A group of travel writers touring Southeast Kansas saw small-town revitalization in action Friday during stops in Iola and Humboldt. “The story of Humboldt has inspired a lot of other towns,” said Colby Sharples-Terry, who led the tour on behalf of Kansas Tourism through TravelKS.com. “It’s been revitalized in a very distinct way. Everything even down to the doorknobs has style and grace. It’s done very elegantly. A lot of times when people think ‘small-town American,’ they think rustic. Humboldt shows you can combine the rural aspect and also new age and industrial. “And Iola is just a fabulous community. Their trail system and the businesses and, you know, the big old square.” TravelKS offers organized “familiarization trips” through six regions of the state. This trip attracted three travel bloggers: Craig Silva of Oakville, Ontario, Canada; Cynthia Fogard of Minneapolis, Minn.; and Tonya Denmark of Clearmont, Fla. The three of them came to Kansas from very different places and for different reasons, but all wanted to explore part of the country traditionally seen as “flyover country.”
Source: The Iola Register
