Today’s Flyover People column as seen in The Emporia Gazette: AD ASTRA John J. Ingalls gave us the best motto a state could ask for: Ad astra per aspera. And if you’re not into Latin: To the stars through difficulties. Yeah, yeah, difficulties, we’ve had them before and are up to our budgets in difficulties …
Phillip Finch
Phillip Finch is a well-published Emporia writer – and apparently a fine photographer as well. During Wednesday night’s reception at the “Iconic Kansas ” exhibit at the Emporia Arts Center Gallery, he stands next to his photo of Burgess Marsh at the National Wildlife Refuge near Hartford. Finch’s latest book is Devil’s Keep. More on …
150 celebration
With 2011 being our state’s sesquicentennial year, there’s a lot going on … For more information about events, etc., check out the Kansas 150 site. Kansas poetry is being celebrated with 150 Kansas poems. And, there’s an art contest sponsored by SouthWind Gallery in Topeka: Kansas 150 Art Competition. ****
Iconic Kansas
Photographers Casey Wilson, Jim Richardson and Harold Gaston talk shop at the Iconic Kansas reception at the Emporia Arts Center Gallery this evening. Iconic Kansas: Celebrating the 150th Anniversary of Kansas Statehood is the inaugural exhibit at the Arts Center. The show runs through March 2. The exhibition is co-sponsored by the Emporia Arts Council …
365 Days of Kansas
If you’re on Facebook, hop on over to 365 Days of Kansas and celebrate the sesquicentennial year with the rest of us. ***
Kansas Reads with Tom Averill
Tom Averill, writer-in-residence and professor of English at Washburn University, visited the Emporia Public Library this evening as part of the Kansas Reads program sponsored by the Kansas Center for the Book and the State Library of Kansas. Averill has been hitting the highways and libraries across the state leading discussions about this ever-popular book …
‘What Kansas Means to Me’
Today’s Flyover People column as seen in The Emporia Gazette: Barton County ‘WHAT KANSAS MEANS TO ME’ Tom Averill knows Kansas inside and out. He knows it and he loves it. Averill writes about our state, teaches Kansas literature, and tells stories on the radio about small town life. He’s a Kansan, one of us, …