was [Minnie Mae] Freeman.On the afternoon of the storm, she led 16 children through a mile of snow to the safety of her rural boarding house near Ord, in central Nebraska. Newspapers later declared her a heroine. [Ted] Kooser conveys her discomfort with the hype.
"I was embarrassed all right!" writes Kooser, supposedly in Freeman's voice.
from Omaha World-Herald: 1888 blizzard recounted in Kooser poems now Opera Omaha oratorio
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