Today’s Flyover People column as seen in The Emporia Gazette: ADVENTURES IN READING One day this month, the Miracle Café in Reading posted a Facebook message announcing that strawberry-rhubarb pie was available that day. I reposted their note, and within a few minutes friends Greg Jordan and Lisa Soller suggested I meet them in Reading […]
Today’s Flyover People column as seen in The Emporia Gazette: ART IN THE CITY “Mom! Mom!” I heard a boy’s voice yelling from the sidewalk in front of my house. I looked out the door and saw a boy who was 8 or 9 scramble to get on his bicycle. He continued to shout […]
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Today’s Flyover People column as seen in The Emporia Gazette: Tom Parker (photo by Dave Leiker) THE WAY WE WORKED “I saw unspeakable things done to cattle, and I lived through things I didn’t know I would,” Tom Parker said with a smile as he told me about his year-long photography project. Over the past […]
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Today’s Flyover People column as seen in The Emporia Gazette: Bowl Plaza, Lucas DETROIT, DENMARK AND LUCAS Being able to travel from Detroit to Denmark within a couple of hours is just one of the perks of living in Kansas. It was a Sunday morning and the air was cool for a change. The […]
Kelley Hunt and her band rocked the Granada Theatre this evening in Emporia. Yeow! Raised in Emporia, she played for an appreciative hometown crowd. Tonight’s performance was a benefit for the Emporia Arts Center and the Granada Theatre. Kelley always just blows the audience away with her voice, her keyboard skills and her energy. She […]
Dave and I stopped in at the Strecker-Nelson Art Gallery in downtown Manhattan today. The current show which opened last week at the Strecker-Nelson is 2012: Faith, Magic, Love and Death, Cautionary Tales of the End Time. It’s a traveling art show and has landed here for awhile. I’m crazy about the pieces made by […]
I asked Erika Nelson what the nails on the saddles were for. She said, “Large drunk man deterrent.” More than once, she’s returned to her truck and found it either being climbed on or vandalized. The cage which was later constructed helps keep people out and the nails help, too, I’m sure.
Today’s Flyover People column as seen in The Emporia Gazette: PORTRAIT OF AN ARTIST For a while now, I had been hoping to interview Erika Nelson – because she drives a vehicle with dinosaurs tarred onto the hood, has taxidermy forms in her living room, and because she seems like one of the coolest kids […]
“Beaver’s Gift,” by Bill McBride. Beaver sticks and wire. For sale at the Gallery at Pioneer Bluffs just north of Matfield Green on K-177.
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