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Webs on Sand Hill Plums The popularity of my past sand hill plum blog posts has verified my feeling that sand hill plum jelly is as pop...

William Cullen Bryant It has been my habit during April Poetry Month to devote a blog to poetry.  You may visit the blog archives for p...

Some books read in the innocence of childhood raise complex issues today.  Helen Bortz remembers:  "There was a series of stories th...

For all my love of books, I regret that I ignored a wonderful set available on the bookshelves of my home when I was a child.  My grandpa...

What fun I am having!  Last week when I posted the blog about Bill Martin, Jr.'s children's books, I had no idea so many people wou...

Every generation of children has its favorite books.  My childhood reading was very eclectic.  On Saturdays when we went to town to shop,...

Isaac's Pinnacle Hill There was high ground on Isaac's homestead claim that he called "pinnacle hill."  Several years...

The enjoyment of a book is a wonderful thing in itself.  Beyond that, however, are the paths that lead away from every book you read.  If i...

Once there was a community called Livingston located in Richland Township southwest of St. John, KS.  Isaac Werner attended a Union Labor...

Perhaps when you read the title of this blog and then saw the painting of a buffalo you expected a story about the warmth of buffalo rugs...

A fallen Cottonwood tree It was not that trees could not grow on the prairie.  Rather, it was that the prairie fires that swept across ...

Ad from the local County Capital  When the copy of Edward Bellamy's book, Looking Backward, arrived, Isaac Werner entered in his jo...

Barbed wire against an Osage Orange post Isaac Werner homesteaded in 1878, when many settlers still regarded the prairie as a land of o...