Nancy Warner's photographs and David Stark's interviews and reflections provide fresh perspective on the history and culture of a distinctly American phenomenon. Continuing in the tradition of Solomon D. Butcher, who photographed some of the first midwestern settlers in the nine…
Photographs by Nancy Warner accompanied by the words of Nebraska farmers and residents.
Nancy Warner's photographs and David Stark's interviews and reflections provide fresh perspective on the history and culture of a distinctly American phenomenon. Continuing in the tradition of Solomon D. Butcher, who photographed some of the first midwestern settlers in the nine…
"It is a curse in this family that the women bear only daughters, if anything at all." So begins this elegy of the women of the Nebraska plains. This is the story of the Atkins family, who settle, farm, and raise three generations from the early years of this century. In partic…
"My Farm on the Mississippi is a memoir by the German writer Heinrich Hauser about his experiences while living in Perry County in southeast Missouri from 1945 to 1948. Born in Berlin in 1901, Hauser was an accomplished journalist and novelist who had published at least two doze…