Celebrate Kansas Day by browsing the Kansas collection at Cunningham Public Library.
Kansas Day is Wednesday, January 29th. CPL has a great collection of Kansas books and many books by Kansas authors. Below are a couple of favorites from our Kansas Collection.
Sod and Stubble: The Story of a Kansas Homestead by John Ise tells the story about a family’s struggle to establish a homestead in Kansas during the late 19th century. The book, published in 1936, has been made into a soon-to-be-released film. Ron Wilson, director of the Huck Boyd National Institute for Rural Development did a piece in December, 2024, on the creation of the film in his Kansas Profile–Now That’s Rural. Look for 2024 featured profiles.
Reflections of Kansas 1900-1930, A Prairie Postcard Album by Frank Wood and Scott Daymond offers illustrations of 312 historical postcards of Kansas, from 1900-1930, accompanied by detailed captions for each one. Below are some excerpts.
Persistent arctic winds lashed the Kansas countryside during the blizzard of 1912, drifting a train on the Englewood Branch of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad to a complete stop… Three miles east of town, hundreds of townspeople and railroad employees from Ashland shoveled snow and ice by hand to enable the train to travel forward. A.M. Zimmerman photographed a chilled crew of successful workers along the cleared railroad tracks in Clark County.
Excerpt from Reflections of Kansas by Frank Wood and Scott Daymond
A Ferris wheel was a popular attraction at this street carnival about 1915 in Nashville, Kingman County. Founded in 1885, Nashville developed after the building of the Englewood Branch of the Atchison, Topeka & Sante Fe Railroad in 1996 and 1997. A painted sign on the side of J.J. Lawrenz’s Real Estate office appears at the right in this picture. Mr. Lawrenz came to the United States from Germany in 1876 and in 1910 moved is family to Nashville, where he opened a real estate office…
Excerpt from Reflections of Kansas by Frank Wood and Scott Daymond.