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Sheridan County, Nebraska

“In the villages of Europe you might be only a few steps away from your neighbors, certainly within hearing distance. You could hear the village’s church bells ringing on a Sunday morning. Suddenly, here they were isolated many miles from neighbors and from villages with long periods of time between any kind of interaction. They had “wind sickness,” they called it, from the constant blowing of the wind, they planted trees around their houses not simply for the shade or for the beauty, but to protect them from the immensity of the landscape.“

Roger Welsch

Postcards From Nebraska

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