Category: Kansas
A Beautiful Public Restroom
A public restroom is usually not a thing of beauty. It’s just designed to take care of the need at hand. Not so in Lucas,…
Driving Long Distances for a Favorite Recipe
Maybe some of your favorite food involves a recipe that was handed down from your grandma, or even generations before that. Here it was great…
No Flashy Signs or the Latest Technology
Some stores lure customers with the flashy signs and the latest technology. That’s not the case here, and that’s what has people stopping by this…
The Downs, Kansas Train Depot
Maybe you live in a town that still has a train depot – or one that preserved the one they had when passenger trains discontinued…
Rails in the Blood
Today we say hello to our listeners in Beloit, KS on KVSV. One loyal listener there knows much about the rails that still pass through…
A Battle in Kansas
The shots at Ft. Sumter in April of 1861 are often considered the first military action of the Civil War. However, one could make a…
John Brown: The Early Years
In the years just ahead of the Civil War, thousands of people came to Kansas ahead of a critical vote on whether the new state…
Jumping Off the Train
Imagine a train chugging south out of Kansas with people jumping from the cars all along its route. This is the reason they jumped and…
The Cherokee Strip
It’s called the Cherokee Strip…a stretch of land in north central Oklahoma originally given to the Cherokee and later opened to settlement by the U.S….
Permission to Get Married
For an enlisted man at Fort Hays, it wasn’t enough to win a woman’s heart and ask her hand in marriage. You needed the permission…
Reasons for Enlisting
The army certainly needs strong, upstanding young men and women to fill its ranks…but in the late 19th century, the reasons folks enlisted may have…
A Remaining Fort
As Americans moved from east to west, a network of forts sprang up on the high plains to protect travel and commerce. A few of…
The Little Red House in Western Kansas
The first building in this town didn’t begin its life here. In fact i’s route to this city is a story in itself. This is…
The Superhighway of the 1800s
It was a superhighway of the 1800s…a thruway carrying people and cargo from two ends of the country. It may not have been here though…
The Married Life at Fort Hays
For an enlisted man at Fort Hays, it wasn’t enough to win a young woman’s heart and ask her hand in marriage. You needed the…
Enlisting in the 19th Century Army
The Army certainly needs strong, upstanding young men and women to fill its ranks today. But in the late 19th Century, the reasons men enlisted…
A Fort Among the Plains
As Americans moved from east to west, a network of forts sprang up across the high plains to protect travel and commerce. A few of…
Shawnee Mission
As Europeans crossed the Atlantic, those who had been living on the eastern seaboard for centuries were often forced to leave their homes SharePrintEmail
Longer Than Noah’s Flood
You’ve heard of Noah’s flood. This city had it worse it terms of numbers of straight days of rain. What resulted is an event still…
The Other Inauguration
On the day the latest U.S. president is sworn into office, the runner-up will receive their own ceremony just a few hours prior. It’s a…
