This is an excerpt from Broncs and Honkytonks, a forthcoming play in the 2022 season of The Bridge. This dialogue is addressed directly to the audience. A. Cowboys got rules, just like other folks. B. There are just some things you don’t do. A. That’s right. For example: B. You […]
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By Karen Christensen Karen’s story is the latest in the Free River Press series on ideas for building an Agricultural City. While Karen’s work is not concerned with rural communities, we in rural America have much to learn from what she and her colleagues accomplished in Aurora, Illinois. Links […]
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Freely Adapted into English Owen Christianson Great! The sorcerer—and that’s strange! Has left me here alone today! Now his spirits, for a change My wants and wishes will obey! Having memorized Spells, steps and stages, By my great mind fertilized, Magically I’ll sport and play, And […]
By Roger D. Isaacs Roger attended the University of Chicago, the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and graduated from Bard College in 1949 with a major in Language and Literature. While still at Bard, he joined The Public Relations Board in 1948 where he became Chairman and President from 1975 to […]
By Jim Dale In a small town named Rudd At the south edge of a large flat plain of rich glacial deposit in north central Iowa lays a small town named Rudd. Half way between Mason City and Charles City you know you are approaching as you travel highway 18 […]
By Rudy Gonzales Note: Rudy Gonzales lives in Tucumcari, New Mexico and wrote this story during a writing workshop I conducted there in 2010. Rudy is a retired sign painter and a man with a lot of stories about the old days in Roy. Ken Burns recent history of […]
NOTE: Brian DeVore has a degree in agricultural journalism and wildlife biology from Iowa State University. He grew up on a crop and livestock farm in Cass County in southwestern Iowa and, while serving in the Peace Corps, managed a dairy cooperative in Lesotho. He was a contributor to the […]