Tallgrass Tales from the Republic of Grass
I have written on many topics over the years, but none have emerged from my pen with such ease and clarity, or been underwritten by such passion, as these thoughts and stories about life on the last fragment of tallgrass prairie. I believe that’s because, for the first time in my life, I live in a place that’s quiet enough I can hear myself think.
Marva L. Weigelt
Republic
of Grass
Tallgrass Tales is a collection of essays, stories, obsessions, poems, brain tornados, philosophical ramblings and passionate soapbox speeches inspired by life in the Republic of Grass.
The first Tales appeared in April 2004 and have been appearing at unpredictable intervals ever since.
The Tales can be accessed from the links below. New readers in search of guidance might appreciate Marva's recommendations in the Special Collection.
by Marva L. Weigelt
©2005-2010 Republic of Grass
Permission is required to use any text, photography or image from this website.
Click the magazine cover to read my article (with fabulous photos by award-winning photographer, Mike Blair) from the September-October 2006 issue of Kansas Wildlife & Parks magazine
Click on the certificate to read the revised version of the Tallgrass Tales story that won a prize.
TALLGRASS TALES
SPECIAL COLLECTION
The best of Tallgrass Tales, including Happiest Chickens in Kansas Collection, Full Circle Reflections archive and Marva's favorite prairie essays
A great introduction for new readers
Making Peace
Call of the Wild
In Four Languages, Not Including Cowboy
Happy New Year, Now or Later
Eine Kleine Hünchenmusik
Voices in the Land
Voices in the Land: A Postscript
Season of Great Expectation
Sometimes the Sky Falls
Graduation Day
Under the Sea
From the Prairie, With Love
Refugees
How the Cow Ate the Cabbage
Chicken Nurse
Prairie Pastoral
Little Red’s Chicken Shed
The Kansas Zephyr
A Room With a Moo
Eat a Beautiful Egg Today
Dave and the Doulas
Beeware
Full Circle Reflections
Beautiful Chores
Miraculous Meal
May the Best Creature Win
Secret of the Red Buffalo
The Blind Building a Blind
Chicken Celebration
Anniversary of My Overalls
Everybird
Lowly, Indispensable Chip-Kicker
Mending the Lord’s Handkerchief
Surprised by Boys
Season of Hospitality
Leaving Behind the Ninety and Nine:
Uncommon Love Stories
Signs Along the Way
Bought for a Song
Happy as Can Bee
Leaving Behind the Ninety and Nine: A Postscript
O, How the Mighty Have Fallen
Finding My Place
The Last Family Farm
Look Alive
Gladiola, the 4-H Calf
Ripe Moment
The Living is Juicy
Across the Plains
Elegy for Grass
Chickens in the Rain & Other Mysterious Matters
Air Rodeo
Firm Foundations in the Face of Fragility
Busy Highways in my Brain
Right to Dry
A Time to Molt
Taking Wing
Deep Chickenology
Light in October
Packrat Pantry
Bye-Bye, Bertie
First Storm
Thinking in Perpetuity
Poultry Notes
Toeballs: The Next Generation
Celebratory Season
Full Circle Reflections, Second Year
Faretheewell
Wild Places
Brave New World
A Time to Bloom
Cock-a-Doodle-Duda
Grandmother Spider and the Sun
Edible Handwarmers & Other Cold-Weather Inventions
Code of the West
Where's the Tall Grass?
Providence, Kansas
Upward Mobility
Go Home by Another Way
The Lasting Legacy of Mattie J. Mustard
Full Circle Reflections, Year Three
Questions that Itch for Answers
A Flying Chance
Splendour in the Grass
Prairie in Balance: A few notes
Poultry News
New Ways of Seeing
-Color my World
-We are the Boat
-Nor Any Drop
-The One-Square Yard Universe
-Galactic Citizenship
-Peppercorn Earth
New Ways of Seeing: Notes from the Journey
Dancing as if Life Depended on It
Grandmother Turtle
The Messengers
Speaking of Sky
Chicken Bailout Plan
Radical Giving
