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|  | | Beyond the Silent Pairie, A Love Story
This book is the sequel to Prairie Rattlers, Long Johns and Chokecherry Wine. Publish America will release it soon. It's a story of the rest of my life from childhood to retirement and the elderly years.
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P class=DefaultText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%">Sister Ruth and I graduated from ?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />st1:place>st1:PlaceName>Sorum/st1:PlaceName> st1:PlaceType>High School/st1:PlaceType>/st1:place> in June of 1939. Ruth, si | | | | Inspirations and Reflections, 89 Years of Life and Love
This is a collection of poems written by the author over a period of years, while raising her family and after retirement. It turns out to be a total labor of love for her family.
| |  | | Prairie Rattlers, Long Johns and Chokecherry Wine: Memoirs From the Silent Prairie
This is the Rubys instead of the Waltons, and Emma's little house on the prairie. The eleventh of twelve children, Emma was born in 1920 in the sod house her Papa built on a South Dakota 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. When the work was done, they had fun without store-bought toys or television. The family survived rattlesnakes, drought, the Depressions, blizzards, and illness -- except Rose, who died at seventeen. Return with Emma to the prairie, win in her hair as she galloped on her horse Randy, sunsets unblocked by buildings or freeways, line-ups for Saturday night baths, and life-shaping education in a one-room country school.
STRONG>Excerpts from Chapter 7 "Long Johns and High Top Shoes"BR>/STRONG>BR>In the winter, deep blankets of snow covered the prairie. Raging blizzard winds whipped and curled it into huge white drifts. That made every farm chore more difficult, but the ice and snow also brought happy times. BR>BR>Fun in winter included sleigh riding, skating along the curves of the creek, and playing games such as Fox & Geese. After a fresh snowfall, we stomped out a big circle in the snow and made six paths across the circle to make it look like a huge pie. One person was chosen to be the Fox and th |
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