Flatwater Free PressKim Carpenter is a freelance writer and author based in Omaha. She has worked for the Omaha World-Herald, the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts and the Akron Art Museum. She has covered visual and performing arts extensively for local, regional, national and international publications and has written books and catalogues profiling artists and their work. Kim earned her Ph.D. in history from Georgetown University and was a Fulbright Scholar in Germany.
Growing up on a hill overlooking North Omaha during World War II, Mary Carpenter remembers the numerous vegetable plots, called Victory Gardens, that dotted her Florence neighborhood. “Everybody…