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In the late 1800s when roads and bridges were needed just as they are today, it was up to the homesteaders living on the prairie to manage ...

Iuka, Kansas stores In these times which seem so unsettled, with so many traditions and customs abandoned, I thought it might be intere...

Not your typical "love birds" you say?  Why not?  The bride is dressed in white, and the groom is wearing tails--well, tail fea...

If you watched the State of the Union Address on Tuesday night, February 4, 2019, you must have noticed all of the women dressed in white. ...

Pinocchio (Photo by M. Minderhoud) Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire--Remember that old chant from the playground?  What is today's equival...

A Building at Historic Fort Hays The common conception of soldiers being sent to the prairie to protect settlers is not entirely accura...

In Isaac Werner's community, neighbors often shared work.  Sometimes it was for cash.  Other times, one person would help a neighbor ...

I just finished reading Moyers on America, A Journalist and His Times, published in 2004. (I often buy books that I overlooked when they ...

Geologist at work Isaac Beckley Werner had such a curious mind.  Not only was he observant about things around him, he exercised his cu...

(c) Lyn Fenwick drawing from 2015 There are still a few days until 2018 tumbles to a disquieting close, and the notion of New Year'...

(c) Lyn Fenwick, "Not a Creature Was Stirring" Many of my friends read "T'was the Night Before Christmas"...

Mother's Wool Throw Although my mother was a wonderful seamstress and the 4-H sewing leader when I was young, she was not a quil...

Advertisement from County Capital In the Stafford County (Kansas) Museum permanent Quilt Exhibit, there are both hand sewn and machine ...

One of my favorite quilt designs is called Wild Geese, which is still popular today.  A handmade quilt by Mary Melissa Groves Ratcliffe (18...

We had not been in the Stafford County Museum exhibit of quilts more than a minute when my husband insisted that I walk away from the quilt...