Sunflower Journeys Episode Guide

Episode Guide

• Ad Astra

  Discovery of Pluto; amateurs build an observatory; Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center.

• Adaptation & Growth

  The role of carbon dioxide in global warming; Greensburg, Kan., rebuilds following a tornado; Charles Eby volunteers for Habitat for Humanity.

• African-American Heritage

  The 'buffalo soldiers'; Nicodemus' homecoming; and the Marching Cobras.

• Age and Attitude

  Senior citizens; the Kansas Senior Olympics; continuing education.

• Agrarian Ancestors

  Migration; author Mil Penner.

• Aircraft & Aviation

  Amelia Earhart; aircraft industry; ultralight aircraft.

• Animal Conservation

  Project Release; the slaughter of North American Bison; Sedgwick County Zoo's preservation efforts.

• Ark City of Sedan

  Stone bridges; Caney River Valley; Emmett Kelly Museum.

• The Ark Valley

  Santa Fe Trail; wildlife refuge; jazz; blues.

• Art on Display

  Postcard art; Spencer Museum of Art; storytelling festival.

• Artifacts of Culture

  American Indian sacred spaces; tombstones; 'grassroots art.'

• Artistic Endeavors

  Albo Glass Company; touring award-winning commercial spaces; Don Mueller.

• Aural Traditions

  Hand-made pipes; the history of Chautauqua; comedy troupe Imagination Workshop.

• Authors & Filmmakers

  Author Don Coldsmith; poet; film production.

• Back to Nature

  Chaplin Nature Center; Craig Freeman, Kansas Biological Survey; Heartland Farm.

• Back to the Red Hills

  The Red Hills in Kansas; a company brings wireless Internet service to rural areas; historian at Topeka High School.

• Baseball History

  Notable players; semi-pro and town teams; professional baseball history.

• Big Springs to the Bowersock Dam

  Kansas roadways; natural springs; Bowersock Dam.

• Birds & Butterflies

  Peregine falcons; butterfly paintings; waterfowl migration.

• Birds and Butterflies

  Birds that live in Kansas; monarch butterflies make their annual migration; Audubon bird count near Milford Reservoir.

• Bleeding Kansas

  Kansas before the Civil War; abolitionist John Brown.

• Books in Kansas

  Kansas Book Festival in Wichita, Kan.; Junction City geared up for the return of the Big One to Fort Riley; a man restores clocks.

• Born in the '30s

  The 1930s; Gov. Alf Landon; Nancy Kassebaum Baker; politics.

• Bridges Over Water, Time and Space

  A highway bridge crosses the Missouri River; an old soldier's home in Leavenworth; a woman in Fort Riley stays connected to her husband serving in Iraq.

• Brown vs. Board of Education

  School desegregation.

• Caney to Toronto

  Memorial trail; Neewollah Festival; endangered forest.

• Capote Fascination

  Story behind the film 'Capote'; Kevin Willmott film; hunting for meteorites with Steve Arnold.

• Care Givers

  Camp Hope for kids with cancer; the Topeka AIDS Project; Voluntary Controls Program.

• Cars & Drivers

  Automobile restoration program; Kansas Speedway; solar car.

• Celluloid & Canvas

  History of pioneering; filmmaker Oscar Micheaux; KAN Film Festival; photographer James Nedresky.

• Changing Landscapes

  Photography documents landscape changes; canyon formation; the flood.

• Chapman to Salina

  Kansas Auto Racing Museum; Great Plains Theatre.

• The Chisholm Trail

  Texas longhorn cattle drives; Kansas cow towns; 130th anniversary of the Chisholm Trail.

• Cimarron River Basin

  The dust-bowl era; Hugoton gas field; irrigation.

• Climatic Kansas

  Climate changes; the 1966 tornado swept through Topeka; a woman who leads a trio of snowplows.

• Colby to Logan

  Museum; fossils.

• Community

  Community; home movies; Wichita newspaper.

• Community Groups

  Community service; Ku Klux Klan history; the Stafford Drama Guild.

• Community Niches

  Manhattan's Aggieville, a shopping and entertainment district; UFM Community Learning Center; Courtney Neill.

• Community Traditions

  Municipal bands; heritage center; Scottish festival.

• Council Grove to Cassoday

  Scenic byway; preserve; rodeo.

• Cowboy Culture

  Cattle drive; cowboy poetry; boot-makers; rodeo school.

• Craftsmen

  Werner Wagon Works; carousel horse carver Bruce White; 19th century woodworking shop.

• Criminals & Crimebusters

  The Bloody Benders; Kansas Bureau of Investigation; cadet in training at the Topeka Police Department.

• Cross-Cultural Communication

  The Kansas City Monarchs baseball team in the Negro Leagues; photography class for inner-city youth.

• Culinary Kansas

  Kansas native Russell Stover; Valentine Diners in Wichita, Kan.; Home Town Cafe.

• Cultural Diversity

  Cultural diversity; Junction City, Kan.; author Langston Hughes.

• Culture & Traditions

  Wheat State Whirlwind Tour; pancake races.

• Dateline: Herington

  The bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building.

• Death and Dying

  Burial traditions; hospice care; losing a child to AIDS.

• Different Perspectives

  A Russian student's experiences in a small Kansas community; Hedrick's Bed and Breakfast Inn and Exotic Animal Farm.

• Diverse Perspectives

  Photographer Gordon Parks; Latino immigrants adjust to life in Cowley County; a man with two mothers.

• E Pluribus Unum

  Settlement patterns of pioneers; an immigrant's experiences; multicultural education.

• Earthwalkers

  Author William Least-Heat Moon ('Flint Hills'); wild, edible plants; orienteering.

• Eating Locally

  Supporting local food production; organic exchange program between Kansas and Japan; PT's Coffee in Topeka, Kan.

• Ecological Communities

  Endangered species; community ecology; photography.

• Economic Communities

  Community economics; banks; Kansas Sampler Festival.

• Editors & Publishers

  Paperback series 'Little Blue Books'; the last linotype newspaper in Kansas.

• Education

  Home extension units; Anatoly Karpov International School of Chess; a single mother teaches first grade.

• Educational Communities

  New schools; private schools; teacher conference.

• Educators

  One-room schools; education via satellite; Next Century School.

• The Eisenhower Years

  The 1950s; flood; postcard collection; statue.

• Embracing Community

  The African-American museum in Wichita, Kan.; photographer Jim Richardson; skateboard/BMX bicycle craze.

• Energy & Natural Resources

  Petroleum mogul Harry Sinclair; coal mining.

• Environmental Awareness

  Recycling in Kansas; outdoor education at Rock Springs 4-H Center.

• Environmental Kansas

  Students reflect on environmental concerns; solar power at Southwest Junior High; a woman shares her passion for clean rivers.

• Ethnic Communities

  Ethnic groups.

• European Influences

  Polka music and dance; German folk dance; Russian actors.

• Fame & Notoriety

  Two sisters from Kansas found success in New York; Vern Miller served as attorney general in Kansas during the 1970s; singer Marilyn Maye.

• Family and Home

  Orphan relocation in the 1850s; project helps low-income families; intergenerational project.

• Family Farmers

  Farmers; wheat; 1999 harvest; challenges farmers face.

• Farming in Flux

  Wheat harvesting with threshers; organic farming; family farms.

• Farming in Flux

  Wheat harvesting with threshers; family farms; organic farming.

• Farms & Markets

  Marketing cooperative; assistance for small business in rural Kansas.

• Fast Food & Hometown Restaurants

  Harvey House Museum; Pizza Hut franchise; rivalry between Chicken Annie's and Chicken Mary's.

• Festivals & Celebrations

  Russell's Prairiesta Festival; Svensk Hyllingsfest; Swedish dancing; Wichita RiverFest.

• Filmmaking

  Buster Keaton celebration; director Mike Robe; creative video-production skills.

• Flight

  Early flight in Kansas; guests must fly to access a hotel in the Flint Hills; a World War II pilot's first hot-air balloon ride.

• The Flint Hills

  The cowboy's job; prairie women; the Z-Bar Ranch.

• Flowers & Gardens

  The tradition of growing flowers; tulips; themed gardens and butterfly house at Wichita's Bontanica.

• Flyboys & GIs

  World War II; Air Force training; GI Bill; history of Forbes Field.

• Folk Art

  Bill Gomer demonstrates leatherworking skills; decorating eggs in the Czechoslovakian tradition; carving figures from Swedish lore.

• Food & Drink

  Early history of some legendary barbecue restaurants; Arbuckle Coffee Co.; pre-dawn process of cheese-making.

• Foodways

  Edible wild plants; home cooking traditions; popular restaurants.

• Fort Dodge to Monument

  Fort Dodge; retired soldiers; George Washington Carver; ranch.

• Fort Hays to Great Bend

  Fort Hays; Christmas; homes of the 1950s.

• Fort Riley

  Cavalry reunion; modern training; proposed expansion of Fort Riley.

• Fort Scott

  The'Good Ole Days' festival with bluegrass music, crafts, and military drills.

• Free Speech

  The Rev. Gerald Winrod; hate messages; artistic/intellectual expression.

• Freedom & Equity

  The Underground Railroad; the history of Quindaro and Western University; documentary on Brown v. the Board of Education.

• Geographic Communities

  Communities work to improve conditions.

• The Glaciated Region

  White Cloud conference; Pony Express; houses, hay hoods and headstones.

• The Global Community

  Impact of Vietnam War; international exchange program.

• Growth & Development

  River crossings; urban growth; town center; conservation; housing development.

• Health Care

  Early rural health-care; rural doctor shortage; ethics and health care.

• Hedville to Ellsworth

  Wild animal park.

• High Plains

  Dodge City': premiere of the 1939 movie; 'West of Wichita'; 'Big Birds.

• Home-made/Hand-made

  The McCall Co.; spinning, knitting and felting; pottery artist Barry Jepson.

• Home on the Range

  Kansas' state song; private bison herds; fields of electric generators.

• Horses & Humans

  Work horses; horseback riding; relationship between horses and humans.

• Horticulture

  Historic farmstead; research and education; vegetable farmers.

• Horton to Blue Rapids

  Kansas; water quality; land; county fair.

• Houses & Homes

  Homes built from straw bales.

• Images of Kansas

  Great Plains photographer; a book benefits the Kansas Land Trust; landscape artist Stan Herd.

• Images of the 50s

  Images of the 1950s; civil defense initiatives in Kansas; live television; Centron Films.

• Images of the West

  Adaptation of 'The Nutcracker'; Kansas fox hunt.

• Imagination & Moving Images

  The Boyer Gallery in Belleville, Kan., features animated woodcarvings by Paul Boyer; small photo studio in business since 1890.

• Immigrants & Ethnic Groups

  Greek heritage; Asian Indians; two devout Muslim women.

• In Times of War

  An examination of the controversy over the executions of POWs in Leavenworth during World War II; Bishop Gregg; Korean War chaplain Father Kapaun.

• The Information Age

  'Sod and Stubble'; preserving state heritage; Kansans on the Internet.

• Inge Endures

  The 25th anniversary of the William Inge Festival; Alf Landon's career and the preservation of the Landon Home in Independence, Kan.

• International Relations

  Self-sufficiency in Africa; missile bases; Japanese companies.

• Isabel to Wellington

  Rural communities; cotton gin; wheat festival.

• Kansas & the Kanza Indians

  Kaw Tribe; history pageant; statue.

• Kansas Icons

  The story behind the sunflower; Oz museum; Miss Kansas prepares for the Miss America pageant.

• Kansas in the '60s

  The 1960s; centennial celebrations; racial segregation; discrimination; social activism.

• Kansas in World War II

  The hardships of war; effect of war on children; a former POW camp.

• Kansas-Lower Republican River Basin

  Pawnee village; pesticide management area; children monitor water quality.

• Kansas Masters

  Artist Frederic Remington; landscape painter Robert Sudlow.

• The Kansas River

  Kansas River; dredging.

• Kansas Wildlife

  Hunting with Wildlife and Parks Secretary Mike Hayden; beekeeping; a woman adopts and tames four wild horses.

• Kansas Women

  Clarina Nichols and her political achievements; Salina folk singer Ann Zimmerman; Gov. Kathleen Sebelius.

• The Kaw Valley

  Cultural geography; festival; development.

• Kids & Creativity

  A Crayola factory; art in education; the Wichita Children's theater.

• The Land

  Remnants of glaciers and Permian seas; natural area used for research in the Flint Hills; canoeing for senior citizens.

• Larned to Pratt

  Scout museum; history of scouting in Kansas; time capsule; wildlife photographers.

• Lawrence to Atchison

  Kansas; ranch; trolley tour.

• Lessons Learned

  A private school with international roots; kindergarten in a nursing home; a man recovers from an auto accident.

• Liquor and the Law

  Bootlegging days; an operating winery west of Topeka.

• Living With a Disability

  Dogs assist people with disabilities; independent living; children with special needs.

• Local Flavor

  Breweries; flour; milling; grocery; diner.

• Lower Arkansas River Basin

  Oxford Mill; water levels; Cheyenne Bottoms.

• Maintaining Ecosystems

  The McPherson Valley Wetlands; preserving the tall-grass prairie; Oglala aquifer.

• Manhattan to Troy

  Wagon; historic barns; Manhattan, Kan.; Troy, Kan.

• Marais des Cygnes River Basin

  Dingus Natural Area; water issues in Kansas.

• Marshall County to Junction City

  Work projects; Kansas Landscape Arboretum; photographs.

• Matfield Green to Beaumont

  Wagon train; ranchers; beef; musician Connie Dover.

• Medicine Lodge to Minneola

  Gypsum; wallboard; movie theaters; prehistoric dwelling.

• Midland Railway

  The Midland Railway's 20-mile round trip; the jazz heritage of downtown Kansas City, Mo.; Miss Kansas Wheelchair Pageant.

• Mission Valley to Mill Creek

  Wabaunsee County; architectural heritage; Alma, Kan.; ghost town; Volland, Kan.

• Missouri River Basin

  Steamboat towns; flood victims; Army Corps.

• The Mobile Society

  The automobile industry; popularization of cars; city-growth patterns.

• Monroe School in Action

  National Park Service's Monroe School offers community programs; Mother Earth News; French fry oil powers a Mercedes.

• Muralists

  The life and work of artist Thomas Hart Benton; the Kansas Mural Project catalogues murals.

• Music

  State Fiddling and Picking Championships; Sunflower Music Festival; Ring of Fire.

• Music

  Wichita Grand Opera; Gregorian chant choir; retired opera conductor Elvera Voth.

• Music, Art and Dance

  The Topeka Symphony celebrates 60 years; graphic artist Bradbury Thompson; ballroom dancing.

• Musical Roots

  Poet and singer Eva Jessye; barbershop music; Suki Willison promotes the blues in Topeka, Kan.

• National Spotlight

  Local origins of the 1918 influenza epidemic; Kansas and President Barack Obama connection; broadcast journalist Jim Lehrer.

• Native American Art

  Beadwork; gouache; 5th Annual Lawrence Indian Arts Show.

• Native Americans

  American Indians; indigenous people; immigrants; missionaries.

• Native Cultures

  The experiences of American Indians during the territorial period; Haskell University; controversy of American Indian mascots in Kansas high schools.

• Native Stone & Native Plants

  Invasive species crowd out plants considered native to the region; Native Stone Scenic Byway; limestone.

• Natives & Newcomers

  Coronado's 1540 expedition; Medicine Lodge Peace Treaty; Kickapoos' goals.

• Natural History

  Ice Age fossils; senses and nature; annual geology trip.

• Natural Resources

  The history of salt mining; why byways are blooming with flowers.

• Naturalists

  Dashing Kansas; Cimarron National Grasslands; mutant turtles.

• Nature Studies

  Sternberg Museum; students learn about the environment; the Konza Prairie.

• Neosho River Basin

  Diamond Springs; protecting riparian areas; nuclear generating plant.

• Neosho Valley

  American Indians; Frederick Funston; wildlife.

• The New Millennium

  New millennium; employment; lifestyles; ethnicity; prophetic attitudes; Jane Goodall.

• Newspapers, Radio & TV

  Mass media; radio broadcasting; newspaper publisher; digital television.

• Nicodemus Today

  The history of African-American settlements in Kansas; enticing new residents; World War II veteran.

• On the Oregon Trail

  Ezra Meeker keeps the Oregon Trail's memory alive; the Prairie Rose Cowboy Singers; Hawthorne Ranch Trail Rides.

• The Open Road

  Interstate highway system; motorcycle museum; RV lifestyle.

• Orphan Train History

  Orphan trains; Concordia Museum dedication; Kansas City's devotion to World War I plains people.

• Osawatomie to Fort Scott

  Civil War sites.

• Our Town

  Soda fountains; town revitalization; tourism in Elk Falls.

• Out on the Farm

  An educational program stresses safety on the farm; one of the last remaining flour mills in Stafford County; 'The Pumpkinator.'

• Outside the Box

  One of the first racially integrated preschools in the U.S.; the art of Aaron Douglass; Jay Armbruster demolishes cars.

• Outsiders Perspectives

  Producer John Njagi compares Kansas to Kenya; two sisters from California relocate to Kansas; new business.

• Overcoming Obstacles

  Horses at Serenata Farms at Big Springs, Kan., help assist learning disabled youth; Audio Reader.

• Photographic Visions

  The stereoptican; portraits of rural Kansas; photographic study.

• Pioneer Days

  The Oregon Trail; pioneer camp; Fort Leavenworth.

• Plant Preservation

  Kansas Natural Heritage Program; Central Prairie Seed Exchange; wild flower photography.

• Plants & Potions

  A.B. Seelye Medical Co.; medicinal plants.

• Political Communities

  Republican Party; League of Women Voters; politics.

• Politics & Government

  A century of populism in Kansas; political cartoons; Closeup-Kansas Program.

• Preservationists

  John Mack Bridge; renovated movie theaters; farmstead facelift.

• Prison Life

  Prison overcrowding; education for ex-convicts; Labette Correctional Conservation Camp near Oswego.

• Professional Communities

  Women in the workplace; railroad employees; pharmacist.

• Protect & Serve

  The history of the Kansas Highway Patrol; the Kansas Air National Guard; volunteer firefighter.

• Public Health

  Work of Samuel Crumbine; life of Dr. Karl Menninger; Kansas environment.

• Public Television

  History of public television in Kansas; study of television's influence; visit with animators of 'Reading Rainbow.'

• Race & Ethnicity

  When baseball was segregated; Haskell Indian Junior College; photography for inner city youth.

• Raiders, Outlaws & Lawmen

  Frontier lawmen; Quantrill's Raid in 1863; the Dalton gang.

• Railroad Lore

  History of Kansas' M-K-T Railroad; history of the commuter rail line; hobo reunion.

• Railroads & Restoration

  Railroad construction; the history of the Santa Fe shops in Topeka; the Great Overland Station restoration.

• Recreational Communities

  Pool halls; school sports; rail trails.

• Red Hills

  Trail-riding; spelunking; ranch rodeo.

• Reflecting on Life

  Photographs depict the history of mortician's trade; tombstones; heart transplant.

• Reflections of a Community

  Photograph collection depicts life in Leavenworth; Lenexa's city center; journalist Bill Kurtis.

• Regional Communities

  Political discontent; suburban development; preserving heritage.

• Religion & Spirituality

  The literature of Charles Sheldon; Christian women ministers; New Age.

• Religion & Spirituality

  Charles Sheldon, author of 'In His Steps'; Christian women ministers; New Age.

• Religious Communities

  St. Benedict's Abbey; religious freedom; Buddhism.

• Religious Views

  History of the early Jewish settlement Beersheba; a man's experience as a newly ordained Catholic priest.

• Reliving History

  Kansas cities celebrate their sesquicentennial; bicentennial of the Lewis and Clark expedition.

• RenFest

  Kansas City Renaissance Festival; Sunflower Army Ammunition Plant; Jolene Savage teaches children social etiquette.

• Replication, Restoration & Recreation

  The restructured Friesen Flour Mill; courthouse; citizens unite to build a community golf course.

• Restoration & Preservation

  Ritchie House project; downtown revival; preservation issues.

• Revisiting Solomon Valley

  The Solomon Valley Heritage Tourism project; barbed-wire museum; training dogs to assist people with special needs.

• Roads & Rails

  Transportation system; highways; rail lines; study.

• Rural Reflections

  Maude Mitchell's paintings; poets; back roads.

• Rural Schools & Changing Times

  The history of one-room schoolhouses; high-tech learning; football.

• The Santa Fe Trail

  Along the Santa Fe Trail; its history; Fort Larnard.

• Science & Technology

  Science; technology; museum; evolution; Liberty Bell space capsule.

• Sedan to Osage City

  Red Buffalo Ranch; Tim McCoy; 'Sarah Plain and Tall.'

• Sesquicentennial

  Kansas history; educational projects; Fort Riley's 150th anniversary.

• Skitterish Critters

  Herpetologists track the Italian wall lizard; black-footed ferrets; wildlife rehabilitator Melody Weller.

• Small Town Celebrations

  A centennial celebration in the town of Antonino, Kan., a Volga German settlement; Antique Engine & Thresher show; Independence Day parade in Wamego, Kan.

• Small Towns & Rural Communities

  Farmer cooperatives; carnival; inventor Jack Kilby.

• Smoky Hill/Saline River Basin

  Irrigation; Heartland Mill; inter-basin water transfer.

• The Smoky Hills

  Sternberg Museum; fossil collecting; John Jagger, 'T-Shirt Man of Pipe Creek.'

• The Smoky Valley

  Pueblo; state park.

• Social Communities

  Family finds housing for mentally disabled men; barn dance; future leaders.

• Social History

  The role of quilt making; hair-weaving; Lecompton's Territorial Days celebration.

• Social Welfare & Community Health

  The history of county poor farms in Kansas; Security Benefit Association; affordable housing.

• Solomon River Basin

  Waconda Springs; Cottonwood Ranch; water contamination.

• Southeastern Kansas

  Mining near Galena; bootleggers and the 'Little Balkans'; a new sport.

• Spirit of the Prairie

  Pasture burning in the Flint Hills; Heartland 100 'Spirit of the Prairie' endurance run; teaching history to school children.

• Sports

  990 Sunflower State Games; disc golf; Kansas athletes in the Hall of Fame.

• Sports & Society

  Dr. James Naismith; Sunflower State Games feature amateur athletes; Quarter Midget youth auto racing.

• State of the Arts

  A revitalization project in the Crossroads Arts District; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art; artist Jon Rappleye.

• Stockton to Clay Center

  Libraries; town forms; teen smoking.

• Storytelling & Filmmaking

  Middle school students visit national parks in Kansas; new media's impact on social networking; Wild West Film Festival.

• Storytelling & Forklore

  Farmer Rudy Bahr; the Prairie Wind Dancers; African-American folk music.

• Teaching Methods & Learning Styles

  Kansas' education curriculum standards; home schooling.

• Territorial Kansas

  Settlements; river travel; achieving statehood.

• Territorial Touring

  The Border Raiders Bicycle Ride; Dave Carlson cleans up after pets; behind-the-scenes of 'Sunflower Journeys.'

• These Old Houses

  Capitol construction; historic preservation; schoolhouse renovations.

• Three-Dimensional Art

  Bronze sculptor; glass creations; clay and flower art.

• To Fight or Not to Fight

  The legend of the Beecher Bible and Rifle Church; Emporia.

• Travel & Tourism

  Travel; tourism; rural communities; Liberty Bell space capsule; bicycles.

• Traveling Through Time

  Construction of U.S. Highway 81; roadside architecture; historical bicycle tours.

• Upper Arkansas River Basin

  Beef industry; cattle feedlots; fish farming; ethanol production.

• Upper Republican River Basin

  Arikaree Breaks; Conservation Reserve Program; Ogallala aquifer.

• Verdigris River Basin

  Civilian Conservation Corps; protecting streams; canoeing.

• Visions of the Future

  Utopian settlements in Kansas; food production; social, cultural and economic changes.

• Walnut River Basin

  Windmills; hazardous materials; drinking water.

• War and Peace

  World War I photographer; Kansas National Guard in World War II; Arabs and Muslims.

• Water in Kansas

  Changing attitudes about water in Kansas; water management.

• Weather Reports

  Weather folklore; tornado-spotters; information company.

• Western Lore

  Statue of Buffalo Bill; a town strives to create a Drovers Hall of Fame; John Schaffner, the trail cook on the Great American Cattle Drive.

• Wetlands and Wildscapes

  National wildlife refuge; preservation projects; wetland conservation.

• What's the Matter With Kansas?

  The William Allen White house; reaction to Thomas Frank's book 'What's the Matter With Kansas?'; an intern at the Kansas Statehouse.

• Wilson to Ellis

  Wilson Hotel preservation; limestone wall exhibit; abandoned farmsteads.

• Winfield to Runnymede

  Pastoral concert; female mayor; English village.

• Yates Center to Topeka

  Courthouse; music; Kansas Turnpike.

• The Year 2000

  New Year's Eve; exploration place; Kansas City, Mo.