Chad Frey

Chad Frey

What to expect in 2024

Last week the Newton Kansan contacted a few local leaders seeking the answer to one question - what is 2024 going to look like?

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Plains Folk: The Tree of Knowledge

With the same ritual devotion many households pay to the nativity story in Luke’s Gospel, we in our house attend to the classic Christmas story of prairie literature--Willa Cather’s narrative of a country Christmas in her novel, My Antonia.In Cather’s gospel, the boy, Jim, his grandparents, and the hired hands, Jake and Otto, on account of heavy snowfall, are unable to get to town and buy some of the usual trimmings and trappings for the holy day.