Amazing food and little known history in Southeast Kansas
What once looked like the rest of Kansas was instead shaped by mining, immigrants with their own traditions, and a will to survive by any means necessary.
Setting the bar high for community devotion
The bar was quiet, which was rare. Pickled Pete’s is usually humming with some sort of chatter. However,…
Bootlegging exhibit comes to Pittsburg museum
Bootlegging in the Kansas Balkans in the 19th and 20th centuries comes alive for the first time in…
Heritage Hall Museum, Frontenac, Kansas: The Free Coal-Camp Museum Built From Immigrant Grit, Grief, and Kansas’s Deadliest Mining Disaster
Walk a recreated 1900s coal-camp street. Crawl into a mine shaft. Meet the bootleggers, miners, and mob whispers…
Miners Hall Museum — Franklin, Kansas Coal-Mining History Museum & Home of the 1921 Amazon Army March
Ground zero for the 1921 Amazon Army march — soon home to America’s largest preserved walking dragline. Free…
Mules in the Mines: The Unsung Heroes
An unsung hero in pre-steam power, pre-electricity United States, the mule was a catalyst for growth in many…
A Passion to Teach – A Passion to Care
At Pittsburg State University’s Spring Commencement this morning, you are bound to see several graduation caps decorated with…