Some Interesting facts:

• 31 golf courses
• 82 % of workers drive cars to work an 18 minute average trip
• City of 550,000
• Major medical center
• Cradle of aircraft industry and home to Cessna Aircraft
• Kansas Aviation Museum
• Many historic houses including a Frank Lloyd Wright designed house
• World class Zoo
• Botanical gardens
• 16 square block entertainment districe-Old Town Market Place
• Old Cowtown Museum with 30 authentically furnished buildings
• 15 art galleires and museums
• Broadway shows
• Terminus of the Chisholm trail
• On the banks of the Arkansas River
• Home of The Coleman Company and Museum
• Keeper of the Plains sculpture
• Charles M. Russel gallery0famous western painter
• World's largest western store
• Palace of the plains-old city hall historical museum and much more

Dr. Vic Durrance, 39th BGA Historian
vrdurrance@beggstelco.net