There is a Long Island just below the Kansas border with Nebraska, between the Elk and Prairie Dog Creeks. It’s apparently the creeks that gave the area its name. When swollen with rain, they cut off the land in between until it appeared to be an island rising from the surrounding plains.

Long Island is also the home town of Carrie Cox and on today’s episode she describes what it was like growing up in a small town on the family farm. We discuss the local sites and legends, the value of history in the tourism industry, and the success of the Northern Valley Huskies.

Further Research

• Travel Tales from Long Island, Kansas
• Monument Rocks, Kansas
• Northern Valley Huskies Sports
• Long Island, Kansas Meteorite
• Grasshopper Plague of 1874
• Intro music: https://homegrownstringband.com/
• Outro music: Capering by Blue Dot Sessions CC BY-NC 4.0