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1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales

PRAIRIE GOLD SOME IOWA MEMORIES

1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales

Jon Hagadorn

Fiction, Arts

4.51.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Two stories containing memories of small towns and home on the farm in Iowa from the 1917 book "Prairie Gold". This book featured a collection of "home" stories to remind the boys fighting on the front in WWI that home would be there waiting for them.

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to 1001 classic short stories and tales. Many of the stories I choose provide a unique

1:06.3

historical perspective which allows you to see a different time and place

1:09.9

through another person's eyes. In so doing, your knowledge of how the world has changed

1:15.7

and your ability to compare and contrast different periods of history is increased.

1:21.6

History should teach more than just names, dates, and events.

1:25.0

And that's always been my goal. Literature, especially classic literature, is history's showcase window.

1:32.0

The stories we bring you today are not classics, but they

1:35.5

are an historical treasure. Imagine being able to travel back in time 100 years and

1:42.1

then having a chance to sit down with someone who wants to share

1:45.2

just how much his world has changed in the past years. In the process of my research,

1:50.7

I came across a book called Prairie Gold, published in 1917, and filled with stories from a collection of Iowa writers and journalists whose purpose it was to bring a little feeling of home to the many young men who had recently

2:03.8

left the states to fight for freedom against tyranny in Europe in the Great War.

2:08.6

World War I. Copies of this book were sent to the front lines so that many young men could try to remember just what home was like.

2:17.0

I found the stories to be compelling and straightforward,

2:21.0

and they provide access to a window of time which wasn't that long ago

2:25.0

here in America. I hope you will enjoy them. For those of you who share our show

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