By It’s a busy weekend. Here are some area events as listed in The Emporia Gazette:
Fresh Air Weekend. (Symphony in the Flint Hills, Council Grove events, Flint Hills Folklife Festival in Cottonwood Falls, Pamona Lake National Get Out Days.)
There’s the Author’s Extravaganza at Town Crier in downtown Emporia, 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. today.
Saturday
• Emporia Farmers Market, 8 a.m., Seventh Avenue and Merchant Street.
• Cooking Demo, Spring Veggies, Seventh Avenue and Merchant Street.
• Madison Days. 11 a.m., Madison.
• Pioneer Bluffs Historic District Open House, 10 a.m., Matfield Green.
• Lower Fox Creek, Schoolhouse, 12 to 4 p.m., Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve, Strong City.
• Red House Discovery Hikes, Tallgrass National Prairie National Preserve, Strong City.
• “Some Enchanted Evening,” 7:30 p.m., Bruder Theatre, Emporia State University.
Sunday
• Madison Days, Madison.
• Lower Fox Creek, Schoolhouse, 12 to 4 p.m., Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve, Strong City.
• Author on the Porch, Beverly Buller, author of “From Emporia: The Story of William Allen White,” 2 p.m., White House State Historic Site.
• Red House Discovery Hikes, Tallgrass National Prairie National Preserve, Strong City
If you want to feel an energetic town, come to Madison for Madison Days, especially Saturday. The people here really wake up for this somehow.
I was out talking to neighbors and visiting people about 7 this morning. That’s odd for me. At 7 am, I’m usually in my nightgown having my coffee.
I’m hyper today. Very unusual for me.