Lucas, Kansas
Worlds Largest Things
Worlds Smallest Versions of the Worlds Largest Things Museum. Located just south of the Garden of Eden. Also see Erika Nelsons Art Car "Scout"....
Worlds Largest Things
The Worlds Largest Souvenir Travel Plate is a 14' satellite dish painted with the history of Lucas and the Lucas area. Honoring the multiple Outsider Art environments that have flourished in Lucas since the early 1900s, the World'
Lucas, KS One Of A KindsBeing in a small prairie town in central Kansas, on a quiet residential street, a concrete Adam and Eve greet you;
Lucas, KS One Of A KindsThe Grassroots Art Center has been open since 1995 and occupies three turn-of-the century native limestone buildings on the Main Street of Lucas. The main building was a bank until the bank holiday in 1933; it did not re-open as a bank but became the town's post office;
Lucas, KS Historic BuildingsFlorence Deeble was a child watching with curiosity, when S.P. Dinsmoor was constructing his Garden of Eden in Lucas. When she retired after a career as a high school English and history teacher, she began constructing her own grassroots environment of colored concrete scenes around her home.
Lucas, KS ArtsDuring the twentieth century Lucas, a unique, rural town in north central Kansas, has been a Mecca for Grassroots artists. Grassroots Art is described as individualistic self-taught, often eccentric senior citizens, who have a
Lucas, KS ArtsWaconda was the daughter of a great Chief. She became infatuated with the son of another chief of a hostile tribe. The intima...
George Washington Carver made Minneapolis, Kansas his hometown from 1880-1884, when he graduated from Minneapolis High School...
In 1867, a party of travelers were transporting three threshing machines belonging to Brigham Young along the Smoky Hill Trai...