The Kyner grain elevator that towers over the main street in Wilson, Kansas, hasn’t been in service for well over half a century. Most passers by look at the silos and see a relic of the past. David Criswell sees mountains. Criswell, 60, is a former mayor of Wilson, a purveyor of raw Kansas honey and a passionate goat apologist — they’re “largely misunderstood” creatures, he says — and he has a vision for the defunct silos no less quirky than one might expect from a town of 836 whose claim to fame is the world’s largest painted Czech egg. Criswell wants to turn seven 40-foot-tall concrete silos into an attraction called the Mountains of the Prairie, outfitting them with scaffolding and introducing a herd of sure-footed Nigerian dwarf goats rebranded as “Kansas mountain goats.”
Source: Wichita Eagle
