Today we say hello to our listeners on KNDY. It was in their home town one hundred fifty years ago this week that the Pony Express came to a close. Only one of the old home stations remains and its located here……
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Mention the name William Quantrill in Kansas or Missouri, and you’re likely to get stories of Quantrill’s Raiders sweeping into Kansas to burn cities and take lives. The infamous confederate leader died during the Civil War and is buried in two graves 600 miles from each other…..
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The world will add approximately three billion people in the next forty years. Farmers will be asked to feed those souls with less land, less water and fewer inputs. So how does one of the world’s leading agricultural thinkers see us accomplishing that task?
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Today we’re back in Hutchinson, KS and say hello to our listeners on KWBW. I can attest to what folks there already know…the space museum here will rival any you’ll find elsewhere in the nation…..
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Where can you find the largest collection of Soviet space artifacts on display in the world? The answer is in a most unexpected place…..
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When you think of healthy jobs, mining doesn’t leap to the top of many people’s lists. However, in Kansas, people are welcome to explore far below the soils of Kansas to change that perspective…..
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We’ve sunk to a new level to bring you this program. That doesn’t necessarily mean we’ve lost our morals or values, we just had to sink to get the show…..
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This President was born in Texas, but always claimed Kansas as his home…..
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To say Joe Newell restores pool tables is like saying Michelangelo was just a painter. The work Joe does is a masterpiece itself, taking them to points across the country and bringing hundred-year old tables back to life…
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In the middle of farm country, you can find one of the nation’s experts on this game, not to mention he’s an expert craftsman that helps people enjoy the past time so many people love…
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Some say this event was the spark that created today’s FBI. It was a crime that made national headlines and still leaves a literal mark today. We’ll dive into the gangster era…
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In 1912 he was proclaimed the world’s greatest athlete and some of his Olympic records from that year still stood two decades later. He was a well rounded athlete that even won the Dancing with the Stars competition of his day…
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When you think of historically great collegiate football programs, names like Notre Dame, Penn State and Alabama might come to mind. Most people don’t name the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in that list, but with this star athlete on the team, they beat the top programs of their day.
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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 case that the battle in this Kansas town five years prior was the event that made the war inevitable. This is the story of that town and it’s militant leader…
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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 would accept or reject slavery. Here’s the story of one of the most famous to make the journey…
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Osa Johnson was certainly not an imposing figure, but give her a gun and she could drop some of the most ferocious animals in the world before they made lunch of her husband. This is the story of how the pair captured images that fascinated the country…
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Many towns have a museum of local history. But why is Chanute, Kansas home to the Safari Museum? It may seem like a piece of history from half a world away, but it tells the story of a husband and wife who brought stories to life through the images they captured…
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It was one of the most ethnically mixed schools in America with whites and slaves teaching children of many backgrounds from the age of 5 into their early twenties…
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As Europeans crossed the Atlantic, those who had been living on the eastern seaboard for centuries were often forced to leave their homes. Here’s the story of one of those tribes and the imprint they still make on society today…
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Today these streets and the adjacent alley are peaceful avenues lines with small town businesses. The fall of 1892, it was the sight of citizens defending their town against one of the most notorious gangs of the 19th century…
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