Carnegie Center presents art, art and more art

If you're name-dropping in the tourism world, you would certainly want to include the American Bus Association, which represents over 1,000 motorcoach and tour companies in the United States and Canada, and GLAMER (Group Leaders of America), which represents 20,000 travel planners who make travel plans for 4.5 million group travelers annually.

Not everyone has the instinct to preserve history.

Artist Dennis Schiel is something of an oddity: a man who lived in Colorado and moved to Kansas.
    Schiel and his wife found themselves looking to make a change when all their children were off to college. They decided to look at towns along the interstate, which would make visits to the kids easier.
    "When we got to Hays," Schiel said in a recent interview with the Globe, "I was excited to see how supportive the Hays community was of the arts. As I've traveled around the state, I've come to realize that support of the arts is a state characteristic. Kansas is a hidden treasure for the arts."

  For motorcycle enthusiasts and their families, Saturday's Thunder on the Plains rally offered plenty of opportunities to indulge in their hobby.

All art forms require inspired use of color, design and texture. Most art forms also require mastery of some technical skill: use of a brush, manipulating clay, using a camera.
    Bruce Bitter's art requires the artistic eye and compositional skills of a painter. It also requires some skill with a plasma torch.

What's going on around the area for the week of August 21.

When you think of county seat wars, you might imagine some lively town hall meetings, a hotly contested election or some angry editorials in the local papers.
    In Gray County in 1889, things went a little farther than that. In fact, when Cimarron residents tell you how to locate the county courthouse that was the location for many of the disputes, they tell you to look for a building with sandblasted brick and bullet holes.'

The current exhibit at the Carnegie Center for the Arts showcases the work of area artists ages 65 and over, and the variety is impressive.

More visitors are streaming through the gates of the Wright Park Zoo this year.
    Average attendance at the zoo started to rise in March and April and has continued to climb since then, zookeeper Tony Hornberger told the Globe on Tuesday.

Walk a mile in someone's shoes before you judge them.
    It's two things: sound advice and also the current exhibit at the 5.4.7. Arts Center in Greensburg.