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 | Apr 3, 2023 | Shank's Take: Newsletter Column
Visitors to the Kansas State Fair (KSF) need not drive far to witness improvements in progress. Routine maintenance and enhancements to structures old and new are constant at the Kansas State Fairgrounds, particularly for buildings that are 100 or more years of...
