One of the things that is interesting when driving across Kansas is that you can occasionally see amazing church steeples in the distance. I don’t know a thing about the history of Kansas, but I am curious to know what religious culture shaped this area. We’ve driven several times past a sign advertising the “cathedral of the plains” which of course only adds to my curiosity.
While we were driving this summer I decided that we needed to get some post card stamps. I immediately called my navigational assistant and asked him where we could find the nearest post office. After a few minutes he called me back and told me to get off at the next exit and drive into the town. Since I was already curious about the town (and it’s church that was visible for miles) I was more than happy to do that.
Except, well, there hardly was a town.
Seriously. What I finally found was three or four paved streets, crossed by three or four gravel streets. You would think I could have found the post office right away, given the size of the town, but it eluded me. Perhaps because I wasn’t expecting it would look like this. The only way I finally found it was to look for the flag…
And then I drove to the edge of town to see this.
I’m still shaking my head. What on earth? What would such a tiny town, seriously in the middle of nowhere (even if it was near the interstate there was nothing else remotely near it) need with an edifice like this???
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To server all the farmers in the area.
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