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The first one was twelve feet wide, still quite a production because Jesus, Mary, and the babe were mud-sculptured, then baked, then painstakingly painted. Back
It was my idea to bring in an expert. For a couple of years in the 90s, I was chair of a board that ran
What do we know about her? She was just a kid really, no more than two years old, but she was cutting edge, a propeller-driven
It’s purple. Well these days, some twenty hot years of Dakota sun later, St. Charles Church looks a bit pink; but originally it was purple.
One of the cement plates standing in the park holds an image of the house she lived in here in Earlville, a little white house
Religious visions were everywhere in the years preceding the Civil War. Boom towns out west here may have been hell holes for a time, but
Out in the middle of nowhere, the old white frame building is all that remains of a heart-felt dream that, as an answer to prayer,
It’s not a particularly good picture, but it’ll have to do. That’s our house up at the top, maybe fifty yards or so away from
I don’t know how exactly–or who–told me I had to read Beloved. I do remember having a single copy of three Toni Morrison novels–one of them
