Day: April 21, 2023

  • Three frames hang on a wall. Within each frame is a prison intake photo of a woman who served a sentence at the Kansas State Industrial Farm for Women. The first frame is black and contains four images of one woman. The second frame is gold and contains four prison intake photos, two of two different women. The final frame is green and contains four prison intake photos, two of two different women. The bottom right photo in this frame is blurry as the woman must have moved when the photo was taken.

    The Forgotten Law

    In the spring of 1917, Kansas passed the infamous Chapter 205. This new law gave the State Board of Health…

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  • This graphic has a light blue background covered with a variety of different cookies. On the page, there is an M&M’s cookie with the classic bright-colored candies, a pink frosted cookie with colored sprinkles, a white frosted cookie with a caramel squiggle and a classic chocolate chip cookie.

    A Cookie Fueled by a Dream

    Throw your grandma’s cookie recipe out the window because Cookies and Dreams is baking up a new treat. Owner and…

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  • May Clara Hutchison uses a rotary telephone to call and say goodnight to the moon.

    Jumping Into The Rabbit Hole

    When the children’s bookstore The Reading Reptile closed its doors in 2015 for the final time, owners Debbie Pettid and…

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