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what is world letter writing day?

8/23/2022

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Image of Richard Simpkin & son with interviewers at Studio Ten, Australia, in April 2022
Richard Simpkin, founder of World Letter Writing Day
​On a road trip to the Rocky Mountains last summer, my husband and I visited the historic site of Boggsville, located near the confluence of the Arkansas and Purgatoire Rivers in what would become southeastern Colorado.  There’s not much there now, but at the time of its founding in 1866, the hard-working people of Boggsville pioneered irrigation, large-scale farming and ranching in the Arkansas Valley.
​My husband and I arrived at the remote site on a hot, dusty day in June.   No one else was about as we drove into the small, graveled parking lot.  When we walked up the path toward the two homes that have been restored, we could hear the sound of our footsteps in the peaceful quiet.
A pleasant young woman greeted us at the reception desk.  “Would you like a tour guide or a self-guided tour?  No one else is here, so I can give you a tour now if you like.” 
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We happily accepted her guideship.
 
She was a local girl, a student in her first year of college, I believe, and well-versed in the story of Boggsville.  When we entered the dining room of a large house, I noticed a framed document on the wall.  I drew closer to read the handwriting—original or copy?—before asking some small question about a certain word, a name perhaps?

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a new novel for you:  Cloud County Harvest

8/16/2022

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Book Cover of Cloud County Harvest, Book 1 in the Cloud County Series
Heads up!

Here's the front cover of my new novel, Cloud County Harvest, the sequel to Cloud County Persuasion.  

It will be published in fall 2022, and I hope you'll enjoy reading it. 

What is the story ​about?
​Cloud County Harvest.  

​It's 1951.

As the insidious advance of a mid-century drought sidles across the Southern Plains, the Hill and Quick families of Cloud County buckle down to the work at hand.  Hard times, extreme drought, and pestilence are not new to them or their neighbors.  Tenacity is the key; the question is, how will it change them and the red earth they inherited?

 
You read Cloud County Persuasion and you want to go back.  Cloud County Harvest is your ticket.  

​The plains of Oklahoma are waiting for you.

Savor again the evocative sense of place.  Inhabit the social and cultural milieu of rural and small-town life.  Catch up on the resilient men and women you came to know in 
Cloud County Persuasion and expand your circle of the people who enrich their lives. ​

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    Lynne Schall is the author of three novels:  Women's Company - The Minerva Girls (2016), Cloud County Persuasion (2018), and Cloud County Harvest (November 2022).  She and her family live in Kansas, USA.

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