Believe it or not, one of the staples of our everyday lives was invented and first sold right here in our area. Sliced bread was first made and sold in Chillicothe, Missouri in 1928 by a struggling bakery, known as the Chillicothe Baking Company, which was owned by Frank Bench. Bench began selling the innovative […]
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I was traveling this month and came across a Kansas site that I thought would be interesting to share in this month’s post. On our way to Colorado, we decided to stop by Monument Rocks. Monument rocks is an odd rock formation that is out in the western Kansas and just seems to pop up
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This month has been a busy one with the release of my new book, The Kingdom of Amarugia, (now available for pre-order at www.jonathanjonesauthor.com) Instead of a regular post, I’m going to do a movie review. Over the fourth of July weekend, I went to see Kevin Costner’s Horizon, An American Epic. It was awesome.
This month’s post is going to take us a little further afield to the location of the Siege of Vicksburg. Jill and I took a trip last month to Vicksburg, Mississippi, to see the location of one of the most important events in the war. For us this was just a long weekend. We stopped
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This month’s post is a little different than my normal history stuff. That said, there is a history component to the Martin and Osa Johnson Safari Museum in Chanute, KS, which my daughter Lexi and I visited in March. The website, www.safarimuseum.com tells you that the museum is ranked as the #1 museum in Kansas
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Council Grove, KS: Kanza (Kaw) Indians, Sante Fe Trail, Oldest Restaurant in Kansas This month’s post takes us to Council Grove, Kansas. Council Grove is a rare city in KS in that there are multiple historic sites to be seen in this small town, population 2,111. For someone interested in history, this is great little town
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This month’s post was originally published in the Johnson County Gazette in October of 2021. This month’s article is a bit of a departure from the Johnson County history that this column usually covers. I felt that this topic was so interesting that I had to cover it in this month’s column. The title of
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I wanted to post an update to let everyone know how the Amarugia book was coming and what I have been working on. Over the holidays I had several days off and made a great deal of progress on the book. I feel like I have gathered and deciphered most of the material gathered from
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During the Bleeding Kansas era and continuing until the end of the Civil War, James Henry Lane was both a Kansas hero and the most hated man in Missouri. Lane came to Kansas shortly after the territory was opened by the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1954. Settling in the abolitionist town of Lawrence, Lane soon
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This month’s post is going to be a review of the movie “Killers of the Flower Moon”. The movie, which is currently in theaters, is directed by Martin Scorsese and stars several A-list actors including Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert DeNiro. The movie is based on a true story and a book of the same title,
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