History of America: The Santa Fe Trail across Kansas.
Part one. By Mary Gallagher, writer – producer Producer’s comments: One of the most educational, revealing and sometimes heartbreaking aspects of our travels is the opportunity to trace many events of history. We made this trip to produce a thirty...
Chateau Avalon
Text and Photos by Sandra Scott My first view of Chateau Avalon was intriguing. The incongruity of seeing the peaks of a French Chateau rising out of the trees on the Kansas plains was our first clue that we should expect the unexpected. We checked into...
There’s more than Dorothy in Kansas
The Oz Museum is just the beginning of this family destination By Phyllis Steinberg “Follow the yellow brick road to Kansas,” Dorothy says to her companions in the 1939 hit movie, The Wizard of Oz. Well, I did just that and discovered many...
Mine Creek, Kansas
By Jerre Repass The whole era of “Bleeding Kansas” was a dress rehearsal for the Civil War. All the players were in place with minds made up by the time the conflict began. People like John Brown displayed fanatical zeal in a violent struggle...
