*In the Quiet of a Summer Evening — Wyman, Marlena

Grain Growers Guide Letter to the Editor from Kathleen (Redman) Strange, 20 May 1925,
excerpt:

In the quiet of a summer evening…Sharply outlined against the horizon are dense patches
of brush, here and there a gaunt tree, the grotesque but friendly outline of a neighbour’s
house. The prairie may lack the sheer picturesqueness which is a feature of an Old Country
landscape, and it may lack the romantic charm of the Pacific Coast, but for me it has a
clean, broad grandeur, the charm of something that is vital and alive.

Kathleen came from London, England to the Fenn, Alberta area in 1920, and then moved to
Winnipeg Manitoba in 1930. She told the story of these years in her book “With the West in
Her Eyes: The Story of a Modern Pioneer” , Dodge Publishing Co., New York, 1937