Sunset on Willa Cather Memorial Prairie From My Ántonia: “There was nothing but land; not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made.” One night of my recent trip through Nebraska was spent in Red Cloud, where Willa Cather grew up. While there, I spent time reading the writing of [...]
Last Saturday the USA Pro Cycling Challenge raced through Boulder twice. It was fun to be a spectator and no event could have fit this town better. Our son took the above photo of the breakaway group entering Boulder canyon to begin their climb into the mountains to loop around Nederland to Lyons before returning [...]
Fertility, 1939 by Grant Wood; Lithograph. Spencer Museum of Art, Univ. of Kansas. Note that the following writing (August 4, 2012) is by Walter P. Falcon, Farnsworth Professor of International Agricultural Policy (Emeritus); Deputy Director, Center on Food Security and the Environment, Stanford University. I asked Dr. Falcon if I could publish this here since [...]
