After leaving Oklahoma we continued west to Kansas, and there we stayed with Jeanne & Garland Richardson, in Council Grove. They were kind enough to take us on a tour of the area, and one of the wonderful pieces of architecture that we saw, and photographed was in the adjacent town of Cottonwood Springs, where we came across the Chase County Courthouse. The building and its attendant marker were a reminder of a previous time when such buildings were taken very seriously by the municipalities that built them, and they customarilly had to have a truly "gravitas" demeanor and style.
In the evening we dined with the Richardson's at the Hayes House Hotel in Council Grove, in their restaurant that was located on the ground and basement floors of a building that had been in continuous use as a hotel since the time of the frontier expansion in the west, and which was located directly on the Santa Fe trail.
In one of those coincidences that frequently mark our travels, the chef had been born in the Tompkins County Hospital in Ithaca, New York, while his father had been attending the Veterinary School at Cornell.
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