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I’m a Radio Reader from Canyon, Texas. This spring the HPPR Radio Reader’s Book Club is exploring the theme – a sense of place. In Gail Caldwell’s A…
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I’m a former Kansas poet laureate and fifth generation Kansan. I am proud of my Lenape (Delaware) heritage. Vietnam was a tragic time for the large number…
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Some have compared what seems to be a political and social revolution pitting conservatives and progressives today to a parallel, although profoundly…
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Hello, Radio Readers! You know, when HPPR wanted to explore a High Plains sense of place, I was a little skeptical. That our terrain and lives are…
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I’m curator of art and western heritage at the Panhandle Plains Historical Museum at West Texas A&M in Canyon, Texas. I’ve been asked to comment on this…
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I’ve been thinking a lot about the influence of “place” on who we become and whether or not that influence ever wanes. In A Strong West Wind, an account…
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In A Strong West Wind, an account of a Texas high plains girlhood, author Gail Caldwell evokes a sense of place through many descriptive passages, often…
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I’m a High Plains Public Radio Book Club reader from Northwest Kansas. It’s time to think about our third novel of this season, A Strong West Wind by…
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I’m a writer in Canyon, Texas, and I’ve been asked to talk a little about this month’s Radio Readers Book Club Read, A Strong West Wind by Gail Caldwell.…
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A Strong West Wind: A Memoir by Gail Caldwell is the third book in the 2016 Spring Read. “In this exquisitely rendered memoir set on the high plains of…