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From my first blog entry to the present, I have written of my belief that so many of our personal and our political mistakes can be avoided...

Photo credit: Larry D. Fenwick Within the past few months each time we go to town we have noticed a horse and a goat sharing the same p...

Those of you who follow my blog already know what a fan of Willa Cather I am.  My husband and I enjoy attending Cather conferences and se...

The Beecher Bible & Rifle Church Henry Ward Beecher has been the subject of several posts in this blog, including his influence on ...

The main street of Wamego The city of Wamego, Kansas is not only a wonderful place to live.  It also has many reasons for visitors to b...

The Government Building at the 1893 Columbian Exhibition In earlier blogs I have shared the importance of theaters and opera houses to ...

Thomas Moran, Brooklyn Museum Collection The city of Wamego, Kansas was founded in 1866, but a visit to the 1893 World's Fair in Ch...

Oz Museum in Wamego, Kansas Isaac B. Werner may have died before L. Frank Baum began publishing his Oz books, but both men were impacte...

Most people know that Topeka is the state capitol of Kansas.  (See "A Kansas Treasure," 10-15-2015 in the blog archives.)  Howe...

Stone Plaque in the Eldridge Hotel, Lawrence, KS The stone plaque pictured at left reads:  "Site of Free State Hotel burned by Sh...

Somewhere out there I know there must be  photographs of Isaac B. Werner and his neighbors arriving to plant, and later tend and harvest ...

Herbert Spencer I am always intrigued by comparing what is happening during the same historical period in various parts of the country,...