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Jim Tillman shares his experiences and memories of growing up in Sioux City, Iowa, exploring themes of nostalgia, identity, and community. Tillman recounts his childhood, including their time at West Junior High school, Gilman Terrace, and 17th Street.

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There's no fort there anymore. Unlike Laramie or Robinson or Scott or Wingate, where you can still almost hear the history, Ft. Randall has only a…

Like just about every other town from sea to shining sea, Hennesey, Oklahoma, will celebrate its own pioneer days this summer--parades and burgers, gospel…

He was just 23 years old when, in 1957, he won the MVP award. I was in third grade, and hard as it might be to believe, I don't think I thought of him as…

When James Fennimore Cooper complained about the novel he was reading, his wife told him to put up or shut up, to write a better one himself. That tiff…

Inspiration can strike from anywhere. Reading the obits one day, Kenneth Jones came across the story of Emily Wheelock Reed, a librarian who lived and…

This Sunday, the Blue Cafe will host author Jordan Flaherty for a discussion of his book No More Heroes, a critique of the savior mentality and helping…

There's very little to see now but row after row after row of foundations, a procession of rectangles angling down a long slope toward where there once…

Today, I am recommending Another Brooklyn, a new adult novel by Jacqueline Woodson. Woodson has written more than two dozen award-winning books for young…