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A few weeks ago we went on a trip to South Dakota into the Black Hills and the surrounding area. We stayed in Keystone,...

"THE PAST ACTUALLY HAPPENED BUT HISTORY IS ONLY WHAT SOMEONE WROTE DOWN."                                          A. Whitney Brown The Cowboy Storytellers of the Western Plains is an organization that started...

COWBOY STORYTELLERS OF THE WESTERN PLAINS ARE COMING TO MEDICINE LODGE KANSAS SENIOR CENTER ON NORTH MAIN OCTOBER 25, 2014  PUBLIC IS INVITED MUSIC MAKERS START AT 12:30PM   WE DON’T...

I first met Herb Parker when I was working as a soda jerk in the old soda fountain in my hometown. He was the...

This past summer I wrote a simple recipe for candied jalapenos, alias ‘cowboy candy’. They were extremely popular. Each time I demonstrated the recipe I would...

Kansas is the Mother Shipton, the Madame Thebes, the Witch of Endor, and the low barometer of the nation. When anything is going to happen in...

W.R. “Bill” Chestnut, a man of many passions They had eaten lunch. It was early afternoon on a glorious Sunday (Sept. 14), and Bill and Denise Chestnut were...

A good many people, here and across the Smoky Valley, have a feeling in their bones that we would all be in bad shape without Bethany...

I wrote this column a couple years ago, but it seems to me it can stand repeating, especially after a guy who deer hunts...

"I AM AN IDEALIST. I DON'T KNOW WHERE I AM GOING, BUT I AM ON MY WAY."                                         Carl Sandberg      Do young people ever irritate you?  When...