The Farmer and the Cowman–and the Government–Should Be Friends

Susan Laney Spector4 Comments

My grandfather as a high school senior. My maternal grandfather, Clifford Lorraine Harding, was born on this day in 1909 in Junction City, Kansas. He was a successful farmer in Northeastern Kansas. I fondly remember visiting my grandparents at their home in Lawrence, and I particularly enjoyed going there in the summertime. While my granddad… Continue reading The Farmer and the Cowman–and the Government–Should Be Friends

A Place for Storytelling

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I was born in Winchester, Kansas, and grew up in Cherokee County, Oklahoma—the capitol of the Cherokee Indian Nation—where I learned a lot about the history of the Cherokee (Tsalagi) people. Sequoyah and His Syllabary One particularly fascinating tribal leader, Chief Sequoyah, created a system for writing the oral Cherokee language (Tsalagi Gawonihisdi.) The resulting… Continue reading A Place for Storytelling