by KFF Team | Jul 31, 2023 | Shank's Take: Newsletter Column, Boots and Bling
Attending my first Kansas State Fair in 1957 seemed like the ultimate experience to this farm boy from New Cambria in Saline County. It was not as easy in those days to make the 60-mile trip from New Cambria to Hutchinson because Interstates 70 and 35 did not exist...
by KFF Team | Jul 3, 2023 | Shank's Take: Newsletter Column, Boots and Bling
The Kansas Fairgrounds Foundation, established in 2003, moved swiftly to create an annual award designed to recognize Kansans for extraordinary leadership in the livestock industry, and who have gone above and beyond the call of duty to support the Kansas State...
by KFF Team | Jun 14, 2023 | Boots and Bling, Press Releases
The Kansas Fairgrounds Foundation has set a date for BOOTS and BLING 2023 – Champagne Life – let’s toast it up! for Saturday, August 12 to be held at the Meadowlark Building on the Kansas State Fairgrounds. Boots and Bling is the signature event of the Kansas...
by KFF Team | May 31, 2023 | Shank's Take: Newsletter Column, Boots and Bling
The eyes of the nation and world were on Hutchinson June 23, 1923, as the Salt City and Kansas State Fair made final preparations to welcome President Warren G. Harding to Reno County. Arriving in Hutchinson by train promptly at 10 a.m., the presidential...
by KFF Team | May 4, 2023 | Shank's Take: Newsletter Column, Boots and Bling
In 2003, a small group of civic activists and Kansas State Fair boosters met to form a foundation to do something extra to preserve, enhance and improve the Kansas State Fairgrounds. This new organization would be known as the Kansas Fairgrounds Foundation. Two...
by KFF Team | Mar 2, 2023 | Boots and Bling
The Kansas Fairgrounds Foundation has set Boots and Bling 2023 for Saturday, August 12. This year’s event will take place in the Meadowlark Building on the Kansas State Fairgrounds doors open at 5:30 PM. Spring is coming and we are already abuzz at the Foundation,...
