From Route 66 in Southeast Kansas to the Arikaree Breaks in Northwest Kansas, this is your guide to the Sunflower State.
“Midwest Road Trip Adventures” available for pre-order now From the Great Lakes to the Great Plains, a new anthology, Midwest Road Trip Adventures, helps travelers re-discover their home state. This book will be available in November, just in time for holiday gifting. Becoming an author has been my lifelong dream. That dream is now coming […]
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Nine best places to eat in Wichita Visit Wichita paid the expenses for my visit to the best places to eat, but all the opinions are mine. Wichita is the largest city in Kansas. As one would expect from the state’s largest city, the Air Capital offers many fun food and drink locations to enjoy.
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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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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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