BEST OF (#24 ORF 473) BREAD and THAT IOWA TOWN from PRAIRIE GOLD

1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales

Jon Hagadorn

Fiction, Arts

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🗓️ 2 August 2024

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

In 1914, when America sent many of her young men to fight for Europe's freedom, a call was put out throughout the state of Iowa for written articles and stories about life in Iowa which would be combined into a book which would be sent to the young men from that state who away fighting. These two stories were included in that book, which is called Pioneer Memories. For those of you who have never been in Iowa-its still pretty much as described-and its still very rich farmland.

Bread- by Ellis Parker Butler That Iowa Town- Oney Fred Sweet

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0:00.0	And the Yeah, Welcome back everyone to one thousand one classic short stories and tales. This is your host John
0:34.6	Hagenorn and it's great to be with you today. We have two stories for you today,
0:38.8	one, Bread and two, that Iowa town.
0:43.0	Today's short story, Bred by Ellis Parker Butler,
0:47.0	is a selection from the 1917 book, Prairie Gold.
0:51.0	We have featured a story titled Prairie Gold, some Iowa memories two years ago, and it
0:56.4	continues to be one of our most popular stories, so I thought it might be a good time to
1:00.4	offer another.
1:02.2	What made this book Prairie Gold so unique was that when America
1:05.4	enter World War I on April 4th, 1917, a lot of Midwestern boys signed up and other people
1:12.1	of Iowa thought it might be good if they could take a
1:14.2	book along with them which would remind them of what they had left behind so they put
1:18.8	out the word for all interested writers in Iowa to contribute and they did in large numbers and this is one of those
1:25.9	contributions and now bred by Ellis Parker Butler. They came to Iowa in a prairie schooner with a rounded canvas top and where the canvas was brought together at the rear of the wagon, it left a little window above the tailboard. On the floor of the wagon was a heap of hay and an old quilt out of which the matted cotton protruded.
1:48.0	And on this, Martha and Eben used to sit looking out of the window.
1:53.0	Martha was a little over two years old,
1:55.0	and Eben was four.
1:57.0	They crossed the Mississippi at Muscotine on the ferry.
2:00.0	It was about noon and old Hodges, the crew of the fairy, who was as crooked as the branches of an English oak because the huge branch of an English oak had fallen on him when he was young, took his dinner from his tin pale. He looked up and saw the two eager little vases.
2:15.0	Want a bite to eat?
2:17.0	He asked, and he peeled apart two thick slices of bread,
2:21.0	thickly buttered, and handed them up to the two youngsters.
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