” Book Leaders and Radio Readers will be getting together for a live on-air discussion on Sunday, May 1, at 6pm. Please join us! You can count on lively and thoughtful conversation—and thousands of words—about Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis; Nora Krug’s Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home; and John Lewis and Andrew Aydin’s March.

Growing on the High Plains: Celosia

Today's Growing on the High Plains sends up praises for an easy-to-grow annual (that's also very easy on the eyes!).

Leonard Reed was instrumental in getting Joe Louis into the PGA and for enjoying many games of golf as well as enduring many pranks inaugurated by “The Champ.”

Interview with Lenard Reed on the Champ - Pranksters and Passing

Mike Strong with an interview of Leonard Reed, about a time when it was illegal for blacks and whites to be in the same taxi. Reed’s friend, black heavyweight champ Joe Louis used this fact to play a joke on Reed in New Orleans. This oral history is told by Leonard Reed and recorded in person by Nicole English and me.

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