tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9218275625589637009.post9137084531112053028..comments2024-03-14T02:18:13.285-05:00Comments on T h e | D e e p | M i d d l e: Migration--Trains, Mennonites, Bison, Native AmericansBenjamin Vogthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10661489036836711335noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9218275625589637009.post-79661109221234501692010-10-29T15:16:52.457-05:002010-10-29T15:16:52.457-05:00Just as this comment form popped up, I heard a tra...Just as this comment form popped up, I heard a train whistle. I live about half a mile from east campus. I'm not sure where we hear the trains from, maybe near Cornhusker Highway.<br /><br />I think about those things sometimes. I participated in some research study some students at UNL were doing involving images, odors, and politics. Part of it involved saying how we feel about our Corner Gardener Suehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10631500918579405664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9218275625589637009.post-34188447703901659612010-10-26T17:08:04.927-05:002010-10-26T17:08:04.927-05:00Carol--Beautifully said in your own right! Nice. I...Carol--Beautifully said in your own right! Nice. I always wonder si small actiosn do matter, and I think they matter more for the indivdual doing them than some larger good. I.e. personal change = public change.<br />Victoria--I know. :) Let's hope the book someday won't stink.<br />Catharine--I need to reread that book! I just watched a vid with my students about a dam burying Native Benjamin Vogthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10661489036836711335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9218275625589637009.post-85477987650621575292010-10-26T09:30:26.095-05:002010-10-26T09:30:26.095-05:00Sounds like such beautiful country out there. Than...Sounds like such beautiful country out there. Thanks for sharing your incredible gift of literary expressionIndoor Fountainshttp://www.kineticfountains.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9218275625589637009.post-48676151007648335942010-10-25T00:26:40.774-05:002010-10-25T00:26:40.774-05:00Migration never goes away - this post has tremors ...Migration never goes away - this post has tremors of Grapes of Wrath and sets me thinking of the new waves of migration that we can expect here with global warming. Disoriented bison and elk - I wonder whether they are like hefted sheep.<br />This week I am turning my thoughts to Lake Turkana and the dam building there which will cause population shift and migration.Catharine Howard's Garden Bloghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12288511994247422699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9218275625589637009.post-90641276573575467532010-10-24T17:47:01.119-05:002010-10-24T17:47:01.119-05:00Wonderful story-telling - you have such a great ta...Wonderful story-telling - you have such a great talent for it.Victoria Summerleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05055381807236106596noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9218275625589637009.post-35990540069112091202010-10-24T09:35:02.659-05:002010-10-24T09:35:02.659-05:00Very important, hauntingly beautiful writing Benja...Very important, hauntingly beautiful writing Benjamin. Fascinating and I hope to read more of yours. That part of me that is a direct link . . . a blood line to the trail of tears . . . is housed within this body and mind with other lines that throughout time have been thoughtless, greedy and powerfully corrupt. The lines of destruction is endless. That part that was once so closely and sanely Carolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01067132532095325169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9218275625589637009.post-60989817901658124312010-10-23T13:06:56.946-05:002010-10-23T13:06:56.946-05:00DG--I have a rocrd of the last reported bison in K...DG--I have a rocrd of the last reported bison in Kansas, which came wandering alone down mainstreet in some small town. A man and his rifle quickly dispatched it. They knew what they were doing, how sad to have been there! You are fortunate to know your friend, or not. We quickly forget what we do, and gloss over too much. But even my exercise in writing this all down seems quite futile and Benjamin Vogthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10661489036836711335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9218275625589637009.post-26311352052392410652010-10-22T21:43:33.625-05:002010-10-22T21:43:33.625-05:00Interesting. Just a couple hours ago my husband an...Interesting. Just a couple hours ago my husband and I were having a conversation about the bison and what has become of them. And Oklahoma - I know a man, a Native American, whose ancestors marched on the trail of tears to that place. He has relatives who live on a reservation there even now. It is all a sad part of our history. The world is endlessly full of such histories.debsgardenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15656883577922890561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9218275625589637009.post-40256866459265631072010-10-21T10:01:41.777-05:002010-10-21T10:01:41.777-05:00EE--Bad news is the news. We need an eco newscast ...EE--Bad news is the news. We need an eco newscast at 10pm every night. I'll co-anchor.<br />Adrian--Well, there is no more NE story. It's all about Oklahoma, really, or will be. I imagine snippets will pop up on my blog over the next two years or so. So many people to talk to, so many books to read, so many places to visit.... it will be an evolving narrative.<br />Jim--Yup, lots of Benjamin Vogthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10661489036836711335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9218275625589637009.post-68942113616731666562010-10-21T09:35:46.318-05:002010-10-21T09:35:46.318-05:00It's all very sad and disturbing. The bison n...It's all very sad and disturbing. The bison no longer roam, but we move around more than ever, with few to no ties to the land. That's just wrong.Mr. McGregor's Daughterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05911409327006498766noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9218275625589637009.post-79370414141466972352010-10-21T06:42:12.637-05:002010-10-21T06:42:12.637-05:00Despite its nearness to the ocean, you would feel ...Despite its nearness to the ocean, you would feel at home here. Coal cars hauling the insides of West Virginia mountains terminate here as they are loudly dumped upside down into waiting colliers in the harbor. The noise is loud as it echos off the water, but one grows accustomed to it.Leshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18281256160705697856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9218275625589637009.post-26416021223044815162010-10-20T22:49:14.317-05:002010-10-20T22:49:14.317-05:00I was born and raised on a South Dakota dry land f...I was born and raised on a South Dakota dry land farm--I think it took 20 years in the Navy to get the dust out of my eyes. I left almost 50 years ago after spending four years at UNL. I share your insight into sounds carrying across the prarie on chilly/cold nights--they are so crisp. I guess I would say now that on the inside I knew as a young man that the great plains would never be my homeGenehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00193567298698046763noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9218275625589637009.post-68462403254239644002010-10-19T22:56:39.216-05:002010-10-19T22:56:39.216-05:00My late great grandfather, dead about five years n...My late great grandfather, dead about five years now, was one of the last to be born on the Kooeeskooee Reservation in Indian Territory (before it became Oklahoma even!). The feds kicked all the Indians out...guess they found oil or something.<br /><br />Every choice has a consequence, for good or ill. I try to remember that for everything from who I vote for to what products I use in the Christine B.https://www.blogger.com/profile/08335289758548637661noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9218275625589637009.post-31835709958474627132010-10-19T22:35:53.187-05:002010-10-19T22:35:53.187-05:00My German great grand parents went to Minnesota an...My German great grand parents went to Minnesota and then homesteaded near Red Lake. <br /><br />Great narrative. jimJim Groblehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18027723131261970051noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9218275625589637009.post-41674041254585827072010-10-19T11:47:04.902-05:002010-10-19T11:47:04.902-05:00This is great. Tell more of the Nebraska story, pl...This is great. Tell more of the Nebraska story, please.Adrian Ayres Fisherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11057583835126786240noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9218275625589637009.post-85504185808294941562010-10-18T16:08:05.180-05:002010-10-18T16:08:05.180-05:00That sounds as if it could be written around Austr...That sounds as if it could be written around Australia or South Africa too. What has gone? What is left? Who is gone? Who is here? And if the birds migrate -those who end up on the island of Malta get shot as they land. Sorry, you don't need more bad news.Diana Studerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12286066768376135880noreply@blogger.com