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If we had to select two favorite books out of the thousands we’ve read over the years, our votes would go to “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee and “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald — Mockingbird for its content and Gatsby for its style.
Read moreAmid the hustle and bustle of this season, I have recently been reminded that, contrary to the temperatures outside, it is winter. As if the short daylight hours, the Christmas stockings and kids being out for winter break haven’t clued me in on this time of the year, a tiny reminder has made it abundantly clear it is indeed winter.
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Prior to European settlement of this place called Kansas, native tribes were very aware of tribal locations and the boundaries that divided them. Those boundaries began to change as settlement from the east pressed against tribal territory in 1825.
Read moreI have a policy at the I-R — if we have only enough space in an edition of the newspaper for Letters from Readers or an editorial I’ve written, the advantage almost always goes to the reader letters. That’s why you’re just now reading my thoughts on the passing of Bob Dole. As an employee of the Salina Journal, I first met Sen. Dole in the 1970s, when I moved to Kansas from Indiana. I remember calling my father, who was a huge fan, with the news. Later I would cover Sen. Dole’s three bids for the presidency and many other issues important to his constituents.
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Edwin Tyler was a new arrival to the Walnut Creek valley in the spring of 1871. Near the big bend of the Arkansas River in central Kansas, the new town of Great Bend had just been platted.
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Have we forgotten? We’re all Americans. We’re all in this together.
Read moreIn those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered. This was the first registration when Quirinius was governor of Syria. And all went to be registered, each to his own town. And Joseph also went up from Galilee, from the town of Nazareth, to Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and lineage of David, to be registered with Mary, his betrothed, who was with child. And while they were there, the time came for her to give birth. And she gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in swaddling cloths and laid him in a manger, because there was no place for them in the inn.
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