Greetings to my readers of the Flint Hills Special Digital Magazine! I’m posting my first and last personal blog on my website, and I have separated it from all other posts, because […]
Greg’s Blog: Stepping on Toes, the History of Photo Friday
Baby Socks: The Case for Adoption of a Senior Pet
by Greg Hoots I had grown up sharing a home with a cat. My folks almost always had one for as long as I can recall. When I moved to Kansas forty-five […]
Minority Migration in Wabaunsee County, Kansas: A Dark History
-by Greg Hoots- Warning to the reader: This article contains offensive language which is only presented here in direct quotes taken from Wabaunsee County newspapers, all of which were published and are […]
Dear Rita…Letters from Max Palenske
-by Greg Hoots- Letter-writing has become a lost art in more ways than one. Once, the majority of Americans corresponded by mail with their relatives or to those with whom they conducted […]
BOOK REVIEW: “Life Lessons from My Father” Provides Guideposts for Life
by Greg Hoots Recently, a good friend of mine whom I’ve never met sent me a book from their home on the East Coast. It was a brief eighty-two pages in length […]
Photo Friday, July 1, 2021: 4th of July Parade, Alma, Kansas, 1894
It’s Photo Friday. I have a great photo for you today. It’s a view of a 4th of July parade proceeding north on Missouri Street in Alma, Kansas in 1894. There’s a […]
Photo Friday, June 25, 2021: Wolf Hunter at Dover, Kansas, Zercher Real Photo Postcard
Hi, Everyone, It’s Photo Friday! Here’s an interesting real photo postcard produced by M. L. Zercher Book & Stationery Co. of Topeka. The postcard was printed by Zercher in about 1910, and […]
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, […]
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