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Prairie Home 

by Thomas Dean

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A Place to Call Home 

by Bridget Brandt

A "rubber band community" is one that, no matter how far away you go, you always want to come back. This retired teacher explains.
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Finding A Home: A Young Farmer’s Journey 

by Kate Edwards

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My Integrated Life, Part III 

by Dartanyan Brown

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The Hottest Car in Town 

by Allan Moyer

There was a time for this retired farmer when Saturday night in his small prairie town was a hot car and someone to race.
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Cardinal 

by Chris Wiewora

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Violence Against the Earth Is Violence Against Women 

by Kandi White, Sebastian Braun

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Roadtrip 

by Tracy Harris

What's an East Coast transplant to do when she doesn't feel she fits in the Midwest? Fill a car with friends and head for Davenpo...
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What I Learned at the White Horse Ranch 

by Dan Weeks

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Pony Rides, Vice-Presidents and Weddings in the Rain Welcoming the World to Our Farm

by Shirley Moyer

A farm is many things: a business, a home, a way of life. For this farmer, it was a thing to share with the whole town.
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A Child’s First Taste of Freedom 

by Sam Cox

A costume, a pillow case, a couple of friends, and a whole town to roam in: that was Halloween for this coffee shop owner.
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Healing the Smallest Casualty 

by Randall Hotchkin

It's a long way from Iraq's battlefields to running a small town barbershop. But because of a little boy's smile, maybe not so fa...
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His Ambassador 

by Damian Johansson

Grief is this writer's companion as he drives from Red Wing, Minnesota, to Minneapolis.
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Up Hill Both Ways Tales We Tell About School

Helen Johnson

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Harvesting Wheat in the 1940s 

by Beryl Clotfelter

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Belltower Triptych Part I: Ding Dong 

by Mary Swander

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Finding the Midwest: A Journey in Six Parts 

by Greg Brew

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A Woman and the Land 

by Denise O’Brien

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Freedom and Equality’: Missouri’s East Wind Community 

by Agnes Ohlenbusch

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Growing Up in Kansas 

by Donald Janzen

Anthropologist Don Janzen examines his own background in his essay about his father's homesteading childhood in early 20th centur...
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Belltower Triptych Part II: Which Way the Wind Blows 

by Mary Swander

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My Boyhood Days on a Farm (1943-1961) 

by John B. Teigland

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This Old House 

by Sam Pérez

When you move into an old house in a small town, you inherit that house's history and, sometimes, its former residents.
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My Integrated Life, Part I Part 1

by Dartanyan Brown

Musician, journalist, educator with a 40-year career in the arts--our contributor has folded together multiple extraordinary lives.
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Roots of Stone 

by Michele M. Brennhofer

When this Minnesota writer's family farm became a regional park, she kept her family memories.
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Ode to Liberty #6 

by Mary Richardson McBee

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Belltower Triptych Part III: Birthday Presents 

by Mary Swander

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The Tie That Binds 

by Howard McDonough

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From My Table to Yours 

by Ann P. Hall

A small-town restaurant is where the local foods movement gets real.
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My Integrated Life, Part II 

by Dartanyan Brown

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Finding the Lost Duck 

by Colin Lewis-Beck

Where can you find the essential Iowa? Not in a single place, as this writer found, on the road with his father and a van full of...
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Havensville 

by Kay Henry

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Fly Fishing in the Driftless Region 

by Michael Burt