Small Wonders

Jim Schaap remembers the civil rights cases Plessy v Ferguson and Brown v Board of Education that have shaped our societies and our schools on Small Wonders.

A story of Ward Academy in Academy, South Dakota, written and read by James C. Schaap.

A Calvinist witch doctor haunted the reformed areas of Siouxland.

Jim Schaap finds himself naked with an audience.

Jim Schaap meditates upon the tree Anne Frank observed outside her window as he lays upon his hospital bed watching a maple.

Jim Schaap, caught by the image of a falling barn, imagines the pasts that are beyond recall and remembers that pasts that are difficult to confront.

Siouxland Public Media once again receives national recognition for journalistic excellence.

In praise of the bald eagle.

Margaret F. Kelley came to Fremont, NE, in May of 1870 and settled on a farm on Maple Creek. Four years later, she and the family were visited by grasshoppers. "I had never formed an idea of anything so disastrous," she wrote in her memoir. That's just another way of saying that, to her, the grasshopper plague was beyond unimaginable.