Tales from the Prairie Volume 3: Reprints of Stories Printed in the Adams County Historical News 1974 - 1976

by Creigh, Dorothy Weyer; Einsel, Dorothy McDermott

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Book description: Hastings, NE: Adams County Historical Society, 1976. Wraps lightly bumped and rubbed at corners and edges with general light soil. All pages clean. Spine creased but binding solid. Adams County Historical Society membership slip laid in. Signed by both authors on full title page. "The stories, which originally appeared in the monthly publication of the Adams County Historical Society, from 1974 through 1976, cover a wide period of time and an even wider scope of activities, ranging from yarns of the Prohibition days, to ice cream parlors, Fourth of July clebrations and fall festivals of the late nineteenth century. Altogether, they furnish an enchating glimpse of life in the past." Content section headings include: The Shipwrecked Sailor of World War II; The Temperance Movement; Prohibition; Beauty Shops on the Prairie; Barber Shops; Gypsies; Ice Cream; Water Works; Drug Stores; When the Liberty Bell Came to Hastings; The Flu Epidemic of 1918; Memorial Day; Chautauqua through the Years; The Fourth of July; The Motoring Public; The Great Artichoke Dream; Fall Festivals; Nt Nuoc Smada (Adams County, to You); The Theatrical Tradition.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Illus. by Photos.

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