Santa Fe Trail Center Educational Activities by Educational Consultant

09/23/2024

08/21/2024

The Barton County Commission will host a National Interest Electric Transmission Corridor town hall meeting beginning at 6 p.m., Tuesday, Aug. 20, at the Crest Theater, 1905 Lakin Ave., Great Bend. The location has changed from previous announcements.

01/18/2023

Host Your Own National Arabian Horse Day Celebration!

Promote Your Farm Events To Arabian Horse Enthusiasts ⤵️
🗓 𝐴𝑑𝑑 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐸𝑣𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝐶𝑎𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑎𝑟 ➡️ www.ahtforms.com/outreach-events/

🧰 Arabian Horse Association'𝑠 𝑀𝑎𝑟𝑘𝑒𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑇𝑜𝑜𝑙𝑘𝑖𝑡 𝑡𝑜 ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑝 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑚𝑜𝑡𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑖𝑛 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑦 ➡️ www.arabianhorses.org/discover/outreach/toolkit

Learn More ➡️ www.arabianhorsepromotionalfund.com/keystone-experience/national-arabian-horse-day

Experience Arabian Horses

09/22/2020

"For a small amount of perspective at this moment, imagine you were born in 1900. When you are 14, World War I starts, and ends on your 18th birthday with 22 million people killed. Later in the year, a Spanish Flu epidemic hits the planet and runs until you are 20. Fifty million people die from it in those two years. Yes, 50 million.

When you're 29, the Great Depression begins. Unemployment hits 25%, global GDP drops 27%. That runs until you are 33. The country nearly collapses along with the world economy. When you turn 39, World War II starts. You aren’t even over the hill yet.

When you're 41, the United States is fully pulled into WWII. Between your 39th and 45th birthday, 75 million people perish in the war and the Holocaust kills six million. At 52, the Korean War starts and five million perish.

At 64 the Vietnam War begins, and it doesn’t end for many years. Four million people die in that conflict. Approaching your 62nd birthday you have the Cuban Missile Crisis, a tipping point in the Cold War. Life on our planet, as we know it, could well have ended. Great leaders prevented that from happening.

As you turn 75, the Vietnam War finally ends. Think of everyone on the planet born in 1900. How do you survive all of that? A kid in 1985 didn’t think their 85 year old grandparent understood how hard school was. Yet those grandparents (and now great grandparents) survived through everything listed above.

Perspective is an amazing art. Let’s try and keep things in perspective. Let’s be smart, help each other out, and we will get through all of this. In the history of the world, there has never been a storm that lasted. This too, shall pass."

Photo by Lewis Hine

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08/27/2020

Travelers from across the nation stop at the Gift Shop and purchase local paintings such as this one.