Tag: Mark Twain

  • In the prologue of the Charlie Edwards project, the tumultuous 1870s drive Charles Cadwallader Sellers and his family westward to Edwards County, Kansas, after their family business collapses. Embracing new opportunities, Sellers navigates frontier challenges while instilling cultural values in…

    Reinvention: The Sellers Family Goes West
  • Long before Charlie Edwards produced Shakespeare for thousands, the plays had already become part of everyday life on the Great Plains.

    Building Kinsley, Reading Twain and Shakespeare
  • 100 years ago today, a prolific and remarkable era in history ended in Kinsley, Kansas. On June 1, 1926, one of Kinsley’s most well-known native sons, Charles Rufus Edwards, passed away; he was only forty-five years old. In his short…

    100 Years Ago Today, an Era Ended in Kinsley, Kansas