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December 2012
Always Plenty to Do: Growing Up on a Farm in the Long Ago
by Pamela Riney-Kehrberg ’85 This story of childhood on America’s farms in the late 19th and early 20th centuries is a journey back to America’s breadbasket. Fleshing out the contours of everyday life, the book focuses on what farm children saw, heard, smelled, tasted, and felt — and how they worked, played, and learned. Drawing upon rich primary sources from the Great Plains and Midwest, Riney-Kehrberg, a history professor at Iowa State University, combines biography and historical narrative to invite young readers into the nation’s rural past. ISBN-13: 978-0-89672-692-5. Published by Texas Tech University Press, 2011.Read more
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December 2012
Rattlesnake Dreams
by Dean Metcalf ’69 Metcalf, a U.S. Marine Corps veteran, grappled with the demons he encountered in Vietnam and in his post-combat nightmares. The book is a memoir of war, journalism, and growing up in the Pacific Northwest. Stories of his four years in the U.S. Marine Corps — in Vietnam; Okinawa, Japan; the Philippines; Taiwan; South China Sea; and the Gulf of Tonkin — and how they affected the rest of his life form the core of the book. In addition to serving as the book’s title, “Rattlesnake Dreams” also is the name of Metcalf’s blog. ISBN-13: 978-0578088099. Published by Metcalf Publications, 2011.Read more
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December 2012
Rescue in Poverty Gulch
by Nancy Oswald ’72 Ruby Mae Oliver and her donkey, Maude, are best friends. When Ruby and her Pa are stranded in Cripple Creek, Maude and Ruby’s carefree life changes. Pa has decided Ruby must go to school and, worse yet, she needs a “proper upbringing.” The book, set against the historic backdrop of the destructive Cripple Creek fires of 1896, makes for a compelling historical novel for younger readers. Oswald also is the author of two previous historical novels, “Nothing Here but Stones” and “Hard Face Moon.” ISBN-13: 978-0865411098. Published by Filter Press, 2011.Read more
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December 2012
Gail Ireland: Colorado Citizen Lawyer
by Terri Bradt ’75 Bradt is the granddaughter of Gail L. Ireland, who served as attorney general of Colorado from 1941-45. Bradt wrote this book in conjunction with her successful effort to carry on the work of her grandfather, who was convinced of the innocence of Joe Arridy, a mentally disabled young man who was executed in 1939. Ireland worked on Arridy’s case for years after the conviction, obtaining an unprecedented number of stays in his execution from the Colorado Supreme Court. Arridy was granted a posthumous pardon by Colo. Gov. Bill Ritter in January 2011. ISBN-13: 978-1-4507-5043-1. Published by Kinetico Studios, 2011.Read more
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December 2012
Bill Beaver ’67
Bill Beaver ’67 is an ordained Anglican priest on the staff of one of the oldest and loveliest churches in England — the early Norman church of St. Mary the Virgin, Iffley, Oxford. Previously, Bill served in deprived areas, as well as the Church of England’s governing Archbishops’ Council as its first director of communications. In 2009, he was selected to be an officiating chaplain to the British Army. His first posting was to the Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment, (hence the picture above of Bill at the rehearsal for the royal wedding.) “Ministering to 200 young people and riding beautiful horses 17-hands high is about as good as it gets…Read more