Thomas Fox Averill

This Saturday, Colorado turns 150 — and thousands of Coloradans plan to mark the occasion by heading straight for the top of the state.

It's a rare chance to hear directly from the writers shaping how the state sees itself — and it promises to be one of the most thoughtful, heartfelt stops on this year's Dodge City Days schedule.

Tune in for an HPPR Radio Readers Book Club holiday tradition: the two-hour broadcast of a High Plains author's delightful Christmas story: A Carol…

Folks, Iola Humboldt’s family invaded us for the Christmas holiday. Her grandson came on December 23 with his wife and two boys, one 12 and one 10. Her…

Well, folks, each year Here, Kansas, has a pre-Christmas potluck before we all travel to relatives for the holiday. This year, Claude Anderson’s wife,…

Folks, even though I’m up there in years, I’m not too old to try for some change. In advance of the holiday season, Thanksgiving and Christmas, I thought…

Folks, Claude Anderson and I were sitting in the Here, Kansas, Co-op, talking about the prospect of the next winter wheat crop. We can already see the…

Folks, when I was a boy, I spent hours every summer in the garden, picking a feed sack full of green beans one week, a bucket of cherries another, a…

Folks, when I was a boy, I spent hours every summer in the garden, picking a feed sack full of green beans one week, a bucket of cherries another, a…

Folks, back in 1910, Carl Becker, wrote what became for years the definitive essay on the nature of Kansas. He begins by describing his first trip to…