Uncreativly titled First Post... or the introduction

I recall a couple of years ago a regular caller to a local talk show said he visited all 105 County seats in Kansas , It took him about 2 1/2 years but he managed to visit the state border to border, from the Missouri River to the Colorado line ,The Oklahoma line to Nebraska line and everything in between. The Rolling Prairies to the hills. The host said he should start a project of visiting saloon in all 105 counties, that would be a fun adventure as well.

Well gas prices suck, not as bad as the coasts but still not good.The prospects of a big time vacation are dim at the moment. I don't have a job that requires travel, so why do this ? I'm 43 have seen very little of my home state. I do think Kansas along with Texas and the 13 Colonies have the most important origins to the country.

The trails west started passed through here, Texas Cattleman drove herds to the railroads in Kansas. The list of Famous Sons and Daughters include Walter Chyrsler,Amelia Earhardt,Baseball pitcher Walter Johnson,General and President Dwight Eisenhower,The First Native American Charles Curtis,founder of the Atchison,Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad Cyrus K Holliday came to Kansas during the Territorial period.Progressive News Paper editor William Allen White called Kansas Home.Tiger Woods was born here, the Creator of the game of Basketball is buried here.The nation and the world watched Kansas Bleed from 1854 to 1860 as the precursor to the Civil War. John Brown and Carrie Nation came to Kansas .And there was a little Supreme Case involving a young girl denied entry to her neighborhood school based on her sick color,a spark to the Civil Rights movement of the 1950's. William Allen White ,editor of the Emporia Gazette , known as "The Sage of Emporia" wrote "What starts in Kansas ends as History." This is no sleepy fly over state.

We Kansans can freeze in the Winter,blow away in the Spring and boil in the Summer and think October is just about right.

Let us part the curtain,think of the Prologue to Shakespeare's Henry V and say:
Admit me Chorus to this history;Who prologue-like your humble patience pray,Gently to hear, kindly to judge, our play.