Helping the present understand the past
Welcome to another edition of Around the Town Thursday! I’m very excited for today’s post, for two reasons: first and foremost, it’s a winery. If that’s not enough there’s the second reason, it’s a winery in a church building. Oh but it gets better! The old church Pirtle Winery resides in is a Lutheran Evangelical…
After having traveled to Hutchinson, Kansas to see some great sights, we’re back in Kansas City for this edition of Around the Town Thursday. Today we’re stopping in at Christy’s Tasty Queen, a great little hole-in-the-wall restaurant located in Kansas City, Kansas. Christy’s Tasty Queen in Kansas City, Kansas I grew up in the Turner…
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I’ve mentioned before that I like to frequent estate sales. There are always interesting items to be found and as I wander through the sales I often wonder what the person who owned the items being sold was like. I’ve brought D1 and most-wonderful-mother-in-law to “the dark side” with me and they have begun going…
Welcome to another edition of Follow Friday! Today I’m highlighting Ancestry Search, a family history blog written by Kathleen. I admit, this one I started reading purely because the first post I saw was Kathleen’s post on Researching in the Kansas State Census. Anyone who knows me fairly well knows I love living in Kansas….
It’s Thursday and time for another edition of Around the Town Thursday! We’re still hanging out in Hutchinson for Museum Day Live! but we’ve moved from Strataca – Kansas Underground Salt Museum to the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center! Mercury-Redstone Rocket located outside the Cosmosphere’s main entrance Since D1 and I were already in Hutchinson…
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