Jonathan Huber

Sep 20, 2024 | hppr.org | Jonathan Huber

Wayne Steadham says he has attended every Walnut Valley Festival. Counting this year, that’s 52. He was living in Winfield when organizers announced the first festival in 1972, originally called the “Walnut Valley Bluegrass Festival and National Flat-Picking Championship.” It was changed to “Walnut Valley Festival” in 1980. Musicians Dan Crary, Lester Flatt, New Grass Revival, and Doc and Merle Watson were some of the performers at the inaugural festival held at the Cowley County Fairgrounds.

Sep 20, 2024 | kmuw.org | Jonathan Huber

Wayne Steadham says he has attended every Walnut Valley Festival. Counting this year, that’s 52. He was living in Winfield when organizers announced the first festival in 1972, originally called the “Walnut Valley Bluegrass Festival and National Flat-Picking Championship.” It was changed to “Walnut Valley Festival” in 1980. Musicians Dan Crary, Lester Flatt, New Grass Revival, and Doc and Merle Watson were some of the performers at the inaugural festival held at the Cowley County Fairgrounds.

May 31, 2024 | kmuw.org | Jonathan Huber

Paul Bowen has spent his life behind the camera taking pictures of aircraft … from other aircraft. He said he first started taking pictures at the beach of surfers and sunbathers in his native California. He originally came to Wichita in the early 1970s to direct a halfway house for a church but eventually found a job assisting a commercial photographer.

May 31, 2023 | kmuw.org | Jonathan Huber