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Council Grove

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Garnett has come up with an incredible getaway package (valued at $5,000) as a fundraiser for the Kansas Sampler Foundation.
It includes an evening of live music, an overnight stay at the Kirk House, an aerial excursion over the area – well you’ll just have to check out the ebay listing to see what a fantastic [...]

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Downtown Council Grove.

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…but when you eat at the Hays House in Council Grove during strawberry season, it would be a shame not to jump into a piece of their strawberry pie. That’s whipped cream on top (although it kind of looks like homemade ice cream.) Yum. The crust was excellent.

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The water pump at the Pawnee Rock Cemetery.

It’s now an armless pump. Even when it had all its limbs, this was a tough old bird to get water out of. A kid could pump for a long time before a weak stream of water came up – and it wasn’t very good water.  Now downtown, [...]

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When I was growing up, this is what we called the Church Road. It was about 3.5 miles from Pawnee Rock to the Bergthal Mennonite Church. But this is looking south, toward town. Those cedar trees are the Mennonite Cemetery.

Bounce over a few hills, and then you see Pawnee Rock in the distance. Farmers Elevator [...]

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Because Dave has a photography exhibit up in Cottonwood Falls, we’ve been hanging around that town a lot lately. A week ago, we had the chance to dine with some friends at the Grand Central Hotel.

The lighting was too dim in the restaurant for photography, but I had the blurry shrimp with blurry sugar snap [...]

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A couple weeks ago during the Art Walk in Cottonwood Falls, Dale Hartley had a pottery demonstration at the Gallery at Cottonwood Falls which is also where Dale has some of her work for sale.

Some girls were at her table, also working with clay.

Dale does painting as well as ceramics. Check out her website: Buckeye [...]

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Matthew Porubsky writes great stuff for Topeka’s 785 Magazine. In My Pauline Binge, he stops at and writes about places to eat in the unincorporated town of Pauline, just south of Topeka on US 75.
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Live music added a nice energy to the Cottonwood Falls’ annual Folklife Festival on Saturday.

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On the way to the Symphony, I stopped in at Cottonwood Falls briefly to check out the annual Folklife Festival. They were stirrin’ up some heavenly-smelling Kettle Korn there.

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For the second Saturday in a row, the Tallgrass Express String Band played at a gallery opening in Cottonwood Falls. It’s the Symphony in the Flint Hills gallery at 331 Broadway and has ranching photos as ranching is the theme of today’s Symphony in the Flint Hills.

And, like last Saturday, the music brought out the [...]

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If it’s Friday evening, you’ll find music going on in downtown Cottonwood Falls.
Tonight was Bluegrass Pickin’ at the Emma Chase.

Tomorrow in Cottonwood Falls is the Folklife Festival on the courthouse grounds. You can also stop by tomorrow and see Dave’s photos on display in the Symphony in the Flint Hills Gallery (but no sign on [...]

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The Crawford County Courthouse in Girard, pop . 2753. It’s one of those counties in which the largest town in the county (Pittsburg, pop. 19,573) doesn’t have the courthouse.  Crawford County is in the southeast corner of Kansas.
Since we do most of our town-hopping on weekends, Dave and I don’t always get to see the [...]

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Last Saturday at the Rodeo Parade, Cottonwood Falls.

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