Nicodemus

High Plains Public Radio

Published October 17, 2012 at 12:01 AM CDT

Pioneers come to the west, leaving all that was familiar, to create a new community- Nicodemus, Kansas. To this day, descendants of that hardy bunch return to celebrate.

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