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Minick Named Kansas Finest
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Pictured left to right: Julie Roller - CVB Director; Cecilia Harris - Freelance Writer; Allison Blake - Abilene Area Chamber of Commerce Director; Elizabeth Weese - Community Foundation of Dickinson County Director; Joe Minick - award recipient; Mary Jane Oard - Abilene & Smoky Valley Railroad manager; Representative John Barker; April Barker; Deb Sanders - CVB Board Chair; and Steve Schwarting - Abilene & Smoky Valley Railroad President
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Joe Minick received one of four Kansas Finest awards during the 2018 Kansas Tourism Conference in Junction City for his work with the Abilene & Smoky Valley Railroad, Hoffman Grist Mill, Dickinson County Heritage Center, Steamboat Arabia and other projects.
The Kansas Finest award is given to an
individual who actively promotes Kansas through travel and tourism, not because it's their job, but for their great pride and love for our Sunflower State.
Look for a feature story about Joe and all of the Kansas Finest winners in the Winter Edition of KANSAS! Magazine.
Abilene's Terry Tietjens previously received the award for his work on the Seelye Mansion, Kirby House, Great Plains Theatre, Old Abilene Town and Sycamore Springs (Sabetha).
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Eisenhower Statue Unveiling
Thanks to the Abilene delegation for attending Monday's statue unveiling! See the new Eisenhower statue on the northwest lawn of the Kansas State Capitol.
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Fried Chicken Trail
Fried chicken? Yes, please!
9 Stops Everyone Must Make Along Kansas's Fried Chicken Trail
Do you ever get a hankering for the crispy, juicy creation that is fried chicken? We're back with a new and improved fried chicken trail that hits all the best places and a couple new restaurants on our radar. It's a fried chicken paradise out there, and we're hitting all of our favorites. Let's get crunching!
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7 Little Known Museums in Kansas Where Admission is Free
There are a lot of informational places around Kansas where you can truly learn about every era we've been through. Over the years, museums have popped up just about everywhere, each telling its own story about a person, place, or event. Luckily for us, this means that more information is accessible to us each year. Here are a few little-known museums around Kansas that have free admission for your convenience. It's a labor of love!
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Explore Brown Memorial Park
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Throwback Thursday
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The Salina Journal
April 3, 1960 |
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5 Star Reviews - Eisenhower Presidential Library & Museum
An excellent museum
The Eisenhower Presidential Library is located in his hometown and represents small town America. The museum covers Eisenhower's life including a large section on his military career. There are lots of things to see, including his boyhood home.
Barnycanbill
Melbourne, Australia
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"The proudest thing I can claim is that I am from Abilene."
Dwight D. Eisenhower
June 22, 1945
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Abilene & Smoky Valley Railroad
Diesel Locomotive pulled dinner trains - $45/person
Saturday, October 27
- Brookville Hotel - Fried Chicken
*Advance purchase required*
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Dickinson County Heritage Center
Tombstone Talks in Abilene
October 27, 2018
Join us for the 4th Annual Tombstone Talks at the Abilene Cemetery. Reenactors will present the life of the more colorful characters of Dickinson County from a first person narrative. Join our tour guides through a evening tour through the cemetery, stopping at the graves of those historical icons in Abilene's history.
Tickets are $5 for all ages, call the Heritage Center for more information at 785-263-2681.
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Eisenhower Presidential Library & Museum
The next Lunch & Learn program is Thursday, October 25 at noon in the Eisenhower Presidential Library Visitors Center Auditorium, 200 SE 4th, Abilene. Free and open to the public, a light lunch is provided on a first come, first serve basis courtesy of the Eisenhower Foundation.
Author Jim Sherow will discuss his newly released book The Chisholm Trail: Joseph McCoy's Great Gamble. Joseph McCoy bet his fortune on Abilene, Kansas, 150 years ago. Sherow's book follows McCoy's vi
sion and the effects the Chisholm Trail had on the multi million-dollar beef industry that remade the Great Plains, the American diet, and both the national and international beef trade.
The Chisholm Trail shows in vivid terms how a gamble made in the face of uncontrollable natural factors indelibly changed the environment, reshaped the Kansas prairie into the nation's stockyard, and transformed Plains Indian hunting grounds into the hub of a domestic farm culture.
Sherow is a history professor and one of three Kansas State University professors named 2018 University Distinguished Professors, a lifetime title that is the highest honor the university bestows on its faculty members. A fourth-generation Kansan, Sherow is a nationally and internationally recognized expert on Kansas, North American Indian and environmental history. He has authored six books. His 2014 book, Railroad Empire Across the Heartland was named a Kansas Notable Book and received the 2015 Midwestern History Association's Hamlin Garland Prize for the best book. He has taught Kansas history for 25 years and has educated a full generation of social studies teachers across the state.
Following the program, Sherow will be available to sign copies of The Chisholm Trail: Joseph McCoy's Great Gamble, available for purchase in the Presidential Gift Shop.
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Greyhound Hall of Fame Museum
Greyhound Hall of Fame Museum
Open daily 9:00 a.m. - 4:45 p.m.
Free admission
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Seelye Mansion
Abilene's Historic
Seelye Mansion
is a must-see! Furnished with items from the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair, remodeled by Frank Lloyd Wright and home to a wooden
bowling alley that's more than 100 years old, it's no "wonder" this beautiful mansion was named one of the 8 Wonders of Kansas - Architecture winners by the Kansas Sampler Foundation.
Tours Daily!
Monday-Saturday 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Sunday 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m
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Upcoming events
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Courtney Sue Irwin @ GPT - October 26
- Tombstone Talks @ Abilene's Cemetery - October 27
- Not Another Christmas Letter @ Great Plains Theatre - November 30-December 2, 4-9
- Night of Christmas Magic - December 1
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