Winter 2000 (Volume 8, Number 4)

Suckers for Sweets

In the old days a few pennies bought you chocolates or peppermints, lemon drops or carmel corn. Give in to your sweet tooth as we visit the candy stores and candymakers of long ago.

Be It Ever So Humble: A Photo Essay

There's no place like. . .a soddie, a dugout, a log cabin, or a tipi, which, however primitive, offered all the comforts of home sweet home.

Atten-Hut!

Presenting: dragoons, Native Americans, buffalo soldiers, and the drama of military life. You'll find them all on the covers of the new Kansas forts books, featuring original full-color art from the brush of Kansan Jerry Thomas.

History in the Making

Talks with Daryl Nickel of Nickelodeon Restorations.

About Faces

Features Lizzie Wooster.

Vintage Vignettes

Presenting the Past

Lasting Impressions

What lasting Kansas impressions do you have in photos from 1854 to 1955? We invite you to share them with our readers. For information and guidelines about submitting your photos to "Lasting Impressions," please write Kansas Heritage, Kansas Historical Society, 6425 SW Sixth Avenue, Topeka KS 66615-1099. Photos will be returned upon request.

To order any of these magazines call the museum store at the Kansas Museum of History, 785-272-8681, ext. 413.