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Lyn Fenwick
St. John News
Recently, I was invited to speak at the Stafford County History Museum, where I did so much research for my book, Prairie Bachelor, The Story of a Kansas Homesteader and the Populist Movement. I chose for the theme of my talk, The importance of Small Town Museums. Michael Hathaway and the board members arranged a wonderful afternoon, displaying some of the reference sources at their museum that I used in my research. Particularly important was having access to the actual populist newspapers from that era. Part of that was seeing the political cartoons, and I shared one of my favorites, which is among the images included in my book. It is called The Plutocrat And His Toy, illustrating the Populist opinion that the large newspapers slanted the news to favor the wealthy. I surprised everyone by bringing one of my own childhood toys an example of the toy used in the cartoon.