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Cheryl Unruh

  • An old-fashioned windmill stands atop the wind-swept winter landscape of northwest Kansas, near St. Francis. (Photo by J. Schafer)
    Commentaries
    Finding Hope in the Bleak Midwinter of Kansas
    Cheryl Unruh
    Kansas winters don't provide much color. The barren countryside can be described as bland and barren. But symbols of hope can still be found in these dark days of late January. Even in the bleak midwinter, Commentator Cheryl Unruh believes there's something hopeful hidden in the landscape... and in the stars above.
  • An artist's rendition of the dark, mysterious and icy orb known as Pluto. This summer, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft should give us a more definitive picture of the so-called "dwarf planet," discovered by Kansan Clyde Tombaugh.
    Commentaries
    A Kansan in the Cosmos; Man Meets Pluto
    Cheryl Unruh
    This summer, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft will fly by Pluto, the mysterious planet first identified in 1930 by Clyde Tombaugh, of Burdett, Kansas. Commentator Cheryl Unruh tells us about the man and his amazing discovery.
  • Tumbleweeds, piling up on the prairie. This cemetery fence in Ford County has captured several of the rolling weeds. (Photo by Cheryl Unruh)
    Commentaries
    Kansas: Land of Tumbling Tumbleweeds
    Cheryl Unruh
    It's tumbleweed season and these hazards of the highway are piling up across the prairies of western Kansas.
  • Commentaries
    Death of a Church
    Cheryl Unruh
    Commentator Cheryl Unruh is the author of the book: Flyover People: Life on the Ground in a Rectangular State. She also writes a weekly column for the Emporia Gazette. Find more of Cheryl's work online, at FlyOverPeople.net.-----------------------------------------Here's a version of Cheryl Unruh's commentary "as it aired" on Kansas Public Radio. (You know, with music and such.)00000184-7fa7-d6f8-a1cf-7fa73cec0006Interior of Bergthal Mennonite Church, near Pawnee Rock. The congregation was established in 1875. This church building, which will soon be dismantled, was constructed in 1915.Production assistance for this commentary was provided by KPR News intern Sixuan Wu, a KU senior from China, majoring in journalism.
  • The common, wild sunflower (helianthus annuus) is the official state flower of Kansas.
    Commentaries
    We're Part of Kansas and It's Part of Us
    Cheryl Unruh
    KPR Commentator Cheryl Unruh is the author of the book Flyoverpeople: Life on the Ground in a Rectangular State. She's also a columnist for the Emporia Gazette. You'll find this commentary on the KPR website... and you'll find more of Cheryl's work on her own website: FlyoverPeople.net.
  • Kansas highway, heading west as the sun goes down (Photo by J. Schafer)
    Commentaries
    A Return to Mayberry
    Cheryl Unruh
    Downtown Pawnee Rock, Kan. ...from a long time ago. (Photo Courtesy of Cheryl Unruh) Our modern, technology-driven lives can be busy, stressful and complicated. Many of us long for a slower pace and a simpler time. Commentator Cheryl Unruh knows just where to go...when life gets hectic. 00000184-7fa7-d6f8-a1cf-7fa73b690000 Commentator Cheryl Unruh is the author of the book: " Flyover People: Life on the Ground in a Rectangular State." She also writes a weekly column for the Emporia Gazette.