This week’s Flyover People column as seen in The Emporia Gazette: Sternberg Museum of Natural History HAYS, PAST AND PRESENT I left you in Lucas at the end of last week’s column. After Lucas, I then took a spin through Russell, which has “Home of Bob Dole” painted on one of its grain elevators. And …
Buffalo Bill Cody
Buffalo Bill Cody stands guard outside the public library in Hays. Artist: Pete Felten Oh give me a home where the Buffalo Rome.
Carneiro
Carneiro Methodist Church Carneiro is a ghost town in eastern Ellsworth County. 1916 school.
Ride ’em Cowboy
One frame of the extensive toy collection at the Prairie Museum of Art and History. If you’re ever out in Colby, this place is definitely worth a visit. Also, they now have Flyover People books for sale here.
Mammoth
Mammoth greetings from the Sternberg Museum of Natural History in Hays. This museum is a wow. I loved it. The mosasaur was very cool. So many great things here.
‘A Prairie Peter Pan’
Today’s Flyover People column as seen in The Emporia Gazette: Beverley Buller talks about her new book to an audience on the porch at the William Allen White State Historic Site in Emporia. ‘A PRAIRIE PETER PAN’ “Using her father’s words as a frame really tells her story,” Beverley Buller said. When Buller first began …
Carnegie in Newton
The Carnegie Library in Newton is now the Harvey County Historical Museum.
In the Chase Co. Museum
A classroom is set up in the Chase County Historical Museum in Cottonwood Falls.
Stone schoolhouse
This is near U.S. 50, in Marion County, I believe.
Pioneer Bluffs
Last Saturday, Pioneer Bluffs, near Matfield Green in Chase County, hosted the premiere of John O’Hara’s documentary “Return to PrairyErth” in their barn. These are a few photos I took while waiting for the events to begin. Charles Rogler’s cabin. From inside the cabin.
The Muddy Cottonwood
The water is up and it’s muddy in the Cottonwood River as it flows past the old Drinkwater and Schriver Mill in Cedar Point in Chase County.