David Boles: Prairie Voice

David Boles: Prairie Voice

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The Hallway Before the Lockdown
What Small-Town High Schools Ran On Before Anyone Was Watching
Feb 22 • David Boles
What Endures
Christmas Week on the Prairie
Feb 21 • David Boles
The Sonic Prairie
What We Lost When We Silenced the Grass
Feb 20 • David Boles
The Third Death of Lexington
How Tyson Foods Gutted a Nebraska Town That Had Already Learned to Survive
Feb 19 • David Boles
The Empty Shrine on Main Street
When the Prairie Lost Its Gods and the Machines Moved In
Feb 18 • David Boles
The Disembodied Town
What Four Cat Heads Know About Losing Your Body
Feb 15 • David Boles
The Book the Prairie Wrote
What Happens When Five Years of Looking Becomes 50,000 Words Between Covers
Feb 13 • David Boles
The Standing Ovation Economy
How Community Theatre Runs on Counterfeit Currency
Feb 10 • David Boles

January 2026

The Garbage Man’s Taxonomy
What Happens When the Last Classification Closes
Jan 21 • David Boles
The Ledger Beneath the Deed
Land Transfer and the Debts That Never Close
Jan 16 • David Boles
The Girls Who Would Not Disappear
On The EleMenTs Series and the American Habit of Forgetting
Jan 15 • David Boles
Sign Schools of the Prairie
How Residential Deaf Education Created a Signing Style That Mainstreaming Is Erasing
Jan 13 • David Boles
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