On February 14th, the High Plains Museum would like you to be our Valentine! The High Plains Museum is hosting a Valentine's Date Night for Parents! Drop your kids off at the High Plains Museum from 6:00 to 8:00 PM on February 14th and go enjoy a date with your sweetheart. The kids will be treated
Hello all! It's Sami and I'm here to tell you what I did today. Today as some of you know we got some snow. Not as much as forecasted, but snow none the less. So to let you all know that the museum was still open I called into the KLOE radio with Curtis Duncan during the "Marketplace" segment
Welcome February! This month at the High Plains Museum we will be offering some new activities for the public to enjoy beginning with "First Week" events. Goodland's "First Week" is a collaborative effort between the High Plains Museum, Carnegie Arts Center and the Goodland Public Library to offer
Welcome to the "Day in the Life of an Educator" blog series! This will be a new series written by me (Hello!), that features a behind the scenes look at activities and education development going on at the museum. My name is Sami Philbrick and I am the High Plains Museum Education Coordinator.
In the library facing 8th Street is a beautiful stained glass window. The window is of a train and is entitled Old ‘Engine 99.’ The train is representative of a railroad that used to come through Goodland. That railroad was the Chicago, Kansas & Nebraska Railway and it brought the firs
Black Kettle was a wild horse that used to roam freely in Sherman County with a number of other wild horses before it was settled. Black Kettle became famous because it seemed no man could catch him. It was told that his mane and tail were so long that when resting they reached the ground. Man
The Sherman County Theater has had quite a journey to get where it is today. Before we had this theater there were three other theaters in town; the Crystal Theater, the Only Theater, and the Lyric Theater. These were placed in existing buildings around town including the Goodland State Bank and
Come join us at the High Plains Museum for Kansas Day January 29, 2012 from 1-4 P.M. Enjoy fun and games, snacks, and a great opportunity to interact with the family friendly “K is for Kansas”, and view the beautiful sights of Kansas in “Considering the Commonplace” photography exhibit. He
Goodland's skyline, much like the skyline of many Great Plains towns, is marked by grain elevators. Goodland has several grain elevators along the railroad that extend along the edge of town (forming a typical "T" town shape to Goodland). (more…)