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Photo Friday, June 18, 2021: Party at Liederkranz Park, Alma, Kansas, circa 1890s
Hi, Everyone, It’s Photo Friday! Here’s a great photo for you today, it’s a view of a group of men drinking and playing cards at Liederkranz Park, located on the southwest […]
Photo Friday, June 11, 2021: Shirley Richard Gardenhire
-by Greg Hoots- Hi, Everyone, It’s Photo Friday! I have a really good photo for you today. It’s a view from late 1907 of the Alma, Kansas high school football team, posed […]
Michael Alley: A Quest for Freedom
-by Greg Hoots- I would like to gratefully acknowledge the contributions and assistance of Brenda Norris in researching this article. Until I became acquainted with Brenda, I had never heard the life […]
Photo Friday, January 29, 2021: Cattle on the Waugh Ranch, Eskridge, Kansas
-by Greg Hoots- Today’s Photo Friday view was taken in a pasture near Eskridge, Kansas in the early 20th century. A large herd of “Texas cattle” are seen on an expansive pasture, […]
A 2020 Kansas Butterfly Garden
-by Greg Hoots- The year 2020 has been historic by any measure. There were many firsts and worsts. At our home in Kansas City, Kansas, my wife, Cheryl and I were fortunate […]
Lucille Mulhall and the Mulhall Wild West Show
-by Greg Hoots- It’s not often that a generic term’s origin which describes a person’s vocation or hobby can be traced to a single individual, but in the case of the moniker, […]
Gandy Dancing on the Rock Island, McFarland, KS
-by Greg Hoots- McFarland, Kansas was a railroad town, literally. The town was located, designed, and platted to accommodate the intersection of various lines of the Chicago, Rock Island, & Pacific Railway, […]
A Cowboy’s Dream
-by Tom Aniello and Family- I am an aerospace engineer by education, but I always wanted to be a cowboy like my grandfather, Edward H. Brinkman. This is the history of the […]
Photo Friday, August 28, 2020: Ditman Grocery, Alma, Kansas
It’s Photo Friday! I have a great photo for you today. It’s a view by Alma photographer, Gus Meier, of four employees of Ditman Grocery in Alma, standing in front of the […]
Photo Friday, August 14, 2020: Real Photo Postcard, Paxico, Kansas, 1905, “Born in Africa”
It’s Photo Friday! I have a great photograph for you today. It’s a real photo postcard which I added to my collection last week, taken in Paxico, Kansas, circa 1905. It’s an […]
