By the Shores of Gitchee Gumee of the novel is 19-year-old Maud Slivenowicz, whose major source of knowledge is "Reader's Digest". Her mother, Evangeline, has five children by five different deadbeat fathers. Without a regular income, the Slivenowicz family dream of becoming movie stars, and at the end of the book it seems one of Maud's brothers might actually be given a role in a television commercial. The title of the book relates to a famous line in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's epic poem "The Song of Hiawatha". By the Shores of Gitchee Gumee By the Shores of Gitchee Gumee (1996) is a satirical novel by Tama
Winona, Kansas Winona, Kansas Winona is a city in Logan County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 162. Winona was originally known as Gopher, and under the latter name was founded in 1884. It was renamed Winona in 1887. The community is named after the character Wenonah, the mother of Hiawatha in Longfellow's epic poem "The Song of Hiawatha" (1855). Winona is located at (39.061639, -101.244995). According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all of it land. According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Winona has a semi-arid