Nicodemus Part 2: Name without prejudice
Weather effect
East of Nicodemus, Kansas
How did the Kansas weather affect race relations in the post-Jim Crow community of Nicodemus, Kansas? And just how did that town get its name? Click here for the oral story straight from the mule wagon…
Nicodemus Part 1: Into the Land of Smoking Holes
Dugout: aka “smoking hole”
(Kansas State Historical Society Photo)
“9 MONTHS OF SUMMER” the hand bills promised the freed slaves during the Reconstruction Period. All they had to do was travel west to stake their claim. When they showed up, they found smoking holes. Click here for the fascinating story of Nicodemus, Kansas….
Coyote Mummy Halloween
Serpent life at the bottom of the Lost Sea
Outside Phillipsburg, Kansas
This week, from the base of Lone Butte in Logan County, Kansas, I speak with DG Martin, host of “Who’s Talking”. The program airs Thursday, October 30 2008. Click here to go to the Appearances page where you’ll find air times….
If you missed the radio show, or live outside DG’s Chapel Hill, NC broadcast area, click here to get a podcast of the visit…
Mummy-eyed
South of Logan, Kansas
Boo! This Halloween, straight from the Lost Sea Expedition mule wagon, we’re bringing you a mummified creature, an abandoned school house, and a guy named Dave. Click here to listen to a spooky Great Plains mummy story….
DG Martin Interview
Did you miss DG Martin and I visiting on the bottom of the Lost Sea? Then download the podcast. Click on the link below to get to DG Martin’s podcasts. Then search “Harberts”.
Click here to get to DG’s podcasts.
Listen to Your Rattle Snake Dinner
Step 1: Uncoil snake
Hays, Kansas
Hungry? Then click here to listen to Marvin Pfannenstiel fry up a Kansas rattler…
Fossil Posts and Lawyers
Terry Gottschalk
Logan, Kansas
This week on RiverEarth.com, Kansas fence builder Terry Gottschalk explains two-wire Angus cattle, car crash lawyers and fossil-embedded fenceposts. Confused? Click here to listen why you should consider five-strand fence in this country….
Reptile Roadblocks
Skull of a 17-foot roadblock
Traveling across the Great Plains, various reptiles like snakes and tortoises have held up progress. But a 17-foot turtle….?
Other times, mule Polly and I linger by choice in communities that catch our fancy. To visit a few of the ones we’ve spoken in, click here to go to the Appearances page….
Tales from a Soddie
George McKillip: 92 years old
Sod house dweller
A house built from dirt? Click here to listen to George McKillip explain…
Grasshopper
Free Download: “Manifold Menus”, A Cookbook on How to Cook on a Locomotive Engine
The Iron Caterpillar
Outside Seneca, NE
Following the BNSF railroad through the Nebraska Sandhills, I wonder what life’s like aboard the rumbling iron caterpillar. Meet Gene Hansen, who’ll tell you what it tastes like…. Also, mule Polly and I are still in a signin’ and shippin’ mood.
Signing a copy of the “Too Proud” travel book atop the Harlan County Dam
South of Republican City, Nebraska