KANSAS!

As the lifestyle magazine of Kansas, each issue celebrates the best of our state. It’s people, places, and spaces. For over 75 years, we’ve shared the stories of the Sunflower State, told by Kansans. Featured topics include a dynamic line up of culture, food, travel, outdoors, history, personalities, and communities.

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The Great Plains Highway

A Lavender Spring • Kansas farmers help move a traditional fragrance into the kitchen

High Schools in the Heartland

Follow the Signs

Fishing across Kansas • State and federal programs open up fishing waters across the state

Bill Stephens • A conversation with KANSAS! photographers about their lives in photography

THE kansan

We Love Kansas

KANSAS DETAILS must see

Fort Larned • A new permanent exhibition highlights the role and the legacy of a military outpost on the Santa Fe Trail

A Different Oil Field • A small family farm creates artisanal sunflower oil in northwest Kansas

two hundred years of the SANTA FE TRAIL • A vital land trail receives recognition and a reappraisal of its role in American history and in shaping the future of Kansas

Trail Sparks

Honoring the Legacy

7 Santa Fe Trail Bicentennial Events • Kansas commemorates the bicentennial of the Santa Fe Trail with a series of public events. Here is our selection of some of the highlights coming up in our state; you can see a full listing of national events at santafetrail200.org or santafetrail.org and more local events at 2021santafetrailkansas.com. Please write or call ahead in advance to confirm dates and times before traveling.

AFTER ad astra • When the government pulled the plug on Ed Dwight Jr.’s chance to become the nation’s first Black astronaut, the talented Kansas native refocused his life into becoming a barbecue entrepreneur, a personal pilot and then one of the nation’s most sought-after sculptors

around AMERICA • An Overview of Ed Dwight’s Public Sculptures

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