This Place, These People Life and Shadow on the Great Plains

I was very moved by this evocative, literate and informative book. Nancy Stark's beautiful -- and painful -- photographs are a perfect companion with David Starks' writing and with the "voices" of the Nebraskans that are included. I am very grateful for this sensitive and sad look back. -- Ruth Silverman, former Associate Curator of the International Center of Photography, twice winner of the Photography-Book-of-the-Year award for The Dog and Athletes The photographs and the words so beautifully preserved here evoke powerful -- and indeed, painful -- memories of the homes left behind when millions of rural Americans packed up, said goodbye to all they had known, and relocated to the nation's cities and suburbs. The memory of that transition continues for many of us, tearing at our hearts. -- Robert Wuthnow, Princeton University, author of Remaking the Heartland: Middle America since the 1950s This marvelous book offers us a glimpse of the ghost of the Great Plains as it makes a last appearance. We ought to be immensely grateful to Nancy Warner and David Stark for inviting us to their deeply moving seance. -- Ted Kooser, Former US Poet Laureate These resonant photographs and recollections evoke a world almost gone from American life. They are as filled with time as old monuments, and as moving -- Richard Rhodes