May 4, 2024 | Kansas, Kansas, Literary Landscapes, Nonfiction, Novelists, Volume 13
Truman Capote 1112 Gillespie Place Garden City, Kansas By Rosemary Hope 🎧 Listen at HPPR This is the story of my house and the foursome who gathered for dinner Christmas Day 1959: Truman Capote, Nelle Harper Lee, and my parents, Dolores and Clifford Hope Jr. It was at...
May 4, 2024 | Author Houses, Kansas, Kansas, Literary Landscapes, Nature, Poets, Volume 13
Ron Wilson Lazy T Ranch Manhattan, Kansas By Traci Brimhall 🎧 Listen at HPPR Gravel crunches beneath my tires as I approach Lazy T Ranch, home of the Kansas Poet Lariat Ron Wilson. It’s an unseasonably warm February day, and birds punctuate the silence with their...
May 4, 2024 | Author Houses, Kansas, Kansas, Literary Landscapes, Nature, Nonfiction, Volume 13
Nellie Maxey Edwards County Historical Museum and Sod HouseKinsley, Kansas By Joan Weaver 🎧 Listen at HPPR Starting in Washington, D.C., you can drive U.S. Highway 50 all the way to San Francisco. Along the way is the small Kansas town of Kinsley with a towering sign...
May 4, 2024 | Kansas, Kansas, Literary Landscapes, Nature, Novelists, Volume 13
Niki Smith Rock Springs Ranch Junction City, Kansas By Macy Davis 🎧 Listen at HPPR Niki Smith never names Kansas in The Golden Hour. She doesn’t need to. Every page of the 2021 graphic novel shows Kansas. It starts with the cover, which looks through wheat in the...
Dec 20, 2023 | Kansas, Press Release
TOPEKA – Humanities Kansas recently awarded $9,436.00 to High Plains Public Radio in Garden City to support “Literary Landscapes in Kansas: From the Ground to the Airwaves,” a writing and radio project that will elevate the history of Kansas stories and writers. Tina...
Oct 16, 2023 | Kansas, The Pageturner
Art by Kelly Yarbrough is featured in The New Territory Magazine’s Pageturner Fundraiser on October 21, 2023. Buy tickets here to participate in the live and silent auctions. Featured artwork in our live art auction: “Sumac Field” Kelly Yarbrough (b. Plano, TX)...