Most people think of sod houses as those lived in by pioneers. Their basic living quarters were made of dirt walls. To me, it didn’t sound like a very pleasant life. Susan Davis (Courtesy photo) I was ...

LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - For volunteers with the Sandhills Journey National Scenic Byway Visitors Center, building a sod house has been a dream for a long time. Now it’s a reality. The work started in ...

This memoir comes from an email correspondence I had with Jim Oberfoell of Sentinel Butte, who responded to a column I wrote reflecting on the backbreaking work required to survive as an immigrant ...

Merle Block put up the sod house next, cutting and stacking and shaping the bricks of soil into four walls and a roof. It took him three weeks and three good reference books, he said. The couple now ...

Illustrated with photos. by S. D. Butcher. https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=liball&source=~!silibraries&uri=full=3100001~!294544~!0#focus ...

LONG GROVE, Iowa — The instructions were to turn left off the paved road at the pasture with four cows. Okey doke. If we had to choose a single town in the entire state that would represent Iowa, I’d ...