Montezuma, located in the southwestern corner of Kansas, is a small town with big bragging rights. In addition to sporting one of the first wind farms on the high plains, this quiet, largely German Mennonite community is home to the Stauth Memorial Museum.

Hi, I’m Marjory Hall from Goodwell, Oklahoma with a BookByte for our 2025 Fall Read. American Mother by Colum McCann and Diane Foley is, as the title suggests, about a mother’s reaction to the death of her child. This mother, though, must navigate an unusual element of her child’s passing.

Fall weather comes to beautiful Lake Texoma

Tune in to Classical Music Amarillo this week for a program of recently-composed music that has been recently performed here in the Texas Panhandle!

Hi, everyone. This is Mildred Rugger from Canyon, Texas, for the 2025 Fall Read of HPPR Radio Readers Book Club. As I did my usual pre-reading overview of American Mother by Colum McCann with Diane Foley, I felt like this book would take me for an emotionally heavy ride.

As September kicks in, and the usual weather changes approach, it's time to do some cleanup...AND to decide on what to do with what you clean up. This week, we'll talk about some things you can do to prep for next year's garden!

This narrative poem presents three characters in a micro-drama – the dad, working under the hood of his Chevy, and who spots the Choctaw man money for a hamburger; Earl the Choctaw man who begs the money; and the kid, "little Wallace" who observes this exchange between father and the struggling man.

Hi, I’m Traci Brimhall, Poet Laureate of Kansas and here today to talk about the book Eat Your Words: A Kansas Poetry Cookbook. It’s a collection of recipes and poems I helped edit that collected 20 recipes from 20 chefs across the great state of Kansas, from urban centers to small towns, from restaurants to farms to food trucks.

In the late 1870s many Southern blacks saw Kansas as The Promised Land, partially because of the availability of free land through the Homesteaders Act, but also because so many Kansans had taken an anti-slavery stance in the battle for free-state status prior to the Civil War.

Hi from Goodwell, in the Oklahoma panhandle! I’m Marjory Hall with a BookByte for our 2025 Fall Read. I imagine that war has been a topic of philosophical consideration for as long as there has been war.