Volume II, Issue 2

Spring 2016

This issue is transitioned to our new static platform in the Fall of 2022. Its content is also available for download as a single PDF using the link provided above.

The National Water Dance Comes to the Prairie

by John Brady

EDITOR'S NOTE

Editors’ Note

INTERVIEW

Jana the Biking Beekeeper

Sarah Arena

POETRY

Poetry of Cultural and Spiritual Identity

by Stephanie Snow

Birds of the Prairie

What I Learned at the White Horse Ranch

by Dan Weeks

PHOTO ESSAY

Three Photographs

by Elle Duncombe-Mills

Up Hill Both Ways Tales We Tell About School

Helen Johnson

Albert Kahn’s Architecture Comes to Grinnell

by Dan Kaiser

Underground Skies

by Ajuna Kyaruzi

Breaking the Silence on the Farm Crisis What We Can Learn From It

by Emma Thomasch

Rabbit Drive

by Todd Kincaid

INTERVIEW

“We Lived There Ourselves for Forty-some Years” Lives Spent on the Iowa Prairie

by Emma Thomasch

ESSAY

Barn Quilts in Poweshiek County, Iowa

by Janet Carl

POETRY

Minnesota is a Temperamental Artist

by Michelle Harris-Love

CLOSEUP

Closeup: Steven Herrnstadt

by Steven Herrnstadt

The Medicine Rock of South Dakota

Corey Wannamaker, on behalf of the Dakota Sunset Museum

A Taste of Utopia: A Brief Introduction to Fairfield, IA

by Lane Atmore

Closeup: Dubbeldee Kuhn

by Jill Dubbeldee Kuhn

INTERVIEW

Living on Quicksand

Jon Andelson, Madeline Warnick, and Karin Stein