Lynn Boitano
Facilitator, One Small Step / StoryCorpsA native of California, Lynn Boitano has lived on the High Plains since 1988. She first came to High Plains Public Radio to work as News & Public Affairs Director. During her tenure at the station, she also served as Program Director and host of High Plains Morning.
Lynn’s love of public radio began in college and has taken her to different places including Bosnia, where she helped set up a radio station modeled on the principles of High Plains Public Radio.
Boitano recently retired from teaching reading in Garden City, Kansas and is active in the Kansas Geographic Alliance. Currently, she is a co-facilitator for HPPR’s StoryCorps One Small Step initiative.
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The town of Dumas sits north of Amarillo in the Texas Panhandle. Founded by a farmer and rancher named Louis Dumas in 1891, it’s known for its livestock, oil and gas industries as well as an impressive record of high school sports championships. But perhaps the most famous identifying element for Dumas, Texas, is indeed ‘note’ worthy. -
In most people’s minds, the image of a diner is usually associated with shiny stainless steel structures straight out of the 1940s and 50s. These imagined eateries are also linked to the East Coast, with their counter stools occupied by guys from Jersey or Brooklyn having serious encounters with a piece of pie and a mug of coffee. -
Welcome to this special edition of the HPPR Radio Readers Book Club’s celebration of Route 66 – 100 Years on the Mother Road. This iconic road has been called everything from the Mother Road to America’s Main Street to the Will Rogers Highway. -
It’s undeniable that Charles Goodnight had a huge impact on the development of the Texas Panhandle. Primarily identified as a rancher, Goodnight’s lifetime activities and achievements are broad based and far reaching . Born in Illinois in 1836, his family relocated to Waco, Texas when Charles was 9 years old. He later liked to say that he came to Texas at the same time that Texas came into the U.S., joining the Union in 1845. -
When homesteaders left their forested hillsides of the East and arrived on the treeless plains, they must have wondered what in the world they would use to shore up the face of a dugout, put a fence around their land, or confine a milk cow. With few trees in sight to be used for lumber and fence posts, the new arrivals in one area of Kansas looked beneath their feet and found unlimited resources in the limestone that lay just below the topsoil. -
Black Sunday refers to a catastrophic dust storm that struck on April 14, 1935, during the Dust Bowl era in the United States. This event is recognized as one of the most severe dust storms in American history. -
The settlement of the American West often relied on ‘boom or bust’ events. Years of good weather could bring bumper crops that enticed would-be farmers to try their hand at homesteading, and the discovery of precious metals brought hoards of the hopeful to the gold fields of Colorado and California. -
The 1969 moon landing was hailed as perhaps the most audacious and difficult challenge ever achieved by mankind -
Outre West: The American School of Architecture, a past exhibition at the Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center, illuminates the innovation, creativity, and experimentation of a movement that upended the traditional design world of architecture beginning in the 1950's. -
The Walnut Valley Festival known simply as "Winfield" has delighted festival goers and serious acoustic musicians for over 50 years.
