Hello, Radio Readers. I’m Jane Holwerda from Dodge City, Kansas. Up next for our Fall 2022 Read, “Rural Life: Revisited,” is Annie Proulx’s That Old Ace in the Hole, with shifts in perspective from that of the novel we’ve just been talking about, Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio.
Hello, Radio Readers. I’m Jane Holwerda from Dodge City, Kansas, for our Fall 2022 Read: Rural Life: Revisited. Sad news, friends. We are about to wrap up Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio, a novel set in a small rural town around the early 1900s.
Hello, Radio Readers. I’m Jane Holwerda from Dodge City, Kansas, for our Fall 2022 Read: Rural Life: Revisited.Toward the end of Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio, a novel set in a small rural town in the early 1900s, Anderson describes a county fair, in his world, an annual autumn event that transforms the sleepy burg into a kind of human maelstrom, with crowds filling the streets, stores and sidewalks of Winesburg.
Hello, Radio Readers. I’m Jane Holwerda from Dodge City, Kansas, for our Fall 2022 Read, “Rural Live: Revisited.” Sherwood Anderson’s novel, Winesburg, Ohio, is set in a small rural town in mid-America of the early 1900s, a time in history when phones, automobiles, and electricity were not yet available through rural America.
Hello, Radio Readers, and welcome to conversation about our Fall 2022 series “Rural Life, Revisited.” I’m Jane Holwerda from Dodge City, Kansas, and our first book is Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio. Published in 1919, this notable book depicts small town rural life.