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neighbors why they didn't plant trees too, if they'd grow for the Sandows, and they mumbled about "all the spraying."

     Did you know that the University of Nebraska gave her, Marie Sandows an honorary degree this year, she came and with the family were guests of the Governor.  Yet when I mentioned her book "Capital City" the wives of the men Sid works with raised their eyebrows not a little.  "We don't talk about her and her ideas."  There was no understanding from her sister either who said she only read a few pages and "Knew it was not her kind of book."  She was back last summer and they drove her around to see some Indian country for her new book.
     Our editor commenting on the mistakes people make about the Middle West said "We hear of a voice of America, what we need is a Voice of the Middle West."  Why is it so hard to make easterners know that at least you can't say hello to their friends in Denver when your visiting in  Omaha.  Its not regional novels I'm thinking about.  Its a sense of place.  Look how 5 Cheyne Row and Ecclefecham and the Lake country are distinct in even American minds about England.  Is it only times that can bring that identification or are our writers too driven to write the long, liesurely [sic] accounts of what a place means to them.
    I think your Moberly is the closest I've ever come