It is the picture of our pride and our shame braided together like the river the Kaw once was.
We gashed the prairie to raise wheat.
We fed ourselves and others from the land.
Now we harvest the runoff farmland to produce electricity by the clean force of gravity as the Kaw carries the snow and the rain to the sea.
There's river sand in the concrete;
the steel came by rails that are present but unseen in this picture.
We did all of it.
Now we must do things better with less harm.
The sun is on our side.
Kansas - admitted to the Union as a free state with blood on our hands January 29, 1861
Ad astra per aspera
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