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SUMMARY:Author Visit:  Veda Rogers, "A Grand Day"
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DTSTAMP:20260424T120400Z
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LOCATION:Winfield Public Library, 605 College St., Winfield, KS 67156, Uni
 ted States
ROOM: Community Room
DESCRIPTION:WPL is pleased to host Veda Rogers to share about her book, A 
 Grand Day:  The Forgotten Voice of a Farm Woman Through Dust, Depression,
  and War, a rare and moving collection that captures the daily life, labor
 , and resilience of a Kansas farm woman during some of the most difficult 
 decades of the twentieth century.A Grand Day presents the diaries of Louis
 a "Lulu" Ehrichs Schwanbeck, who chronicled her life on a wester
 n Kansas farm during the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl, and World War II
 . Beginning in 1935, Lulu records not only the relentless demands of farm 
 work but also extraordinary personal trials, including severe burns, a can
 cer diagnosis, and the loss of her husband.By 1940 Lulu was a widowed woma
 n in her early sixties, managing the business and labor of a large, fully 
 mortgaged family farm. Her entries reveal a hardworking, capable, and dete
 rmined farmer who met hardship with resolve, humor, and a deep sense of co
 mmunity. Despite exhaustion and uncertainty, she consistently found moment
 s of satisfaction and joy, often closing her diary with the same simple ph
 rase: "A grand day."Veda Rogers enjoyed a varied career as house
 wife, mother, singer, voice instructor, actress, and bank officer. She and
  her husband, Bruce Rogers, lived in Winfield in the 1960s and 70s.
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