by Dave | Apr 7, 2007 | Black and White
This is one of the main panels of the Liberty Bell 7 Mercury space capsule. The space ship is on display at the Cosmosphere in Hutchinson, Kansas. The capsule, which sunk off the coast of Florida in 1961, was recovered in 1999 and fully restored. The Kansas...
by Dave | Apr 1, 2007 | Kansas, Small Towns
This stone portal was discoverd on a downtown side street, in Eskridge, Kansas. I may be mistaken, but I believe this is the first store constructed in the town, around 1881. The only Earl I find in the 1907 Eskridge business directory is “W. H.” who...
by Dave | Mar 24, 2007 | Kansas, Landscape, Small Towns
Albert, Kansas
by Dave | Oct 28, 2006 | Kansas
The tiny Cozy Inn burger joint in Salina has been serving up hamburgers for more than 80 years. It’s something of an institution in the area. I’ve been eating cozies since I was little, and my brothers worked the grill. The hamburgers are small blobs of...
by Dave | Oct 28, 2006 | Black and White, Small Towns
Carlton, Kansas
by Dave | Sep 30, 2006 | Kansas, Kansas Culture
It was in, or around this cabin, in 1872 that Brewster Higley wrote the words for “Home on the Range”. The lyrics were later set to music by Dan Kelley of Gaylord. In 1947 it was named the state song of Kansas.
by Dave | Sep 21, 2006 | Black and White, Cityscapes, Kansas
by Dave | Sep 9, 2006 | Kansas, Mills & Elevators, Small Towns
Dillon is a short distance west of Hope. I drove around this area and found little that resembled a town, just the elevators and a few country homes. Wichita State University library has an old photograph of a Dillon schoolhouse in their special collections. Was a...
by Dave | Sep 2, 2006 | Mills & Elevators
The beautiful old elevator was found along the northeast edge of town.
by Dave | Aug 23, 2006 | Kansas, Small Towns
Council Grove Rear door of the Last Chance Store, built in 1857 It’s not unusual, when looking at buildings that were in their prime a century ago, to wonder what day-to-day life was like then. I like this door as a simple study of texture and color. It has the...
