Flyover People Daily News

A tribute to Octave Chanute  – in downtown Chanute, Kansas.
It’s a charming art installation.

Mr. Chanute designed several railroad lines in this region of Kansas and so a town was named after him.

These sculptures, both on the ground and in the air are kinetic sculptures – moved by the Kansas wind.

other people's stuff, places

Rachel Hunter and Darrell Brogdon pitch to listeners during a previous fund drive.
Greetings, public radio fans:
This morning Kansas Public Radio begins its week-long spring membership drive.

Twice a year, KPR interrupts programming to ask listeners for financial support.
If we’re honest here, I don’t think the fund drive is a favorite week at the KPR studios. (Well, [...]

on the radio

commerce

churches, small towns

“Mozart died @ 21 a genius. What have you done?”
Actually, Mozart died at 35.

life on the ground

An old gas station/garage in Buffalo.

gas stations, small towns

The Travel Channels “Food Wars” will profile two restaurants in Kansas tonight at 9 p.m. Central. (Channel 52 in the Emporia area.)
Chicken Annie’s vs. Chicken Mary’s.
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on TV

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

TO CHANUTE
On a Saturday morning, Dave and I headed southbound on K-99, the car happily gobbling up white stripes on the highway.
After a long and unforgiving winter, it was exhilarating to see scenery zipping by at 60 mph again. We’d had a [...]

columns, small towns, traveling

In lieu of the sun, the daffodil shines. The sun came out suddenly this afternoon after eight days of clouds.

Crocus

This is where the hatchet job on the leaping buffalo tree stands today.

This is how the leaping buffalo tree looked in its full glory.

nature, seasons

Not all is abandoned in Dunlap. There’s a well-kept Methodist Church here.

The air was so still, the town so quiet, that I could hear a jet scraping the sky overhead. I hadn’t heard the sound of a jet in the sky for a long time.

churches, small towns

Like many small towns, Dunlap has quite a few abandoned places.

A church.

churches, small towns