Accidental History

 While the Museum in Leeton has some great and valuable artifacts, Mr. Wyatt is mistaken when he says most of the mules used by the US Army ...

How did Monkey Mountain get its name?

I came across a negative from the Simmons Studio collection of this United Shoe Workers of America Charter.  It's dated 1945 which is ba...

...Here comes Carry with a brand new hatchet. Carry Nation wasn't dangerous when she lived in Holden and then in Warrensburg.  Th...

I published this picture from the Simmon's studio collection of negatives on this blog about two years ago, but at that time, I was show...

This painting by Morris Collins hangs in the basement of the Johnson County Historical Society. Beside it is the history of Club 15: ...

Martha Baile's best memory of Rundle's Drug Store is of sitting at the counter sipping pineapple soda. Buddy Baker remembers ...