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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Folks, the older I get the more I like to visit places that have a long history. “What about the Bartlett Arboretum?” I asked Iola Humboldt. She consulted…
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Folks, since 1937 Kansas has had a Noxious Weed law. Among those on the Most (not) Wanted list are some fearful dangers: Kudzu, Bindweed, Canada and other…