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Two Hundred Years of the Santa Fe Trail

By Beccy Tanner on Jun. 16, 2022

A vital land trail receives recognition and a reappraisal of its role in American history and in shaping the future of Kansas Illustrations by Doug Holdread, courtesy of the Santa Fe Trail Association…

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Two Hundred Years of the Santa Fe Trail

By Beccy Tanner on Nov. 02, 2021

​Illustrations by Doug Holdread, Courtesy Santa Fe Trail Assoc. A vital land trail receives recognition and a reappraisal of its role in American history and in shaping the future of Kansas Along…

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Frank Lloyd Wright’s Allen House

By Beccy Tanner on Nov. 02, 2021

Recognized as one of America’s most gifted 20th-century architects, Frank Lloyd Wright built more than 500 homes, museums, places of worship and office buildings, eight of them included on UNESCO’s…

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Kansas Women Trailblazers: Jessie E. Woods

By Beccy Tanner on Mar. 09, 2021

Jessie E. Woods was born in 1909 on her family’s Stafford County farm near Seward and, upon her death in 2001, buried only a short drive away, in Stafford County’s Fairview Cemetery, near the graves…

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Kansas Finest Honoree: Shirley & Ken McClintock

By Beccy Tanner on Dec. 13, 2019

Ken and Shirley McClintock are doers and talkers. Owners of the Trail Days Museum and Café in Council Grove, the couple have been telling the history of the area for decades while restoring the…

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Kansas Finest Honoree: Jonathan Adams

By Beccy Tanner on Dec. 13, 2019

A carpenter by trade, Jonathan Adams is also a self-taught photographer who has recently turned to documenting the landscape and sights of Kansas from his home in Iola. “Maybe five years ago, I…

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