Author Shiela Branson offers a glimpse into the busier-than-you'd-expect life of the small communities within North Dakota's Wells County. From a Harvest Bee to help friends and neighbors, to the poignant Last Homecoming the year before the local team is absorbed into that of a larger school, to accolades for winning readers, to ... well ... life in general for the area ... this collection of newspaper feature articles (with a few additions) introduces you to life in Small Town USA. Many of these families stem from homesteading pioneers from 'The Old Country', be it Germany, Norway, or...

From the get-go the writing of 'They Are My Song' was a mite odd. Upon giving a Voice to Sidhelagh, one of the characters, in order to provide a first-person account of the big paintings that this project was SUPPOSED to consist of, author Shiela Branson was a bit taken aback when not only Sidhelagh but Danann, Mamm, and all of the others 'insisted' on having a say - The art project turned itself into a book - and the Characters took the bit in their collective mouth were off and running the whole show. "Mostly I felt as though my role consisted simply of being a recording device for these...