TEXAS READS: Farm woman's essays recall simpler times
January 14, 2011
San Angelo Standard Times - For more than 20 years, Nellie Witt Spikes wrote a newspaper column, 'As a Farm Woman Thinks,' for several West Texas weeklies in and around Crosby County, east of Lubbock — starting in 1937, when she was 49, until 1960.
For more than 20 years, Nellie Witt Spikes wrote a newspaper column, "As a Farm Woman Thinks," for several West Texas weeklies in and around Crosby County, east of Lubbock — starting in 1937, when she was 49, until 1960.
Selections from those columns have been collected into a delightful book edited by Geoff Cunfer and published by Texas Tech University Press under the title "As a Farm Woman Thinks: Life and Land on the Texas High Plains, 1890-1960" ($34.95 hardcover).