Two female penguins prepare to take the polar bear plunge. Air temperature, 23 degrees. Water temperature, yikes. It looks like they had to chop a hole in the small, residential Mouse Lake in order for these crazy people to jump into the water this morning. Seventy-two (72!) people did step, jump, and cannon-ball into the …
Celebrating Theda Wolford
Regular readers of the Flyover People column surely know that I enjoy visiting with Theda Wolford, who owns and operates Bill’s Hardware store in Hartford. If you haven’t been to Bill’s Hardware, you. must. go. (see photos) Anyway, Theda is turning 80! And her family is holding a reception for her Sunday, Feb. 4 from …
Paul Harris, British Observer, Kansas Day Speaker
Last spring, Paul Harris made a splash in the Sunflower State when he wrote “Ode to Kansas” for his newspaper, The Observer. Harris, a British journalist based in New York, has visited Kansas on various story assignments over the past few years. He spent some time in Ellsworth while writing about the depopulation of the …
What’s the Matter with Everyone Else?
(I didn’t want to use a flash while the man was speaking, thus the blurry photo. With a point-and-shoot camera, that’s what you get.) Paul Harris, a British journalist with The Observer, spoke this afternoon at Washburn University in Topeka. His topic: “What’s the Matter with Everyone Else?: A Foreign Perspective on Kansas.” His talk …
Brit to Return to Kansas
British journalist, Paul Harris, who wrote the “Ode to Kansas” for The Observer will be speaking at a Kansas Day event at the Washburn Center for Kansas Studies in Topeka on Friday, January 26, at 3:30 p.m. Details available here.