A sandy lot and the main drag and a short row of brick storefronts. We’ll be boarding in three minutes.” So I stepped off into brilliant sunshine.
#Garrison keillor free
Feel free to step down off the train but don’t wander off. This will be a brief stop, three minutes. I was awakened by the conductor’s voice on the loudspeaker: “Next station stop, Pueblo. What a man your age should do is accept the diminutions of age and find a shady porch and reread the classics of his youth, Oliver Twist and Anna Karenina and Walden, War and Peace, Walt Whitman, and see what more they have to say.
#Garrison keillor movie
That movie was outdated around the time you were born. A movie in which ordinary small-town Midwesterners suddenly burst into song about the simple pleasures of summer? It’s 2023, pal.
I am very comfortable, as he was, and married well, likewise, which is more than an old rounder deserves, but I have flashes of big ambition, which is lunacy for a gentleman of the geezer class. Last week, as the train rolled through the first of the foothills, I wanted my man to talk to me and tell me what to do with my remaining days. David hoped to strike it rich but recognized the reality of the situation and set out to be useful instead and was elected mayor of Pueblo. Kansas flew past me, long stretches of brush and wild grassland as we headed west under an overcast sky, the train rocking as we rolled, an occasional coulee, no crossroads for miles and miles. There are no references to the Lord in the letters, so he was not an evangelical, maybe a free-thinker. He is the father of eleven kids, including Isaac Newton Powell and Harriet Beecher Powell, which indicates he was a progressive. I assume the r means rods, which would be a considerable structure for an old man to build. Our love and best wishes to all, yours affectionately.” I am very comfortable, the times are fair here in Kansas, we are all well except for a touch of influenza. We have done very well with oats and I have 25 tons of timothy hay, not yet sold. Dug a well 20 feet deep, plenty of water, and put up a stable for 10 head of stock, covered with hay.
At age 62, an old man in those times, he settled in Kansas and wrote to his children: “ I built a house 21r x 24r, one-story of pickets, shingle roof, 6 windows and 2 doors, divided and will be when finished one like my house in MO. He arrived in Colorado too late to get rich and instead sat in the territorial legislature and helped draft a state constitution. He hunted antelope with the Arapaho and traded with them. He was a leader of his wagon train and organized the lashing of wagons together to cross the rivers.
#Garrison keillor tv
I could tow a trailer out on the treeless prairie and pull the shades and sit there and slowly go insane, buy a couple rifles with scopes, and yell at the TV about government oppression.ĭavid was an extrovert. Here is a little farm near the tracks with no neighbor for several miles. Kansas is a state of vastness, some of it seems undisturbed since David rode across it. In homage to my ancestor David Powell, I rode a train across Kansas heading for Colorado, his goal in 1859 when he left Martha Ann and the children behind in Missouri and headed for the gold rush.
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