I got a phone call the other night from an Emporia woman. Her maiden name is Unruh and her family is from the Marion County area. Poor woman, when people find out that she’s an Unruh, she is always asked if she’s from Pawnee Rock. I guess those newspaper columns in which I mention Pawnee …
Marion Depot
Since it’s been too dang cold to get out lately, here’s a photo I took in December of the former Santa Fe Depot in Marion. It’s now the public library.
Let’s all go to Woodbine
Some small towns in Kansas just wrap their arms around you. Woodbine in Dickinson County is one of those towns. It was Eleanor Browning, Woodbine native, who suggested that Dave and I pay a visit to her hometown. So we did. We met ele’s dad, Verland Middleton, a delightful man and veteran of WWI, who …