PRAIRIE GOLD SOME IOWA MEMORIES
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
Jon Hagadorn
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🗓️ 20 September 2023
⏱️ 24 minutes
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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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| 1:00.1 | 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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