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  • Haven is the Book Leader for four juvenile or young adult selections from around the world
    The 2023 Spring Read: In Touch with the World takes a different spin this week with four juvenile or young adult selections from around the world.
  • Sign on front of Renmin North Road in Shenzhen, China Wal-Mart Supercenter saying "Everyday low prices!" in Chinese.
    Complicit
    In “Made in China,” Amelia Pang tells us what happens to individuals caught in a complex tangle of responsibilities, corporate practices and relationships and the treatment of human beings across the world.
  • Stock The Freezer With Catfish Filets
    This past week I joined my friend catfish guide Tony Pennebaker at Lake Tawakoni for a couple hours of intense catching over a hole that he keeps baited with grain and cattle cubes...
  • Our author suggests that having access to clean and ample water is a basic human right and that saying so may start a fight in a place like Kansas. He cautions that “we are pumping the aquifer beneath our feet dry, and we must soon change our relationship to water or lose it forever.”
    The River as a Thing Apart
    I've been asked to say a few words about my book, "Elevations." It was published in 2018 by the University Press of Kansas and the subtitle is, "A Personal Exploration of the Ark River." That just about says it all.
  • Kids on a river searching for minnows remind BookByte contributor Jane Holwerda of many happy hours on the Smoky River near her childhood home, a contrast to the dry riverbed of the Arkansas in southwest Kansas
    Memories of Fun on the River
    Hello, Radio Readers – I’m Jane Holwerda from Dodge City, Kansas. It’s great to be back with our Fall 2021 Book Read: “Rivers and Meandering Meanings.”In his genre-defying book Elevations, Max McCoy, who directs the Center for Great Plains Studies at Emporia State, recounts his journey – by kayak, on foot, and by Jeep—following the Arkansas River from its headwaters in Leadville, Colorado, through southwestern and on to southeastern Kansas.
  • In 1854, the farthermost western boundary of the Kansas territory lay on the summit of the Rockies. Denver, founded in 1858 was actually named for Kansas Gov. James W. Denver. This map is a reproduction of a portion of J. H. Colton's map, Nebraska and Kansas 1854, drawn before Denver was a city.
    Beyond the Banks
    This is Leslie VonHolten traveling through the High Plains of Kansas, with another HPPR Radio Readers Book Byte.I love the metaphor of rivers when we consider our life experiences, the way our days and our stories ebb and flow. Some spots are rough, too fast for us to steer the kayak. Others are languid, slow and easy. And like life, we never know what is around the bend.
  • By Executive Order 9066, over 7,000 Japanese, most being American citizens, were forcibly imprisoned at the Granada Relocation Center in Granada, Colorado from 1942-45. For more information, visit https://amache.org/ Operated by the Amache Preservation Society led by the principal of Granada High School, this volunteer organization is largely comprised of current and past students of the high school. Students help with ongoing maintenance of the site, lead site tours, participate in preservation projects, maintain a museum of artifacts, and provide presentations on Amache in Colorado, neighboring states, and around the world.
    Internment and Quivira
    Hi I’m Valerie a radio reader from Topeka and I just finished Elevations: a Personal Exploration of the Arkansas River by Max McCoy. The volume was chosen as a 2019 Kansas Notable book and I can see why. I really enjoyed this book. Elevations fits into this fall’s Radio Readers theme of Rivers: Meandering Meanings as it is an intimate telling of the histories of the land and communities surrounding McCoy’s by-water-voyage of the Arkansas River...
  • Book leader Hannes Zacharias kayaked and hiked the Arkansas, both where water was present and where it was not, following a drop of water from the headwater to the Gulf near New Orleans.
    A Journey Of Stories
    I’m Hannes Zacharias from Lenexa for High Plains Public Radio, Radio Reader’s Book Club. The book is “Elevations: A Personal Exploration of the Arkansas River” by Max McCoy.This book, written by Max in 2018, covers his travels on the upper Arkansas River and his 742-mile journey through Colorado and Kansas…
  • High Plains Outdoors: Stripers on Texoma
    I love striper fishing at Texoma during the dead of winter, using oversized jigs to entice greedily feeding stripers that drive bait to the surface and eat like there is no tomorrow...
  • The Arkansas River bed in southwest Kansas in 2018. Photo: Hannes Zacharias
    What Is It About Rivers?
    Rivers. Perhaps it is the fact that the river of my childhood is but a memory today -- the dry riverbed a place for noisy 3-wheelers -- that brings such fascination. Or it could be harsh lessons taught by our river’s dry, sandy bed juxtaposed with the memory of sand being stuffed into bags...
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