Since our blog debuted in 2017, we have published 500+ posts. While some of you may have been with us from the start (thank you, loyal readers!), others may have joined us more recently.
So, we’re highlighting periodically some of the posts that have garnered a lot of views or that address topics of continuing interest in the current moment — posts that you may have missed or that you might want to revisit.
Today, in honor of Kansas Day and the 165th birthday of the State of Kansas, we look back to a post by Krista Everhart (BS ’20, English Education and English minor) on “‘Kansas Women Have Done It’: Visiting America’s First Woman Mayor in Argonia, Kansas.”
As Krista explains,
Located about an hour southwest of Wichita, Argonia dominated national news in 1887 when the small Kansas town elected Susanna Madora Salter as the first woman mayor and the first women in any political office in America. The purpose of my trip was to visit Susanna Salter’s family home in Argonia and research my talk for the upcoming “Kansas Women Have Done It: Agitating for the Women’s Vote” event at the Douglass Community Center in Manhattan.
Read about Krista’s visit to Argonia, her discoveries about Susanna Salter, and the Salter House Museum — and then flash back to the event “Kansas Women Have Done It: Agitating for the Women’s Vote” (link courtesy of the Internet Archive) in March 2020, right before the pandemic arrived in our lives.
Happy 165th Birthday to Kansas, and a happy Kansas Day to all!
— Karin Westman, Department Head
K-State English 