I arrived in Dexter about noon, drove downtown and enjoyed a good meal at The Gathering Place restaurant. I had their Riley sandwich with pumpkin pie for dessert. I shared the meal with an Explorer friend, Bonnie Danley, from Kansas City.
After lunch, I drove 1/2 mile north of Dexter to the historic barn, owned by Grady and Shannon Martin, housing the Stone Barn Mercantile. Here, we set up our chairs and watched Kenny Unrein, an artist from Augusta, put the finishing touches on the sunflower logo on the roof.
While Kenny was painting, we heard about the barn logo project from Sally Hatcher, president of the Kansas Barn Alliance. Shannon Martin told about how she and Grady came to own this historic barn, came to participate in the logo program, and about their new rental cabins on the property.
Kenny finished the painting and was gracious enough to take some of us up on his lift to see the logo from above the roof.I left Dexter and decided to follow a route north and east generally following Grouse Creek to the extreme northeast part of Cowley County. I visited one of my favorite stone bridges, the Fox bridge northeast of Cambridge, then found an iron pony truss bridge I had never seen before, before finally stopping at the lonely Glen Grouse Ceme
tery in far northeast Cowley County, which is overgrown with prairie grass. Finally, I continued on north to Latham, in Butler County, then west and on home.Links: Kansas Barn Alliance: http://www.kansasbarnalliance.org/
Kansas Sampler Foundation: http://www.kansassampler.org/
The Gathering Place: http://www.dextergatheringplace.com/
Stone Barn Mercantile: http://www.stonebarnmercantile.com/
My Photo Gallery: http://ke2013.smugmug.com/gallery/6307153_X8GMy#397749498_AhRjg
1 comment:
Very nice post Larry! Love the photos. So glad you could be at the final BYOLC for 2008. We'll have four more lined up for 2009! What a great day.
WenDee
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