Marshall, John

When we moved to Lindsborg 16 years ago one of the first things that struck us about the town was what some people called...

This is the second Hyllningsfest without Jay Steinberg, who died in May, 2015, after a grinding battle with cancer. A round, elfin-like man with...

Recently we drove west and north into the Smoky Hills. This magnificent terrain bumps and rises along the lifting grassland, the hills often sudden...

Alf and Maud Brorson are back, their visit again concurrent with Hyllningsfest, a treasure for these Swedes, and for Alf his 25th trip to...

In the fall of 1868, the first Swedish Agricultural Land Company set up business in a one-room company house (“Bolagshuset”) at the foot of...

This month’s utility bill included City’s first stormwater utility fee. The $7 monthly assessment will be banked to finance a list of projects, each...

We face a long list of travails but there is still baseball, October and the major league playoffs. And in the high professional rendition of...

Lindsborg is busy these days getting spiffed up for Hyllningsfest, the biennial celebration of Swedish heritage, an event that can draw crowds in the...

(Second of two articles) The passing of Tom Docking last month may have extinguished something in a legacy, a niche of history that reignited turn-of-the-century progressivism...

The news of Tom Docking’s death, on August 24, stirred a fond memory of a meeting long ago in Hutchinson. We were having coffee...