Small Towns Big Kansas Full Movie.

[@Larry5601]

Enjoyed this film. I grew up in Kansas. We had Iuka as an address and I went to school in Byers, Kansas. The big town was Pratt, Kansas. It was a great childhood. Would not want to change any of it. My parents had a farm between Iuka and Byers.

[@KrissiCreates]

I love this video of my State ! Was raised on a ranch in Rooks County. Later moved to a small town outside of Topeka KS. Now in SE Kansas to be close to my son and his family after the death of my husband. Proud to be from Kansas and can recognize a few of these old towns. So many out there. Thank you for this video !! Edit : I'm so glad I'm not the only one that loves to see the Elevators. I spent much of my life riding in the big truck to take the wheat harvest to the Elevator in small town Zurich KS. Not much there now. Elevator still standing !

[@suttonmaple7444]

I lived in Russell Co. ( Waldo and Russell) for many years..so I know where Rooks Co. Is.

[@robertmartin5308]

Where people still talk to each other and be sincere, transplant and I absolutely love Kansas

[@Zword316]

For me, the best part about small town Kansans is the fact that everyone points and waves at each other when passing on the road.

[@davidprosser7278]

Cool, just like small town NZ in that respect.

[@Christine-fs4ug]

I live in small town Central Kansas. Thank you for this.

[@pacificblue3955]

One of the most beautiful girls I have ever known was from Kansas. She was my first love. Wherever you are today L thank you for the memories.

[@buzzcrushtrendkill]

Fascinating video. Thanks for sharing. I would love to know where theses towns are you visit. Like, adding a shot of a map or something to give reference to where a town is in the state.

[@gregwood4]

Enjoyed the tour so much, Just went thru Minneapolis, where I did Downtown Revitalization in 1994, nothing much left of what I did, but the sign I did on the Delphos Museum is still there. While putting it up a mama cat put a kitten in my truck, which I kept and had for 15 years, Thanks!

[@1Amberskye15]

Really enjoyed this video and your commentary, thanks!

[@AJ67901]

I grew up in Kansas and lived there for 50 years but I've never heard of many of these places!

[@leebarnhart831]

Back in the Eighties I had a job which required me to travel most of North America and no matter where I traveled to that Kansas City runway always looked good to me upon my return. Some folks call Kansas “a fly over area” and I say just keep flying, we don’t want or need you in our great state.

[@blackberrylady9265]

I loves small town living.....grewup in a very small town in Mississippi....But lives in junction City Kansas and love it....no gangs, no stuck in traffic, no drive by shooting, very quiet laid back town....if u likes the drama, The Action from fast living, hooping hollering, shooting outs...if u likes this then don't move here....I love it, retired and quiet. 👌🏾👌🏾👌🏾💯💯💯

[@lilithbrantley4930]

Blackberry Lady, I'm originally from Georgia myself. The military brought us here back in 2010. We left for 3 years for another duty station. We came back here to Wakefield, KS to our house to retire. This city is pretty small at maybe 900. No stop light! The area attracts people because of Milford Lake and the hiking trails. We have a couple of churches, mom and pop restaurants, antique shop, gas station, bank and Post office. We gained a Dollar General about 8 years ago ☺️ We also have a K-12 school and a tiny public library. In the summer the camp ground fills up through Nov at time's! This area is absolutely beautiful! Rolling Hills and open plains. I don't have a desire to ever leave this great State! My neighbors across the street are from Mississippi 😉

[@blackberrylady9265]

@Lilith Brantley I know exactly, been to Wakefield. Beautiful peaceful town..U look out around there and the fields just seems so peaceful and calming...i use to travel thru to Miltonvale.....So glad ur home to stay....Loves Kansas..💯💯👈🏾👈🏾👈🏾

[@rickbrainard3447]

Thank you for taking us on a tour of the small towns that we have in our state.

[@goodfriend6428]

A walk back in time. Interesting, historical. Thank you for your work.

[@goodgrandma2758]

Lucas Ks. Is an anomaly north of Wilson Lake about 6 miles. There is a house called The Garden of Eden. Really nice people.

[@KrissiCreates]

Yes !! Been there so many times growing up !!

[@Zword316]

Thanks this is great! I love my home state.

[@flamem9260]

Thank you for taking us on your tour through Kansas. I myself live in Kansas (Southeast) Kansas. We have such a beautiful state. And I love learning about all the history of our little towns. I would love to see a video like this of Southeast Kansas. We have several little towns around here. There's Toronto, Coyville, Fall River, New Albany, Buffalo, Benedict, Altoona, Buxton, and LaFountain to name a few. Those are the smaller towns anyway.

[@beckyzeller8068]

Check out Lord Spoda he just did SE KS😊

[@willhorting5317]

My uncle used to work at the Culver grain elevator, back in the late '70s and early '80s.

[@jz.7650]

I'm loving this, I actually went to school in Talmage!

[@SUZIQJO]

Thanks for the video. It was great to see some of the towns, where I lived growing up in Kansas.

[@goodgrandma2758]

Wilson Ks is where my relatives also lived. Ellsworth is where many Volga Germans settled. It’s the Czech. Capital of the US.

[@willhorting5317]

Glendale....I could be remembering incorrectly... But I seem to recall my grandparents telling me that the old red brick building had been the post office. And that the building that once sat on that foundation you showed (just before the red brick building), that had the double stairs...had been a general store. Hard for me to remember these things correctly, because those two locations looked about the same as today. But mostly hard to remember, because when the grandparents told me that, it nearly 50 years ago.😂 And yes, I can recall, in the early 1980s, there was someone living in the old school building. In fact, the person/people were friends of an acquaintance that I used to have. And I actually spent an evening in that building, drinking and playing poker with several people.

[@ScottReedKC]

Beautiful job. Thanks for the film.

[@hannahwebb4846]

Try Angola, KS. Last time I was there to visit a Medicaid waiver client, the town only had eight residents.

[@spyrogirlkim]

You should do more of these. Geneseo,Bushton Fredick are some towns that are all small that use to be way bigger but no longer are.

[@bglaw842]

I'm kind of bias to my area but Elk Falls and Sedan Kansas both have interesting facts about them. Elk Falls holds the "Outhouse Festival" every year and Sedan Kansas is known for their "Yellow Brick Road" (

[@keithlesslie6469]

I love Sedan my Grandfather was the Mayor for many years (Earnest Meadows) and my uncle Charlie Meadows owned the hardware store .My mother Cary Lesslie was from there .I have a lot of great memories from Sedan.

[@janetduncan87]

My late ex was a salesman who traveled to these small towns. I remember the names of them. He always had to stay in a motel in the closest town which had one, then he would head out for the day and follow leads to the homes of ppl and sell them home improvements.

[@willhorting5317]

@ 57:17 Tescott!! My hometown!! My father's family was from there. My late mother worked for the Bank of Tescott...rising to a vice president position... for 45 years!! I attended 1st through 12th grades, and graduated from the Tescott school, in 1983. In the 1950s-60s, both my grandfather and my dad ran milk routes for the Tescott Cheese Factory. It was on one of those milk routes, that my dad met my mom!! And...my dad's parents owned and operated a gas station and mechanic shop, set at the very northeast corner of Tescott (corner of Kansas Street and K18 Highway) from the 1950s through the early 1970s!! Unfortunately my grandparent's place; my grandparents; and my mom, are all gone from this world.😢😢😢

[@jeffreydancinger2875]

I think Minneapolis has those Mushroom looking rocks as an attraction and they have a small Airport South of Town as well.

[@willhorting5317]

The rocks that you referenced, is called "Rock City", and is on the national list of historical places. Rock City sits about 4-5 miles south of Minneapolis. The little airport has never been used in any "passenger" sort of usage. It's always been owned/operated by a crop dusting company.

[@michaelohair3715]

My mother's father lived in Salina and a maternal uncle, Paul Sullivan,--with his family--farmed 20 acres of 14,000 that were in the Sullivan heritage but said to be in the legal clutches of Paul's crazy sister and her lawyers, a sister who lived in the town, in a dark room , behind closed curtains.. Many summers , back in the forties and fifties, I spent on Paul Sullvan's farm, living in his run down two story house, trying to ride an Indian Pony or a tired old "Snip." In nights of the tornado season my cousins and I would stare out an attic window at the rows of funnels, illuminated by lightning, dipping down along the horizon. Paul had a large pigsty, one small silo with moldy sileage inside, a chicken coup, a barn with hayloft, and a garage that functioned as a shop for his car or truck that always needed work. The living room of the house, rarely used, with moldy furniture, stacked with Monkey Ward catalogues and Readers' Digests, looked out of large bay windows with dusty curtains, through a large covered portch, and out to rows of small, neglected fruit trees, near which, in varying stages of decay and rust, were assorted farm implements overgrown with dry grass. One went into the house at a kitchen door. My aunt Helen was alwars at an ironing board or changing diapers. Just off the kitchen was a rickety stairway down to the basement, and at the bottom of the stairs was a cream separator that I can still smell now, at 83. I can also hear the clank of the windmill that was close to the sidewalk to the kitchen door. This farm can be seen in satelite photos. Everything is there and positioned exactly as I remembered it. The drive to the farm off the highway that passsed by the old church and town was long and pefectly straight before finally making a left turn to the house. To the right paralleling the road as one drove from the highway was a low, scraggly shelter belt where I shot with my bb gun a Meadowlark, the State Bird. I felt so bad at what I had done that I tossed the gun and never, ever shot again any non human animal. In rains, the road was deep mud, and Paul was always getting stuck. In fact, Paul struggled, the farm deteriorating each year until my aunt divorced him and they all went to California, so I was astonished to discover on the internet that all the buildings are still there, just as they were (or perhaps repaired). On the right of the highway back to town was the old white church that I recall, the original United Breathren church and, I think, the only church in town. Opposite the grain eleavators at the other end of town was a general store with a borardwalk. The train tracks, which might have been the same ones that passed near the Sullivan acrage, went on to Salina and points west, as far as Morland and beyond. My mother's dad was for fifty years a mail clerk on that line, every eight days back in Salina. I drove a tractor for Paul, but otherwise I was bored to desperation and would wander many miles over ploughed ground, just dreaming. some Boy's Life fantasy. It was empty land, but it gave vast scope to childhood imagination. After a lifetime of world wandering I still can't get the plains of Kansas out of my head.

[@bobmckinsey6169]

You should give editing classes, this was done very well. I just do my videos in real time, sometimes there's dead air because it's just a Corn field for 20 miles.

[@tubadaddy76]

Great film !!!

[@haydendvorak9481]

Interesting video… since you were at Delphos go a little further north to Aurora and Jamestown

[@kimplumer2122]

Lived in Kansas all my life. Good video, very informative.

[@willhorting5317]

@ 11:30 mark Yes, that brick building is the old gymnasium of the old Culver school. The school closed in the early 1970s. I attended Kindergarten at the Culver school.😎

[@summerz8867]

Great video.💞💫😽

[@willhorting5317]

@ 47:40 mark Bennington...My mother's family was from Bennington.😎 I spent many a Summer day there, in the 1970s.

[@hannahwebb4846]

Just to let people know just how big Kansas is, I live in Girard, KS which is in the SE corner of Kansas. It is a longer trip from Girard, KS to Garden City, Kansas than from Girard, KS to Des Moines, Iowa.

[@cd4945]

I love your video please show videos of Helena Arkansas before and after then and now God bless

[@thainekarnes8104]

My old friend Joe showed me the deed to his land 1 day. Union Pacific RR to his family. Owned it ever since.

[@proudtobeachristian286]

Does anyone need prayers? God loves you, God bless you!

[@countrycitymedia]

We can always use some prayer! Our little dog is not doing well. Please pray for a quick recovery. I could use some improvements in my health we well. 😁

[@rebeccagrimm668]

Me please

[@susanroutt6690]

Thank you my sister in Christ.

[@Oct131917]

Greetings from a Kansan stuck in Northern Maine for the past 25 years, married a Manie-ac

[@goodgrandma2758]

Trail City is on highway 50/ SantazFe trail. It’s gone, but you can see where the roundhouse rails are just underground.

[@janakroenke7359]

My family were Mennonites who settled in Harvey and Marion Counties. In 1886. They made their home in Goesse, Hillsboro and Walton and Newton. Bringing with them Turkey Red Wheat from Russia. I am saddened that you didn't mention these fine people.

[@KrissiCreates]

My Grandparents were German and lived in Hillsboro. Spent a lot of time in that area. Planning a trip with my son to visit my Grandparents graves and see how much it has changed since my last visit. My Grandma's neighbor was Swedish. It was so fun growing up with their interactions.

[@goodgrandma2758]

Garden City Ks the oasis near the Arkansas River on the Santa Fe Trail.

[@bernitacenteno1326]

Kansas is the bread basket of the United States of 🇺🇸 America, meaning that's where the USs wheat comes from. Many years ago some people complained because so many tons of wheat was sent to Russia. It didn't seem to hurt us, but I don't know. That was in the 1950s or 1960s I think ? I remember hearing about that then.

[@jacobgrubb3787]

I wanna see more of kansas

[@ellen6725]

I haven’t heard of some of these places either.

[@fredhess9908]

Can you do one one south east kansas please

[@ConsolidatedPBY]

Check out channel JCCCvideo, "Exploring Southeast Kansas." It's very interesting video exploring the mining history of the area.

[@KrissiCreates]

Yes !!!

[@sjackson1739]

I am from the Flint Hills NE - Manhattan. I miss Kansas..

[@Comeoffitman]

Mark grew up in Latchshaw and was the league’s champion in two sports. His brother Ernie was able to eventually be voted and president of his school. Big sister Gwen set county records in chip throwing. Ma had six kids.

[@bernitacenteno1326]

This city is called Verdi. It is a different word then verde, the Spanish word for green, but I wonder is it ? Verdi is very green with a lot of trees this commentator said.

[@jamesorth6460]

Kansas is my home state, there was a joke if you blink while driving through Kansas you might miss a small Kansan town

[@modeljetjuggernaut4864]

Wonderful documentary. Im not from Kansas but I lived here most my life.. 😅

[@KS5040]

Kansas is a good place to be from, left in 2008 and live in a far better area of the country now fortunately.

[@nataliecollins9048]

How about doing a video on Edwards county? My mom lived in Kansas until 12 years old. She lived in Belpry

[@j.r.gladman3723]

I use to live there..

[@kevinmoore.7426]

How deep are the wells there ?

[@janettediaz7578]

Make a video of Lucas Kansas💚

[@LearnwithJanice]

Hello from Kansas 🇺🇲

[@goodgrandma2758]

Coolidge Ks,. Has a barely used Rick school that was k-12. It’s been a place for dances for people from Syracuse Kansas.

[@gavinmassell1264]

my dad used to own the culver kansas store

[@goodgrandma2758]

The churches near Leibenthal were built by the elders from the Volga Germans. It’s the first thing the Germans built. They basically came to escape Hitlers coming.

[@barbarabee3834]

I'm from Michigan, but my Peavy family ancestors moved from Kansas to Michigan by wagon.

[@kimplumer2122]

Victoria, KS has the beautiful Cathedral of the Plains.

[@michaelohair3715]

addendum re the Sullivan farm. The town was Niles, as I should have mentioned at the start of the comment.

[@larrycoburn8787]

Columbus and Crestline ks. Are small little towns.

[@goodgrandma2758]

Love this

[@skippyhippy858]

Great video

[@goodgrandma2758]

Like Coolidge Kansas. My dads from there. My mom is from HollyCo. Cool

[@davidprosser7278]

It doesn't look too unlike its NZ equivalent. Drier though. Canterbury has undergone a dairy boom since the 1990s. Lots of irrigation.

[@goodgrandma2758]

My family homesteader north of HollyCo. 13 miles

[@NovemberRain-1975]

I live in southeast Kansas

[@KrissiCreates]

Me too !!

[@NovemberRain-1975]

@@KrissiCreates Pittsburg for me

[@KrissiCreates]

@@NovemberRain-1975 Chanute here ! Pitts where my son graduated from. Been there lots of times !!

[@geologyjohn1]

My family (Halliday) moved to Pittsburg in 1882. The “Brandenburg” branch in 1913. I love the place.

[@pitlollygrower6791]

There's a payphone in Shawnee Kansas. Lol.

[@karenv5103]

Nice movie

[@wilburtubbs3425]

I went to grade school in ruleton and then we moved to Pratt Kansas

[@wichita603]

My family comes from Beverly kansas been there many times . all the Mortons came from there.

[@jmurry6695]

Well done 👍

[@LynnWomack-kh7wu]

Do the thing on Sylvia KS the team that beat them was Haven

[@PANZERBREAD]

Were is Ada KS

[@callmewheels4806]

I like the content but looking out the side window is hard to watch. We are acclimated to seeing where we are going (out the front window) otherwise you lose perspective on size and depth. An analog is you wouldn’t walk down the sidewalk looking left. Face fwd and if something interesting appears, train your eyes then.

[@susanroutt6690]

Trying to find my great -grandparents. They lived in a sod house in Coyville. I think they made a fortune from the Wilson County oil strike at Neodosha. James Edward Jones. Minnie Walker Jones. And the notorious J.Edward Jones. Called the “Louisiana Oilman Jones”. He had an office on Park Avenue in NYC. His stock fraud led to the creation of the Securities and Exchange Commission.

[@vanpearsall]

A commercial in the first minute I don’t think so 🙈

[@bernitacenteno1326]

Verde is the Spanish word for green.

[@tinklvsme]

We could all be speaking French, interesting. I don’t think kids are taught that in school. We’re would the country come up with millions?? 😇🤔 2-20-21 I wish you made more videos, I really enjoyed this video. 😊🌴🌳

[@jmurry6695]

Please make more videos of mire small KS towns, and always include the cemeteries please

[@Lawiah0]

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[@michaelhannan8075]

I live 12 miles from there

[@thainekarnes8104]

Walmart killed them

[@leebarnhart831]

I live in Lyndon, Ks., 30 miles south of Topeka. A small town of about 1100 people. I’m 67 years old and have lived here most of my life and the population has remained pretty much the same. I remember as a kid we had three grocery stores, two hardware stores plus a lumber store, a candy store, bowling ally, a broom factory, two clothing stores, a movie theater, and two farm implement businesses. Now we do’t even have a grocery store. Now I have to drive 15 miles for a loaf of bread! The economy was so different back then. Those were truly “The Good Oid Days”.

[@jeffjones4729]

Johnson Rag

[@highplainsdrifter2481]

I'm a transplant to Kansas, 15 yrs ago, consider myself a Kansan now, came from upper midwest rust belt....

[@KS5040]

Kansas is a far worse place to live than the Upper Midwest. I should know as I've lived in both areas.

[@ellen6725]

I’m sorry you could turn that noise off in the background.

[@thainekarnes8104]

The old saying In Kansas we trusted, in Kansas we went busted.

[@lavern007]

Grenola kansas, population 120

[@willhorting5317]

My ex-wife is from Minneapolis.

[@deadbeat-vc9kg]

Lived in Kansas most of my life. These are not good people. If you're not from here, don't come here. You will regret every second.

[@sjackson1739]

Which areas are to be avoided? 😅

[@deadbeat-vc9kg]

@@sjackson1739 All of them. Sorry if I wasn't clear. Especially avoid Topeka. That's where I live now. They closed 2 mental hospitals here in the late 1990's at the same time and released all those nut jobs into the public. It's never been the same since. Our governor is trash. The legal systems here are corrupt and outdated, the county does stupid things like not fix the streets, but then plant flowers by the broken road and buy a failing hotel when it can't be afforded. Meth has exploded in many cities too. This is definitely not the land of OZ.

[@goodgrandma2758]

So much corporate farming has pushed out the family farms. That’s why everyone had to move to the jobs.

[@willhorting5317]

Not sure what part of Kansas you are from. But in the geographical area in this video, there is practically no corporate farming, to this day. And as a man who was raised in this very area, on a farm, I hope the area never gets overtaken by corporate farming. These towns haven't "died" due to corporate farming. They died because too many of the children of the local farmers, left for bigger places and a better income. I went to school in Tescott, in the '70s and very early '80s. To use my class as the example of what I said above..... There were 23 students in my graduating class. And that included kids bussed into the Tescott School, from Culver, Beverly and Glendale. Of those 23 students, only 5 or 6 of them remain in the Tescott/Culver area. And only 1 has remained in farming. Including myself, only 8 to 10 even remain within 35 miles of Tescott or Culver. I have spent the past nearly 40 years living about 30-35 miles from Tescott, in Salina. It takes much more than farming (in the past 75 years), to keep these small towns alive and vibrant. It takes businesses... and townspeople willing to do business with them. The dead towns in this video, were dead or dying, long before anyone even knew what "corporate farming" was. In my lifetime (nearly 60 years), the largest number of businesses that have been in Tescott, was 25 businesses. Currently in Tescott, there are 5. A century ago, there were (according to my late grandparents), there were around 35 businesses...which included 2 hotels, and 2 automotive dealerships. My point is... You can't just unilaterally blame the decline of the small town, on "corporate farming".

[@lavern007]

I'm just starting the video but don't the original inhabitants need a greater mention? Yes, I am talking about Indians, native Americans, or indigenous people.

[@wiltfarms65]

Plevna

[@jaycechenault3940]

Dude take the cpap machine off before you narrate next time

[@susanbrown2085]

Kill that stupid background music.

[@mikeabner0511]

It's way to windy in the plains for me. I traveled through Kansas on many occasions headed to Denver and it was windy every time I drove across Kansas

[@kristienixon2275]

G9 t9 gàlena. Kansas. Small