An Interview with Loren Schmidtberger, author of The Beginner’s Cow: Memories of a Volga German from Kansas by Hayden Wilsey
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An Interview with Alison Moncrief Bromage, author of Daughter, Daedalus
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Volume 39.1, Spring/Summer 2016, The Chariton Review Short Fiction Prize issue
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"The Beginner’s Cow: Memories of a Volga German from Kansas" by Loren Schmidtberger— At the age of seven, Loren Schmidtberger was assigned to a beginner’s cow—the gentlest cow in the herd and the easiest for a child just beginning to milk. As he learned to milk with the help of the cow, he also learned the art of living from the unforgiving reality of the Dust Bowl years tempered by the steadfast resilience of his Volga German community.