Robert L. Egbert

ROBERT EGBERT, a member of the faculty of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and director of the National Commission for Excellence in Teacher Education, divides his "free" time between fiction and family history

Shocks of Grain

Articles/Essays – Volume 13, No. 4

“Whoa.” Benjamin Vaughn pulled back on the lines and stopped his four horse team. It was midmorning and he had just finished cutting his ten-acre patch of barley. With the binder stopped, Ben grasped the…

A Reading Group

Articles/Essays – Volume 18, No. 1

I had just hung up my topcoat and scarf and tossed my jacket on the f unmade bed when the telephone rang. There was a time when I liked to hear that sound; it meant…