Flyover People Daily News

Today’s Flyover People column as seen in The Emporia Gazette: NAMING NAMES Once upon a time in Kansas, there were towns called Milo, Mimosa and Moonlight. Those towns have faded into history now, but they are three of the 4,281 post offices established in Kansas between 1828 and 1961. In a book called “Kansas Post […]

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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: 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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Today’s Flyover People column as seen in The Emporia Gazette:    Poyntz Avenue, Manhattan, Kansas MORE FROM MANHATTAN When my birthday rolls around each April, I usually celebrate by making a pilgrimage to Lawrence. Because I lived in Lawrence for several years, that town feels like a second home. Massachusetts Street is a big attraction, […]

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Looking out the front windows of the Flint Hills Discovery Center. Off in the distance is the new Manhattan Convention Center (which has an annoying, unremovable bar-thingy across their website.)  

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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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South of the Flint Hills Discovery Center in Manhattan is a small park which includes a water feature. I didn’t get a good shot of the water jumping, but it jumps in curves, one after another, like its playing leapfrog.

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

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Another incredible piece from Marko Fields on display at the Strecker-Nelson Art Gallery, 406 1/2 Poyntz, in Manhattan. It’s also part of the traveling exhibit: 2012: Faith, Magic, Love & Death, Cautionary Tales of the End Times.

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