On any week night we may often be found joining several friends for pre-dinner drinks and conversation in the Pub at Meadowlark Hills. To us, the most satisfying feature of this evening routine is...
Philosophical Backpacking
March 20, 2025
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Philosophical Backpacking
By John Walters on March 20, 2025
In 1980, my friend, Jim, and I decided to hike in the Uinta Mountains of Utah. Stuart Johnson, another good friend from the Geothermal Branch of Philips Petroleum said if we wanted to find good...
March Madness: Basketball & a Blizzard in Liberal, Kansas
By Nancy Kopp on March 14, 2025
After a week’s visit with my brother and his wife in New Mexico, we were heading back to Kansas. Our plan was to go as far as Liberal, spend the night and on to Manhattan, our home, the next day. We...
Outdoor Encounters
By Nathan Bolls on March 6, 2025
How long has it been since you’ve experienced a moment of genuine healthful silence, a time during which you were profoundly, silently, reverently alone with yourself, or with Nature, or with another...
Hiking with Family
By John Walters on March 6, 2025
I talked to Karen, my first wife, about taking a short backpacking trip, just the two of us. She was the one who encouraged my backpacking several years before. I had been interested in Chesler Park...
Brain Changes & Mindset Shifts: Memory Matters Symposium set for March 24
By Katie Sigman on March 6, 2025
If you have the privilege of living long enough, you learn that one thing you can always count on is change. Changes that occur as we age may include retirement, wrinkles, growing families, and more...
Time to Dress Up!
By Becky Fitzgerald on February 27, 2025
Are your home or office walls a bit … well, naked? Perhaps you’d like to replace a mass-produced piece with an original. SNW Gallery in the HEART of downtown Manhattan is ready to help turn voids...
Meadowlark Lenten Lecture Series Invites Community Leaders to "Get Real"
By Rev. Melanie Nord on February 20, 2025
When I was young, I thought the season of Lent and Ash Wednesday was for Catholics. In fact, I knew little about either tradition until my second internship for my master’s program. My supervisor was...
Middle Fork of the Salmon River
By John Walters on February 20, 2025
We camped at the mouth of Waterfall Creek, which comes down from the lakes we had hiked from. Jim fished for trout in the river, caught two 20-inchers, but it was only catch and release. Jim always...
Ready to Mingle: Upcoming pARTy Offers Paintings, Experiences, & More!
By Becky Fitzgerald on February 13, 2025
Do you have your tickets for Art Mingle? No?! There's no better time than right now to secure your spot at this artful fundraising event, set for March 7 at SNW Gallery and Union Hall, 328 Poyntz Ave...
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Backpacking with a Companion
By John Walters on February 13, 2025
In January of 1972, Jim Dix and I began plans for a backpacking trip in the summer of that year. He had grown up in Caldwell, Idaho, and wanted to hike in Idaho. During lunch one day we examined a...
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