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After the memorial at the Knute Rockne crash site, I cruised into Cottonwood Falls and had lunch at the Emma Chase Cafe.
The main menu. I forgot to take a photo of the pie menu, but they had apple, peach and raisin, pecan and several other kids of pie.
I got there just in time. It started filling up quickly.
Chicken-fried steak dinner, mashed potatoes, green beans, bread and homemade apple butter. Scrumptious.
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Coming up this next week at the Emma Chase Cafe is the Prairie Fire Festival.
2011 Schedule of Events
Monday, April 4, 6:30 p.m. Emma Chase Cafe: Dr. Tim Fry, speaking about the Kaw dwellings in Morris County, Kansas. The Emma Chase Cafe will offer a light dinner menu from 5 to 6 p.m.
Tuesday, April 5, 6:30 p.m. Emma Chase Cafe: Ron Parks, former director of Kaw Mission in Council Grove, KS. Speaking about the book he is writing on “Kaw Trails West”. The Emma Chase Cafe will offer a light dinner menu from 5 to 6 p.m.
Wednesday, April 6, 6:30 p.m. Emma Chase Cafe: Mike Holder, Chase County Extention Agent, Cottonwood Falls. Talk entitled “What Constitutes a TallGrass Prairie”. This is the information around which the Prairie Fire Festival is founded. The Emma Chase Cafe will offer a light dinner menu from 5 to 6 p.m.
Thursday, April 7, 6:30 p.m. Emma Chase Cafe: “Return to Prairy Erth”
Friday, April 8, 7:30 p.m. Emma Chase Music Hall, 220 1/2 Broaday, CWF. The Prairie Fire Festival edition of K-177 BlueGrass Pickin’. The Emma Chase Cafe will offer the standard Friday night dinner menu from 5 to 8 p.m.
Saturday, April 9, 11:00 a.m. Prairie PastTimes, 220 1/2 Broadway, CWF. George LeRoux speaking about “Mammals of the TallGrass Prairie”. George raises the bison meat which we serve at the Emma Chase Cafe.
Saturday, April 9, 1:00 p.m. Prairie PastTimes, 220 1/2 Broadway, CWF.Jim Gray, historian/author, speaks about “Prairie Fire Tales and Old Prairie Trails”.
Saturday, April 9, 2:00 p.m. Prairie PastTimes, 220 1/2 Broadway, CWF.Erin Blackshere Poppert, Kaw Native American, speaks about “My Kaw Ancestors”. Erin appears in full regalia.
Saturday, April 9, 3:00 p.m. Prairie PastTimes, 220 1/2 Broadway, CWF.Roger Weaver, “Prairie Fire Photos” at Prairie PastTimes, 220 1/2 Broadway, Cottonwood Falls.
Saturday, April 9, 4:00 p.m. Emma Chase Music Hall, 220 1/2 Broadway, CWF. On Saturday, 4:00 p.m. Annie Wilson “Songs of the TallGrass Prairie” Annie is a remarkable singer/songwriter. If you love the TallGrass Prairie/Kansas Flint Hills, you’ll appreciate Annie’s wonderful music.
Saturday, April 9, 7:30 p.m. Emma Chase Music Hall, 220 1/2 Broadway, CWF. Jeff Davidson, Greenwood County, KS Extension Agent, Kansas Historian, Entertainer. “Trails of History – 150 years of Kansas”
Call (620) 273-6020 for more information
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Cheryl, I really wish you hadn’t posted that pic. I have a sudden hankering for chicken fried steak done right, which of course it always is at Emma Chase’s. Too bad it’s a two-hour drive. Or is it three?
I am like Tom. I am not even hungry, but boy I could go for some chicken fried steak at Emma Chase. Sue is a very hard worker and does so much for Cottonwood Falls. Going to Cottonwood Falls and not seeing Sue is like putting water in a bucket with holes. It is a very empty feeling. Sue is SO much COTTONWOOD FALLS!
That is very eloquent, Onnalee.