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Photo credit:  Larry Fenwick On a recent trip to Fort Worth my husband encountered this sculpture of Mark Twain, and knowing how much I...

Las Animas Courthouse Isaac's closest neighbors in 1888 were the Bentleys, whose claim was directly east of his own homestead. Harr...

Studying English I have saved my husband's and my own high school and college English texts, believing they might have a use to me ...

Recently I purchased a reproduction of the Asher & Adams Pictorial Album of American Industry, published originally in 1876 and repro...

John Brown mural at Kansas Capitol Although the Kansas Capitol was begun in 1866 before Isaac B. Werner arrived to stake his claim and ...

  Henrietta C. Werner Palmer Isaac B. Werner's youngest sister, Henrietta Catherine, was a young girl in her mid-teens when Isaac l...

  Newel post at Kansas State Capitol In 1866, twelve years before Isaac B. Werner arrived in Kansas to stake his claims, construc...

So many people enjoyed recalling the books that they loved in childhood when I posted the blogs about favorite childhood books, (See ...

Zebulon Montgomery Pike Most Kansans know about the Lewis and Clark Expedition begun in 1804, the year after the Louisiana Purchase.  T...

The Emerson school Isaac helped build Now that the school year 2015-2016 is back in session, I thought it was a good time to reflect on...

Ad from The Etude, Dec. 1915 Recently I have had many reasons to reflect on the role of music in our lives.  The most personal reason i...

Ribbon cutting at the Kansas Aviation Museum When Isaac B. Werner arrived in Kansas in 1878 he did not have a horse.  His only means of...