Hidden Kansas: Recent Episodes
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With fall finally here, it's time to celebrate. Lu Anne Stephens goes hiking through Pawnee Prairie Park for this month’s Hidden Kansas.
On this month's "Hidden Kansas," Beccy Tanner visit a cemetery dedicated to a woman known as “Mother.”
Nearly 100 years ago, an enormous boulder sacred to the Kaw Nation was taken from its land. Now, the Grandfather Rock has returned home. Beccy Tanner has more on this month's Hidden Kansas.
KMUW's Lu Anne Stephens discovers where the wildflowers are on this month's Hidden Kansas.
For this month's Hidden Kansas, Beccy Tanner shows us how buffalo talk to each other on the Kansas prairie.
For this month's Hidden Kansas, we visit an often overlooked inhabitant along the Arkansas River.
For this month's Hidden Kansas, Beccy Tanner tells us to enjoy the early bird specials at Cheyenne Bottoms and Quivira Wildlife Refuge.
On this month's Hidden Kansas, Beccy Tanner shares the story of a small Kansas town that was captured by a single photographer.
On this month's Hidden Kansas, KMUW's Lu Anne Stephens and Marlene Ryan bundle up for a cold hike along the Arkansas River.
On this month's Hidden Kansas, Beccy Tanner explores Lecompton’s historic past and how the town hopes it can bring in tourism dollars.
Some of artist M.T. Liggett’s work is preserved in a building for people who want to slow down for a better look. For decades, people zipping along U.S. 400 through Kiowa County have been treated to a vast display of strange metal sculptures as they passed by Mullinville.
Witness as a mill roars and groans back to life during Lindsborg’s annual Millfest celebration.
For this month’s Hidden Kansas, Beccy Tanner explores new exhibits that provide a different perspective on the Eisenhowers.
While it’s not known for it, Kansas is geographically diverse. Hilly and forested in the northeast, wide open in the southwest. Follow Lu Anne Stephens as she sets out to conquer one of the most extreme points in the state.
On this month’s Hidden Kansas, Beccy Tanner visits the Fort Wallace Museum, which helps preserve and explain the history of the state’s High Plains.
The Land Institute’s annual Prairie Festival has been described as an Earth Celebration and an intellectual hootenanny. Lu Anne Stephens attended this year and reports for this month’s Hidden Kansas.
In a tiny Kansas cabin, perhaps the best-known folk song ever was written nearly 150 years ago.
Atchison, Kansas, boasts a surprising number of Victorian mansions—haunted Victorian mansions. You could try to visit them all in one day. Or do what Lu Anne Stephens did—take the Haunted Trolley Tour.
For nearly 50 years, the Walnut Valley Festival has attracted thousands of visitors from across the country. For many of them, the festival means seeing top acoustic and bluegrass musicians perform on one of the main stages.But for others, the essence of Walnut Valley is the non-stop jam session that takes place in the campgrounds.
The Pawnee Indian Village Museum is as much an archeological site as it is a museum, and it’s recognized as such by the Smithsonian Institution and the state of Kansas.
The exhibit hall somewhat mirrors the surrounding Chisholm Creek Park with displays that highlight the prairie, wetlands and woodlands.
Land-locked Kansas is not where you might expect to see a squadron of pelicans or a fling of sandpipers.But a couple of times a year, we become home to the birds.
If you’ve driven down Douglas past Old Town and Union Station, you’ve seen the giant steam engine that is the prize of the Great Plains Transportation Museum. It’s right in the middle of the overpass; you drive right under it.
You can hardly call the Allen-Lambe house hidden. The intriguing structure, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, has been standing at the corner of 2nd and Roosevelt in College Hill — in the heart of Wichita — since 1918.
Carousels most often are found in carnivals, amusement parks or, occasionally, upscale shopping centers. But in Wilmore, Kansas — population 37 — you can ride one in Ernie and Christy Griffin’s backyard.
Driving west from Sedgwick County on state Highway 160, the scenery is what you’d probably expect on a Kansas road trip: farmland, a few rolling hills and the horizon stretching out in all directions. But just southwest of Medicine Lodge, there’s a dramatic change.
Art can inspire, motivate and educate. It also can lead to — let’s say — a good debate.
When you walk into Yoder Hardware and Lumber, the first thing you notice isn’t the rows of tools, the old wooden counter or even the prized oil lamp collection — it’s owner Rod Fry and his cheerful, booming voice.