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Let's All Go for a Ride
Buggyland will never be Buggyland again.
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June 28, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Each time a Connemara fisherman goes out to sea, he risks his life.
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What You Take from the Sea
The helicopter buzzed over my cottage, flying low, the noise so loud that I stopped my work and glanced out the window toward the Atlantic Ocean, the waves, a steady green unwrinkled blanket rolling o...
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May 29, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Each time a Connemara fisherman goes out to sea, he risks his life.
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The point wasn’t to beat down an opponent. The point was the fun of it.
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Last Class
This is the last day for Bunny.
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May 16, 2025 at 4:10 PM
The point wasn’t to beat down an opponent. The point was the fun of it.
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Liese Greensfelder, author of Accidental Shepherd will be signing books at the AgArts Studio, 435 B. Ave., Kalona, IA. May 5. 10:30-12:30. Drop by. 7:00 P.M. Reading at Prairie Lights Bookstore.
May 4, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Liese Greensfelder, author of Accidental Shepherd will be signing books at the AgArts Studio, 435 B. Ave., Kalona, IA. May 5. 10:30-12:30. Drop by. 7:00 P.M. Reading at Prairie Lights Bookstore.
Today: Bender’s Maytag Repair Shop and Kuntry Nook Greenhouse open house. Free Coffee and Doughnuts. 8-5 P.M.
4/26/25: 2748 560th St. Kalona, IA.
4/26/25: 2748 560th St. Kalona, IA.
April 26, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Today: Bender’s Maytag Repair Shop and Kuntry Nook Greenhouse open house. Free Coffee and Doughnuts. 8-5 P.M.
4/26/25: 2748 560th St. Kalona, IA.
4/26/25: 2748 560th St. Kalona, IA.
Happy Spring!
April 20, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Happy Spring!
Boats Leaving Rossadillisk
Echoes of the 1927 Cleggan Disaster
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April 18, 2025 at 3:04 PM
How to become a responsible member of a community? Follow the cue of the musicians in the orchestra pit. Read Annie Chapman Brewer's "Together in the Pit."
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March 6, 2025 at 8:42 PM
How to become a responsible member of a community? Follow the cue of the musicians in the orchestra pit. Read Annie Chapman Brewer's "Together in the Pit."
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What do balloons and school closings have in common? Read Mary Swander's Buggy Land. "Balloon Man."
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Balloon Man
Things have been a bit up in the air here.
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February 27, 2025 at 4:38 PM
What do balloons and school closings have in common? Read Mary Swander's Buggy Land. "Balloon Man."
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What happens when an inexperienced solo 20-year-old Berkeley, CA, woman is suddenly put in charge of a remote farm on the mountainside of Norway?
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#farming
#Norway
#sheepherding
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#farming
#Norway
#sheepherding
From Buggy land to Hovland
Liese Greensfelder, Bettie Swarts, Dan Pease, and more.
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February 13, 2025 at 3:38 PM
What happens when an inexperienced solo 20-year-old Berkeley, CA, woman is suddenly put in charge of a remote farm on the mountainside of Norway?
maryswander.substack.com/p/from-buggy...
#farming
#Norway
#sheepherding
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#farming
#Norway
#sheepherding
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What's the parallel between singing in a prison choir and bringing comfort to a loved one through music in a nursing home? Read an excerpt from Amy Kolen's excellent book Inside Voices.
What's the parallel between singing in a prison choir and bringing comfort to a loved one through music in a nursing home? Read an excerpt from Amy Kolen's excellent book Inside Voices.
Inside Voices: A Prison Choir, My Mother and Me
by Amy Kolen
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February 6, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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What's the parallel between singing in a prison choir and bringing comfort to a loved one through music in a nursing home? Read an excerpt from Amy Kolen's excellent book Inside Voices.
What's the parallel between singing in a prison choir and bringing comfort to a loved one through music in a nursing home? Read an excerpt from Amy Kolen's excellent book Inside Voices.
The Iowa Capital Dispatch picked up my Buggy Land story about the floating barn. Take a look:
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A floating barn and 150 pairs of boots • Iowa Capital Dispatch
A 40-cow barn was cruising down the highway with no truck -- and not a single cow -- in sight. Just 150 pairs of boots.
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January 27, 2025 at 4:42 PM
The Iowa Capital Dispatch picked up my Buggy Land story about the floating barn. Take a look:
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What's the story on this beautiful Beverly Pepper sculpture? Janus Agri Altar.
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January
by Mary Swander
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January 16, 2025 at 6:51 PM
What's the story on this beautiful Beverly Pepper sculpture? Janus Agri Altar.
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What happens when you see a barn floating toward you on the highway in the left-hand lane.
Read Mary Swander's Buggy Land.
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#barnmoving
#animalmagnetism
Read Mary Swander's Buggy Land.
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#barnmoving
#animalmagnetism
150 Pairs of Boots
In Buggy Land, cattle sometimes break through fencing and wander out onto the road.
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January 8, 2025 at 4:47 PM
What happens when you see a barn floating toward you on the highway in the left-hand lane.
Read Mary Swander's Buggy Land.
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#barnmoving
#animalmagnetism
Read Mary Swander's Buggy Land.
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#barnmoving
#animalmagnetism
What's it like to be autistic? Read D.J. Savarese's brilliant piece about opening his world to neurotypicals.
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The Only Neuro I Know
by D.J. Savarese
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January 2, 2025 at 3:00 PM
What's it like to be autistic? Read D.J. Savarese's brilliant piece about opening his world to neurotypicals.
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Driving through Ireland? Maybe not. Read my latest Substack column.
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Hey, Diddle, Diddle
On my first trip to Ireland in the early 1970s, I stayed in Galway City at a splendid guest house run by two middle-aged sisters.
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December 17, 2024 at 3:28 AM
Driving through Ireland? Maybe not. Read my latest Substack column.
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What's next? From Rolvaag to Borlaug, in beautifully written prose, Taylor Brorby traces the history of farming and fishing in the colonial U.S.
What's next? From Rolvaag to Borlaug, in beautifully written prose, Taylor Brorby traces the history of farming and fishing in the colonial U.S.
Farming and Fishing on a Finite Planet
by Taylor Brorby
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December 5, 2024 at 4:54 PM
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What's next? From Rolvaag to Borlaug, in beautifully written prose, Taylor Brorby traces the history of farming and fishing in the colonial U.S.
What's next? From Rolvaag to Borlaug, in beautifully written prose, Taylor Brorby traces the history of farming and fishing in the colonial U.S.
Free excerpt reading of Mary Swander's new play-in-progress called Coop. Stars Rip Russell. Object theatre.. 7:00 P.M. Monday, Dec. 2, 2024. Hillcrest Academy. 1421 540th St. SW, Kalona, IA 52247. Discussion follows the show.
November 29, 2024 at 5:29 PM
Free excerpt reading of Mary Swander's new play-in-progress called Coop. Stars Rip Russell. Object theatre.. 7:00 P.M. Monday, Dec. 2, 2024. Hillcrest Academy. 1421 540th St. SW, Kalona, IA 52247. Discussion follows the show.