Prairie Hollow Productions

12/01/2024

Our next production focuses on the ranching heritage of Greenwood County

Annual auction of young bulls on the Perrier family ranch -- Dalebanks Angus -- near Eureka, Kansas.

10/30/2024

Recently paid a visit to Teter Rock in Greenwood County as we're gathering footage for our next production. It was a calm, sunny day with the wild horses hanging out nearby.

10/19/2024

REMINDER - Tomorrow at Unity Temple. Screening starts at 2pm.

10/18/2024

Do you know the story behind the effort to “save the tallgrass prairie” & create what became the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve? A number of women played a key role. One of them was a photographer by the name of Patricia Duncan. This clip comes from our documentary about the preserve.

Linda Duke, director of the Beach Museum of Art at Kansas State University, reflects on the role that photographer Patricia Duncan played in promoting the cr...

10/16/2024

If you happen to be in/near Santa Fe on Nov. 21st, Fran Levine will be talking about some of the women associated with the Santa Fe Trail as she launches her new book. Very interesting! If you can't be there in person, the conversation will be carried live on Zoom, too. (Check the bookstore above to register) Fran was one of the historians who helped us tell the story of the trail in The Road to Santa Fe.

10/12/2024

A new Prairie Hollow Production begins to take shape!

Scenes from a cattle roundup on the ranch of Wayne and Marcia Bailey in northern Greenwood County, Kansas. The footage has been recorded for use in a docume...

10/11/2024

REMINDER: Tomorrow (Saturday, 10/12/24) afternoon at St. James Episcopal Church in Wichita -- screening and panel discussion co-sponsored by the Southwind Group of Kansas Sierra Club.

10/07/2024

PRAIRIE MAGIC - That's the name of an art installation at SNW Gallery in Manhattan spotlighting the work of Laura Mead (Prairie Hollow Creations), who creates images on silk scarves using a technique called botanical printing. The opening took place last Thursday evening in conjunction with the annual conference of the Mid-America Printmakers Council during a block party in downtown Manhattan.

08/31/2024

One more chance to catch our show as it's broadcast across western Kansas!

🌍 As our planet warms, extreme weather is increasing. How is climate change impacting us locally, and what's being done about it? Find out in the documentary "Hot Times In The Heartland" - airing Wednesday, September 4th at 8 PM. This powerful film explores research, mitigation efforts, and resilience initiatives happening right here in and to address the climate challenges we face. Don't miss this eye-opening look at confronting climate change in our heartland communities.

08/25/2024

HOT TIMES? Last August, Manhattan hit 115 — highest temp in the nation. Yesterday, it was Medicine Lodge. If you’re still wondering what’s going on….

A preview of the feature-length documentary "Hot Times in the Heartland," produced by Prairie Hollow Productions. For more info: prairiehollow.net/projects

07/10/2024

Thanks to Susan Fleming Holm for instigating a screening of "Hot Times in the Heartland" at Brewster Place in Topeka yesterday. Great participation in the discussion afterwards, too.

If you're connected to a group interested in what's being done locally to address the challenges we face as things continue to heat up, we'd be pleased to arrange a screening! Just click on this link....
https://www.prairiehollow.net/screenings

06/23/2024

Gee, for a while there (just one day), I thought this platform was becoming more open to the dissemination of info about what's happening on our warming planet. But yesterday's approval was followed by today's rejection. They still see this subject as being "too hot." The ad about our podcast has been pulled.

06/21/2024

As the Kaw Nation invites all to come for their rematriation ceremony on their land near Council Grove on Saturday afternoon, here’s my account of the journey of the revered red rock…

A monolith situated in a downtown Lawrence park was the ancestral Kaw Nation prayer rock. Efforts are underway to return it to the Kaw.

06/17/2024

"It's not a belief ... it's what the science tells us is happening." How we know that our world is heating up and what that means to our weather here in Kansas.... such things are explored in the first part of our podcast.

Opening to the documentary "Hot Times in the Heartland," focusing on the scientific research on which our understanding of climate change is based. Those fe...

06/13/2024

As the mercury rises, so does the growing number of hits on our "Hot Times" podcast -- an easy way you can check out what local folks are saying and doing. Check it out by clicking the link below. Council General Knowledge Center

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLswR6OnN3f_khisK7mkN-9zGm_Ud2bb16

06/02/2024

“This is the time that will define whether facts
— evidenced-based thinking — whether that will win.”
—- Maria Ressa

Amid a rise of authoritarians and crackdowns on press freedom worldwide, the future of news and democracy are inextricably linked. Nobel Prize-winning journa...