Memoir (Poe Ballantine’s Love and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere) tells story of CSC professor’s death, by Bart Schaneman
The author avoids obvious pitfalls like taking potshots at the small-town folk or writing with a snide tone. He tries to genuinely portray the people of Chadron as they are. Without this effort to achieve empathy in his characterizations the writing would have no charm. But that’s exactly what Ballantine pulls off. He paints Chadron as an interesting, beautiful, rugged place populated with truly unique characters. And you can tell that he likes where he lives.
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