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Little Spouse On The Prairie: More Snores

Today, I am going to fill you in a bit more about my jack-of-all-snores, Joel. Lest you think that the Andy Griffith theme song whistle is the only type of snore Joel exhibits, let me just tell you, he has a repertoire of noises that he emits after hours...

Little Spouse On The Prairie: Bubble And Squeak

Driving around England gave us the opportunity to try a lot of unique pubs and dining establishments. I wanted to be sure to eat some local foods...

High Plains Outdoors: Prep For Hunting Season

August is the month when hunters across the state begin preparing in earnest for the upcoming hunting seasons. The big outdoor shows are scheduled this month and hunters are busy doing everything from maintaining and filling their game feeders to locking in on places and dates for their fall hunts...

William S Burroughs Christiaan Tonnis, CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

River Meanders and Poetry

I’m Denise Low reading poems about rivers as part of The Radio Readers Book Club’s 2021 Fall Read Rivers – Meandering Meaning. Rivers make me meander back to some of the first poetry I ever read, like this poem about the Nile by an unnamed Egyptian, translated by Ezra Pound,Nothing, nothing can keep me from my loveStanding on the other shore...

Growing on the High Plains: Okra

Today’s Growing on the High Plains slices into a controversial veggie that’s beloved in the South while raising eyebrows (and upper lips) of those from the North.

Growing on the High Plains: Sunflowers

We’re celebrating Kansas today on Growing on the High Plains as we look at the state flower. A Midwest favorite for centuries, modern sunflower production now results in everything from decorative plants to edible seeds to expeller-pressed sunflower oil.

Growing on the High Plains: Patchouli

Travel with me to Pratt, KS today as I take a springtime stroll through a parking lot plant sale, scoring a scent-heavy potted pal that takes me back to my time among the flower children.

Growing on the High Plains: Swallowtails

Something about the summer weather this year must have ushered in a High Plains party of swallowtail butterfly caterpillars, because gardens have been crawling with them, even more than usual.

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…

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