The Tree of Life
Some stories don’t need to shout to leave a mark—they hum quietly, rooted deep in soil and spirit. In the small prairie town of Westhope, North Dakota, a farmer named John Talcott sowed more than seed—he sowed a prayer. His 1919 poem, The Sower’s Prayer, carried the hopes of immigrant hands and ancient Scandinavian myth, linking Yggdrasil’s sacred roots to a Christian plea for rain. What began in a “radical” paper became a national hymn of humility, reminding us where faith and folklore meet—in the furrows of everyday life. Tom Isern with Prairie Public News has the full story in his column Plains Folk.
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