Of all the businesses you might expect in tiny Eureka, Kansas, a master shoemaker from Italy making handmade custom boots is likely not one of them. Yet, this is where you’ll find Sam Vasta quietly pursuing his craft in a small workshop behind his home.
Also...on a lonely wind-swept hill, a small cemetery looks down on the town of Ellsworth. It’s named in honor of a woman whom Civil War soldiers simply called “Mother.” Beccy Tanner explains on this month’s Hidden Kansas.
