by Marketing | Dec 5, 2025 | Shank's Take: Newsletter Column
In 26 days the curtain will descend on 2025, and we will awaken to the start of a new year. During our youth it seemed time passed ever so slowly. With age comes times when it passes too quickly. Months become years and years become decades. Writer Hal...
by Marketing | Dec 4, 2025 | Foundation Spotlight, Press Releases
Dear Friends and Supporters of the Kansas Fairgrounds Foundation, As 2025 draws to a close, we reflect on a year full of progress, promise, and innovation at the Kansas State Fairgrounds. Guided by the spirit of, “Today’s history is yesterday’s innovation. Today’s...
by Marketing | Nov 7, 2025 | Shank's Take: Newsletter Column
Twenty days from today, America’s families and loved ones will be seated together for a Thanksgiving feast, an American tradition that saw its origin 400 years in 1621. The first Thanksgiving dinner was held near Plymouth Rock where English settlers stepped off the...
by Marketing | Sep 23, 2025 | Shank's Take: Newsletter Column
Motivational Speaker and Coach Lou Holtz once said the way an organization reacts to adversity can be even more important than how the operation acted in the first place. Mother Nature put a few road blocks for this year’s fair, with intermittent showers and...
by Marketing | Sep 5, 2025 | Shank's Take: Newsletter Column
All eyes are on Hutchinson at 11 a.m. this morning as we meet at the Peoples Bank and Trust Arena to launch the 112th annual Kansas State Fair. It has been a great year for the fair and we still have one third of 2025 ahead of us. Much has been accomplished with...
