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From found objects to word collages, artist Ruth Moritz finds inspiration everywhere
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Ruth Moritz’s art often includes literary references, such as Adam’s Loss.
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Ruth Moritz’s art studio is awash in sunlight and bursting with tubs and shelves full of tools and objects of every shape and variety. This is where she is inspired to create her found-object assemblages, unique and delightful combinations of the physical and cerebral. But Moritz has been creating art long before she set up this studio on the second floor of a vintage building on South Santa Fe Avenue. She recalls her creative inclination as a constant companion from the beginning of her life. But one defining moment was when her uncle, Chuck Becker, then an art student in Denver, returned to the family farm in Tipton, Kansas, and began creating canvas paintings. Moritz, who was then about 5 years old, would watch her uncle paint for hours. “I fell in love with the smell of turpentine,” she says. Growing up, Moritz continued to develop an interest in art, and she eventually enrolled as an art student at Marymount College in Salina with a full-ride scholarship. Here, she was guided and influenced by Sue Maguire, a painting instructor; George Chlebak, an interim instructor from Kansas Wesleyan University; and artist Fred Elliott. Moritz says this training has allowed her to develop her work over the past four decades and create her own specialty. “What I really love is working with tools,” she says. And with these tools, she combines a wide variety of objects into unified pieces. Her studio houses a collection of these unique artistic materials that she finds— everything from discarded bicycle wheels and rusted metal parts to old suitcases and eggshells. To discover materials, she says, “I walk with my nose to the ground.”
But beyond objects, Moritz’s art places significant emphasis on the written word. “I think an image and a word are one in the same thing. I cannot separate them,” says Moritz, who also has a master’s in creative writing at Wichita State University and now works as an English and humanities instructor at Kansas State University’s campus in Salina. An example of this word-art combination is The Line, an installation piece she exhibited in 2000 at the Salina Art Center, where she took one of her poems and wrote it in a single line all the way around the space (even on floors when crossing a doorway). Between the words of this poem, she mounted boxes to the wall, each containing one of her found-art assemblages. Moritz says she thoroughly enjoyed creating this installation. For her, the process of creating is the most fulfilling part of being an artist—the way each concept grows and changes as a piece develops. That process often begins as a thought, perhaps when she is behind the wheel rambling the back roads of the Kansas countryside. It continues in her brightly lit studio as her creations take shape. Moritz believes art does not necessarily require a viewer, but she values varied reactions to her work. “To me, complexity in any art involves thought and interpretation,” she says. “If something is an open book, then the artist hasn’t gone deep enough. The art I like is something that stops me in my tracks, and I want my work to create thought and contemplation in the viewer. And I value their reactions—there is circularity in the work that is pleasing.
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From found objects to word collages, artist Ruth Moritz finds inspiration everywhere
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For Jimi Bishop and Melinda Bailey, the day begins doing farm chores side by side. “We collect eggs, pick and water the garden, feed and water the animals, and walk the dogs,” Melinda says. And after these are done, the couple head to downtown Salina to begin their regular workday, also side by side. Jimi owns and runs Supercharged Tattoo in the 1200 block of Santa Fe Avenue, while Melinda owns and runs the neighboring store, the hair salon Pinups. Jimi was the first to open his shop in March 2007, as Melinda was just finishing cosmetology school. She assumed there would be only one shop-owner in their family. “I had never intended on being a business owner myself,” Melinda says. “I was doing hair out of our house. Then one day, Jimi just came home and said, ‘Instead of ruining our kitchen floor, why don’t you just open a little shop?’” The couple were able to secure space in the office next to Jimi’s business, and have been working-hour neighbors ever since. “I love being right next door to Jimi. I feel safer and more confident; in case something happens, he can be right over,” says Melinda. “We ride together every day, and it gives us a chance to reflect on our day and spend some quality time together. … Plus, I hate driving!” Melinda Bailey and Jimi Bishop spend their personal and working lives in close proximity as life partners and owners of neighboring businesses.
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“I love this man!” Cari Harpster laughs as she looks at her husband, Doug. “He gave me my dream.” Before this dream came true, Cari bartended off and on for years, always thinking about owning her own place— and noticing one particular patron. “I would watch him sing karaoke, and I just thought he was so cute,” she says of Doug. Soon enough, Cari and Doug started dating and got married, Doug bringing two cats into the relationship and Cari bringing two dogs and three kids. They had plans for their new family, but none that involved opening a bar … until one day they happened to see a “For Sale” sign in an empty but inviting downtown Salina pub. They jumped at the chance to start a venture together; That 1 Bar opened in July 2014. “It has been an awesome experience so far,” Cari says. “It did shock me and take me a while to realize that owning a bar is a 9-5 job. I stay up until 3 in the morning closing the bar, and then I have beer distributors calling me right at nine o’clock the next morning for orders—not to mention the taxes and all the paperwork involved.” “For the first few months, we were here constantly; we basically lived here,” adds Doug, who continued his work at KIT Support. “It got exhausting, but doing it together really helped.” “There is always little arguments in any relationship,” Cari says. “But we know when to just give each other our space.” Soon, the Harpsters were hiring help—including Cari’s daughter, who waitresses some nights. “She is going to be going off to college soon, so the job experience will be good for her,” Cari says. And she isn’t the only family member who drops by their work. “We have no problem with our younger kids coming in to drink soda and play pool after school,” Cari says. “We work so much, it is the only way we will be able to see them sometimes.” “We even have a regular that comes in the afternoon and sips on one beer and visits while his 4-month-old baby is napping in the car seat on the bar,” Doug says. “It really is a family atmosphere,” Cari says. “We don’t like the music loud to the point that nobody can talk. We keep it pretty calm in our bar. We were both raised in small towns, and that is just how it was when we were growing up. This has been a wonderful experience, not just for us as a couple, but for our family and our friends.” Doug and Cari Harpster opened a bar after pooling their lives together.
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Gary Martens and Larry Bunker left separate, high-stress careers in order to start a massage business and spend their working hours together.
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Larry Bunker and Gary Martens Peaceful Body Wellness Retreat provide a range of massages and herbal-supplement consultations. Their center also hosts a free yoga group on Tuesday nights. Being downtown has definitely been a highlight for the couple, who participate in the Thursday Art Rush and also fill their walls with local art for sale, which they rotate every two months. “We are lucky that we have found such great people that want to work with us and help spread their own talents, doing it in our retreat,” Gary says. “Everything so far has just kind of fallen into place. We have been very lucky.” “We also are lucky we have found something that we can do together, while also helping others,” Larry adds. “It is a really neat feeling to be able to talk about our day when we go home, discuss what we did to help others. It is kind of different seeing each other all the time. We went from seeing each other in passing to now being together 24/7. But it has been a really cool experience doing this together.”
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Grilled Gumbo
Goodness Steve Wedel turned a one-time gardening surplus into a tasty family tradition
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t began out of necessity—too much okra. Ben Goertz had grown an abundance of okra one summer, so he began frying it up on the skillet with some ham. When everyone tired of ham-and-okra, Ben added flour, some liquid and an egg to create a savory skillet-baked cake with the flavors of gumbo. The family ate its way through the summer and left okra behind. But, years later, Ben’s daughter Cindy and son-in-law Steve Wedel purchased okra at the Abilene Farmers’ Market and found themselves discussing ways to reinvent and update the okra-pancake recipe. Steve started experimenting with individual portions—savory griddle cakes chock-full of garden vegetables. By substituting a commercial baking mix for the flour mixture that his father-in-law used, he ended up with a lighter product, and after several tries he came up with just the right proportion of ingredients. “People are always surprised to see there is so little batter compared to the amount of veggies and ham, and they tend to think they’ve made a mistake even if they’ve followed my recipe,” he says. Steve’s enthusiasm about this recipe, and about life in general, is catching. He’s tested his Gumbo Griddle Cakes on his grandkids, and they gobbled them up. Perhaps it’s the gusto with which they are prepared and served by their grandfather, but Steve contends that if vegetables are not overcooked—and they are partially disguised in what looks like a pancake—kids will enjoy eating their veggies. Mealtime with the grandkids is also an opportunity to share family traditions. “Cindy and I always ham it up with the kids, telling them how much their great grandpa loved okra pancakes. They love that stuff,” Steve says. Steve, who taught industrial arts and building trades for 34 years, 31 of those at Abilene High School, is now in his ninth year as a real estate agent. In his spare time, he enjoys creating large sculptures from scrap metal. Over the years, he’s remodeled the family’s Queen Annstyle Victorian home, built a gazebo and planted perennial flower gardens on that property. He’s even built a log cabin about 25 miles south of Abilene, on land in northern Marion County near Durham, where both he and Cindy were born and raised. Steve is equally adept at wielding a kitchen spatula, and he credits his mom for his domestic skills. “I was the third of six children. Two older brothers helped Dad in the field. I helped my mom. I learned to cook and bake, to wash clothes, to butcher chickens. She took me grocery shopping, and we gardened together. Basically, I learned all the domestic skills required to run a household. I could even iron 20 shirts in an hour. When I was 14, she passed away very suddenly, and I then took over all the household duties.” Although Steve is quite pleased with his Gumbo Griddle Cakes, the process and even the memories they evoke are also a great part of that pleasure. Okra cakes are a reminder of his mother’s love of cooking and the lessons he learned at her side, and of his father-in-law’s creativity. As he prepares yet another batch of batter, he can’t help remembering the fun he had experimenting with his version of this recipe, and of shopping for fresh ingredients to make it.
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okra ham
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green pepper
eggs
tomatoes
yellow onion
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Because he likes to taste the individual components of each ingredient in every bite, Steve cuts all the ingredients into a medium dice, measuring about ½ inch.
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Steve explains that the griddle-cake mixture contains a high ratio of raw vegetables and ham to batter.
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recipe Steve Wedel’s Gumbo Griddle Cakes PREPARATION TIME: Approximately 25 minutes serves: 6-8
ingredients 3 cups okra 2 medium tomatoes, diced and drained of excess juice ½ of a yellow onion 1 small green pepper 1 cup ham, cubed 1 cup baking mix 2 large eggs ¼ cup water Salt and pepper to taste Olive oil (Allow about 1 teaspoon to a tablespoon of oil for each skillet of pancakes.)
Cooking Instructions 1. Prepare okra, tomatoes, onions and pepper by cutting into a medium dice, measuring about ½ inch. 2. In a bowl, mix all ingredients except olive oil—mixture will be mainly veggies with just enough batter to hold the veggies and ham together. 3. Heat about a teaspoon to a tablespoon of oil in a skillet set on medium heat (amount of oil is dependent on the type and size of skillet). 4. Using a ½-cup measure, ladle mixture into hot oil. Use the first cake as a test: If the pancake does not hold together, add a little more water; if it seems thin, add additional baking mix. 5. Once the batter is in the skillet, reduce heat to medium to avoid overcooking the
vegetables, and use a spatula to flatten the cake so the vegetables are just one layer thick. Depending on the size of the skillet, 2 or 3 cakes may be cooked at one time. 6. Cook cakes until small bubbles form on the top and side surfaces; undersides should be golden brown and should set in about 3 to 4 minutes. If cakes begin to fall apart when flipped, they need additional cooking time. 7. Once cakes are flipped, again let the bottoms brown—batter should be cooked through and the veggies should be tendercrisp. 8. Repeat until all of batter is used, replenishing oil as needed. Or, batter may be covered and stored in the refrigerator for several days. Sunflower living spring 2015
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‘Something to hold
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This historic building features two markers: one honoring Dunbar school and one honoring Father Pete and Phyllis Francis of Saint Francis Community Services.
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A former schoolhouse represents the best educational aspirations in a decidedly mixed legacy of race relations
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he handsome brick building on the corner of Elm and Second Streets in Salina exemplifies the Latin phrase, exo mala bonum—“out of bad comes good.” Today, that building is part of the
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After Kansas gained statehood in 1861, its legislators waffled over the issue of segregation. In 1879, a statute went on the books permitting cities of more than 15,000 residents to maintain separate facilities for white and black elementary school children. In Salina, this eventually led to a special election in 1921 that gave the school board $65,000 for that purpose. Total votes cast on that January day were 2,527, with the proposition carrying by a margin of 463. The Fourth Ward passed the proposition by just one vote, and the only precinct casting a dissenting majority was the city’s northern-most First Ward, home to a good portion of Salina’s African-American community, who would now be sending their youngest students to a separate building. The Salina Evening Journal reported, “The completion of the school will mark the advent of segregation in Salina.” Despite the bigotry inherent in the statute and the passage of the bond issue, the African-American community put the best spin possible on the news that their children would now attend a separate grade school. Even though some students would need to pass by several neighborhood schools to attend the new one, parents and educators hailed the idea of an all-black school as a golden opportunity: a modern building that would employ black teachers and support staff in a safe environment. Years later, the late Robert Caldwell, who served as a Dunbar principal, explained in a 1990 Salina Journal article: “The school was a blessing for black teachers, who were not allowed to work in white schools. Having blacks teach blacks made a difference. We were concerned about our kids, that’s why we wanted to be teachers.” The patrons of the new school were invited to select a name from among historical figures who had distinguished themselves. Paul Laurence Dunbar was an African-American novelist and playwright who lived from 1872 to 1906. Dunbar School took its place among other Salina schools named for literary lights, including Longfellow, Whittier, Hawthorne and Lowell. Some credit is due school superintendent W. S. Heusner, and the school board, headed by Charles McAdams, for the fact that the building was, as the local paper described, “an up-to-date structure with all known modern conveniences”—electric lights, running water and steam heat. Like other schools erected at that time, it had ample classrooms, including a large kindergarten room; a combination auditorium/ gymnasium with shower facilities; teachers’ restrooms; and an office/library on the top floor. It provided space for shop and home economics classes. The newspaper marveled that, “for its size, there will be none finer in Salina.” As Dunbar opened for the 1922-23 school session, 72 students filled the desks that first year, their lessons overseen by a staff of seven teachers. Thirty-one-year-
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old Powers G. Porter was the school’s first principal, having for the previous eight years been the principal of Lincoln elementary, a school for black children in Olathe, Kansas. From 1922 to 1955, there would be 29 black teachers and four black principals who served at Dunbar, including Caldwell, who would go on to serve three terms as Salina’s first AfricanAmerican mayor and then as a state representative. Over the years, a number of African-American employees also worked as grounds and maintenance staff, secretaries and paraprofessionals. In 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that “separate but equal” schools for the races were unconstitutional. Soon after, Dunbar became integrated, along with similar schools throughout the state. But an immediate drop in enrollment the following year forced the school to close at the end of the 1955-56 school year. In 1958, Saint Francis Boys’ Homes, now Saint Francis Community Services, Inc., purchased the property along Elm Street between Second and Front Streets. For more than 56 years, Saint Francis has remained an excellent steward of the Dunbar building and grounds. The organization was started in 1945 by Father Robert Mize Jr., who acquired the former “poor farm” in Ellsworth and opened a facility for disadvantaged young men. According to Saint Francis, the organization now serves more than 9,000 children and their families, and employs about 1,000 people in four states. As in its Dunbar days, the building is dedicated to the safety and welfare of youth. But for those with a connection to Dunbar, memories of the school have remained strong since its closing. Through the efforts of the alumni, the red brick building that became important to Salina’s African-American community was designated a local Heritage Conservation Landmark in 1998. A committee then raised funds to erect a marker on the northeast corner of Elm and Front Streets. The City of Salina landscaped the area around the monument and added a bench. In the summer of 1990, alumni, teachers and staff gathered for their first reunion. It was so successful that an alumni association sprang to life, and now members plan reunions every three years. Jennifer Gordon, a public elementary school principal in Topeka whose mother and brother attended Dunbar, developed and maintains a Facebook page and a website for the group at dunbarschoolsalina.org. The late Ron Kizer, recalling his school years at Dunbar in a 1998 Salina Journal article, expressed the sentiments of many. “Dunbar gave us something to hold dear forever. It gave us something to be proud of and something for Salina to be proud of, too.”
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The Virtuoso
ViolinMaker Robert Gordon Jr.’s art only gets better with age
Editor’s note: Robert Gordon Jr. died on December 8, 2014—a few days after photographer Fritz Mendell visited him at his studio in Miltonvale for this story by Patricia Ackerman. Sunflower Living put aside this profile of Mr. Gordon for our winter issue, but is printing it now with the knowledge and blessing of his family. Mr. Gordon was buried in Miltonvale Cemetery; his violins have been removed from his studio and are dispersed among family members and musicians across the States.
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“My third violin turned out pretty good,” Gordon obert Gordon Jr. can recall the history of recalls. “My foreman at work played a John Friedrich violin, nearly all of his 201 violins. and he said mine sounded better. So he gave me $50 for Violin 1 was created in 1960—almost Number 3.” on a whim, with very little knowledge and Gordon continued to hone his violin-making craft in few of the required instruments. “I didn’t have any bending the evenings while working a full-time factory job at the irons then, and my brother-in-law helped me figure out the Evenflo Baby Bottle Company and raising a family. process. I always liked carpentry work, and I was intrigued He taught three of his children to play the violin and by the idea that a man could make a beautiful violin, then began teaching his son, Robert Gordon III, to make violins play it and listen to it,” Gordon says. when the boy was 13 years old. Father and son opened a Up until he crafted that first violin at 31 years of violin-repair shop in Pleasantville in 1988. They continued age, Gordon had some knowledge of the instrument. He repairing and making violins together until 2010, when had taken two lessons as a child and had played on his Gordon suffered from a fall on own through his college the ice and relocated with his years at the Transylvania wife, Mary, to be closer to their Bible College. But mostly, two daughters in Kansas. Gordon had expressed his Gordon arrived in artistic talents on canvas, Miltonvale having crafted 183 specializing in oil paintings violins. At his studio—where of birds. “Violin-making,” he works about four hours each says Gordon, “offered more day—he keeps about a dozen of a challenge than oilviolins on display in a glass case. painting.” His first violin isn’t among them; So he made Violin 2, Number 1 sits with his sister in already with a more critical Pennsylvania. Gordon has also approach. given 90 violins away to churches “The second one and relatives. The rest have all I made, I ended up - Robert Gordon Jr. been sold. “I don’t advertise,” he dismantling and tossing says. “I’ve sold six or seven violins parts of it into the burn since moving to Kansas. Word gets around.” barrel, because I tried to use Ponderosa pine for the top,” Some of Gordon’s violins have been appraised for as Gordon says. “It had no sound at all. The wood was too much as $10,000. But among them all—and even including dense and the instrument did not respond.” the Stradivarius violins he has played—Gordon has his Gordon then honed his violin-making skills under the favorite, Number 123, which he created in 1993. tutelage of Jacob Sieber, a retired oil-driller who started In his studio, his hands move gently across Number making violins at the age of 72. “He made 18 violins with 123, which stands near a violin with a bright, red finish that redwood tops. He was a pretty good violin-maker, but his he calls “Ruby.” And there is also one of his latest, violin hands weren’t steady enough to place the inlay.” Number 200, which is topped with Engelmann spruce from So Gordon learned other techniques from a professional Colorado. boxer who made violins on the side. Later, Gordon became Some of Gordon’s violins appear very old. Over the friends with professional violin-maker John Note, who years, the wood cures and becomes lighter in color. owned a hunting cabin on the river, not far from Gordon’s But violins, he explains, only get better during their home of Pleasantville, Pennsylvania, and would pass on first 50 or 60 years of being played. violin-making tips to Gordon during their visits. “The sound,” he says, “gets more brilliant with age.” The advice helped.
“I was intrigued by the idea that a man could make a beautiful violin, then play it and listen to it.”
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to creating a musical treasure Robert Gordon Jr. says his greatest thrill is the moment when he first draws a bow across one of his handcrafted violins. “I get the most satisfaction out of stringing them up and listening to them. For the first half hour, very few sound really good. But over time, each one becomes more and more responsive.” After that first concert, Gordon will hand-print a date and number on the inside of each violin—marking its formal completion. But getting to that final step requires a long process drawing on masterful skills.
1 Gordon starts with the wood. Like most all violin-makers, he uses maple for a violin’s body. For the back and sides, he then uses plain maple, curly maple or tiger maple. Using a softer wood for the top part of a violin produces a higher quality sound. 2 Gordon then begins to shape the wood. He dips the wood into water, bends it over a hot iron and begins to shape and form the ribs. After that, he places forms on them for shape, clamping them in tight, and glues in corner blocks and larger-sized blocks on the top and bottom for shape. Curves in the violin top will be worked out with hand tools and sandpaper. 3 The neck of each violin is hand-carved in maple, a process Gordon calls “a tedious job.” 4 Gordon then grafts the neck to the instrument’s body, a difficult procedure that affects the sound of the violin. 5 Gordon makes his finger boards from ebony, while mechanical parts are ordered from a violin-supply company and added. 6 Gordon inlays all of the purfling around the edges of each violin. This purfling—which appears as two thin, solid lines around the top edge—keeps the violin body from cracking. He buys the ebony strips, then cuts halfway into the wood, gluing the ebony into the channel by hand. 7 The instrument is then treated with a finish that Gordon designed.
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The salina fire of 1871
T ru e Ta l es o f Ha r d s h i p o n the P r a i r i e Text adapted from History of the State of Kansas, William G. Cutler, 1883
Salina. 1871 was a year of great prosperity for the town, and on Christmas Day there was much felicity.
Illustration by Cedar Van Tassel
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’ THE GOOD OL DAYS The cry of “Fire! Fire!” passed rapidly from street to street.
As the city sat down with a Christmas turkey, a terrible noise arose …
Bells rang out the alarm.
Many a Christmas dinner was left untouched.
The fire burst from a saloon on the west side of Santa Fe Avenue.
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Only the brick walls of the John Geis & Co.’s bank building, constructed just a few months previous, caused the flames to pause.
From there it spread unchecked.
They extinguished the flames. But not before the fire had taken some $20,000 in damages—a tremendous blow to the young city.
Brave town members took advantage of the lull by tearing down neighboring buildings to deprive the fire of fuel.
These fires are turning points for a community because they’re so devastating. If a town can’t recover from a fire, then it dies. However, if a town can survive a fire, then it will usually come back stronger because of stricter building codes and more fireprevention measures. Fires were almost like a kind of natural selection for early towns.
Anita Specht, Professor of History, Kansas Wesleyan University
Salinans pushed for a law requiring all buildings in the center to be built of brick or stone. But, for one reason or another, the ordinance was never adopted.
Though 1871 closed so disastrously, it was, overall, a year of great improvement for Salina. Four very elegant churches were erected: the Catholic, Methodist, Christian and Episcopalian. Of these, two were brick, and two were frame, but all very handsome edifices.
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History Marymount condos offer a comfortable lifestyle in a Salina landmark Story by Patricia E. Ackerman / Photography by Bill Stephens
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C on n i e a n d Mark Martin e n j oy a M a r y m ou n t condo that was t r a n s f or m e d f rom a library into an open l i v i n g a re a w h e re separate spaces easily flow t og e t h e r.
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In 1993, Donnie and Mona Marrs moved their family of six into the tower section of the 130,000-square-foot Tudor Gothic building that once housed Marymount College—an accredited, four-year Catholic liberal arts school begun and operated by the Sisters of St. Joseph from 1922 to 1989. By 2011, the Marrses had completed major renovations, including an underground parking garage, an elaborate geothermal heating and cooling system, and concrete porches. They then began setting up luxury condo spaces inside the building to accommodate new tenants. Seven years shy of its 100th birthday, the massive building in east-central Salina now provides urban-style living to two more couples.
Library Living In September of 2013, when they were contemplating how best to prepare for their retirement years, Mark and Connie Martin toured Marymount’s open and unfinished condominium spaces. Connie was captivated by one particular section on the southwest corner of the first floor. “This was the first space we walked into, and I looked at Mark and said, ‘This is the one.’ I felt that this space had very positive energy.” They looked at other unfinished spaces in the building, including a few with expansive views of the horizon, but returned to the idea of purchasing what had been the college’s library— the 1,600-square-foot section that first captured their imagination. “When we walked in here, I could visualize the redesigned space,” Connie recalls. In late February 2014, after six weeks of planning, construction began. And on October 2014, the Martins moved into their new condominium space. “We have lived in four different homes within eight blocks of Marymount during
our married life,” Connie says. “We know many of the neighbors, and this feels like coming home.” The couple’s customized design—entirely accessible without interior stairs or steps—includes a large open living space and a large kitchen with a sizeable pantry. An expansive closet room, containing laundry facilities, was constructed adjacent to the home’s single bedroom. Large south- and west-facing windows are featured prominently in the design. A private concrete porch was constructed off of the south-facing kitchen. The cost and trouble of maintaining their previous home was a deciding factor in the move, as well as the fact that much of the space in that house was seldom used, Mark says. “Our utilities were high, and it cost a fortune to keep up a nice lawn.” The idea of not having to water and mow grass was also a huge incentive. “We are at an age where we have to think about such things as maintenance and security. We feel safe here. And the Highway Patrol is a good neighbor,” Mark says, looking at the neighboring law enforcement headquarters whose training grounds stand on the college’s former campus.
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c onn e c t i on t o h e r i t a g e After five years of retirement in Oregon, Becky and Curt Schlosser began discussing a return to Kansas, where Becky’s parents and extended family lived and where Becky had attended school, first as an undergraduate at Marymount and then as a graduate student at K-State. The talks became serious when they toured the bare bones of the Marymount condos. And in July 2013, the couple moved to Salina, renting a duplex as they oversaw customization of their condominium space. Their home was ready for them by May 2014. “What appealed to me most about the idea of living here is that I have a reverence for this place and the sacrifices made by the sisters to have this become an important holy and educational spot for our diocese,” Becky says. “I wanted to support the idea of creating something
beautiful out of this Marymount building.” As a former student at Marymount, Becky says she applauds the Marrses’ dedication to “doing this project right, being true to the original spirit as possible and maintaining the integrity of the building and surrounding spaces.” As a military family (Curt had served 24 years in the U.S. Navy and then the Army), the Schlossers say they are accustomed to making home “wherever they are at.” Curt, an avid gardener, has adapted by helping the Marrses renew some of the green space where Sister Julia once grew flowers. In addition to enjoying the grounds, the couple also has access to the building’s gym and chapel. Inside their 2,056-square-foot condo, the couple went for a look that was formal, perhaps even slightly regal, in
keeping with the history of the building. They included pillars to stand on either side of the family room and a raised ceiling design over the kitchen island. The Schlossers’ home also features a fireplace, large kitchen island and two private decks. Floors are red oak, laid over the original white oak floors. South- and east-facing windows make their home an inviting, warm place to be during the mornings. “Like every place we have lived, designing this space involved a process of taking things we treasure as part of our personal history and creating a space where we can be comfortable, while still being respectful to the building’s history,” Becky says.
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Best Blooms She loves all her roses, but even the gardener of Eisenhower Park has personal favorites among the rows and rows of beauty S to ry b y C e c i l i a H a r r i s P h o to g r a ph y b y L i s a E a s t m a n
This spring, Eisenhower Park in Abilene will be filled with the vibrant colors of nearly 3,000 blooming plants. Among those blooms are more than 66 varieties of roses carefully cultivated by Joy Maas of the Abilene Parks and Recreation Department. Maas credits her mother for planting the seed of knowledge about rose gardening. “My mother
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has about 70 roses in her beautiful garden,” Maas says. “She taught me a lot.” But Maas, who has personally added 30 new rose plants to the garden, has developed her own expertise and preference. Here, she shares seven favorite rose varieties that she cares for in Eisenhower Park.
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Mr. Lincoln Hybrid Tea Rose This rose, named for Abraham Lincoln, is renowned for its strong fragrance. Maas says it is considered by many to be the best red rose ever, with its large, deep red velvety petals.
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Eisenhower Parkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Double Delight Hybrid Tea Rose has spread into a beautifully shaped bush that blooms continuously throughout the season. Maas says it is her personal favorite because of its pleasing fragrance and the fact that no two blooms are alike in this eye-catching color combination. Creamy pointed buds blush bright cherry red as the petals unfurl with the rays of the sun. Maas does suggest that this variety should be sprayed regularly to prevent black spot and powdery mildew.
Spread throughout the garden in perennial beds, this classicform rose brings continued color throughout the season, as it is incredibly floriferous, blooming in flushes every five to six weeks from spring until frost. This extremely hardy, disease-resistant shrub requires little maintenance.
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We asked six photographers to choose a small stretch of road in the region, not to get anywhere, but simply to travel up and down throughout the spring and summer: to wonder, observe and share. Many roads will get you where you need to go, but each of these series of photographs is a tribute to the sights and beauty of one particular small stretch of one particular road. Explore with us.
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