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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 [...]

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

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Coffey County.

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Inman, McPherson County.

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Outside the Dillon’s store, St. John. (Stafford County.)

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Radium. Stafford County.

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Inman. McPherson County.

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

OLD STOMPING GROUNDS
In Great Bend, my brother’s cell phone rang. His wife at their home in Alaska had apparently asked what he was doing because Leon replied, “I’m frying an egg on the parking lot pavement. What are you doing?”
Leon didn’t mind [...]

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Last week while hanging in Great Bend with my mom and brother, we made a trip to Newton to visit Mennonite Press – to turn in the proofs to my book and make a few changes on them. We didn’t find a place for breakfast until we got to Sterling (Rice County.) I’d been to [...]

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The Nickerson elevator. Reno County.

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

COURTNEY’S IN TORONTO
The waiter at Courtney’s told us, “Some guy came in here and said, ‘When I heard you had to make reservations for a restaurant in Toronto, I laughed hysterically, but now that I’m here, I see why.’”
One wouldn’t expect [...]

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