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Political parties in the United States are led to rally round an individual in order to acquire a more tangible shape in the eyes of the crowd, and the name of the candidate for the Presidency is put forward as the symbol and personification of their theories. [1] —Alexis de Tocqueville Pete Ricketts, if you’re reading this…YOU should subscribe to my newsletter! Grand Island decided to do somethin...

Fiberglass Lawn Ornaments Art is a reflection of the artist’s inner and outer world during the period of creation. [1] —Rick Rubin Italy has frescoes, Paris has oil paintings, Mexico has a stone wall with skulls carved in it of the people who won a ball game and got their heads chopped off, and Grand Island has oversized fiberglass lawn ornaments. And we’re damn good at it. Less than a mile from E...

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Tornado Hill Grand Island, Neb., June 4 (AP)- A string of seven tornadoes destroyed this central Nebraska city last night, killing four persons and injuring 134. Initial reports said five persons were killed, and one county official said this morning that she thought more than 30 bodies had been found … The city was battered by the tornadoes over a three-hour period. When they were over, a six-blo...

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We have nothing but prairie. [1] —Henrich Egge, early Grand Island settler Thanks for reading By C.S. Beaty! Put your email in this and I’ll be your best friend and never do anything wrong. I grew up in Grand Island, Nebraska. If the name of our town is confusing to you, I understand. I’ve heard all the jokes and have made them myself. “ It’s not an island and it’s not grand.” This isn’t the offic...

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When I sent Haywood Fudd a copy of my collected essays of 2024, it included one titled Hunting, Or Lack Thereof. It was about my attempts at competitive trapshooting and the time my dad shot a deer and gave me credit for it. That essay was split into parts and became a running storyline in my memoir about high school and growing up in Grand Island, Nebraska. Writing is a feedback loop. You observe...

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December 19th, 2024 Dear Mr. Fudd, The innards of my Royal Quiet DeLuxe typewriter have been sprayed down with a fresh coat of WD-40 and the little baby is purring like a kitten. I told my 85 year-old Uncle Bob about the WD-40, and he informed me that WD-40 stands for “water displacement formula 40.” I’m not sure how effective the first 39 formulas were, but I’m glad they kept at it. I am eager fo...

How could a vagabond woman who lived in her van end up a co-star to Frances McDormand in the blockbuster 2020 Academy Award-winning hit Nomadland? And whose transitory existence provides valuable life lessons on surviving – and thriving – in today’s world? That’s the opening line of the query letter I wrote to send to literary agents—well it’s what my editor wrote and I slightly tweaked. Pretty go...

When we parked our diesel-powered Peugeot outside the gates of the Palace of Knossos, we waited until the tree branches stopped falling atop of the car before exiting. With each gust of wind, new tree limbs separated and slammed onto the hood of our rental car. The rental car we had elected not to insure. The Peugeot was sturdy though, and my wife and I were determined not to let a little wind spo...

December 12th, 2024 Dear Mr. Beaty, Your dispatch and the delightful dispatches your children sent to Santa Claus warmed the heart of the aging King of the Literary Daredevils. Congratulations on your new typewriter! For your whatnot: some years ago I read that Ernest Hemingway banged away on his typewriter while standing up. You may find this scrap of information arresting and elect to follow Hem...

December 9th, 2024 Dear Mr. Fudd, If you notice a change in font from previous correspondences, it is due to the use of my Christmas present from my octogenarian distant relative who stumbled upon a beautiful Royal typewriter in pristine condition at a garage sale. At least that’s the story he gave me. Congratulations on the grandchild and the successful literary assault on the good people of Blis...

My dad never golfed, and I can only imagine that his father before him never golfed either. I was the next in line of generations of non-golfers, and I always assumed it was my duty to uphold the family legacy. But I also assumed I would get a job in engineering and spend my days with spreadsheets, American Institute of Steel Construction manuals, and TI-89 calculators—that was always the plan dur...

November 9th, 2024 Dear Mr. Fudd, I was excited to see your latest correspondence. I know your time is precious as you attempt to bless this world with your beautiful words at an unprecedented scale this holiday season. I wish you much success in this endeavor. I hope the residents of Bliss, Idaho or wherever else your messages end up are as grateful as I am for your poetry. I have some bad news,...

October 16th, 2024 Dear Mr. Fudd, It’s getting colder, which means that I am in the midst of the thankless job of gradually ripping out all of the plants in my wife’s garden and placing them in our garbage bin. It’s about a two-month process since I refused to purchase those large brown paper sacks, so I can only properly dispose of one garbage bin of garden at a time. I could probably start the p...