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Kansas Sampler Festival reaches 25th milestone Barn Quilt Trail grows throughout Flint Hills Smithsonian magazine cites Abilene as town to visit Trolleys offer convenient way to see sights Limestone fence posts get facelift

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Under the Dome

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Relive the Wild West in Dodge City

The former cow town has been named the No. 1 Old West town in the country

Early State History Preserved at Forts

Starting in the early 1800s, forts were built across Kansas to protect the Santa Fe Trail and other routes

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Wamego welcomes 25th Sampler Festival

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amego, the smallest community to host the moveable sampling of Kansas, has sold out exhibitor spaces for the 2014 festival May 3-4, according to local director Julie Roller. New this year will be a tent featuring the work of Kansas photographers.

This is the 25th year for the Kansas Sampler Festival, which moves every two years to a new location. Wamego, population 4,485 and home to the Oz Museum, will host nearly 300 exhibitors showcasing the state’s attractions, food vendors and products, including Kansas wines and microbreweries. Three stages of entertainment also are planned.

A project of the Kansas Sampler Foundation, the festival was designed to bring communities and attractions from all over the state together to make it easy for the public to discover day-trip possibilities. “We are grateful to have the opportunity to showcase what Kansas has to offer in the beautiful backdrop of our city park and friendly community,� said Roller, development associate with Pottawatomie County Economic Development Corp.

Nearby Manhattan has planned activities in conjunction with the Sampler Festival at Blue Earth Plaza and the Flint Hills Discovery Center.

Festival hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Saturday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Adult admission is $5. For more info, visit kansassampler festival.com or call 785-456-9776.

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The 2014 and 2015 Kansas Sampler Festivals will be in Wamego City Park the first weekend in May. Photo by Harland J. Schuster

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Painted barn quilts are emerging across Kansas, piecing together the art and tradition of quilting with the story of agricultural heritage.

The Flint Hills Quilt Trail now sports 55 quilt squares on barns. The trail was formed to promote tourism and rural pride throughout the 22-county region, according to organizers. A partnership with the American Quilt Trail had added the Kansas locations to the national map.

Barn quilts are painted quilt squares, usually designed on boards and mounted on barns, sheds or other buildings. Quilt

patterns are often based on traditional quilt blocks with large blocks of color, making them easily viewable from a distance. Some creators choose a pattern with family meaning.

While barn quilts are not a new idea, the quilt trail idea originated with Ohio resident Donna Sue Groves, who originally painted a quilt block to honor her mother’s love of quilting and her Appalachian heritage. She then started a community project with 20 quilt blocks being displayed along a driving trail. This idea caught on and The American Quilt Trail has expanded to include 45 states and more than 3,000 barn quilts.

The Kansas Flint Hills Quilt Trail is hosting a program, luncheon and book signing for Suzi Parron, award-winning author of “Barn Quilts and The American Quilt Trail Movement,” on April 5 in Manhattan. The book signing, free to the public, is at the Flint Hills Discovery Center. Parron is researching a new book, tentatively titled “Farther Along the Quilt Trail,” in which she will include a chapter on Kansas.

The Flint Hills Quilt Trail is part of an exhibit titled “Speaking of Quilts: Voices from the Collection and the Community,”

at the Kansas Museum of History, Topeka, on display until Aug. 31.

For a map to follow the barn quilt trail through the Flint Hills, visit www.Ks FlintHillsQuiltTrail.com.

Eisenhower’s boyhood home in Abilene is open for tours.

Abilene named one of best small towns to visit Abilene was featured alongside such well-known communities as Gettysburg, Penn., and Sausalito, Calif., in a Smithsonian magazine article titled “The 20 Best Small Towns to Visit in 2013.”

In the article’s introduction, editors said they looked for towns with populations

of less than 15,000 which had “exceptional concentrations of museums, art galleries, orchestras, theaters, historic sites and other cultural blessings.”

With a population of 6,000, Abilene is home to several museums, including the Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum, as well as Abilene & Smoky Valley Railroad, Seelye Mansion, the only professional theater between Kansas City and Denver, and Brookville Hotel’s famous family-style chicken dinners.

The Smithsonian article notes Abilene’s location at the end of the Chisholm Trail as well as Old Abilene Town, the 1887 Rock Island Depot, Carnegie Library, Great Plains Theater and the still-operating 1901 C.W. Parker Carousel before saying that Abilene’s “depth of character comes from Dwight D. Eisenwhower, who spent his boyhood in Abilene.”

Eisenhower’s masterminding of the Normandy invasion as a World War II general and his tenure as the nation’s 34th president are chronicled at the Presidential Library and Museum, which features exhibits and events as well as his boyhood home.

For information on visiting Abilene, call 800-569-5915 or visit abilenekansas.org.

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n addition to narrated historical tours, some Kansas communities offer trolley rides with haunted, holiday or winery themes. Trolleys can also be booked for groups and special events.

Abilene, Atchison, Dodge City and Leavenworth have long offered trolley tours as a convenient way for visitors to see the sights and learn their town’s history. Atchison’s haunted trolley tours around Halloween proved so popular that they are now offered monthly in the summer and several times in September and October.

Last year Miami County Trolley began a tour to four wineries in a five-mile radius near Louisburg: Somerset Ridge Vineyard and Winery, White Wind Farms, Middlecreek Winery and Nighthawk Vineyard and Winery.

“People love the idea of being able to tour four different vineyard/wineries with safe, fun transportation,” said Cindy Reynolds, owner of Somerset Ridge Vineyard & Winery.

Tours are $18 per day and are by reservation only. For more information, call 913-306-3388.

Ghost stories highlight Atchison’s trolley tours of the “most haunted town in Kansas,” which are offered monthly MayAugust, weekends from Sept. 26-Oct. 25, and daily the week of Halloween. Tours are

$13 per person. Atchison’s historical trolley tours are offered April-October. The cost is $6 for adults. For times and reservations, call 800-234-1854.

Fort Scott’s Dolly the Trolley takes visitors on a 50-minute narrated tour to see such historic sites as the U.S. National Cemetery, the Fort Scott National Historic site, Gunn Park and the Lyons Twin Mansions. The trolley runs March-November with special tours in December for the Homes Tour, Fort Candlelight Tour Weekend (Dec. 5-6) and evening Christmas Light tours (Dec. 12-23). For information, call 800-245-3678 or visit fortscott.com.

In Abilene, a one-hour narrated tour visits the Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum, Greyhound Hall of Fame, Seelye Mansion, historic downtown, Eisenhower park, Old Abilene Town and other locations. The tours operate May-August with afternoon and twilight tours. Cost is $6 for adults. For info, call 800-569-5915.

Experience the Old West with a onehour narrated tour of Dodge City, which drives by most of the historical attractions, including downtown, Boot Hill Cemetery and Fort Dodge, where seven original buildings remain. The narrator also tells the history of the Great Western Cattle Trail and Santa Fe Trail that came through the town. The trolley operates daily from Memorial Day through Labor Day, and the

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cost is $8 for adults. For more information, call 800-OLD-WEST. Known as the “post that opened the West,” Leavenworth has a rich history as the first city incorporated in the state. A one-hour tour goes through the historic 28 blocks of downtown, which still contains many of the buildings that were present in the early 1900s. Tours depart from the C.W. Parker Carousel Museum, 320 S. Esplanade. Tours are at 11 a.m. Saturdays starting April 5 through December. For info, call 913-682-1331.

McPherson offers a free trolley tour following the parade on All-School’s Day on May 9 as well as a holiday lights tour for $5 on Dec. 11, 18, 20, 22 and 23. Tours depart from the McPherson Opera House. For info, call 800-324-8022.

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Faces of local residents have been carved into limestone fence posts in north-central Kansas.

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he Post Rock Scenic Byway in north-central Kansas is getting a bit of a face lift, thanks to California sculptor Fred Whitman.

The limestone fence posts along the 18-mile route in north-central Kansas serve as a blank canvas for Whitman, who began visiting Lucas in 2010. Using local residents as models, Whitman has carved three sculptures on the posts so far, including one of a Lucas man who has served as the town plumber for more than 60 years.

The area is known as “post rock country” because settlers to the treeless plains carved fence posts from limestone.

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“They’ve been great to me, some of the best people I’ve ever met.”

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Whitman, who said he always knew he wanted to work with his hands, discovered a love for carving while learning to carve wax teeth in dental school. After practicing dentistry for many years, he has been carving full time since 2003.

The Post Rock Scenic Byway extends north of I-70 along KS-232 through Ellsworth, Lincoln and Russell counties. The route winds past scenic Wilson Lake and culminates in Lucas, known as the “grassroots capital” for its quirky and original art.

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Under the Dome

By Cynthia Mines n 1866 the relatively new and financially struggling state of Kansas broke ground on a capitol whose ornateness seemed to defy the sensibilities of early Kansans: During the 37-year construction, Italian artisans were brought in, marble was shipped from Belgium and onyx from Mexico, 22-karat gold leaf was applied to column tops, and the dome reached 17 feet higher than the U.S. Capitol’s.

Early legislators, however, were pragmatic enough to build the $3.2 million project in phases (four wings and then the rotunda and dome) as they could pay for them. It took nearly four decades to construct, but when the capitol was completed in 1903, there was no mortgage to pay off.

No different from today, there were things legislators could not agree on: The original plan to top the Continued on page 9.

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Right: Murals painted

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Below: The Senate Chamber’s unique ceiling was inspired by Egyptian architecture.

The marble came from Belgium and Italy.

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Left: Details include the Kansas Statehouse initials on a staircase post.

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dome – a statue of Ceres, the Roman goddess of agriculture and grains – was deemed too pagan and promiscuous. The plan was withdrawn in 1890, and the position sat vacant for more than a century.

The 1984 legislature appropriated funds for a statue and stipulated that it could not be a god or goddess. Late in 1988 Richard Bergen’s sculpture of a Kansa warrior won a design competition, and in 2002 the statue was placed atop the dome with the Native-American warrior’s bow and arrow pointing to the North Star.

Legislators also disagreed about the murals originally painted on the dome’s interior

by Jerome Fedeli, an Italian fresco painter, who was hired in 1898 during Populist control. When Republicans gained control they objected to the bare-chested Grecian women and in 1902 hired Abner Crossman of Chicago to paint allegorical murals featuring Agriculture, Temperance, Religion, Plenty, Power and Peace on top of them.

Evidence of the acrimony between the two political parties is on display in the capitol’s new visitors center in the form of the sledgehammer used by the Republicans in 1893 to break through the door of Representative Hall after Populists locked them out.

The east wing was begun in the fall of 1866. The legislature first met there in 1870 but it wasn’t finished until 1873. At that time it was the largest building in the state. The west wing was started in 1879 and finished in 1881.

North and south wings were begun in 1883, and work started on the center domed building between the wings in 1886.

The grandeur of the building faded over the decades. Some murals were obscured by smoke and then painted over to save on maintenance.

“We did not even know there were ceiling murals under the paint (in the House chamber) until chips of paint began falling on legislators over a decade ago,” said Darren Wade, tour guide with the Kansas State Historical Society. “That was part of what started the renovation.”

Repairs had been put off for budget reasons, and the capitol also needed to address safety issues, improve accessibility for workers and visitors, and update wiring for modern technology. The renovation project started in 2001 and when it was completed 12 years later, it had taken twice as long as anticipated and cost nearly three times as much as originally planned.

The renovation restored details the building had lost over time like the rotunda chandelier and a visitor’s entrance.

The preservation efforts returned a chandelier to the dome, where it had originally been installed in 1897.

During the last couple years of renovation the capitol exterior was encased in scaffolding, and North America’s tallest free-standing crane was on-site for three years to allow workers to repair exterior masonry and replace the copper dome.

The $330 million facelift was celebrated with a grand opening on Kansas Day 2014.

“We want people to come in and have a sense of the opportunities, the optimism” in Kansas, said Mary Madden, museum and education division director for the Kansas State Historical Society.

Elizabeth Watson, a national historic preservation expert, was so impressed with the results that she urged Topeka leaders to apply for UNESCO World Heritage status, a distinction given to sites such as Grand Canyon National Park and Independence Hall in Philadelphia.

“There’s nothing like it anywhere else,” Watson said. “No one else has done anything like this, no one.

You should be really proud.”

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along the foundation and adjacent to a new underground parking garage. The capitol’s foundation of Kansas limestone forms the wall for the visitors center, which includes a gift shop, auditorium and exhibit space.

In addition to visiting Representative Hall, the Senate Chamber, State Library (built with glass floors to let in light) and Old Supreme Court, tours highlight the capitol’s history through the murals, frescoes and statues.

During the renovation process, beautiful murals and stencil designs were found under flaking paint, according to Wade.

The most famous of the capitol murals is “Tragic Prelude,” which was painted on the second floor of the east wing by John Steuart Curry from 1938 to 1940. The often-pictured mural depicting anti-slavery Kansas prominently features the wild-eyed abolitionist John Brown holding a Bible and a rifle. A tornado and prairie fire in the background symbolize the gathering storms of the Civil War. Curry also created “Kansas Pastoral” of a pioneer farm family on three adjacent walls in the west wing. He was commis-

Dome tours allow a closer-up look of the inner and outer domes as well as views of Topeka.

sioned to do three murals, but not asked to do the art in the rotunda.

Frustrated by criticism of his murals (such as the Hereford and pioneer family being out of proportion), he added a small family of skunks to the bottom of one of the murals to express his displeasure, according to Wade. “Some say the names of legislators

were painted on their backs,” he added.

Other murals chronicling Kansas history depict Coronado, the Chisholm and Oregon trails, the railroad, buffalo, pioneers, Lewis and Clark, a sod home and the 1864 Battle of Mine Creek.

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the rotunda. The statues, added in 1970, commemorate famous Kansans Amelia Earhart, William Allen White, Dwight Eisenhower and Arthur Capper. High above, visitors can see the allegorical murals painted on the inner dome, and a replica of the 1897 chandelier.

In the ornate Senate chamber on the third floor of the east wing, visitors can see the Egyptian-inspired plaster ceiling as well as round windows, columns hand cast in Italy, and details crafted out of marble from Belgium and Italy. The House of Representatives on the third floor of the west wing features Italian marble trim and 22-karat gold leaf which was reapplied to the tops of columns and ceiling during the renovation.

Visitors are taken to upper floors on the 1923 cage elevator which is still operated by an attendant.

The dome tour, which involves walking up 296 steps, gives a close-up view of the architecture of the inner and outer domes. The summit offers sweeping views of Topeka.

Exhibits in the visitors center include John Brown’s sword, tools used in the capitol construction and other artifacts.

Free tours are offered several times a day Monday through Friday. Reservations can be made online at kshs.org/capitol or by calling 785-296-3966.

While in Topeka Consider visits to the Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site, Kansas Museum of History and adjacent Kaw State Park (Kansas’ newest state park) with trails and access to the river, Old Prairie Town at Ward-Meade Historic Site, Topeka Zoological Park, Great Overland Station and NOTO (North Topeka Arts District) with its unique galleries and First Friday Art Walks.

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Kansas is home to one of the world’s most stellar collections of space artifacts

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Even astronaut and Kansas native Dr. Steve Hawley remembers being “very impressed” the first time he visited the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center in the 1980s with fellow Kansas-born astronaut Joe Engle.

“It’s remarkable what a wonderful collection of artifacts is here in Kansas,” said Hawley, a University of Kansas professor who retired from NASA in 2008 after spending more than 32 total days in space.

“I’ve been to a lot of museums, and the collection at the Cosmosphere is second to none,” he added. “The Smithsonian Air & Space Museum may have more artifacts, but it’s also about how you tell the story. At the Cosmosphere you can see both the U.S. and Russian perspectives.”

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Since 2014 is the 15th anniversary of Hawley’s last mission and the 30th anniversary of his first, he will be among the astronauts honored at the Cosmosphere’s third annual Fly Around Dine Around fund-raising event on Aug. 23. Last year’s event attracted several former astronauts, including Dr. Buzz Aldrin, the lunar module pilot on Apollo 11 and the second person to walk on the moon.

With more than 15,000 artifacts, the Cosmosphere is one of only three museums in the world to display flown spacecraft from all three early manned space programs: Mercury, Gemini and Apollo. The Hall of Space also houses the actual Apollo command module Odyssey, the Gemini X spacecraft and the Liberty Bell 7.

Odyssey and the Liberty Bell 7 were both restored by the Spaceworks division of the Cosmosphere.

The Cosmosphere is also the only museum in the world to display a flown unmanned Russian Vostok and houses one of the largest displays of space suits in the world.

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The U.S. defied the Yalta Agreement and infuriated the Soviet Union by taking 340 train carloads of hardware, blueprints and documents as well as relocating German rocket mastermind Wernher von Braun and members of his team to White Sands, N.M. Premier Joseph Stalin retaliated by kidnapping German scientists and taking over the production line, which the Americans had left behind. Within a year, the Soviet Union had built 30 V-2 rockets.

A nearby exhibit features Chuck Yeager’s breaking of the sound barrier in 1947 in the bright orange Bell X-1 Rocket Plane known as the Glamorous Glennis. A replica of the plane, which was in the movie “The Right Stuff,” is on display as well as the actual Mach meter from Yeager’s rocket plane and a Sonic Wind II Rocket Sled.

Another display shows a black-and-white educational film from the era that was shown to school children on what to do in case of an atomic bomb.

The Space Race between the U.S. and Soviets is welldocumented in a series of exhibits. In 1957 the Soviet Union jumped ahead in the race when it stunned the world by announcing the

“I’ve been to a lot of museums, and the collection at the Cosmosphere is second to none.”

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The Hall of Space includes the Apollo Lunar Module used by NBC as a backdrop during the lunar landings as well as one of the world’s largest collection of space suits. Above right: Dr. Buzz Aldrin walks the red carpet during a visit to the Cosmosphere last year.

rocket as a German war weapon and shows how the destructive missile technology used during World War II became a launch pad for peaceful space exploration during the Cold War. Exhibits tell the story of how the treaty that ended World War I forbade Germany from the building of offensive artillery weapons, but a loophole left open the opportunity for the development of ballistic rockets. One of the great technological advances of the 20th century, the V-2 rocket (a restored one is on display) became Hitler’s secret weapon and he moved mass production to a secret underground site with ties to a Nazi concentration camp.

Though they were World War II Allies, the U.S. did not want the Soviet Union to have the V-2 technology when the war ended.

successful launch of the world’s first artificial satellite, Sputnik I, which orbited the earth for two months. Sputnik II, a massive satellite that carried the first live being – a small dog – into space followed that same year.

Then the U.S. suffered a setback when its unmanned MercuryAtlas I rocket exploded shortly after launch on July 29, 1960.

Recovered fragments of the spacecraft are on display at the Cosmosphere.

Just as the U.S. was poised to take the lead with the Mercury project and the first manned spaceflight, the Soviets launched the first human into space aboard Vostok 1 on April 12, 1961, three weeks before the Americans.

Alan Shepard became the first American in space on May 5, 1961, aboard Freedom 7. Next came Gus Grissom’s Liberty Bell 7 Mercury capsule flight and John Glenn’s circling the earth three times in 1962.

The Liberty Bell 7 sunk off the coast of Florida in 1961 and stayed on the bottom of the ocean for 38 years before being recovered during an expedition funded and filmed by the Discovery Channel. It was restored by the Cosmosphere, where it is on display.

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halt when Gus Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee were killed when Apollo I caught on fire. The Apollo program resumed, and on July 16, 1969, Neil Armstrong became the first person to walk on the moon.

The first signs of the future Cosmosphere were already evident in Hutchinson at this time, thanks to Patricia Brooks Carey, local philanthropist and part of the Carey salt family. In 1962 she created one of the first public planetariums in the central U.S. after she raised funds to buy a used star projector, rented some folding chairs and set them up inside an unheated building on the Kansas State Fairgrounds.

Four years later the planetarium moved to the campus of Hutchinson Community College, and then in 1980 the Kansas Cosmosphere opened. A later expansion was constructed around an enormous SR71 Blackbird spy plane which hangs in the lobby flanked by a full-scale replica of the Space Shuttle Endeavor.

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s the space program has declined as a U.S. priority and the generation that witnessed the Space Race ages, excitement in space exploration also has waned, which worries Cosmosphere officials as well as Hawley, who is an adviser to the museum.

“When the space race was more prominent, it was an inspiration for youth to study more math and science,” Hawley said. “Because the space program doesn’t have the presence it once had, it’s important for the Cosmosphere to continue enthusing future generations about studying math, science and space. The space program was a big draw 100 for science and engineering.”

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“The great thing about working for NASA was that you got to figure out how to do things people had never done before,” he said.

To investigate ways to keep that excitement alive, the Cosmosphere has hired Boston-based Verner Johnson, Inc., one of the nation’s premier museum-consulting firms to help revitalize programs and operations. The company has helped design projects for 20 museums, including the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, the Museum of Science in Boston and the Flint Hills Discovery Center in Manhattan.

“How can we reinvent ourselves to be relevant to today’s audiences?” asked Dianne Blick, development director. “We want to make it an immersive experience.”

She has been gratified by the support of past astronauts who have attended the annual fund-raiser. “They were reluctant celebrities and many are in their 80s now,” she said. “They didn’t have to come, but they wanted to.”

This year’s event on Aug. 23 will recognize the 50th anniversary of the inception of the Blackbird program as well as the 45th anniversary of the 1969 Apollo missions.

Hawley hopes space will be as alluring to future generations as it was to his.

“I came from Salina and I got to do some amazing things,” he said. “It’s important for kids to know that their horizons don’t have to be limited because they grew up in a small town in Kansas.”

Liberty Bell 7 was pulled from the ocean in 1999 after resting there since 1961. The Cosmosphere restored Gus Grissom’s Mercury spacecraft and put it on display.

holidays. For film times and info on the Fly Around Dine Around event on Aug. 23, call 800-397-0330 or visit cosmo.org.

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Activities are priced individually or an allday Mission Pass may be purchased. (Reno County residents are admitted free.)

To commemorate the 70th anniversary of D-Day, the documentary film “Normandy” opens April 25 and runs through summer. Complimentary tickets will be offered to veterans to see the film between Memorial Day and July 4. The domed theater also shows first-run movies.

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ingled out as the country’s No. 1 Top Western Town for 2014, Dodge City was featured in the February edition of True West magazine.

“If you love the Old West, you must visit Dodge City,” said Bob Boze Bell, True West executive editor. “The history is alive, surrounding you. Residents have done an outstanding job of preserving and telling the local story.”

Editors based their decision on how well towns preserved their history through old buildings, museums and other institutions, events, and promotions of historic resources.

The magazine article said that Dodge City was the “perfect Old West mash-up of farmers and frontiersmen, rustlers and railroaders, gunslingers and saloon girls, outlaws and lawmen.”

The article also noted that the reality of the “Queen of the Cow Towns” exists somewhere between history and imagination and as an icon of popular culture epitomizing the Old West. Much Dodge City lore was incorporated into the popular television show, “Gunsmoke.” The town’s former residents include Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson and Doc Holliday.

Visitors today will find two dozen locally designated landmarks as well as 11 sites listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Sidewalk medallions and statues on the Trail of Fame commemorate many of the town’s most famous characters, both real and fictional. The Boot Hill Museum illustrates local history with thousands of artifacts, photos and documents.

The honor also took into account annual events, especially Dodge City Days.

Gunslinger and cancan dancer re-enactors (above and below) regularly perform at Boot Hill.

Dodge City Days honored The annual Dodge City Days has been recognized as one of North America’s top 100 Events for 2014 for its entertainment value by the American Bus Association.

The 10-day festival, this year July 25-Aug. 3, features a variety of concerts, parades, rodeos, Western art shows, a craft show with 200 vendors from 10 states, barbecue contest, children’s activities and many other events.

A new event, the Taste of the Wild West, which started during Dodge City Days in 2012, this year will move to Memorial Weekend. The event, which is designed to showcase what Southwest Kansas has to offer, is at the United Wireless Arena adjacent to Boot Hill Casino & Resort.

The event brings together restaurants, retailers, attractions, live entertainment, artists and other vendors. Admission is free.

For more information, visit tasteofthewild west.com or call 620-682-7700.

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Motorcycle races turns 100 On July 4, 1914, Dodge City hosted one of the most significant motorcycle races in history: the Dodge City 300, which attracted all the major motorcycle manufacturers of the day along with 15,000 spectators.

The race, on a two-mile track, was a

Victor Boocock of California parks his 1914 Harley Davidson in front of the Long Branch Saloon at Boot Hill.

historical 300-mile battle for one of the most coveted titles in the motorcycle industry. Some believe the term “hog” may have originated there because the HarleyDavidson team had a pig as a mascot.

To commemorate the event, the Dodge City 300 Centennial Celebration has been planned for July 1-6 and is attracting the attention of motorcycle enthusiasts across the country. The event will feature a motorcycle trade show, antique and vintage bike shows, gypsy tours, races, historical displays, a beer garden and other events.

For more information, visit dodge city300.org or email DodgeCity300@ gmail.com.

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everal historic Kansas forts allow visitors to explore places where the likes of Wild Bill Hickok, Gen. Custer, Buffalo Bill Cody and Calamity Jane helped keep the peace in the 1800s.

Beginning with the short-lived Cantonment Martin in 1818, several forts were built in Kansas to aid westward expansion by protecting early settlement and important trade routes, including the railroads when they were built.

Today, eight Kansas forts have historic buildings or museums open to the public, and the free admission at most makes them particularly good family outings. Several have living quarters and other structures restored to the territorial era and schedule re-enactments during the year. Fort Scott and Fort Larned have been designated national historic sites.

“The forts were the first non-Indian settlements in Kansas and are an important part of our rich Kansas heritage,” said Leo Oliva, the author of six books about Kansas forts. “They protected the Indians and the settlers, protected the overland trails and the railroads, stimulated settlement, were an important part of the economy and were a significant part of Kansas society and culture in the 19th century.”

Oliva noted that since towns grew up alongside most forts that they played an important role in settlement. The forts themselves were built more like small towns than defensive fortresses so were not surrounded by walls.

Two of the forts – Riley and Leavenworth – are still active today and have founded “great museums,” according to Oliva.

The first important post built in Kansas – Fort Leavenworth – was established in 1827 to monitor traffic on the Missouri River, according to Oliva. The fort also

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protected the removed Indian tribes from incursions on their lands and protected the Santa Fe Trail, which had begun in 1821.

The missions of this post grew after Kansas became a territory in 1854, during the Civil War and as a supply point for western forts.

U.S. Army forts that followed Leavenworth included Scott, Riley, Larned, Zarah, Harker, Wallace, Hays and Dodge. Nothing remains of Fort Zarah, which was east of Great Bend, or Cantonment Martin, the earliest post constructed, Oliva said.

Fort Larned has the best-preserved fort from the Indian Wars period and gives visitors a glimpse into 1860s Kansas, according to Oliva, who added that Larned as well as Leavenworth, Scott and Riley played important roles during the Civil War. Congress, however, was reluctant to spend money on the Army before and after the Civil War, Oliva said. “Most forts, designed to be temporary, were poorly constructed. If (the forts) lasted a few years, better structures were usually erected.”

Fort Larned started with adobe and sod structures, which were replaced with sandstone buildings. Nine of the stone structures remain, “making it the best-preserved frontier military post in the West,” Oliva said.

Oliva said his favorite fort was whichever one he happened to be visiting. “They are all interesting,” he said.

Jayne Humphrey Pearce, president of the Fort Wallace Memorial Association, which administers the Fort Wallace Museum, sees Fort Wallace in far western Kansas as an “indispensable stop” for Western history fans.

“Wallace, Kansas, was a true crossroads of the West during the period of 1867 to 1881,” she said. “This place was inhabited by such legendary names as Custer, Cody, Hickok (and) Calamity Jane.”

Visiting Kansas forts Fort Dodge

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Fort Dodge was constructed in 1865 and used as a fort for 17 years. The first three Civil War veterans were admitted to the home in 1890, said Jeremy Estell, activities director, and it continues to be used as the Kansas State Soldiers Home.

The Kansas Veterans’ Cemetery opened at the site in 2002. Several buildings – including Sutler Store, post office and Custer house — are open to visitors.

Open year-round with free admission, the fort is five miles east of Dodge City on Highway 400. For more information, call 620-227-2121.

Fort Harker The Ellsworth County Historical Society operates the Fort Harker Guardhouse Museum Complex in Kanopolis. The fort operated from 1866 to 1873.

Four of the original buildings, which are built from native Dakota sandstone, are open to the public. In addition to the museum in the guardhouse, there are two junior officers’ quarters and a commanding officer’s quarters.

The museum is open weekends MarchNovember with additional weekdays during the summer. For information, call 785472-5733.

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Fort Scott’s annual candlelight tour is the first weekend in December. Photo by Harland J. Schuster.

Above: Soldier en-enactors at Fort Larned; tent encampment at Fort Scott; and soldiers from different eras at Fort Riley.

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Built in 1865 in Arapaho and Cheyenne Indian country, this fort protected Smoky Hill Trail travelers and railroad workers.

Among those stationed at the fort were African-American Buffalo Soldiers as well as Buffalo Bill Cody, Wild Bill Hickok and Gen. George Custer.

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Past, which is the first Friday and Saturday in December.

The Fort Hays State Historic Site, located on Highway 183, is open Wednesday-Saturday. For more information, call 785-625-6812.

Fort Larned

Construction began on Fort Larned in 1865.

Construction was begun in 1865 on this fort to protect trade on the Santa Fe Trail.

Home to soldiers known as “guardians of the Santa Fe Trail,” this national historic site is the best preserved of forts along the trail. The exterior of nine original sandstone structures have been restored to their appearance in 1868.

Located six miles west of Larned on Highway 156, the Fort Larned National Historic site offers guided and self-guided tours of the grounds and buildings as well as a visitors center, exhibits, bookstore and informational video. During warmer months and special events, visitors can watch parade-ground marching and interact with blacksmiths, saddlers, Buffalo Soldiers and infantry members.

One of largest annual events is over

Labor Day weekend, according to George Elmore, chief ranger. “The whole place is active,” he said.

Special events with re-enactors are planned for Labor Day weekend and the evening Candlelight Tour the second Saturday in October.

Fort Larned is open daily year-round with the exception of some holidays. For more information, call 620-285-6911 or visit nps.gov/fols.

Fort Leavenworth Kansas’ first major fort, founded in 1827 to aid westward expansion, is home to the Frontier Army Museum, a national cemetery, the Buffalo Solder Monument and 19th century buildings. As the home of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College (whose graduates include Dwight Eisenhower, Omar Bradley and George Patton), it is the oldest active Army post west of the Mississippi River.

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A monument commemorates the Buffalo Solders at Fort Leavenworth, which was founded in 1827.

information, call 913-684-3191.

Leavenworth, founded in 1854 and Kansas’ oldest incorporated town, also hosts historic home tours and other events throughout the year. For more info, visit lvarea.com.

Fort Riley The War Department approved the site at the confluence of the Republican and Smoky Hill rivers in north-central Kansas for a fort in 1853, and construction of buildings in native limestone began not long after.

Still an active fort and home to the Big Red One, Fort Riley also houses the U.S. Cavalry Museum and 1st Infantry Division Museum, which chronicles the history of the Big Red One from 1917 to the present.

The two museums’ collections include more than 12,000 items. Visitors can also explore the Custer House from Memorial Day through Labor Day. Admission is free but visitors need identification to visit the post.

Special events at the fort include Fall Apple Day Festival and ghost tours in October. For more information, call 785-239-2737.

Fort Scott Established in 1842, the fort found itself strategically located during the Bleeding Kansas era when free Kansas was fighting pro-slavery forces from Missouri.

Fort Scott National Historic Site features 20 historic buildings, five acres of restored tallgrass prairie and a parade ground. Elev-

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en of the buildings, housing 30 historically furnished rooms, are open to the public. The fort was established in 1842.

Museum exhibits are located in the Wilson-Goodlander house; in the dragoon barracks which tells the story of soldiers stationed there in the 1840s; and the infantry barracks museum which has general history about the site.

Visitors can witness the Union Army reoccupy Fort Scott in 1864 during a Civil War Encampment April 12-13. The weekend includes living history demonstrations and Saturday evening program. A Highlights in History weekend May 24-26 focuses on the dragoons and infantry policing the Indian frontier.

Self-guided and cell phone tours available. Free admission. For more information, visit nps.gov/fosc or call 620-223-0310.

Fort Wallace Fort Wallace was built on the western plains of Kansas in 1866 to provide protection for those constructing the Kansas Pacific Railroad and travelers on the Smoky Hill Trail. The area was the buffalo hunting grounds for tribes such as the Sioux, Pawnee, Arapahoe, Kiowa, and Northern and Southern Cheyenne.

The museum campus, located along Highway 40 east of Wallace, shows the history of the early Indian Wars time period and pioneer era, and includes the oldest structure in western Kansas, the 1865 Pond Creek Stagecoach Station. Also at the site are a Conestoga wagon, chuckwagon display and buggies drawn by animals sculpted of barbwire. The cemetery is all that remains of the original fort.

During Memorial Day weekend, the 60th Annual Fort Wallace Rodeo will be at the Wallace Rodeo Grounds north of the museum.

The museum is open daily during the summer. For more information, call 785891-3564 or email museum@ftwallace.com.

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r o w g e w ith us in M m o C arion County When you find yourself in Marion County, you will find communities enriched with deep historical heritage dedicated to preserving the past and embracing the future.

Located in central Kansas, Marion County is a great place for shopping, driving the Santa Fe Trail, exploring museums, having a picnic at any of our beautiful parks, swimming at the County Park & Lake or boating at the Marion County Reservoir. End the day with a meal at any of the 25 restaurants and relax at one of the more than 10 bed & breakfasts or motels. But first take a moment to watch the dramatic sunset and see stars that appear brighter than they do in the city.

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March March 1-June 1 Football: The Exhibit,

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March 1-4 International Pancake Day

Festival, four days of events culminating in the International Pancake Day Race on Shrove or Fat Tuesday in downtown Liberal, 620624-6423.

March 1-31 Parade of Quilts, Yoder, yoderkansas.com, 620-465-2220.

March 1-Aug. 31 “Speaking of Quilts: Voices

from the Collection and the Community,” special exhibition, Kansas Museum of History, Topeka, kshs.org/museum, 785-272-8681.

March 7-8 Marble Crazy, Moon Marble

Company, Bonner Springs, moonmarble.com, 913-441-1432.

March 8-April 20 “Free Texts: Stephanie

Syjuco” exhibition, Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State, 316-978-3664.

March 17-30 Ida Stover Eisenhower

Memorial Quilt Show, The Heritage Center, Abilene, 785-263-2681.

April 4-30 “Harvey,” Salina Community Theatre, salinatheatre.com, 785-827-6126.

March 17-22 NJCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament, Hutchinson, 620669-9846.

April 5 “Barn Quilts and the American Quilt Trail Movement,” meet author Suzi Parron, program at 10 a.m., Scenic Valley Inn, book signing from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m., Flint Hills Discovery Center, Manhattan, 800-759-0134.

March 17-22 NJCAA Women’s Basketball National Championship, Bicentennial Center, Salina, visitSalina.org, 877-725-4625.

March 17 St. Patrick’s Day Parade, Leavenworth, 913-682-2566.

March 26-29 33rd Annual William Inge Festival, Independence, 800-882-3606.

March 28-April 10 Voices from the Quilts,

19th century quilt exhibit, Fort Scott National Historic Site, 800-245-3678.

March 28-May 11 Pastel National Art Exhibition, Wichita Center for the Arts, 316634-2787.

April April 1-30 “I Love a Piano,” (the music of

Irving Berlin), Thursday-Sunday, Crown Uptown Dinner Theatre, Wichita, 316-612-7696.

April 5-May 31 15th Annual National Juried Art exhibition, Baker Arts Center, Liberal, 620624-2810.

April 11-12 46th Annual Kansas Mennonite Relief Sale, food, crafts, quilt auction, Kansas State Fairgrounds, Hutchinson, 620-665-7406.

April 11-12 Eisenhower Marathon, Abilene, 785-263-3474.

April 11-20 Messiah Festival of the Arts, longest running continual North American performance of Handel’s “Messiah,” now in its 133th year; special art exhibition at Sandzen Memorial Gallery, visitlindsborg.com, 888227-2227.

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April 12 Storm Fury on the Plains, 10 a.m. to noon, examine the basics of thunderstorm development, cloud identification and more.

Free. Boeing Dome Theater and Planetarium.

Exploration Place, Wichita, exploration.org, 316-660-0600.

April 12-13, 19 Easter Egg Hunt

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April 26 Civil War Day, Old Cowtown Museum, Wichita, oldcowtown.org.

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April 26 Barnyard Babies, National Agricultural Center and Hall of Fame, Bonner Springs, aghalloffame.com, 913-721-1075.

April 26 Spring Artists’ Studio Open House, visitlindsborg.com, 888-227-2227.

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April 26-Aug. 3 “Forty Years/Forty Stories” exhibition, Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University campus, 316978-3664.

May May 1-4 Glass Blown Open Disc Golf Tournament, Emporia, 620-208-3472.

II, Wichita, presented by the Friends of the Wichita Art Museum, wichitaartmuseum.org.

May 9 101st All Schools Day parade, McPherson, allschoolsday.com, 800-324-8022.

May 9-10 Kansas White Way Cruise In

May 23-26 Little Britches Rodeo, Dodge City,

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and Car Run, Concordia to Frankfurt reenactment of the first Kansas White Way Run May 14, 1914, which celebrated the opening of Highway 9 from Chicago to Colorado Springs, cloudcountytourism.com.

May 24 32nd Annual Suicide Hill Trail Run,

May 10 Blues at the Zoo, Lee Richardson Zoo,

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May 10 Fort Leavenworth Homes Tour,

Friends of the Frontier Army Museum, ffam.us, 913-684-3193.

May 10 Hutchinson Art Fair, 9 a.m. to 4

Learn how gravity, force, velocity, acceleration and inertia play a role in skateboarding at the exhibition “Tony Hawk|Rad Science” at Exploration Place in Wichita, which will be on display May 24-Sept. 1.

May 23-Sept. 3 Be the Dinosaur, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., Sternberg Museum, 3000 Sternberg Drive, sternberg.fhsu.edu, 785-628-5664.

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May 10 Yellow Brick Road Car Show, Light

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May 11 Wild About Moms, Rolling Hills Zoo,

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May 24 Kansas Pinto Horse Show, Bar K Bar May 24-25 Taste of the Wild West,

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May 24-26 Abilene & Smoky Valley Steam Engine and dinner train, 785-263-1077.

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May 3 8th annual Marble Day Celebration,

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May 3 Abilene Fly-In Breakfast, 7 a.m. to 11 a.m., Abilene Airport, 785-263-3970.

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May 24 Steampunk Day, Old Cowtown

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May 24 Vintage & Experimental Aircraft Fly-

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May 24-Sept. 1 Tony Hawk |Rad Science, traveling exhibition, at Wichita’s Exploration Place. With pro skater Tony Hawk, delve into gravity, force, velocity, acceleration, inertia and balance, exploration.org, 316-660-0600.

May 26 Antique Tractor & Engine Show,

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June 1 Wheatstock 10, Old Prairie Town, Topeka, 800-235-1030.

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June 6-28 “Shrek: The Musical,” ThursdaySunday, Crown Uptown Dinner Theatre, Wichita, 316-612-7696.

June 7 Coffeyville Street Market, downtown Coffeyville, 800-626-3357.

June 7, 21 Dinner Train, Abilene & Smoky

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June 7 Garden Tour, Rolling Hills Zoo, Salina, rollinghillswildlife.com, 785-827-9488.

June 5-7 June Jaunt, events in cities along

June 7 Little House on the Prairie Museum’s “Prairie Days,” Independence, 800-882-3606.

June 6 ZooLaLa, Rolling Hills Zoo, Salina, rollinghillswildlife.com, 785-827-9488.

June 7-8 Mulvane Museum’s Mountain/ Plains Art Fair, Washburn University, Topeka, 800-235-1030.

K-96, 620-872-5612.

June 6-8 Chingawassa Days, Marion, 620-

382-3425.

June 6-8 Good Ol’ Days Annual Festival and Parade, street fair, fort programs, craft show, entertainment, fortscottgoodoldays.com, 800245-3678.

May 30-June 7 Wichita Riverfest, concerts, food, children’s activities, water events, fireworks along the Arkansas River in downtown Wichita, wichitariverfest.com.

June 6-15 Great Plains Theatre, “Big River:

May 31 Dirty Kanza 200 Bike Race and Finish

Championship, Bar K Bar Arena, Lyons, 620257-5390.

Line Party, downtown Emporia, 620-342-1600.

June 6-7 National Orphan Train Riders Celebration, Concordia, orphantraindepot.org, 785-243-4471.

June 7 Sunset Zoo’s Water Safari and Kids Free Day, Manhattan, visitmanhattanks.org.

June 7 Symphony at Sunset Annual D-Day Commemorative Concert with the Salina Symphony, 8:30 p.m., Eisenhower Presidential Library, 785-263-6700.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” Abilene, 785-263-4574.

June 11-15 “South Pacific,” Music Theatre of

June 6-8 KS Cowboy Mounted Shooting State

June 12-15 Smoky Hill River Festival, Oakdale Park, Salina, riverfestival.com, 785309-5770.

Wichita, 316-265-3107.

June 13 National Teachers Hall of Fame

Induction, Emporia, 620-341-9131.

June 13-15 18th annual Echoes of the Trail Cowboy Gathering: wagon train, trail ride, cowboy poet/singer contest, pie baking contest, cowboy singing and tales, chuckwagon, trade show, Danny & Willa Ellis Fine Arts Center, Fort Scott, echoesofthetrail.com, 800-245-3678.

June 13-14 Bluegrass on the Lake, Marion County Lake, 5 to 10 p.m., marioncountyparkandlake.com, 620-382-3240.

June 13-29 “Kiss Me Kate,” Salina Community Theatre, salinatheatre.com, 785827-6126.

June 13-14 International Forest of Friendship Celebration, annual celebration honoring men and women of aviation and aerospace with children’s activities, parade of flags, ceremony and speakers, atchisonkansas.net, 913-367-1419 or 785-847-6800.

June 14 Symphony in the Flint Hills, Butler

County, symphonyintheflinthills.org.

June 14-Sept. 14 Ice Age Imperials, the Ice Age comes alive through interaction with ancient fossils, Flint Hills Discovery Center, Manhattan, flinthillsdiscovery.org.

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June 14–15 Juneteenth Celebration, annual community celebration to commemorate the date when the last slaves in America were freed in 1865. Family activities, games, food, Atchison

Salina’s Smoky Hill River Festival, this year June 12-15, features an array of music, children’s activities, food vendors, and works by artists from across the country.

African-American History tours, speakers, atchisonkansas.net, 913-426-3136.

June 15 Father’s Day Car Show, Rolling Hills

Zoo, Salina, rollinghillswildlife.com, 785827-9488.

June 20 Summer Gallery Walk, 6:30 to 9:30 p.m., Hays, haysartscouncil.org, 785-625-7522.

June 20-22 Washunga Days Festival, Council

Grove, washunga.com, 620-767-5413.

June 21 Midsummer’s Festival, Swedish festival, Lindsborg, visitlindsborg.com, 888227-2227.

Museum, Wild Bill impersonator will be in the saloon telling his life history, Hays, elliscountyhistoricalmusuem.org, 785628-2624.

July 3-13 ASTRA Arts Festival,

Independence, 800-882-3606.

July 3-6 Wild West Festival, Hays Municipal Park, 9 a.m. to midnight, featuring concerts by national recording artists, fireworks, parade, tribute to veterans, carnival, family activities, 5k run/walk and city wide promotions, wildwestfestival.com, 785-623-4476.

June 25-29 “West Side Story,” Music Theatre

July 4 Fireworks & Salute to the Union, Fort Leavenworth, 913-684-2580.

June 26-29 Kicker Country Stampede

July 4 Fireworks on the Santa Fe Trail, Council Grove, cityofcouncilgrove.com, 620-767-5417.

of Wichita, 316-265-3107.

features the biggest names in country music, Manhattan, visitmanhattanks.org.

June 27 National Cutting Horse Show and Clinic, Garden City, 620-664-7230.

July 4 Free concert, ice cream social and fireworks at Wall Park, McPherson, visitmcpherson.com, 800-324-8022.

June 27-28 Territorial Day, Lecompton,

July 4 Freedom Fest and Dynamite Dash Fun Run, Russell, 1-877-830-3737.

June 28 Abilene & Smoky Valley Silver Flyer

July 4 Labor Day Parade and Celebration, Raymond, 620-257-5166.

June 29 Amelia Earhart Century Bike Ride,

July 4 Old-Fashioned 4th of July Celebration, Eisenhower Park, Abilene, 785-263-7266.

lecomptonkansas.com.

Railbus, reservations, Abilene, 785-263-1077. recreational bike ride covers as far as 100 miles, Atchison, atchisonkansas.net, 913-360-2617.

July 4 Old-Fashioned Fourth of July, Boot Hill Museum, Dodge City, 620-227-8188.

July 1-6 Dodge City 300 Commemorative

July 4 Peabody 93rd Annual 4th of July Celebration & Fireworks Extravaganza, largest ground fireworks display in Kansas, Peabody, peabodyks.com, 620-983-2174.

July 2-5 Wild Bill Hickok returns to

July 4 Ramona Redneck Parade & 4th of July Celebration, 785-965-2621.

July Race, Dodge City, 620-408-6877.

Hays City, Ellis County Historical Society

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July 4-6 Abilene & Smoky Valley Steam Engine

and dinner train, Abilene, 785-263-1077.

July 4-5 Santa Fe Ranch Trail Rodeo, Council

Grove, mrcoyouthrodeo.com, 620-767-5413.

July 9-13 “Joseph and the Amazing

Technicolor Dreamcoat,” Music Theatre of Wichita, 316-265-3107.

July 9-13 Kansas Wheat Festival, Wellington,

620-326-7466.

July 11-20 Great Plains Theatre, “The Boys

Next Door,” Abilene, 785-263-4574.

July 12 Tractor Daze, Touch-a-Truck Swap

Meet and Mud Run, National Agricultural Center and Hall of Fame, Bonner Springs, aghalloffame.com, 913-721-1075.

Hogden House Museum Complex 9 historic properties • 785-472-3059

Paden’s Place Restaurant & Bar

Family Dining • Chicken Fried Steaks Specialty 785-472-3643

America’s Best Value Garden Prairie Inn

Indoor pool, spa, meeting rooms, guest laundry 785-472-3116

C&R Old West Trading Post

Western Wear • Antiques • Saddles • Accessories 785-472-3919

Hogden House Museum Complex 9 historic properties • 785-472-3059

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Indoor pool, spa, meeting rooms, guest laundry 785-472-3116

C&R Old West Trading Post

Western Wear • Antiques • Saddles • Accessories 785-472-3919

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July 13-14 American Indian Festival, contest powwows, Mid-America All-Indian Center, Wichita, theindiancenter.org.

July 16-19 Amelia Earhart Carnival,

Atchison, atchisonkansas.net, 1-800-234-1854.

Salina, kustomkempsofamerica.com, 877- 725-4625.

July 25-Aug.3 Dodge City Days, PRCA Rodeo, parades, dances, car show, arts and crafts, 620-227-3119.

July 16-19 Kansas Largest Night Rodeo,

July 26 Abilene & Smoky Valley Silver Flyer Railbus, Abilene, 785-263-1077.

July 18-19 18th Amelia Earhart Festival, celebrates the life of the famed aviatrix from Atchison. Country music concert at Warnock Lake, downtown fair with arts and crafts, live entertainment, food vendors and children’s activities, panel discussions with authors and researchers, award luncheon, aerobatic performances, aviation displays and spectacular fireworks over the Missouri River, atchisonkansas.net, 1-800-234-1854.

July 26 The Great Race, Wellington, 620326-7466.

July 18-20 Pickin’ on the Plains Bluegrass Festival, Colby, 800-611-8835.

July 26-27 Fabulous Finds on Hwy 99, Emporia, 620-340-6300.

July 22-24 Mutton Bustin’ & PeeWee Rodeo, NCK Saddle Club Rodeo, Cloud County Fairgrounds, cloudcountytourism.com.

July 30-Aug.2 69th Annual Wild Bill Hickok

Pretty Prairie, pprodeo.com.

July 23-27 “Catch Me If You Can,” Music Theatre of Wichita, 316-265-3107.

July 24-27 Kustom Kemps of America (KKOA)

Leadsled Spectacular Car Show, Oakdale Park,

July 26 National Day of the American Cowboy, Old Abilene Town, 785-263-2681.

July 26 Show ‘N Shine Truck and Car Show, National Agricultural Center and Hall of Fame, Bonner Springs, aghalloffame.com, 913721-1075.

Rodeo, Abilene, 785-263-4570.

August Aug. 1-3 Goessel Country Threshing Days,

wheatco.org, 620-367-2229.

Aug. 2 Abilene & Smoky Valley Steam Engine, Abilene, 785-263-1077.

Aug. 2 Rhythm and Brews, Manhattan, visitmanhattanks.org.

Aug. 2 Youth Rodeo, Council Grove,

mrcoyouthrodeo.com, 620-767-5413.

Aug. 6-10 “42nd Street,” Music Theatre of

Wichita, 316-265-3107.

Aug. 6-10 Tri-Rivers Fair, Rodeo & Draft Horse

Show, Salina, VisitSalina.org, 877-725-4625.

Aug. 8-9 Basketball Traditions Celebration, McPherson, 800-324-8022.

Aug. 8-16 Inter-State Fair and Rodeo, Walter

Johnson Park, Coffeyville, 800-626-3357.

Aug. 9 6th Annual 19th-Century Vintage

Wichita State’s outdoor sculpture collection has been named one of the best in the country.

Pick up a map of the 76 pieces in the collection at the Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, which is located near the 17th Street entrance. Sculptures include works by Henry Moore, Auguste Rodin, Louis Nevelson and this one (“Millipede”) by Tom Otterness. For more info, visit Ulrich.wichita.edu.

Aug. 9 Susan Convention, a celebration of all

Apollo missions and others, Cosmosphere, Hutchinson, cosmo.org.

Aug. 8-17 “Always...Patsy Cline,” Great Plains

Theatre, Abilene, 785-263-4574.

Baseball Game, 1 p.m., Eisenhower Campus, 785-263-6700.

800-324-8022.

Aug. 23 Abilene & Smoky Valley Silver Flyer Railbus, Abilene, 785-263-1077.

those named Susan, Sue, Susanne, Susie, etc., Concordia, cloudcountytourism.com, 785243-4303.

Fairgrounds, Emporia, 620-342-0138.

Aug. 16-17 Rod Run & Show, Scott City, 620-

Aug. 22-23 Tiblow Days Festival, downtown

pprodeo.com.

Aug. 22-23 When Pigs Fly In & BBQ Contest,

Aug. 23-24 Tumbleweed Festival, kids activities, crafts, storytelling, music, food, Garden City, tumbleweedfestival.com.

872-5612.

Aug. 22-24 3rd Annual Fly Around Dine

Around Fundraiser for Kansas Cosmosphere honoring heroes of the Blackbird program,

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Aug. 22-24 BeefFest, Lyon County

Bonner Springs, bsedwchamber.org, 913422-5044.

McPherson Airport, mcphersonchamber.com,

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Aug. 23 Bullmania, Pretty Prairie,

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Rice County Historical Society Coronado Quivira Museum EXHIBITS INCLUDE

RICE COUNTY COURTHOUSE

Prehistoric Indian Culture Coronado’s 1541 Trek North Santa Fe Trail Rural America, 1902

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Stop and Stay Awhile Grant County offers superb hunting and shopping. Dining options include Kansasfed beef, a wide variety of the BEST Mexican food and catering for visiting groups.

ABOVE: Jeff Trotman portrays early settler Jedediah Smith

Historic Adobe Museum An interpre-

Aug. 30 Clyde Watermelon Festival, tractor

pull, races, parade, watermelon feed, Clyde, cloudcountytourism.com.

Aug. 30-Sept. 1 Abilene & Smoky Valley Railroad Steam Engine and dinner train, Abilene, 785-263-1077.

Aug. 30-31 Age of the Gunfighter, Old Cowtown Museum, Wichita, oldcowtown.org.

Aug. 30-Oct. 13 Kansas City Renaissance

Festival, Bonner Springs, weekends plus Labor Day and Columbus Day, kcrenfest.com, 800373-0357.

Aug. 30-Sept. 1 95th Kismet Little World’s

Fair, Kismet, visitliberal.com.

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While visiting our community you can view magnificent vintage homes dating from the mid-1800’s, enjoy a diverse variety of dining choices, experience self-

Baldwin City, midlandrailway.org.

Aug. 30-Sept. 1 Labor Day Parade & Festival, Florence, florenceks.com, 620-878-4296.

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Sept. 1 Labor Day Parade and Celebration, Raymond, 620-257-5166.

Sept. 5-14 Great Plains Theatre, “Moonlight and Magnolias,” Great Plains Theatre, Abilene, 785-263-4574.

Sept. 5-7 Huff-n-Puff Hot Air Balloon

Festival, Lake Shawnee, Topeka, 800235-1030.

Sept. 5-7 Sky’s the Limit BBQ Classic, Garden City, skysthelimitbbq.com.

Sept. 5-14 Kansas State Fair, Hutchinson, kansasstatefair.com.

Sept. 6-Nov.1 Haunted Atchison Season,

narrated trolley tours through “the most haunted town in Kansas,” walking tours, cemetery tours, paranormal investigations, dinners hosted by a medium, tours of the infamous Sallie House, murder mystery dinners, atchisonkansas.net, 1-800-234-1854.

Sept. 6 Showdown on the Plains, vintage plane

fly-in, Scott City Airport, 620-872-5612.

C.W. Parker Carousel Museum

guided historic Leavenworth and Fort Leavenworth interactive waysides tours, take a city tour on a trolley, stroll along the Missouri River, become a kid again and take a ride on a restored antique carousel and shop in a wide variety of eclectic shops in the historic riverfront downtown and throughout Leavenworth.

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Sept. 6 A Wild Affair at Lee Richardson Zoo, live music, food, Garden City, 620-276-6243.

Sept. 12-13 100 Mile Garage Sale, Coffeyville,

800-626-3357.

Sept. 12-14 Autumn & Art at Bradley Fair, juried arts festival, Wichita, autumnandart.com.

Sept. 13 Air Fair, Liberal Airport, 620-

624-1646.

Sept. 13, 27 Dinner Train, Abilene & Smoky

Valley Railroad, Abilene, 785-263-1077.

Sept. 13 Enterprise Fall Festival, Enterprise

City Park, 785-458-2848.

Sept. 13-Jan. 5 “Eww! What’s Eating You?” carnival-themed exhibition about parasites and the human body, Exploration Place, Wichita, exploration.org.

Sept.13 Family Day at the Muchnic, 1 p.m.

to 5 p.m., Muchnic Art Gallery, Atchison, atchisonart.org, 913-367-4ART.

Sept.13 Great American Market, downtown Emporia, 620-340-6430.

Sept.13 Wicked Wilson 100 Bike Ride, Russell, 1-877-830-3737.

Sept.17-21 Walnut Valley Festival, music on five stages, crafts, international flat-picking contests, Winfield, wvfest.com.

Sept. 18 Taste of Atchison, A sampling of

everything Atchison has to offer, from the cuisine of the area to items from our many unique shops, and a photography contest, 5 p.m. to 8 p.m., downtown pedestrian plaza atchisonkansas.net, 1-800-234-1854.

Sept. 19-20 Buffalo Bill Days, Leavenworth,

buffalobillfestival.com, 913-306-0944.

Sept.19-20 Voices of the Wind

People Pageant, Council Grove, voicesofthewindpeople.com 620-767-5410.

Sept. 20 Art in the Park and Craft Show,

Marion, marionks.com, 620-382-3425.

Sept. 20 Hillsboro Arts & Crafts Fair, 620-

947-3506.

Sept. 21 KC Catfish Midwest Open

Championship, grand finale of the Kansas City Catfish Series. Atchison hosts the Midwest Open Championship, as anglers from across the region search the Missouri River for giant cats. This is the 4th largest tournament of its kind in the U.S. with over $10,000 in prizes. atchisonkansas.net, 1-800-234-1854.

Abilene’s Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum is hosting the outdoor Symphony at Sunset Annual D-Day Commemorative Concert with the Salina Symphony performing at 8:30 p.m. on June 7. For more information, call 785-263-6700 or visit Eisenhower.archives.gov.

Sept. 25-26 & 28 Bald Eagle Rendezvous, Lecompton, lecomptonkansas.com.

Sept. 25-28 Pioneer Harvest Fiesta Parade

food, games, Central Park, marionks.com, 620382-3425.

and Antique Tractor Festival, Bourbon County Fairgrounds, Fort Scott, pioneerharvestfiesta. org, 620-215-1942.

Sept.27-28 Scottish Festival, McPherson, macfestival.org, 800-324-8022.

Sept.26-28 Sunflower Artfest, three days

Salina, visitSalina.org, 877-725-4625.

of art festivities, live entertainment, great local food, fine art in a variety of medias, Kill Creek Road and K-10 in De Soto. www.

DeSotoArtsKS.org

Sept. 27 Abilene & Smoky Valley Silver Flyer

Railbus, 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., Reservations, 785-263-1077.

Sept.27 Car Show, Lyons, 620-257-2842.

Sept. 27 Fair on the Square, Lyons, 620-

257-2842.

Sept. 27 Smoky Hill Museum Street Fair, Sept. 27 Sunflower Visual Arts Festival,

Lucas, 1-877-830-3737.

Sept.27 Whimmydiddle Arts & Crafts Fair, 200 exhibitors, Patton Park, Scott City, 620872-5612.

October Oct.2-5 Dalton Defender Days, Downtown

Coffeyville, 800-626-3357.

Sept. 27 Fall Fest, parade, rides, crafts, food,

downtown Concordia, cloudcountytourism.com.

S a t u r d a y, S e p t e m b e r 20 Hillsboro

Sept. 27 Old Settler’s Day, Marion, parade,

Marion’s 36th annual

Oct. 2-4 Gordon Parks Celebration, Gordon Parks Center, Fort Scott, 620-223-2700.

Oct. 3-4 Homecoming and Fall Festival, Wellington, 620-326-7466.

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‘Expect the Unexpected in Lucas’ Grassroots Arts Capital of Kansas Discover 25 “Outsider Art” Environments

785-525-6288

lucascoc@wtciweb.com www.lucaskansas.com

9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Exhibitors from 16 states • German Food Fest 620.947.3506

hillsboroartsandcraftsfair.org

& Craft Show 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Shady, relaxed atmosphere f o o d co u rt • f r e e s h u t t l e 620.382.3425 • marionks.com

1 D at e 2 F a i r s i n M a r i o n C o u n t y

Garden of Eden • 785-525-6395 www.garden-of-eden-lucas-kansas.com

Grassroots Art Center • 785-525-6118 www.grassrootsart.net

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Oct. 3-Nov. 1 Third Street Asylum

Marysville adjacent to Koester House Museum, artoberfestks.org, 785-562-3101.

Haunted House, downtown Bonner Springs, 3rdstreetasylum.com.

Oct. 4 Burnin’ Down Main Cook-off,

Oct.4-5 Abilene & Smoky Valley Railroad

Oct. 4 Lincolnville Octoberfest, 620-924-5208.

Steam Engine run, Abilene, 785-263-1077.

Oct. 4 Annual Fall Festival pumpkins, hayrack

ride, face painting, vendor booths, benefits Relay for Life, Fort Scott, 800-245-3678.

Oct. 4 ArtoberFestKs, celebration of arts

and German heritage with polka bands, arts and crafts, food, kids’ activities, downtown

McPherson, 800-324-8022.

Oct. 4 Oktoberfest Arts & Crafts Festival, 33rd annual event with more than 100 arts and crafts vendors, plus German foods and music along the city’s Commercial Street Mall, Atchison, atchisonkansas.net, 913-367-4953.

Oct.4 William Allen White Children’s Book

Awards and movie “Mary White,” Emporia

KANSAS77��LARGEST NIGHT RODEO EDITION Pretty Prairie July 16-19

•Wed. and Thurs. are Family Nights (Kids 12 and under admitted FREE)

•Dance held each night after the rodeo,

live band TurnBack Creek on Fri. and Sat.

www.pprodeo.com

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Oct. 5 Annual Fall Ranch Rodeo, Council

Grove, mrcoyouthrodeo.com, 620-767-5413.

Oct. 5 Apple Festival, Old Prairie Town, Topeka, 800-235-1030.

Oct. 5 Atchison County Hand Corn Shucking Contest, noon, Slatterly Farm, atchisonkansas. net, 913-367-1502.

Oct. 5 Tour de Florence, 40-mile mountain bike ride, 620-382-7722.

Oct. 10-12 Columbus Hot Air Balloon

Regatta, 25th anniversary, balloon glow on Friday evening, three races, 620-429-1492.

Oct. 10-19 “SHOUT! The Mod Musical,” Great

Plains Theatre, Abilene 785-263-4574.

Oct. 11 Antique Engine & Steam Show,

Yesteryear Museum, Salina, visitSalina.org, 877-725-4625.

Oct. 11 Columbus Day Festival, fall festival

•Gates open at 6 p.m.,

rodeo at 8 p.m. nightly

Granada Theatre, 620-342-1600.

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Call 1-800-638-2702 after June 28.

with crafts, car and antique tractor show, children’s festival, entertainment, Columbus, 620-429-1492.

Oct. 11, 25 Dinner Train, Abilene & Smoky Valley Railroad, Abilene, 785-263-1077.

Bullmania - Aug 23

Historic Lecompton Territorial Capital of Kansas 1855

Pre-Civil War Sites Open Wednesday-Sunday: Territorial Capitol Museum and Constitution Hall Territorial Days June 27-28 Bald Eagle Rendezvous September 25-27 Christmas Vespers December 7 Tours: 785-887-6148 Lecompton Exit east of Topeka www.lecomptonkansas.com

The Midland Railway operates excursion trains on a line originally constructed in 1867. Train rides feature an over20-mile round trip from Baldwin City via “Norwood, Kansas” to Ottawa Junction, Kansas, traveling through scenic Eastern Kansas farmland and woods via vintage railway equipment.

Join us for a train ride – bring the whole family!

Normal excursions trains June – October every year.

Special Events Include: • Easter Bunny Train • Thomas the Tank Engine • Haunted Halloween Train • Santa Express

1515 W. High Street Baldwin City, KS 66006-0005

Phone (913) 721-1211 Depot (785) 594-6982 www.midlandrailway.org

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The Oasis on the Plains Located at Exit 53 on I-70 • Colby Visitor Center • Prairie Museum of Art & History • Kansas Biggest Barn • Colby Aquatic Park

Free information, Colby Convention & Visitors Bureau 350 S. Range #10, Colby, KS 67701 785-460-7643 or 1-800-611-8835

Oct.11 Kansas State Cornhusking Contest, Northwest Kansas Chili Cook-Off and Rural Life Demonstration Fair, Oakley, DiscoverOakley. com.

Historic Fort Hays, guided tour of the Fort Hays cemetery where you will meet some of its inhabitants from the days of Fort Hays, 785625-6812.

Oct.11 Pumpkin PaZoola, Rolling Hills Zoo, Salina, rollinghillswildlife.com, 785-827-9488.

Oct.25-26 Trick or Treat on the Farm and Boo

Oct. 17-18, 24-25 Night Trains of Terror,

Midland Railway, Baldwin City, midlandrailway. org.

Oct. 18 Brew at the Zoo, Sunset Zoo, fundraiser with hand-crafted beer samples, Manhattan, visitmanhattanks.org.

Oct. 18 International Lineman’s Rodeo, National Agricultural Center and Hall of Fame, Bonner Springs, aghalloffame.com, 913721-1075.

Oct. 18-19 Maple Leaf Train, Midland Railway,

Baldwin City, midlandrailway.org.

Oct. 20 Rolling Hills Zoo 15th Anniversary,

Barn, National Agricultural Center and Hall of Fame, Bonner Springs, aghalloffame.com, 913-721-1075.

Oct. 26-28 A Taste of the Arts, downtown

Abilene, 785-263-2231.

Oct. 31 Haunted Boot Hill, 7 p.m., visit the

first Hays City graveyard on Halloween night to learn about the violence and misfortune that claimed its inhabitants, 785-628-2624.

December Dec. 6 Artists’ Studio Open House,

visitlindsborg.com, 888-227-2227.

Dec. 6-7 Folk Art Festival, large arts and craft show, Liberal, 620-624-8534.

Dec. 7 Marion Art & Music Stroll, downtown, gallery101flinthills.com, 620-382-7501.

For holiday events listings, see page 35.

November Nov. 3-11 All Veterans Tribute Celebration, Emporia, 620-342-1600.

Rolling Hills Zoo, Salina, rollinghillswildlife. com, 785-827-9488.

Nov.7-16 “Driving Miss Daisy” Great Plains

Oct. 24- Nov. 1 Neewollah, parades, children’s activities, Independence, 800-882-3606.

Nov. 7-9 Gathering in the Grove Art, Council

Threatre, Abilene, 785-263-4574.

Oct. 25 Abilene & Smoky Valley Silver Flyer

Grove, gatheringinthegrove.com, 620767-5413.

Nov. 8 Candlelight Charm, Council Grove, councilgrove.com, 620.767.5413.

Railbus, Abilene, 785-263-1077.

Walk down into the World’s Largest Hand Dug Well!

Wellington

Oct. 25 Graveside Conversations, 7:30 p.m.,

Nov. 13-16 Kansas Governor’s Ringneck

Classic, Scott City/Healy, 620-872-5612.

Greensburg, KS 620.723.4102 www.bigwell.org

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Wellington

Located across the street from the Sumner County courthouse, the museum contains over 40 rooms filled with more than 20,000 artifacts and pictures, most collected locally, some dating back to the Civil War and the cattle trail that passed west of Wellington.

Donations accepted and appreciated

502 N. Washington, Wellington 620-326-3820 www.chisholmtrailmuseum.us FOLLOW US ON FACEBOOK

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NDGA National Glass Museum Wellington 207 South Washington • Wellington, KS 67152 • Phone: Heat (620)Baseball 326-7466 • www.wellingtonks.org 207 South Washington • Wellington, KS 67152 • Phone: (620)Golf 326-7466 Kansas Wheat Festival Wellington Club • www.wellingtonks.org

For museum hours, please call 620-326-3820 ADMISSION

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hen it comes to planning holiday events, Kansas communities go all out to create festivities that often become treasured traditions.

Lawrence steps back in time with the Midwest’s only exclusive horse-drawn parade the first weekend of December.

Started in 1993 with 21 horse-drawn vehicles, the Old-Fashioned Christmas Parade has grown to as many as 100 entries in recent years with up to 300 horses from miniatures to Clydesdales from as far away as Texas, Minnesota and North Dakota.

A variety of antique and authentic reproductions of horse-drawn carriages, wagons, carts and coaches are decorated, and riders are often costumed as well. Santa is the parade finale. This year’s parade begins at 11 a.m. on Dec. 6. For more info, go to visitlawrence.com.

Lindsborg draws on its Swedish heritage for a number of events, including the Lucia Festival. The Swedish tradition is celebrated the second Saturday in December and commemorates St. Lucia, who brought light to Sweden during the dark days of winter.

The event includes a processional and crowning a local Lucia with a wreath of candles as well as Swedish dancers. The 2014 Lucia Fest is Dec. 13.

Lindsborg also hosts an annual Snowflake Parade, this year on Dec. 6, as well as the Old-Fashioned Christmas Celebration Dec. 6 and 13 at the Old Mill Museum. The celebration includes music, crafts and a visit from Santa. In addition, the Sandzen Memorial Gallery hosts a holiday gift show featuring artwork for sale.

For more information on Lindsborg festivities, call 888-2272227 or go to visitlindsborg.com.

If you don’t have time to tour the state to see holiday decorations, just visit Exploration Place in Wichita where the extensive Kansas in Miniature exhibition is decked out for a 1950s holiday, complete with parade and nostalgic music.

Kansas in Miniature contains 125 buildings, 200 period vehicles, 1,000 people, water towers, trains and even a carnival that comes alive with lights and moving parts. The exhibition is included with admission. Call 316-660-0600 or visit exploration.org for hours.

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Lawrence’s Old-Fashioned Christmas Parade features horsedrawn vehicles.

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Photo by Harland J. Schuster

Lindsborg continues the Swedish tradition of Lucia Fest.

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Exploration Place’s Kansas in Miniature is decked out for a 1950s holiday.

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Nov. 20 Annual Christmas Tree Lighting, Commercial Street Mall, Atchison, atchisonkansas.net, 800-234-1854.

Nov. 21- Dec. 25 Christmas in Old Dodge City, visitdodgecity.org.

Nov. 28-Dec. 23 Santa City Open, Fike Park, downtown Colby,

800-611-8835.

Nov. 28 -Jan. 11 Seelye Mansion Christmas Tours, Abilene,

785-263-1084.

Nov. 29 Santa House Opening, Santa Claus arrives in spectacular fashion to his quaint Atchison home, atchisonkansas.net, 1-800234-1854.

Dec. 1 Candy Cane Christmas, 7 to 9 p.m., downtown Bonner Springs, bonnersprings. org, 913-667-1703.

Dec. 2 Christmas Parade, 7 p.m., downtown Emporia, 620-342-1600.

Dec. 5-6 Christmas Past, Historic Fort Hays, visit fort decorated for Christmas in 1870s, 785-625-6812.

Dec. 5-6 FrostFest, lighted holiday parade at 6 p.m. on Dec 6, DowntownHays.com, 785-621-4171.

Dec. 5-21 “Irving Berlin’s White Christmas,” Great Plains Theartre, Abilene, 785-263-4574.

Dec. 6 “Night of Christmas Magic,” Abilene Public Library program, horse drawn trolley rides, Candy Cane Lane, lighted parade, Santa and Mayor’s Tree Lighting, Historic Downtown Abilene, 785-263-2231.

Dec. 6 Sights & Sounds of Christmas, lighted Parade, baking contest, Little Mr. & Miss Snowflake Contest, parade starts at 5:30 p.m., atchisonkansas.net, 1-800234-1854.

Dec. 6 Snowflake Parade, visitlindsborg. com, 888-227-2227.

Dec. 6-7, 13-14 Christmas Train with Santa in 1898 decorated car, carolers, hot cocoa, cookies, carolers and a storyteller, Midland Railway, Baldwin City, midlandrailway.org.

Dec. 6, 13 Old-Fashioned Christmas, Lindsborg, visitlindsborg.com, 888227-2227.

Dec. 6, 13, 20 Santa’s House on the Mall, Atchison, atchisonkansas.net, 1-8000234-1854.

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Stay the night and have some fun!

■ Kansas City Renaissance Festival

Dec. 7 Cathedral Christmas Concert, 3:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m., St. Fidelis Church, Victoria, 785-628-4258.

■ National Agricultural Center &

Hall of Fame

■ Moon Marble Company

Dec. 7 Christmas in the Cabin, The Heritage Center, Abilene, 785-263-2681.

■ Cricket Wireless Amphitheater

Dec. 7 Christmas Vespers, Lecompton, lecomptonkansas.com.

■ Wyandotte County Historical Museum

Dec. 7 SantaLand Celebration, Council Grove, councilgrove.com 620-767-5413.

Dec. 11, 18, 20, 22, 23 Holiday Light Tours on the Trolley, McPherson, 800324-8022.

Dec. 13 Lucia Festival, Lindsborg, visitlindsborg.com, 888-227-2227.

Dec. 14 Candlelight Vintage Homes Tour, Carroll Mansion, Leavenworth, leavenworthhistory.org, 913-682-7759.

■ Sunflower Hills Golf Course ■ Downtown Specialty Retail Shops Kansas City Renaissance Festival

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Abilene . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3, 6, 31

Greensburg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Manhattan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1, 2, 3, 15

Atchison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4, 11

Hays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18, 19, 21, 23

Marion County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22, 31

Baldwin City . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Herington . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

McPherson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4, 25, 28

Bonner Springs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Hesston . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Morris County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Burlington . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Hillsboro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22, 24, 31

Mulvane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Cloud County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Hutchinson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-15

Newton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Coffeyville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24, 25

Independence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Parsons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Colby . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Junction City . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Peabody . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Columbus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Kanopolis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18, 19

Pretty Prairie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Concordia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Larned . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18, 19, 20, 21

Rice County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Council Grove . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Lawrence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Riley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18, 19, 21

Dodge City . . . 4, 17, 18, 19, 21, 35, back cover

Leavenworth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4, 18, 20, 21, 30

Russell County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6, 25

Ellsworth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Lecompton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Salina . . . . . . . . . . . . Inside front cover, 24, 27

Emporia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Liberal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Scott City . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Fort Scott . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4, 18, 19, 27

Lindsborg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15, 34

Topeka . . . . . . . . . . . 3, 7-11, inside back cover

Garden City . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Louisburg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Ulysses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Garnett . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Lucas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6, 31

WaKeeney . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Goessel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Lyons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24, 29

Wallace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18, 21 Wamego . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Wellington . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Wichita . . . . . . . . . . . . 5, 10, 24, 25, 27, 29, 34

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