Except for some broken glass globes on the lamp posts out front (and what kid can resist throwing a rock at such a target?) the dark red brick building is in good shape on the outside. The grounds are trim and neat. It sits across the street is Cowley County Community College.

Highway 166 ends at South Haven, Kansas. We take South Highway 81 to Caldwell. The countryside is different from what we’ve seen so far this trip. There are verdant green wheat fields, some reaching almost to the door of the farmhouse they surround. We see cotton fields.