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Hicks named top celebrity showman at 2024 Barton County Fair
Pork Chop, Snoop Hogg, and Alexander Ham-ilton. Those were just a few of the pig names for Sunday's Celebrity Showmanship near the conclusion of the 2024 Barton County Fair. Sunflower Diversified's Angie Hicks won the contest despite having no direct experience showing livestock. "I've never shown, but I watched my...
Opulence, Kansas is More Than a Youth Novel
Hello, High Plains Radio Readers! My name is Julie Stielstra, and I now (finally!) live in Ellinwood, Kansas. I’m a librarian, a reader, and also the author of the novel Opulence, Kansas. You could call it a youth novel, or a young adult novel, because the main character – the daughter of a high-flying Chicago financier – is a teenager. It’s a coming-of-age story, a fish-out-of-water tale, a small-town family saga: the story of one summer spent on the hot golden Kansas prairie.
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