Sunday August 15, 2010 Colby Kansas

Well, it finally cooled off...temperature was 82 at the highest today, very comfortable and pleasant. We started off at the Eisenhower Farm home, Library and Museum. It is a wonderful place. Ike looks just like his mother. If you put an army hat on her you could not tell the difference. The museum centered mostly around his philosophy, his tendency to detest war, many of his speeches, an automobile which belonged to his parents, his liberation of Europe, and his presidency. I did not know that we can thank him for the highway system throughout our nation. But he did see to it that we got a national highway system. The library was open, but they were having an art show there and the art was yucky, so we left. Then onto the Memorial Hall which is the gravesight of Ike, Mamie and one of their sons.....a very beautiful chapel, peaceful and serene. The Eisenhower home tour was brief and they did not allow us to go upstairs, but we got to see the living room, one of the bedrooms where the grandfather came to live, and the kitchen. We were there for almost 3 hours looking at everything and I took a gazillion pictures which I'll try and upload tomorrow because it is a very slow process this evening. Maybe too many people using yahoo, who knows.

We then proceeded down the 70 freeway and came upon a lovely church, St. Ann's which I have included here. Then the most magnificent church appeared on the horizon, St. Fidelis or the Cathedral of the Prairie. It was built by Russian and German immigrants who were fleeing their homelands because the Catholic faith was being threatened. They build that lovely church over a period of 3 years, for a sum of $132,000.00 in donations from 1908-1911 and each family was expected to haul in at least 6 cartloads of brick making materials from the quarries nearby. The Russians got disgusted and left, but the Germans stayed. There is a monument to them across the street. More later.