Thank you!
Thank you to the following businesses, individuals and organizations for their generous donations to help with the purchase of new American flags. The flags are placed on poles from I-70 along Buckeye to the south city limits and from Buckeye west on Third Street.
The flags are flown from the Eisenhower Marathon weekend through Veterans Day.
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Good News
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hings we love about Abilene: big hearts and helping hands. Abilene area farmer, Randall Bathurst, is going to Ashland, Kansas to help the farmers who lost grassland, fences, cattle, horses, homes, farms, etc. in during the recent fires. He plans to help rebuild fences over the next 3-4 days. Please say a prayer for him and others who are helping in this effort.
Magazine finalists: 2 local restaurants among 53 competing
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here to learn more!
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The Best Restaurants on Interstate 70
The great American road trip couldn't be complete without a great food experience. Interstate 70 crosses through several states-stretching from Utah to Maryland-and exposes hungry travelers to locally-owned restaurants. Whether you're on spring break vacation or just looking for a new place to eat in your state, these Interstate 70 eateries are worth the stop.
Click here to find out which Abilene business made the list. The answer may surprise you!
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Rivendell Books named on of "The 10 Best Bookstores in Kansas"
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here to read the story!
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Check out #13 on this
list of the 15 Best Historical Sites in Kansas!
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From the KARVC - Kansas Association of RV Parks & Campgrounds, Inc.:
Topeka, Dodge City, Marysville & Abilene were well represented at the RV shows in Colorado Springs & Denver. Your supply of bags made it possible for us to bundle many Kansas travel pieces for distribution: the visitors guide, state maps, Kansas RV & Camping Guide, and more.
With 10 minutes to spare at the end of the last show, we had only four bags left and no literature to put into them! That was cutting it close!
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Throwback Thursday
Abilene, other towns to mark trail's anniversary
The Salina Journal
March 3, 1997
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Eisenhower Marathon - April 8, 2017
Runners, we need your help in sharing information about our Eisenhower Marathon event April 8, 2017!
Our marathon race entries are above normal...HOORAY! However, our half marathon entries are lower than normal. It is a little hard to tell about the 5K/10K races as they so often have runners registering in large numbers at the last minute.
I'm hoping you will share a reminder that this is a charity event for Dickinson County. We hope to distribute the financial gains among 16 nonprofits which are busy all year helping folks in our county. Kids in Crisis, for example, served 1,953 cases for children last year, currently helping with a $10,000 need for the sweetest of 13-year-olds who is one of 2 known anywhere to have her particular disease! She needs our help most sincerely as do many other children in our county!
If some remark that our prices are a little higher than other places, remind them we are helping children face better lives with their race registration, ask them to look at what that other race will charge them on race day, prices for Eisenhower races will remain the same as they are today!
Where else can runners shake hands with the granddaughter of the best president ever, IKE! Granddaughter Mary Jean Eisenhower, will present winners medals (both overall and age groups) in all 4 races!
Where else can they listen to one of the most outstanding woman's runners in Kansas, Jaclyn Long, who will be speaking at our Friday pasta dinner?
Where else can they set their PR as quickly as they do at the Eisenhower, with volunteers screaming for them in encouragement?
Please help us in spreading the word to your non-registered friends that they will have a wonderful experience in Abilene, Kansas, and share, share, share this post.
Many thanks!!!
June DeWeese, event coordinator
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Reitz & Rust Vintage Market - April 22
2017 vendors include:
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Abilene & Smoky Valley Railroad
The Abilene & Smoky Valley Railroad now offers trolley tours of Abilene. Call (785) 263-1077 to schedule.
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Dickinson County Heritage Center
Check out this incredible photo by Alan Smith of the Dickinson County Heritage Center's horse-drawn wooden hearse!
"Like" the Dickinson County Heritage Center on Facebook to learn more!
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Eisenhower Park
Has spring fever got you itching to
get out and plant, or at least plan your garden? Plan now to attend the new : Garden Talks with Joy, on Wednesday, April 5 from 6:00 - 8:00 pm at the Community Center.
Learn tips to help you succeed with your flower garden. Take the guesswork out of what to plant, where to plant, and how to keep it blooming all season. I will have a slideshow of plants in the Rose Garden and give information on how to grow them.
There will be information hand outs and a question and answer time.
Registration is $15.00, plan now to attend.
Call 785-263-7266 for reservations, deadline is March 31.
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Ike and McCarthy Brown Bag Lunch
Brown bag lunch book talk with author David Nichols looks at Ike and McCarthy.
Ike and McCarthy will be the topic of a brown bag talk at the Eisenhower Presidential Library on March 28 at noon in the Visitors Center Auditorium. The free program is open to the public and includes a light lunch.
David A. Nichols, a leading expert on the Eisenhower presidency, will discuss his newly released book, Ike and McCarthy. Nichols holds a PhD in history from the College of William and Mary. A former professor and academic dean at
Southwestern College, he is the author of A Matter of Justice: Eisenhower and the Beginning of the Civil Rights Revolution, Eisenhower 1956: The President's Year of Crisis, and other books. He lives in Winfield, Kansas.
Nichols will also speak at Kansas Wesleyan University (KWU) in Salina on March 28 at 7 p.m. The KWU program will be held in the Fitzpatrick Auditorium in the Hall of Fine Arts.
The book can be purchased at both events and Nichols will be available to sign copies following each program.
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Chisholm Trail Author Symposium and Exhibit Opening
Spend the day immersed in Chisholm Trail history at the Eisenhower Presidential Library. An author symposium begins at high noon on Saturday, April 1 in the Library building auditorium. The symposium concludes with the opening of the Chisholm Trail and the Cowtown that Raised a President exhibit opening.
A number of well-known authors and Chisholm Trail historians were selected to kick off the series of Chisholm Trail events set for this year marking the 150th anniversary. The event is held in partnership with the Dickinson County Heritage Center & Trails, Rails & Tales: Spirit of the Chisholm Trail.
SCHEDULE:
12 p.m. - Margaret & Gary Kraisinger:
The Cattle Trails Before the Chisholm Trail
Award-winning authors, Gary & Margaret, have published three books and various articles on Texas cattle trails. The couple researches, lectures, and writes about the Texas cattle trail industry that lasted only about 50 years from 1846 to 1897. They have mapped all four south to north cattle trail systems. Their latest book addresses the Chisholm Trail.
1 p.m. - Roy Bird:
Ike and the Chisholm Trail
Bird has been writing books for more than three decades focusing on the Civil War, the American West, and his beloved native Kansas.
2 p.m. - Rod Beemer:
Mother Nature's Impact on the Trail
Beemer is a writer, researcher, and speaker who has authored and co-authored 12 nonfiction books, an e-book novel, numerous magazine and newspaper articles. Originally from Minneapolis, Kansas, Beemer has conducted an extensive amount of research in the field of Mother Nature's impact on the pioneers of the 19th Century.
3 p.m. - Jim Hoy:
Outlaws and Legends of the Trail
An English professor and Director of the Center for Great Plains Studies at Emporia University, Hoy has lived the majority of his life in the Flint Hills. His published works and interests focus on Western American literature and Great Plains folklore.
4 p.m. - James Sherow:
The Markets of the Chisholm Trail
Sherow is a history professor at Kansas State University and author of several books, chapters, and articles. His research and teaching interests are Kansas history, North American Indian history, and the history of the American West.
5 p.m. - Reception with light refreshments and unveiling of the new temporary exhibit "
Chisholm Trail and the Cowtown that Raised a President." The exhibit will be on display through May 2018.
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"NOT The Last Butterfly" Film Screen & The Butterfly Project Program
April 2, 2017
4:00 pm
Visitors Center Auditorium
Documentary film about The Butterfly Project -- one painted butterfly for every child lost in the Holocaust -- with Cheryl Rattner Price. After the screening, visitors will be invited to paint their own butterfly to add to the 150,000 already created through the Butterfly Project. In the concentration camp of Terezin, one Jewish artist, Friedl Dicker-Brandeis, secretly taught more than 600 children to draw, paint and sew. After the war, two of Friedl's suitcases were found containing over 4,000 pieces of art, which inspired the Butterfly Project, whose mission is to paint and display 1.5 million ceramic butterflies to honor and remember each child killed in the Holocaust. Both a moving account of survival and a lesson in the healing power of art, this film offers young and old alike a new way to find hope in one of history's
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Great Plains Theatre
Upcoming Events:
Cinema:
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Need a break from traveling? Stop by the Greyhound Hall of Fame to hang with the Greyhounds!
Open daily from 9:00-4:45
Free admission
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Jeffcoat Photography Studio
The camera of the week is the Eastman Koda
k, No. 1 Panoram Kodak Camera. It was
manufactured by Eastman Kodak Company of Rochester, New York USA, takes panoramic views covering a 112 degree angle on size 105 roll film. The No. 1 Panoram Kodak was introduced in 1900 and discontinued in 1926. The camera body is made entirely of wood, with a leather covering.
Events in Abilene during the life of this camera, according to notes by Bill Jeffcoat, are as follows:
- In 1909, the Fire Department was organized: Chief, H.A. Lott, Firemen, Lease Duckwall, C. Polley, Harold Eicholtz, got $2 per fire.
- In 1910, 40 Abilene High school students skipped school because of Washington's Birthday. All received a failing grade in tests given.
- On March 23, 1910, a large prairie fire near Red Bud ranch burned 12 square miles. Nine farmers were burned out and 20 miles of fence was gone.
- On October 25, 1910, there was a big fire on the south side of 3rd between Cedar and Mulberry. There was a $14,000 loss that included Pendergrasts auto garage, Pleiser Piano, Reese and Smith tin shop, and Abilene Mercantile warehouse.
- In 1911, there was a $25 fine for using a tree to hitch a horse to, anywhere in the city.
- On Nov 24, 1914 the Post Office officially opened.
- On October 10, 1918, all public gatherings and schools were closed due to a flu epidemic.
- In 1920, there were severe dust storms in Abilene.
Hours of Operation:
Thursday 9:30 am - 5:30 pm
Friday and Saturday 8:30 am - 4:30 pm
or call for appointment
Admission is free
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