By Some years back, my dad drove this display in area parades. It was a replica of the Rock that he made himself. This photo was taken in Larned. I remember one time in Ellinwood for their After Harvest Festival, the parade announcer called dad “a one-man promoter of Pawnee Rock.” My dad loved the history …
Shaved Ice
In Ellinwood, an old Valentine Diner has recently been renovated to become this attractive summer snack shop. Until recently, it was the Ark Valley Veterinary Hospital. There are two Valentine Diners still in Ellinwood. Here’s a list of the ones still in existence in Kansas. They sell snow cones, ice cream and smoothies. Passing through …
No. 8
Council Grove.
Look up
The Kansas Capitol is undergoing an extensive renovation. Some of the building is a construction zone, but where they’ve finished it, it’s beautiful. Even the ceilings. Looking up in the House Chamber, you’ll see paintings above you.
The Hidden Garden
Today’s Flyover People column as seen in The Emporia Gazette: Steve and Jane Fry THE HIDDEN GARDEN Steve and Jane Fry knew the garden was there, somewhere in the undergrowth and the overgrowth, somewhere amid the self-initiated forest and the thick tangle of English ivy. “We love trees, but we’ve cut out hundreds of them,” …
Eisenhower
One Man’s Legacy
Today’s Flyover People column as seen in The Emporia Gazette: ONE MAN’S LEGACY The school bus I rode in bounced over a one-lane pasture road. It sloshed through a muddy draw, wound around hills, and stopped near a granite monument in the middle of a Chase County pasture. More than 200 people made the trip …
Flyover at Memorial Service
Doug Wilson was the pilot in a flyover this morning at the 80th Anniversary Memorial Service for Knute Rockne and the other seven men who died on March 31, 1931, when their plane crashed near Bazaar in Chase County. Knute’s grandson, Nils Rockne, was one of the speakers at today’s ceremony, which was attended by, …
80 years ago
I drove to Bazaar this morning to attend the memorial service commemorating the 80th anniversary of the plane crash in which Knute Rockne and seven other men died on March 31, 1931. More later….
Old school
An old one-room schoolhouse near Pawnee Rock.
Napoleon Bonaparte Brown
Portraits of Col. Napoleon Bonaparte Brown (top) and his son, Earl, in the parlor of the Brown Grand Theatre in Concordia. The elder Brown was the richest guy in town and put up $40,000 to build the theatre. Earl overlooked the construction of the theatre in 1906-1907. You can take a virtual tour of the …