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A crowd of about 1,200 people attended a concert by cowboy laureate Michael Martin Murphey Sunday evening in downtown Florence as part of the annual Labor Day Celebration. The Diamond W Wranglers entertained before Murphey took the stage.
Steve Walker of Winfield’s Smokin’ Behind the Barn barbecue contest visits with contestant Lionel Cunningham, left, of Tarpon Springs, Fla. The KCBS cook-off took place Sunday during the Florence Labor Day celebration. Walker and Dallas Jordan are organizers of the Winfield contest and visited the Florence contest. Those who competed in both the Winfield and Florence competitions were eligible to win an additional purse of $1,400, offered by the two sanctioned contests.
Jayne Timm, 6, granddaughter of Rick and Vickie Turner, helps her grandparents make cotton candy Monday for the parade crowd at the Florence Labor Day celebration.
Spectators were impressed and disturbed by photographs of the Dust Bowl Days in Kansas during the 1930s. The photographs were on display Monday during the Florence Labor Day Celebration in the Florence Ambulance Building, downtown Florence. Ed Root of Florence was among those who look and read of the challenges facing Kansans during that dismal period. The photographs were provided by the Kansas State Historical Society.
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