Last month I traveled to Manhattan, Kansas to visit a dear friend who I had not seen for 40 years.  He lived and taught there for a couple of decades until his recent retirement.  During my visit, I attended his retirement reception and helped him a bit with his move — but more importantly, we shared great times, memories old and new.

I had never been to Kansas before and I assumed I would probably not return, so I tried to make the photographic best of it.  Here then is the first installment of my two-part series of shots-at-large from Kansas — this one focuses on my side-trip to Abilene, birthplace of Dwight D. Eisenhower, population 6,800.

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My main impression of Abilene was that the downtown streets were much wider than they needed to be and much quieter than one might expect them to be.  Perhaps things liven up a bit in October, which is President Eisenhower’s birthday month.

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