On the road again: the 2016 Kansas White Way car run, Atchison to Frankfort
May 30, 2016
Tag: White Way Car Run
Inspired by car run, KC artist sets out to paint every town along the Kansas White Way
September 5, 2014
On a cloudy, humid August afternoon where uncertain skies threatened either sun or storm, David Douglas DeArmond turned off Highway 9 and drove north toward Greenleaf. His maroon Honda CRV slowed at the city limits and thereafter crawled along at a snail’s pace with his head swiveling left and right as if detached … More Inspired by car run, KC artist sets out to paint every town along the Kansas White Way
At the end of the road
May 29, 2014
Afterwards, when downtown Frankfort began to thin out and the crush of vehicles both old and new began their long journeys back to their various starting points along Highway 9, KTWU Sunflower Journeys producer Bill Shaffer turned his video camera on me and asked when we were going to do another car run. … More At the end of the road
The Kansas White Way Car Run celebrates 100 years of road history
May 16, 2014
The last shall be the first, and the first last. The phrase kept running through my head as the car run unspooled from its lineup in front of the majestic Brown Grand Theater in downtown Concordia to make its way into the rising sun, the morning cool and clear and virtually windless, … More The Kansas White Way Car Run celebrates 100 years of road history
Rust bonanza on Rust Road
January 30, 2014
According to a 1917 plat map of Shirley Township, Cloud County, the Kansas White Way followed its current route eastward from Concordia to cross the Republican River at Clyde with only one minor exception, a little dogleg north at the unincorporated town of Rice. Nothing on the map indicated a town there at … More Rust bonanza on Rust Road
Windmill on right
November 14, 2013
105.5 (leaving Blue Rapids): Turn right (west), water tower on left. 105.8: Cross railroad tracks; turn left and then right two blocks; turn west windmill on right. – Official Log of the Kansas White Way If you want to get a feel for what early travelers faced on Kansas roads, one … More Windmill on right
Old road, new road
March 30, 2012
We were a few miles east of the small town of Goff when I realized I’d missed my turn. Or, to put it another way, I’d missed what I thought was my turn. The road in question, something Google maps had assured me was the fastest, most direct line … More Old road, new road
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