Everyone dreams of picking up and moving to a beach town, or a mountain town or a big city.  To the extent that anyone mentions the Prairies at all, it often seems to be as a place to escape (Hillbilly Elegy) or pass through on the way to somewhere better, more interesting and more picturesque- the prairies are literal and metaphorical ‘fly-over country’.  I grew up on the prairies’ edge (the beautiful, gently rolling hills of the aspen parkland) and technically still live there (this […]