Kansas Legends and Folktales (Park City Alive!)

Name: Kansas Legends and Folktales (Park City Alive!)
Start: 2025-01-25T19:00:00-06:00
Location: Park City Senior Center

Schedule

Sat, 25 Jan, 2025 at 07:00 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

Park City Senior Center | Wichita, KS

Grasshoppers so big that cowboys can ride them to herd cattle. Summers so hot that corn pops in the field. Rancher Henry Mudge wrecking pianos, shooting sheep, and fooling European dignitaries. Kansas is a place of big skies and tall tales, but these exaggerated narratives help us understand the character of our state and its people. This talk will explore some of the many Kansas legends and folktales and help audiences decipher between a myth (folk religion), legend (folk history), and tale (folk literature).
Presented by Jim Hoy, sponsored by Park City Senior Center, made possible by Humanities Kansas.
https://www.humanitieskansas.org/events#event=park-city-kansas-legends-and-folktales-2;instance=20250125190000?popup=1&lang=en-US