Richard Crowson: The Wisdom Of An LED Christmas
This Christmas season we found that some of our big, bright C9 multicolored light strings weren’t working so well. So, I decided to try to be a little greener this year and bought some strings of the...
View ArticleRichard Crowson: Wishing You A Christmas Full Of Peace And Quiet
It’s a funny thing about Christmas music. Just about the time when I feel like I’ll lose my Christmas cookies if I hear one more “Fa-la-la-la-la,” the season peaks and all those songs go away for...
View ArticleInto It: Dark Christmas
Christmas celebrations are not all light and warm as we travel around the world. Christmas in America is warm and fuzzy, stuffed with Santa, reindeer and helpful elves. We get little exposure to the...
View ArticleKS Christmas Tree Ornament Features Washburn University
The official state Christmas tree ornament for this year recognizes the 150th anniversary of the founding of Washburn University, which is coming up in 2015. Governor Sam Brownback unveiled the...
View ArticleRichard Crowson: Remembering
We still send out Christmas cards the old-fashioned, analog, low-tech, snail-mail way at my house. And we have an old, well-worn address book that gets hauled out each year for the chore of addressing...
View ArticleTop Morning News 12.18.12
Vigil held for Topeka officers shot in drug deal bust; Salvation Army makes Christmas wishes come true; Brownback names his team for weight-loss challenge. Hundreds Attend Vigil For Slain Topeka...
View ArticleDonated Toys Make Christmas Brighter For Wichita Children
Thousands of families in Wichita will have a brighter Christmas this year due to donations to the Salvation Army. At the former Big Dog Motorcycle building Monday volunteers helped sort through toys to...
View ArticleInto It: Dark Christmas
Christmas celebrations are not all light and warm as we travel around the world. Christmas in America is warm and fuzzy, stuffed with Santa, reindeer and helpful elves. We get little exposure to the...
View ArticleRichard Crowson: Here Comes Christmas
Barreling relentlessly onward like some refrigerator-sized linebacker, whether we’re ready for it or not, determined to sack us many yards behind the line of scrimmage, comes Christmas.
View ArticlePast and Present: Holidays Gone Missing
During the past few years, the holiday shopping season has undergone a dramatic transformation.
View ArticlePast and Present: American Celebrations
Traditionally, Christians marked December as the season of Advent, paralleling the role of Lent before Easter. Christmas celebrations were to begin at Christmas. That practice has been under siege for...
View ArticleRichard Crowson: The Real Spirit of the Season
For too long we have suffered under the delusion that the “spirit of the season” is sweetness and love. Truth is, nowadays it’s bitterness and hate! So here’s a seasonal song to fit our times: Deck the...
View ArticleArt: Images of Santa
During the Christmas season, we are surrounded by images of Santa Claus-- yes, that jolly, rotund man with his famous white beard on a mission to deliver presents to children around the world. We see...
View ArticleLetters To Santa Project Starts Again
Starting tomorrow the City of Wichita, Starkey Inc. and Cambridge Market are once again teaming up to spread holiday cheer through the Letters to Santa project. This year there are new incentives for...
View ArticleForum Theatre's Christmas Carol: A Local Tradition
This story originally aired during Morning Edition on 12/14/14. "Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail. "Mind! I don't mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge, what is particularly dead about a...
View ArticlePolice Department, Emergency Shelter Partner To Bring Holiday Meals To Those...
The Union Rescue Mission and the Wichita Police Department on Tuesday delivered holiday meals to local families in need. It's part of a 13-year partnership between the department and the shelter....
View ArticleSedgwick County Offers Christmas Tree Recycling Services
Sedgwick County is offering its Christmas tree recycling program at locations in 13 cities around the county. If you had a fresh cut tree this holiday, consider recycling it instead of putting it out...
View ArticleKansas Christmas Tree Growers Recovering From Recent Droughts
Christmas trees are in short supply across the country, but growers in Kansas say they’ve mostly recovered from recent droughts. Celia Goering, president of the Kansas Christmas Tree Growers...
View ArticleDennis Family Christmas Concert Celebrates 35 Years Of Song And Charity
The Dennis Family is gearing up for its 35th annual Christmas concert in Wichita. The nine siblings provide holiday cheer every year through song and support of a local charity.
View ArticleSeeing Santa And More: Memories Made At Botanica’s Illuminations
Wichita’s Botanica puts on a nightly Illuminations show each year for more than 30 days. More than two million lights are spread throughout 18 acres of gardens; it takes a team of staff and volunteers...
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