Custom Cowboy Boots Exhibit Highlights Kansas Role in Boot History
The Old Depot Museum hosts Custom Cowboy Boots: The Kansas Story detailing how Kansas and its cobblers shaped the modern cowboy boot. The exhibit traces origins in Olathe with Charles Hyer, notes Chisholm Trail cowboys, and features Hyer Boot Company’s later history, styling influences, and modern boot makers.
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Franklin County Historical Society
Deb Barker
Ottawa
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Barker
Tom Mix
Gene Autry
Dave Treptow
Lawrence
Jim Holenbeck
Manhattan
Lauria Sisk
Outdoor Bluegrass Evening at Dietrich Cabin
Fans of old-time bluegrass will gather Saturday at 7 p.m. on the Dietrich Cabin porch in City Park for Up From the Valley. Performers include Down the Road, Sometime Nowhere, and the duo Bill and Larry, with proceeds via a hat for the Old Cabin Preservation Fund.
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Sometime Nowhere
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Midland Railway offers holiday weekend train rides Baldwin City
The Midland Railway Historical Association invites travelers for three days of hour long excursions from the 1906 Santa Fe Depot in Baldwin City. Trains depart 11 30 a m 1 30 p m and 3 30 p m daily Saturday Sunday and Monday Aug 31 Sept 2 for a near 12 mile round trip through historic Douglas and Franklin counties with wildlife sightings. Tickets are 9 for adults 4 for children ages 4 12 with eight person groups receiving a 1 discount. children 3 and under ride free. No reservations required. seating is first come first served.
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Auditions set in Baldwin City for melodrama Wynn Fairly Campeen Rassler
Baldwin City The Baldwin City Theater and the CLEAR Foundation announce auditions at 7 p.m. Thursday Sept. 5 at 816 High Baldwin City for the melodrama Wynn Fairly Campeen Rassler The cast will include seven males and nine females ages 13 and up a female villain featured For information contact director Susan Pouliot at (785) 594 0597 or sapouliot grapevine net Flea market hopping at Emporia show The Great American Flea Market will be Sept 7 in downtown Emporia Commercial Street will close to traffic vendors arts and crafts music and food run 7 a.m. to 4 p.m Music by The Experience Driven and Fiesta Band beginning at noon The event is free Several fall festivals are planned in September across Missouri including Weston Red Barn Farm Fall Festival Sept 7 Oct 31 Branson Shepherd of the Hills Fall Harvest Crafts Festival Sept 7 Oct 26 and more details via listed contacts and websites
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Weston
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Shepherd of the Hills
Branson
Columbia
February Mystery at Havens Ranch Security
Hank the Cowboy narrates a quirky misadventure at Havens Ranch where he, as Head of Ranch Security, intercepts an unauthorized vehicle. He describes vigilant guarding, the danger of postal workers, and a dramatic air interception by Drover and himself, ending with a foreshadowed encounter on a high alert.
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