By The Sensory Garden at the Audio-Reader building on the University of Kansas campus. Audio-Reader is a reading service for the blind, visually impaired and print disabled. The staff and volunteers for Audio-Reader decided that merely reading to the visually impaired wasn’t enough. So they created a garden for the senses. Many plants are selected for …
Reading for Others
Jim Claussen, a volunteer from Topeka, and Peg Sampson, outreach coordinator, discuss a story in The Emporia Gazette. The people at Audio-Reader are my heroes. Audio-Reader is a reading service for the blind, visually impaired and print disabled. I wrote a feature article for the Mature Living section in today’s Gazette. The Gazette doesn’t post …
Seasons in the Sun – radio version
I was on Kansas Public Radio this morning: Seasons in the Sun. And KPR put me in their newsletter this month.
Laura Lorson – on small towns
Today I caught another fine NPR commentary by Laura Lorson: Transplanted Kentuckian Admires Small-Town Lifers I was almost home when it came on the air and I sat in my hot car in the driveway to hear it all. She doesn’t glamorize small Kansas towns, but she describes them well. Such great lines … “the …
From NPR
Heard this amusing commentary on NPR this afternoon: Sprinting for Grease Pits and other Tornado Tales Harriet Brown, who grew up in New Jersey, talks about how Midwesterners face tornadoes.
Wanna hear something funny?
Kansas Public Radio’s Laura Lorson (local host of All Things Considered) had a commentary on NPR yesterday: “Chickenbutt and Other Lessons from Grandma.” NPR shows it as the most e-mailed story over the past 24 hours.
No Place Like Home
I’m gonna be on Kansas Public Radio this morning, at 6:35 and 8:35 a.m. If you’d like to follow along, here’s the text: No Place Like Home. (Which is also this week’s Flyover People column.) If you miss it “live” on the air, you can find the audio file on the KPR website.
Rainy Day in Kansas
I made a quick, early morning trip to Wichita and back. In the rain. Heavy rain at times. And I only got 13 minutes of sleep last night because I had a headache the size of Georgia. (Better now, but tired as all get-out.) Gas in Emporia $3.19-3.29. Gas in Andover $3.07. Gas yesterday in …
Laura Lorson
Laura Lorson, host of “All Things Considered” on Kansas Public Radio grew up in Louisville, Kentucky. Yesterday, NPR aired one of her commentaries: Oh, Kentucky Home and the Derby. Another piece, and I especially like this one of hers from last month, is about music on the radio and a near-miss (near-hit?) on the Kansas …
KPR goal met
Update on the Kansas Public Radio Membership Drive: Last night about 6 p.m., KPR met its financial goal of $220,000. Original plans had been to carry the on-air pitching through today, but listeners met the goal and so the pledge drive ended a day earlier than scheduled. Regular programming has resumed. I offer my thanks …
Eight Wonders of Kansas
J. Schafer included this in his newscast this morning on Kansas Public Radio and, heck, it’s also a good thing to post on Flyover People. The Kansas Sampler Foundation is taking nominations from the public for the Eight Wonders of Kansas through May 15. A Wonder will be selected for each of the eight rural …