This past January 29th proved to be another interesting and informative day for those who attended the Celebrate Winfield History  program. If you were not able to attend or if you would just like another copy of the 2011 program booklet,  please send for one now.   Booklets from previous years can also be purchased and shipped to you.   Each booklet covers at least four topics and sells for $10.00 dollars + $3.00 shipping and handling ($13.00).  Please send your order along with a check, to cover the costs, to the Cowley County Historical Society,  1011 Mansfield Street,  Winfield, KS 67156.  If you have any questions please call 1-620-221-4811 or e-mail cchsm@kans.com

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2011  Edwin P. Greer:  Editor and Winfield Town-Builder by Dave Seaton,  History of Cowley College: by Rama Peroo              

          and Stu Osterthun,  Stuart Mossman:  Winfield’s Master Guitar Maker by Sue Birney  and  Leighton Price     

          Ravenscroft: 1860-1945  A Life Dedicated to Service by Jerry Wallace.

2010  Memorial Park: Winfield’s Own Battleground by Gary Brewer,   A Century of Winfield Pipe Organs by James

          Leland,   How “Curly Vaughan made Winfield the Tennis Capital of the Midwest by Robert E. Hartley,  and                  

          Edwin Cassander Manning:  the Founder of Winfield, Kansas by Jerry Wallace,

2009  The Story of Southwestern College: Its Beginnings by Jerry Wallace,   Service Above Self: A History of the

          of the Winfield Rotary Club by Dorothy Flottman,   Painting Winfield’s Story  by Teresa Covacevich Grana,

          The Mission Came to Us: Early Lao Immigration to Winfield, 1978-1982 by Glenda Schmidt and The

          Cowley County Historical Society Museum, 1987-2008: Financial Solvency and a New Look by Jerry Aistrup.

2008  Bill Caton: Winfield’s Architect by Don Potter,  William Newton Memorial Hospital:  The Early Years,  1927-

          1937 by Sharon Taylor,   Play Ball!  Winfield and  The Era of Free Night League Baseball, 1939-1958 by

          Robert E. Hartley,  The Jack Welfelt Story: Building Modern Winfield by Jerry Wallace,   Harry L. Hart:

          Heart and Soul of Winfield by Robert E. Hartley,  The Cowley County Historical Society Museum: Its Early   

          Years: 1966 to 1986 by Roland Mueller.

2007  A Handshake and a Promise:  The History of Corner Bank, N.A. by Gloria L. Ulbrich,   Land and Buildings

          of St. John’s College, 1936-1986  by Wallace Behrhorst,   And the Band Plays On:  the Winfield Municipal

          Band, 1895-2006 by Rae Lynne and John Baker,  And The Winner is: The Walnut Valley Association

          Contests, 1972-2006 by Jeannine and Edward  Foster, The Cowley County Historical Society Celebrates

          Its 75th Anniversary, 1931-2006 by Jerry Wallace.

2006  The Great Winfield Anti-Saloon Uprising of February 1901 by Jerry Wallace,   Strother Army Air Field: A

          Tale of two Cities by Mike Lind,   Ollie Thomas and the Boys Who Made Him Winfield’s Mr. Basketball by

          Robert E. Hartley, and  A Day in the Life of Frontier Winfield: October 3, 1879 by Bill Bottorff,

2005  Land and Building of St. John’s College, 1893-1936 by Wallace Behrhorst,   Winfield State Hospital: The

          Early Years by David Seaton,   The Winfield Community Theater: 1967-2005 by Warren Andreas,   and Old