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 My encouragement to set a reading goal for yourself for 2022 was pretty simple compared to this serious Pratt group from 1962!  The group b...

  Perhaps the most famous female journalist of the late 1800s was Nellie Bly, not because of her successful Trip About the World, described ...

1873 1st Vernes book  In 1872, French author Jules Verne published "Around the World in Eighty Days," creating the memorable chara...

  It isn't easy to select a favorite author or a favorite book, but I do have a favorite.  I have written about Harper Lee before.  ...

Photo Credits:  Lyn Fenwick Like Thomas Jefferson, "I cannot live without my books."  My New Year's Resolution should be--and ...

  Remember when reading was fun!  Your New Year's Resolution should be about rediscovering the fun of reading.  And, there is no reason ...

New Year's is past, but it is not too late for a resolution.  It probably will not surprise you that I am about to suggest that you reso...

Continuing last week's blog that shared 3 generations of women who married a famer and concluded with a husband who married a farmer...

  In gratitude to the many people who follow this blog, I have shared history and other topics weekly for nearly 550 blogs.  It will probabl...

The day after Thanksgiving I began packing away the turkeys and the pilgrims for another year and bringing out Santa and the Angels.  Covid ...

 Isaac Werner had a wonderful way with words, and among his clever expressions is one that I particularly like.  Isaac had made the effort t...

  My Great-grandfather was a Union Soldier, and he served for 3 years.  For the rest of his life, he voted republican, as many Union Soldier...

By now, those of you who follow my blog know that I love history. It is not just the history of a Kansas homesteader named Isaac Beckley We...

  Photo credit:  Lyn Fenwick So many reasons to be thankful.  Wishing all of you an abundance of reasons for thankfulness as well.

             Larned and Great Bend It has been such a privilege for me to be able to share the story of our ancestors with the help of so ma...

 In 1991 the Architectural Record published a list of the one hundred most important buildings of the twentieth century.  Twelve of those bu...

  Photo credit:  Lyn Fenwick Several days ago, I spotted Monarch butterflies feeding on the marigolds outside the library in Macksville, and...