For a time, more than 60 libraries in Kansas carried the name of one man: Andrew Carnegie. The Scottish-American industrialist spent his final years funding library projects across the country. When he died in 1919, the connection with Carnegie’s foundation largely ended. That is until earlier this year, when the Kansas libraries still bearing Carnegie’s name learned of a new gift. Meg Britton-Mehlisch has more.
Also, Kansas has plenty of trees. Cottonwoods and elms, osage orange and ash. But as Beccy Tanner explains in this encore segment of Hidden Kansas, we have only one “Lucky Tree.”
