Strange place to start, but let’s just go for it.Ninety-five years ago, just about everyone in Sioux City would have recognized Mother Bloor, a…

Jim Schaap quotes Emily Dickinson and tells of the Oklahoma land rush.

A story of Ward Academy in Academy, South Dakota, written and read by James C. Schaap.

It was a highly fashionable method of getting across the Atlantic, a cruise ship bigger and faster than any other. A cruise ship with its own electrical…

A native nurse in Liege, Belgium, is called upon to attend to a native soldier who has lost his legs. Years later, the two find each other again.

A Calvinist witch doctor haunted the reformed areas of Siouxland.

Jim Schaap finds himself naked with an audience.

Jim Schaap meditates upon the tree Anne Frank observed outside her window as he lays upon his hospital bed watching a maple.

Jim Schaap, caught by the image of a falling barn, imagines the pasts that are beyond recall and remembers that pasts that are difficult to confront.

When farmers kidnapped a judge, outside agitators like Mother Bloor were blamed.