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Summer 2003

My Mother’s Wedding Dress

A Musician’s Wife by Weldon Kees

The spring of 1959 featured some huge weather fluctuations in Lincoln. In April alone the temperature ranged from a low point of 26 degrees to a high of 86. May was nearly as variant: from 37 degrees all the way up to 93. A poet published in the spring issue of Prairie Schooner that year …

Spring 1977

The Track at Weeks Field

Summer 1953

A Variety of Porches

Fall 1990

A Small Wild Road

Summer 2000

Best Friends

The Feat by Sharon Olds

April 4 of 1978 was unseasonably warm. At 82 degrees, it set Lincoln’s record high temperature for that date. In stark contrast, June 8 set a daily record low of 47 degrees. The Spring 1978 issue of Prairie Schooner featured a poem by a then-unknown writer by the name of Sharon Olds. Olds’ first collection …

Winter 1946

Sidney

Summer 1971

Baseball Has