William Van Volkenburg

(To listen to the audio of this blog post, use the purple play button.)   · Sheriff Fay F. Brown's Badge: "We Lost Our Home" At 11 o'clock, the evening of May 7, 1927, many citizens of Hutchinson, Kansas, heard the sound of a freight train approaching their homes. * If Cora and Fay Brown hadn’t scheduled a couple of hours off work, away for their residence at the county jail, they would have never found time to see a movie at Hutchinson’s Midland Theater. On Friday … [Read more...] about Sheriff Fay F. Brown’s Badge: “We Lost Our Home”