Home Away from Home in Garden City to Columbus
Patrick Murphy recalls a decade of moves and how Garden City served as a second home. He reflects on family ties, childhood memories, and annual returns with wife Kelly and children Claire and Alek, noting colleagues, friends, and the pull of Nebraska roots as they now view Columbus as home with baseball and band nearby.
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Kelly
Lee Richardson Zoo
Garden City
Claire
Alek
Kansas
Nebraska
Cornhusker
Grandma
Grandpa
Columbus
Conway Springs peach orchard fuels harvest season
The Steffen family at Steffen Orchard in Conway Springs opens the season with 75 cents per pound for peaches and free eating. Phil Steffen, retired unofficial boss, and his sons run 2,000 acres of wheat alongside an 80 acre peach orchard started in 1982, turning a once unfamiliar crop into a local staple amid hail damaged fruit and family labor.
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Oliver Hill
Conway Springs
Steffen Ochard
Steffen
Phil Steffen
Steffen Orchards
Kansas
Red Haven
Steffen Orchard
Shelley Poynter
McKenna Poynter
McKenna
Sumner County
Colorado
Steffens
Phil
Mary Steffen
Nick
Mary
Brett
Wichita
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