June 9, 2011: We started with a detour to the actual Brookville to see the actual hotel site. The Abilene reconstruction (left) is pretty close to the original hotel; the Brookville "replacement" (right) is just weird:
We soon entered the Land of the Giants, electric wind turbines. Kansas takes its name from the Kansa, the "South Wind People" in a Sioux dialect.
The Lincoln County Courthouse:
David's boyhood home:
Goldenrod Elevator was built by David's grandfather (left); the Dansk Evangelische Kirche (1876-1878) in Denmark, Kansas. 
David spread his father's ashes in this wheat field:
The Kansas plains were once the bottom of a great ocean. The limestone deposit immediately below the surface contains the fossils of sea shells. The limestone was used not only for homes, churches and court houses, but for fence posts in a land where trees were scarce. Hence the name "post rock."
The road was flooded; the Indian is a folk art sculpture:
The Garden of Eden is not in Jackson County, Missouri, but in Lucas, Kansas:
Adam, Eve, the snake and the apple (left); the devil:
The Crucifixion of Labor:
Wilson dam and reservoir:
The suitcase grave in the Lincoln Cemetery; the monument to Bessie Stanley's "Success:"
A purple poppy mallow (right):
We took a detour to Rock City:
Back to Salina:
i see so much in the post stone, i love this
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