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Thank you for joining us on the High Plains Public Radio Station. My name is Jessica Sadler and I am a Science Teacher and STEAM facilitator in Olathe, Kansas. I am here with the other book leaders to discuss Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. This piece of classic literature explores the entrapments and desires for freedom that many people still experience today in various ways.

Hi, I am Marco Macias, a history teacher here at Fort Hays State University. Thank you for tuning in, and welcome to a BookByte of The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border, a fascinating narrative from Francisco Cantu. In the book, he describes his experiences growing up on the border and then pursuing a career in border patrol for several years. Traversing through the desert, he learns to understand the inhumanity of forcing immigrants across the desert and returns to civilian life. Afterward, he discovers the particularities of family separation as an undocumented friend visits his dying mother and can’t come back after decades of living in the United States.

Hello, Radio Readers! I’m Jane Holwerda from Dodge City, KS. Welcome to more conversations about “Rivers and Meandering Meanings,” as we wrap up Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, that 19th century American novel set on and around the Mississippi River.The final chapters play out a complicated plan devised by Tom Sawyer to help Huck Finn steal Jim back. That Tom Sawyer becomes an agent of change in this novel seems a puzzling plot device. But it is a device in keeping with Twain’s parody of the novels of French author Alexander Dumas, like The Count of Monte Cristo and The Man in the Iron Mask.

Greta: Hello. Can you tell me about how you came to Dodge City and why you are here?Maria: I came here because I love this country. I came here to see my sister. I was in Mexico and I came crossing the river. The Rio Bravo. It was dangerous. It was hard. But I came here because the life is better than my country. This is a blessed country. I love this country.

There are a few weeks that early season deer hunters are well aware of when deer that have been frequenting their corn feeders suddenly go through a major change in diet.

We started dropping the R soon after setting off. It all began when I printed out maps of two possible routes to get from Leutasch, Austria to the tiny country of Lichtenstein. We had barely recovered from our exhausting experience on Germany’s Autobahn, so perhaps that’s why we chose the route that went through only rural areas in the Alps.

Today's installment of Growing on the High Plains comes from a story I encountered in the Sunday paper. It features an ethnobotanist from the sunflower state and his study of the coneflower (also known as echinacea).

This is Leslie VonHolten traveling through the High Plains of Kansas, with another HPPR Radio Readers Book Byte.The books we have read so far for our rivers series have explored history and terrain, with the river serving as the path of travel. For Max McCoy’s Elevations, the travel was a deeper understanding of place and self. For Mark Twain, Huck Finn, and Jim, the river represented freedom—freedom from the past, both personal and as a nation desperately in need of moral change.But Francisco Cantu’s memoir, The Line Becomes a River, complicates the role of the river. This time it is the Rio Grande, the highly politicized demarcation between Mexico and the United States.

As we left the city of Mozart, we were tired and hungry. I had to use the restroom, but the line at the museum was long.

This week Luke talks about hunting with big bore airguns and gives some good insights into how to get started. With ammo in short supply more and more hunters have become interested in learning about hunting with airguns. Click and listen as Luke gives you the inside scoop.