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Isaac's penmanship It came as a surprise to me that my blog "Isaac's Penmanship" has proved to be one of the most oft...

  One of the amazing things for me since beginning this blog has been the huge number of international visitors.  Whatever your nati...

 Reading the County Capital Recently, visiting the online newsletter  Biographile, Discover the World Through Biography and Memoir,...

One Thanksgiving morning during the years of drought and low prices for crops, Isaac wrote in his journal that he didn't see many ...

I will never forget the night my husband and I were driving back to my parents' farm from an evening in Macksville when we noticed a st...

Political Cartoon from the County Capital             The hardships of the late 1800s in agricultural regions are dif...

In an era lacking radio, television, CDs and internet, people still enjoyed music.  Many towns formed bands  (See "Music on the Prai...

  Isaac has given me a wonderful gift, a gift I attempt to pass along each week to those of you who follow my blog.  It is because of ...

In my first blog of the state fair series, "Time for the Fair," posted 9/4/2013, I shared the history of state fairs and how they...

 You might not be surprised to find a building at the Kansas State Fair called "The Oz Gallery," but what sort of exhibi...

Isaac B. Werner never kept cattle, although one day in 1886 when the drought was drying up the prairie grass and times were too hard to aff...

 Breed:  Chinese Brown As we entered the Poultry Barn at the Kansas State Fair, we were greeted with a cacophony of crowing, which s...