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Eastern Kansas: There Are Times When You Feel Like You're Not in Kansas Anymore
Despite the state's straitlaced reputation, things have been known to get delightfully strange amid the sunflowers--and it doesn't take a twister to do it
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June 2006 issue
I'm too freaked out for bed, and the only place open after midnight is Al's Bar & Grill, a cavernous dive decorated with a collection of wheelchairs. The bartenders' T-shirts relay important information: Tomorrow, Al's will hold its eighth-annual Testicle Festival.
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  Erika Nelson with her traveling art exhibit (Morgan & Owens) |
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Day 3: Wilson to Nickerson
As far as I can tell, everything in Kansas shuts down on Sunday mornings, so we spend the first part of the day relaxing in the sun, watching people fish in Wilson Lake, which locals know as "the clearest lake in Kansas."
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