Category Archives: see the sights
Kooky Kansas: pt. 5 Lucas
One attraction I’ve longed to see during several trips to Lucas – but haven’t yet caught up with – is a traveling museum featuring “The World’s Largest Collection of the World’s Smallest Versions of the World’s Largest Things.” I’ll give … Continue reading
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Kooky Kansas: pt.4 Garden of Eden
I never like making errors but maybe it’s a good thing I was tired last night when blogging (that’s my excuse) and made two errors in my post about the Garden of Eden BECAUSE I got an email today from … Continue reading
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Kooky Kansas: pt. 3 Garden of Eden
What really put Lucas, Ks. on the map, is an astonishing place called The Garden of Eden, which was built by an eccentric Civil War Veteran named S.P. Dinsmoor. The Garden is in the backyard of Dinsmoor’s small cabin made … Continue reading
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Kooky Kansas: pt. 2 Lucas
While grassroots art can be found – as it should be – scattered in random rural locations throughout Kansas, there also is a self-conscious concentration of it in the small Kansas town of Lucas which has a storefront museum in … Continue reading
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Kooky Kansas
A Wall Street Journal reporter seems to be mining the kooky Kansas beat, which I used to fancy as my own. After writing about the Big Well in Greensburg, Ks., she wrote a piece on the eccentric roadside sculpture in … Continue reading
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Greensburg, Ks: takemewithyou pt. 2
Would you drive to the middle of nowhere to visit a National Tornado Museum? Or to go on an eco-tour? Maybe not – but the Tornado Museum does sound pretty cool, especially if it’s located on the very site where … Continue reading
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The BIG WELL/Greensburg, Ks: Takemewithyou
Fate (or chance or destiny?) has taken me to some unexpected places, sometimes repeatedly, and one of them is Greensburg, Kansas – a small town (pop. 1000) in the state’s windy west that was almost blown off the map in … Continue reading
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Trust me: the fantastic new mural on Interstate 35 in northern Missouri
I know, I know – I should be blogging today about the thwarted terrorism attack at the airport of my youth (my native Detroit). But I’m far more excited to share my latest unlikely discovery – a beautiful new mural … Continue reading
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Home again
Sorry for the two days 0ff from blogging. On Xmas day, the winds were so fierce and the air so cold in western Kansas we never left my in-law’s Internet-absent house. The next day, we did get out of the … Continue reading
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Christmas in Dodge City
We made it with no problem from Des Moines to Dodge City (technically the small town of Wright, outside Dodge) and it’s a good thing we’re not traveling today. It is bitter cold, with fierce winds, making an already harsh … Continue reading
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