July 10, 2011: There was a time that Kansas was too far north for magnolias, Southern or sweetbay. But with the climate change of global warming, this magnolia was doing just fine in Salina, Kansas:
Crossing the Flint Hills:
We detoured to see the actual Shawnee Mission (c. 1839), a Methodist mission to the Shawnee. The Civil War did not begin at Fort Sumter but here at Shawnee Mission. The mission served as the Kansas territorial capital in 1855-56. The territorial legislature dominated by Border Ruffians here passed pro-slavery laws that led to Bleeding Kansas which led to the Civil War.
Inexplicably, a statue of Winston and Clementine Churchill sits on the Country Club Plaza:
"Sky Station" sculptures top concrete pylons where the convention center crosses over the top of the interstate:
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