…the bigger the numbers get. It’s the end of the month and I’m paying bills. I still do things the old-fashioned way – I write checks. I used to write monthly checks to KP&L, Kansas Power and Light, for gas and electricity. Well, as you all know, that became Westar Energy. Then there was a …
Today in E-town
About 2 inches of snow fell today. The streets were slick for a while, but the city treated the main roads in town. Gas was down to $1.89 the other day. Now it’s selling for $2.09. Safeway Pet Foods over on the west edge of town has been sold to American Nutrition, a company based …
Carole Chapel
While wandering around the Washburn campus last Friday, I found Carole Chapel. It had a glass ceiling and glass walls. My kind of place – lots of light.
A Kansan’s View of Kansas
My friend Tracy wrote a great Kansas Day piece. 🙂
A Brit’s View of Kansas
Today’s column in the Emporia Gazette: A Brit’s View of Kansas. It’s pretty much the same thing as is posted below.
Happy Kansas Day!
Five or six years ago, Allen Twitchell worked at The Emporia Gazette and wrote the “Culture Schlock” column. In one column he mentioned that a friend had told him, “The best thing about Kansas is the sunsets.” Allen wasn’t quite sure how to take that remark. Was it a back-handed compliment? I’m a big fan …
Kansas Day e-cards
Don’t forget, O People of the South Wind, that you can send Kansas Day greetings to friends all over the planet! What about your friend who moved to Michigan? … That brother searching for gold in California? … Your twisted sister in Nebraska? Those friends and family members who once inhaled the pure Kansas air …
Paul Harris, British Observer, Kansas Day Speaker
Last spring, Paul Harris made a splash in the Sunflower State when he wrote “Ode to Kansas” for his newspaper, The Observer. Harris, a British journalist based in New York, has visited Kansas on various story assignments over the past few years. He spent some time in Ellsworth while writing about the depopulation of the …
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 …
Four Years
This week marks my 4-year anniversary of writing the Flyover People column. My first column was published on January 28, 2003, just in time for Kansas Day. When I got the go-ahead to write the column in January of 2003, John Lechliter, Managing Editor of The Gazette at the time, said something like, “Some people …
Washburn Campus
I’ll add more about Paul Harris’ talk later, but here’s a photo from the Washburn University campus where the Kansas Day talk was given yesterday… In the center of the campus is the Fred and Julia Kuehne Bell Tower. The four bells came from the clock tower in the Thomas Gymnasium – which was destroyed …