Flyover People Daily News

Today’s Flyover People column as seen in The Emporia Gazette: BACK TO THE ‘50S A model home built in Prairie Village presented a new and exciting lifestyle option to Kansas City area residents in 1954. The number of people who toured the house that year, 64,000, was equivalent to the population of Johnson County at […]

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Here’s the view from one of the two terraces on the north side of the Flint Hills Discovery Center in Manhattan.

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Today’s Flyover People column as seen in The Emporia Gazette: WELL DONE, MANHATTAN ‘Take me back to the Cottonwood River,” Kelley Hunt sings. “Lead me on, lead me on to where the Flint Hills roll.” Growing up Emporia, the Flint Hills likely provided Kelley Hunt with a feeling of being grounded, and the open skies […]

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Looking up from the ground level inside the brand new Flint Hills Discovery Center in Manhattan.

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On the terrace, Flint Hills Discovery Center, Manhattan. (And no, I don’t know what the sign means.)

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The old 1892 Wichita City Hall is the home of the current Wichita-Sedgwick County Museum.

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In the Regnier Center – Johnson County Community College

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Hometown boy and NASCAR driver Clint Bowyer came to Emporia today to dedicate and cut the ribbon on a building he paid for – the Bowyer Community Building which is on the Lyon County Fairgrounds.  

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Emporia State University’s Plumb Hall.

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The old Mentholatum building in Wichita – now The Spice Merchant. From WSU Special Collections, a bit of history about the building. ***

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This past year Broadview Tower at 6th & Merchant in Emporia has undergone a renovation. They blasted off all the beige paint and it looks much, much better.  Awnings have gone up just like it had in its early days. Mark Schondelmaier offered this postcard picture of the Broadview Hotel. The card has a 1931 […]

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