Candles at Canaan: Signs of Life in a Lonesome Land 2-CD audio set
$19.95
"Candles at Canaan" is a collection of "Plains Folk" radio essays heard on Prairie Public. Their author, Tom Isern, a lifelong resident of the Great Plains, is professor of history at North Dakota State University. His pal Bob Groves, who provides the musical interludes between the essays, is professor of music at North Dakota State University. Isern is the author or co-author of six books about life on the plains.
"A community has to find its center somewhere." from Smelt Fry
"There is a role in any community for specialists charged with the preservation of tradition." from Lutefisk & Meatballs
CD #1 includes the following essays:
1 Can Pile
2 Sister Catherine’s Grotto
3 Cruel Cold Land
4 Driving to Manfred
5 Newcomers
6 Social Capital
7 Take Back the Taverns
8 Holiday House
9 Smelt Fry
10 Signs & Wonders
11 North Dakota Rant
12 Mysterious.
CD #2 includes the following essays:
1 Lutefisk & Meatballs
2 Turkey & Kraut
3 Cruel Cold Land
4 Chubaracka
5 Red-eye
6 Chokecherry Hostile
7 Cowbell Game
8 Goat Game
9 Rednob’s Return
10 Cradle Hymn
11 Cather Christmas
12 Candles at Canaan.
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