Flyover People Daily News

Michelle and Laramie Unruh (my cuz) and Me Unruh. Dave took this photo  (and I’ll have to change the watermark on it later to say Dave’s name, but I’m on my way out the door right now…)
Anyway, Monica Springer wrote a nice story about the Flyover book in the Emporia Gazette today: Flying High. (Love [...]

Flyover Book, life on the ground

Our former neighbors were passing through town yesterday, or at least two of them, Brenda and Morgan – and they stopped in and bought a couple of books and came to see Tiger. Tigie was less than cooperative, but, you know, cats will be cats.
Dave and I  miss having them as neighbors. It was so [...]

life on the ground

Joe Foster played at the Java Cat on Sunday and Kevin Rabas read from his Notable Kansas Book.
This afternoon (Wednesday), Joe Foster will play at Emporia’s Farmers Market at 5 p.m. He’s worth listening to. I really liked his sound.
And then – come see me at the Town Crier, 716 Commercial, just a block away [...]

E-town, Flyover Book, events

Today’s Flyover People column as seen in The Emporia Gazette:

Rozel (pop. 161) must mean “town of many benches” as they have plenty.
The Lumberyard Bench

When we were kids, my friends and I were bench bums.
Of course, we would’ve loved to have been beach bums, but beaches are hard to come by in this landlocked [...]

columns, life on the ground, small towns

A rainy August day in Barton County – as seen through the windshield.

weather

Sandbar on the Arkansas River – at the Diversion Dam near Dundee.

landscape, nature

That one in the center takes my breath away. It’s “Echo Cliff” by James Pringle Cook. He’s from Eskridge but now lives and paints in Tuscon.
Yes – there are incredible Kansas scenes up in the SouthWind Gallery in Topeka, now through mid-September, so when I have my book signing here on Sept. 15 (3-6 p.m.), [...]

Flyover Book, other people's stuff

It’s like an out-of-body experience seeing my book on the shelves at Town Crier, at my hometown bookstore.
Even though I’ve thought about the possibility of writing a book since I was young, this doesn’t seem real, but there it is.
And it will seem freaky to see the book on the shelves at my public library, [...]

Flyover Book, life on the ground

As volunteer fire departments go, this is the nicest, newest building I’ve run across. Sterling is in Rice County.

small towns

Check out the great sunflower photos over at Window on the Prairie.

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other people's stuff

elevators