Big Kansas Road Trip showcases Cherokee County attractions

  • Columbus Chamber of Commerce Director Jean Pritchett showed the Hirsch family from Hope around the community building during the Big Kansas Road Trip. Joe Hirsch, his wife, Nakita, their son, Lane and daughter, Iris, got a chance to check out the mural painted by Duke Wellington that hangs in the building’s main conference room. Photo by Jacob Spencer
    Columbus Chamber of Commerce Director Jean Pritchett showed the Hirsch family from Hope around the community building during the Big Kansas Road Trip. Joe Hirsch, his wife, Nakita, their son, Lane and daughter, Iris, got a chance to check out the mural painted by Duke Wellington that hangs in the building’s main conference room. Photo by Jacob Spencer
    A spotlight was shined on all that Cherokee County has to offer thanks to the Big Kansas Road Trip. The tourism event ran by the Kansas Sampler Foundation saw a mass of new faces get introduced to the southeast Kansas community from May 5 to May 8, including the Hirsch family from Hope. Now in their third year of the program, the Big Kansas Road Trip has made efforts to travel to a nu...

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