Forty-plus musical instruments between walls of cinder block is loud. On the third of July, before the players were brought to attention for coordinated practice at Smoky Valley schools, the barrage was mostly babel.
A woman from Dallas had been laid off from her job, suffered a breakup, and seen her golden retriever die. She was moving back north.
To conclude the Midsummer's Festival on Saturday, there was folk dancing in Heritage Square at the Lindsborg Old Mill & Swedish Heritage Museum, with both performances by trained dancers and a massive circle dance that called people out of the grandstands to join hands. Scott Bontz photos.
A work by artist Brian K. McCallum is buckled up for the trip home to Garden City after McCallum and painter Michael Kent's recent show at the Smoky Valley Arts & Folklife Center. Scott Bontz photo
Flags of different colors fly side by side on North First Street last week. Pride Month, for people of alternative sexual orientation or identity, began Sunday.
HAND-EYE COORDINATION: A crane lifts new heating and cooling equipment to replace the 15-year-old machinery atop City Hall on Friday. A worker from Comfort Heating & Air, here standing above the second-story door, directed the crane operator with hand motions.
Smoky Valley science teacher Adam Krug said the thought might’ve come during chemistry. “I ramble a lot in class,” he said.
Pass the closed-to-the-public sign at the Swedish Pavilion, and turn up the bright stairway inside. The bannister leans and the boards of the landing aren’t parallel with the steps, but press on.
