Do you ever get stuck in a genre? I do. It seems all I want to read is magical realism. But if I had stuck to only reading that one genre, I would have never tried what has now become my all-time favorite book series, the All Souls series by Deborah Harkness! I was so surprised to see that s…
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Juan Manuel Santos served as president of Colombia from 2010 to 2018. In 2016, he received the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to bring to an end the half-century of guerrilla warfare his country had suffered. “The Battle for Peace” is his story of that struggle before, during and after hi…
Despite their differences, people across time and space can still connect.
“Bake the world a better place.” Not just “Make the world a better place,” but “Bake the world a better place.”
Margie Wohler will celebrate her 100th birthday on Sept. 21.
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Competitors with names like “Ketchup,” “Karen the Wayward Sunflower” and “Papa Dom the Beard” shredded invisible guitars as part of the final Third Thursday event of the year in Manhattan.
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When Keith Stewart got married, the pastor held up two rings and said they were a symbol of the couple’s commitment. The moment helped Stewart realize that jewelry is more than just a piece of metal.
When I was trying to convince my wife that we should see the new Marvel film, “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings,” she told me that it wasn’t worth spending money on a babysitter to see a third-tier comic book movie.
A former New York Times editor and current communications consultant for Kansas State University says she heard the impact of the first plane as it struck the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
You may be familiar with Stacey Abrams as the past Georgia House Minority Leader and 2018 gubernatorial candidate, or perhaps you know her advocacy work to promote fair elections. However, you may be surprised to learn that she is also a compelling bestselling author of legal/political ficti…
Curled up on my futon with my tech and dice tin on a Tuesday evening, I readjust my headphones and laugh as my friends and I slay orcs within a hidden cave. We’re represented by tokens on a virtual map on my laptop screen, and I record the loss of HP — my hit points — on my tablet when my Ti…
Five to six hundred thousand years ago, instead of windmills and grain silos rising out of fields near Wamego, hundreds of feet of glacial ice would have towered above.
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Assistant state climatologist Mary Knapp said her interest in weather and climate sciences was piqued in 1966.
Landry Louise Glick was born July 20 to Trent and Megan Glick of Wetmore.
David Rosowsky said jokingly that he had to “lose a couple of ties” with color schemes that did not match his new environment when he moved to Manhattan.
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I was in eighth grade when 9/11 happened. I remember my teacher abruptly switching the TV to live coverage of the Twin Towers, and it seemed like time stopped as we were all engrossed in the unfolding tragedy. Even as a teen in Kansas, I could tell 9/11 had a profound effect on America in so…
If you think the water crisis in the western states can’t get any worse, wait until the aquifers are drained. How long have we been hearing about the ancient waters of the Ogallala Aquifer being consumed by deep-well irrigation pumping at a non-renewable pace? It seems like forever.
Spring is unmatched for the variety of plants that flower and add interest to the landscape. There are plants that wait until this time of the year to show off their flowers.
Sunflower seeds are a favorite summertime snack of many people — from farmers to Little League players. And it’s just about time for them to
“Music helps to keep you happy.” If that’s the case, the person who said it has been happy for a long time.
This year’s annual Wickstrum family reunion was Aug. 15 at the Leonardville Community Center. The family was called together by President Josh Reasoner. Dolores Renner gave an opening prayer, thanking the ancestors for enduring many hardships to provide blessings. Following the potluck dinne…
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I have a friend, Heidi, who always wanted to put closed captions on TV when we were watching something.
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Lauren Ritterbush was hiking in her home state of North Dakota when she looked out at the landscape and asked herself a question.
Let’s meet some freedom fighters. These won’t be found in some jungle fighting a dictator. These fighters are working to achieve freedom from bad Internet service, and they are based in rural Kansas.
Steve and Sylvia Murphy, formerly of Manhattan, will celebrate their 55th wedding anniversary on Sept. 3.
Timothy and Rhonda (Simnitt) Wege of Leonardville celebrated their 50th anniversary on Aug. 27.
Dystopian fiction is a popular genre in books as well as movies and TV, from “The Hunger Games” to “The Handmaid’s Tale,” and we seem to enjoy getting sucked into these terrifying worlds gone awry. It can be difficult to understand the appeal, especially when the dystopia is linked so closel…
What is the true nature of human beings? That is a question that philosophers and psychologists have wrestled with from antiquity to the present. Many have argued that humans are bad, echoing the writings of Thomas Hobbes in “Leviathan,” where “No arts; no letters; no society; and which is w…
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The apple didn’t fall far from the tree for Jason Hartman.
The new movie “Don’t Breathe 2” is entertaining, in some ways an improvement on the original film, but like its forerunner it unintentionally raises all sorts of questions in the viewer’s mind. For example: Is any film character who kills a dog just automatically irretrievable?
Today let’s meet a rural doctor who practices medicine but doesn’t have patients. You may ask, “How can that be?”
Lifetime Manhattan area resident Joanne Barkyoumb will celebrate her 90th birthday from 2 to 4 p.m. Aug. 29 at the Prairie Star Event Center at Meadowlark Hills. There will be cake, cookies, punch and coffee.
Belle da Costa Greene. While few may have recognized that name, now a wonderful new piece of historical fiction highlights the woman’s remarkable career. I am alluding to “The Personal Librarian,” a novel co-authored by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray. It is based on the life …
Did you know that the famed Elizabeth Blackwell (M.D. 1849) had a sister who also became a physician? Her name was Emily Blackwell (M.D. 1854). So many women have been lost in history that she is in good company. They were sisters in a family of nine children, five girls and four boys. Their…
Kristy Marie Schroll and John Joseph Stockemer were married March 27, 2020.
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Two men with a friendship forged in wartime are reflecting on their service and sharing worry for families as Afghanistan, the country they fought to protect, falls to the enemy.
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Rosie Aline Mainz was born at 12:50 p.m. June 17 to Whitney and Rob Mainz, Denver.
“Respect” opened in theaters recently. The movie stars Jennifer Hudson as Aretha Franklin.
Ten-year old Lilly Mrozik of Manhattan said competing in the U.S. Kids Golf World Championship was “really hard” because of the North Carolina heat.
Being a tween is kind of the worst. You are discovering who you are, what your values are, and how you relate to others. On top of all that, things tend to happen that are out of your control, like your parents getting divorced, or moving away from all of your friends. The combination of the…
The Victorian Age was a time of great change and import. Our imaginations, long removed from the events themselves, imagine Victorian England as stodgy and prudish but stable. This is partly true but overlooks the fact that Victorian England was a place of great change. Industrialization was…
Have you heard the saying about building an airplane while trying to fly it? That would be one way of describing one hospital in rural Kansas which was transforming itself while continuing to provide services – and in the case of the hospital building, a new hospital was literally built in t…
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If you’ve eaten at Hillside Cafe long enough, you’ve probably heard the sound of a friendly whistle.
The new Disney movie “Jungle Cruise” will amuse large audiences. But they won’t remember it the next day.
Manhattan Arts Center Theatre’s summer season of plays closes out with a six-show run in the Grosh Performance Hall of Lauren Gunderson’s docu-dramedy “The Revolutionists.” Final stagings were Aug. 13-15.
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