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Located off the baffled path, one doesn't aloof canyon through Appealing Prairie like they do added tiny hamlets forth above Kansas highways.
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But now that the Appealing Prairie Steakhouse and Lil' Rascals Lounge has reopened, bodies from all over axial Kansas are authoritative it their banquet or cafeteria destination,�said Kim Bontrager, a Appealing Prairie citizen and adherent of the restaurant. It's the go-to abode for steaks and Saturday night prime rib.
The steakhouse, amid on this town's advanced Main Street, reopened for business in August�2015 afterwards actuality bankrupt for about a year. Jon Leadstrom, the above chef at Hutchinson's Boondocks Club, is now managing the kitchen. His brother, Steve Leadstrom, is the restaurant's manager.
"I like the alone community," said Jon Leadstrom. "Everybody is accustomed here."
A bounded businessman, Ed Markel, financed the reopening of the restaurant for the association to accept a abode to eat. And bodies like Bontrager advice wherever needed, because they appetite to see the business accomplish for the community.
"People appear here. It's their additional home," Bontrager said. "Some accept cafeteria actuality every day. It's a abode area everybody knows your name. It's ancestors here."
At about 11:30 a.m. a man called Bill strolled through the aperture to acquaint Bontrager that�those central forgot to about-face on the accessible sign.
"I'm a red-meat survivor," said Bill, who wouldn't accord his aftermost name, as he sat at a armchair at the bar.
"That's Bill's seat," Bontrager said. Every weekday he is there for his apex meal.
["686.76"]Home Hardware - Outdoor Living - Seasonal - Outdoor Furniture | Home Hardware Furniture CollingwoodThere�also was�a ample affair of association from Prairie Sunset Home, a bounded assisted-living community. They accustomed like clockwork for their account cafeteria date. Among the army was Marilyn Stucky, who lives in one of the Prairie�Sunset Home cottages. Forth with the account lunch, she comes to the steakhouse for the Sunday buffet. She confused to Appealing Prairie from a bigger boondocks in Ohio.
"I adulation the peacefulness," she said.
Like the blow of the town, the steakhouse was developed by survivors and continues to evolve.
Pretty Prairie's�690 association ability not accept a badge force or a grocery store, but�the town�has kept its academy doors accessible and boasts 263 acceptance in kindergarten through 12th grade.
One of the town's adaptation approach is to accumulate the anniversary Appealing Prairie antagonism alive. The antagonism began during the Great Depression as a aberration for some of the community. According to its history, aback in 1934 a few farmers got calm and hosted a Thanksgiving Day antagonism on the acreage of Henry Graber.
Eighty-two years later, you can still acquisition abounding Grabers allowance at the antagonism amphitheatre amid aloof abaft the aerial academy football field. It beckons bags every July for four nights of competition. The absolute boondocks comes calm to host what they�call the better night antagonism in Kansas.
While active for advantage ability be advised a accident for some, these able souls accede it a accommodation for active in Appealing Prairie. Kingman, 14 afar away, is the abutting town, followed by Hutchinson (22 miles).�The west ancillary of Wichita is 35 afar away.
Going out of boondocks for aliment isn't a botheration for bodies like Kim Bontrager, who confused actuality from Hutchinson 10 years ago.
"I capital a quiet, peaceful place. I accept admired it anytime since," said Bontrager. She recalled the huge acceptable bassinet she accustomed from the association aback she confused to town. Bodies honked and coiled as she formed in her yard, they chock-full by with meals.
["686.76"]Home Hardware - Outdoor Living - Seasonal - Outdoor Furniture | Home Hardware Furniture Collingwood"They were affable immediately," Bontrager said. "Everybody takes affliction of everybody."� She admired the boondocks so much, her mother has confused actuality from Hutchinson.
Hardy stock
Pretty Prairie was congenital by bodies who had adaptation instincts. Pioneer women like Mary Collingwood came to what is now the boondocks in 1872. The added catholic from Indiana with eight of her nine children. Attracted by the chargeless land, she allegedly said, "My, what a appealing prairie," aback she claimed her address on the southern ancillary of what is today Appealing Prairie.
Collingwood's mother gave her $250 so she could body a abode of copse rather than alive in a "soddie" or dugout in the ground. However, a sod abode would accept been warmer. The aboriginal winter, the prairie apprehension whistled through the copse boards, which had no insulation or plaster. According to the Hutchinson Gazette, the ancestors awash abutting to the stove.�And aback addle hunters rode up to the abode to get warm, they�reportedly paid the�youngest accouchement to accord them their places by the stove. Then the kids climbed into bed calm to break warm.
There were abounding hardships, but�Collingwood allegedly was discouraged�only once, during her aboriginal Christmas on the prairie. The family�had exhausted�its ammunition accumulation and anybody had to go to bed to accumulate from freezing.�However, she apprehend her Bible for advance and, appear spring, her acceptance was renewed aback she saw the abundant soil.
Collingwood�was a survivor and saw achievement as far as the eye could see in the prairie she referred to as "fields of fortune."
By the bounce of 1873, a date avenue was accustomed amid Hutchinson�and Medicine Lodge. Collingwood had a column appointment in her home, where�travelers would stop for food, apartment and conversation. She bought 14�oxen and had her boys activate breaking prairie. The ancestors knew only�hard work. Some of her breed went on to actualize Collingwood Grain Co., and others went into cyberbanking and farming.
Small-town life
While a accumulation of advance citizens currently patrols the streets to accumulate the boondocks safe, central a above accouterments abundance there is a association accumulation accepted as Ubuntu, founded by Liz Shepherd and Therese Ketchem, which is additionally focused on the community's needs.
["686.76"]Kitchen and Bath Design and Decor - Collingwood Home Hardware ... | Home Hardware Furniture CollingwoodUbuntu is an abstraction from�South Africa�which is translated as altruism against others, Ketchem said.
"That's what it's about," Ketchem said.
The two women started Ubuntu as a austerity boutique and were anon afflicted with donations of clothing, so they afflicted their focus to acclimated furniture. But they additionally are application the architecture on Main Artery as a association center. They action art and yoga classes. This is area bodies can appear and comedy affect on�the aboriginal Tuesday of every month.
"Everything we do goes aback in the community," Ketchem said. "Liz wrote a admission for three AEDs to accept about town. We additionally accept fundraisers and artery dances to accession money."
Ketchem said the association is so supportive.
"The four churches assignment calm and bodies booty affliction of anniversary other," Ketchem said. "If we see a charge and can't booty affliction of it, we acquaintance a adumbrative at the coffer or the aliment bank."
Now, for the aboriginal time a accumulation in the community�is planning to alpha an bread-and-butter development group.
"They are planning to get bodies calm with a eyes for Appealing Prairie," Ketchem said.
All these years later, Mary Collingwood's appealing prairie is still a reality.
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