Central Kansas Library System

"In January of 2014 folks in Southwest and South Central Kansas were asked to share their memories of the "good old days." They were invited to write letters describing interesting, humorous, unusual, exciting (and even romantic) "happenings" from the past. Many of them were born prior to 1940 and the majority grew up right here in Southwest and South Central Kansas. They were not selected from any particular group or social class, nor were they expected...

"From the 2015 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Svetlana Alexievich, comes the first English translation of her latest work, an oral history of the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the emergence of a new Russia. Bringing together dozens of voices in her distinctive documentary style, Secondhand Time is a monument to the collapse of the USSR, charting the decline of Soviet culture and speculating on what will rise from the ashes of communism....

Outside the Hoisington, Kansas, city limits, South Hoisington (South Homestead Township) has been home to primarily African Americans and Hispanics during the 20th century. This work examines the people and institutions that shaped the South Hoisington community, blending historical research with first-person accounts that allow former residents to tell their own stories of the former community's people, business establishments, controversies, and...