Return with Emma to her house on the prairie, the wind in her hair as she galloped to the pasture on her horse to round up milk cows.
The eleventh of twelve children, Emma was born in 1920 in the sod house her Papa built on the Homestead. She and her three sisters cuddled in one bed for warmth, milked cows, shucked corn, butchered beef, helped Mama cook for threshing crews, and hauled water to wash clothes.
Farm life was hard, but not without rewards. Papa and Mama guided with firm but loving hands, expecting everyone to do his or her part. But when the work was done, Emma and her sisters had fun without store bought toys, computers or televisions.
This personal history is part of the cultural history of a nation, showing how life in an earlier time shaped a generation.
Emma move beyond the prairie to Iowa, Georgia, Maine, Colorado and Oregon, but says, "the prairie has never left me."
2006 - Emma wrote her second book "beyon the Silent Prairie, A Love Story. It is a sequel to the first bbook and takes you through college, the army, marriage to her life partner and their life together fo almost 66 years.
After losing her husband in 2009, Emma published her third book at age 89, "Inspirations and Reflections", a bbook of poetry and some short stories.
