The Morning the Floodwaters Surrounded the Farm
In March of 2019, the Missouri River swallowed David Hagen's soybean fields outside Hamburg, Iowa. He stood on the second-floor landing of his farmhouse at...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Exodus 14:13-14.
In March of 2019, the Missouri River swallowed David Hagen's soybean fields outside Hamburg, Iowa. He stood on the second-floor landing of his farmhouse at dawn, watching brown water stretch in every direction — swallowing fence posts, creeping up the barn doors, erasing the gravel road that was his only way out. Behind him, his wife Ellen clutched their two sleeping grandchildren.…
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