I went to Valentine, Nebraska, on a field trip in 1993. We canoed down the National Scenic River. The clouds built up and caught us in a pop-up thunderstorm. The storm was so severe that it made news in the Omaha World-Herald. What an adventure! I have raved about the Valentine, Nebraska, experience ever since. […]
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Roxie on the Road celebrates one-year blogging anniversary Today, July 14, 2020, is Roxie on the Road’s one-year blog anniversary. Where has the time gone? Wherever it’s gone, we have come a long way, baby. Here is a look back at 10 memorable moments in our first year: Highlights at our one-year blogging anniversary For
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Goodland gets a new telephone building, an Art Deco masterpiece Goodland’s United Telephone Building, an Art Deco masterpiece, was built in 1931 at 1003 Main. The Kansas Sampler Foundation said it’s one of the state’s most colorful buildings. When the 1930s began, Goodland’s exchange had more than 1,000 telephones. The system was overloaded. Goodland officials asked
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The Giant van Gogh Painting towers over Goodland The No. 1 attraction in Goodland, Kansas, a giant 24 by 32-foot painting, dominates the sky. The massive replica of “Three Sunflowers in a Vase” stands on an even taller 80-foot-high steel easel. It weighs 45,000 pounds. The Giant van Gogh Painting is so large that people
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Meeting Leavenworth’s famed folks in 10,000 steps People know Leavenworth, Kan., as the home of Fort Leavenworth and the Leavenworth federal prison. People should know Leavenworth for its famous residents and visitors. Meet many of these influential people on the Leavenworth walking trails. They include Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, Susan B. Anthony, William T.
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Escape to Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument Here are 10 great reasons to visit Colorado’s sequoia trees. Sequoias don’t grow in Colorado now. But they once did. Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument preserves a forest of petrified sequoia stumps. For the rest of the story, we have to enter geologic time. Volcanic tantrum preserves Florissant
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The solid Goodland post office moves around The brick post office at 124 E. 11th St. in Goodland is very solid. It doesn’t look like a place that could play hopscotch. The building has not played hopscotch, but the office has. Before it finally came to rest, the post office lived in three towns, burned,
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A black artilleryman becomes a homesteader A gravestone in Goodland (Kan.) Cemetery honors Cpl. William Johnson, Company I, First United States Colored Heavy Artillery. This is his story. William Johnson of Hawkins County, Tenn., started his life as the property of his master. But before he died, Johnson was a property owner. He earned his
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On Western Vistas Historic Byway, travel back in time. If you dream of being a cowboy or cowgirl, take your imagination eraser with you as you drive Western Vistas Historic Byway. When you mentally scrub away 21st-century amenities and replace the cattle with bison, you’ll return to the 1860s and 1870s. The imagination eraser works
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“Rural Free Delivery” post office art lifts morale during the Great Depression As America struggled to climb out of the Great Depression, the Roosevelt Administration put people to work. In Goodland, an artist’s delivery from unemployment resulted in a mural, “Rural Free Delivery“. The mural hangs in Goodland’s post office. One of the administration’s programs,
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