Many of his plays, rooted in American folk life, capture the humor and wisdom of country and small-town living a generation or more ago. The Department of Theatre and Dance has produced several of Conkle's folk plays including Johnny Appleseed in 1940. A musical version of the play, entitled Fresh From Heaven , was performed in 1973, the year Professor Conkle retired and was named Professor Emeritus. He received his bachelor's and Master's degrees from the University of Nebraska. He did graduate work at Yale University from 1926 to 1928, won a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1929, and received a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship from 1934 to 1936.
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