KANSAS TOWNS SOUNDS

KANSAS TOWNS SOUNDS

Roger A. Davis

State capital is Topeka
Horse racing capital: Eureka
Where I grew up: Attica
We had a fishing lease near Zenda

Salt Mine Museum in Hutchinson
Martina McBride’s birthplace: Sharon
County Seats: Hugoton, Holton, McPherson
A town near where I bought two bison: Canton

Many small towns like Chautauqua
Town near grandparents’ ranch: Kiowa
Baseball Hall of Famer, Joe Tinker, lived in Muscotah
Air capital and the largest city: Wichita

Chief White Hair’s village: Oswego
Where Molly, my bulldog, lives now: Geneseo
Headquarters for corporations: De Soto
Other small bergs: Mankato, Paxico and Tyro

Liberal, of pancake fame, and unincorporated Wayne
Harrah’s backed out of Mulvane
Town named for Civil War Union general and U.S. Senator, James H.: Lane
Bartlett Arboretum, a Dixie Chicks connection in Belle Plaine

Cawker, Junction and Arkansas: many a last name city
But this poem is getting long, so I’m going to take pity
I challenge you to write about your state and be witty
Just one more: My home, Marquette, ends with an “E”