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Hello, Radio Readers. I’m Jane Holwerda from Dodge City, Kansas, with the sad news that it is time to wrap up our 2021 Spring Read “Cultures in a Common Land.” To think of the people, places, and ideas we’ve experienced by reading together since January through April is impressive. I’ve been thumbing through the books and listening again to the Book Bytes on HPPR’s website, and I’ve recognized some personal growth, as I seem to experience, whenever I return home, after a good travel.
I mean, think about it…through the books in this spring series, we’ve been to Africa, California, Southeast Asia, and the upper North American Midwest. We’ve explored the winds and wounds of revolution and religious dogma, communication breakdowns and medical maltreatment, the displacement and near genocide of the first peoples of the Plains. Many of us have winced, wiggled uncomfortably in our skins, felt guilt for our parts, and empathy with the pain of those displa
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Hi, I’m Valerie a radio reader from Topeka and I’m in the middle of reading Neither Wolf Nor Dog: On Forgotten Roads by an Indian Elder by Kent Nerburn. This book is part of HPPR’s radio readers book club with the theme cultures in common.
I’m only on chapter 5 and there is so much to talk about in this book, but one thing that sticks out to me most recently is the author’s new-found love and appreciation of the prairie. As a native Kansan it warms my heart to hear the land described as something as other than flat or fly-over country. So, to read phrases like, “the hypnotic power of the land” and “the billowing, waving prairie grasses were symphonic in their ebbs and swells,” makes me happy (31).
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