100th Anniversary Kansas Statehood

100th Anniversary Kansas Statehood
100th Anniversary Kansas Statehood

Over at Virdian’s Postcard Blog the theme for this week’s Sunday Stamps meme is “flowers” and she has posted a gorgeous Chinese stamp featuring a sunflower. Sunflowers are one of my favourite flowers too – whilst on family holidays in France as a child I remember being amazed the first time I saw fields and fields of them growing and was delighted to discover that sunflower cultivation is also widespread here in Italy too, where I now live. With that in mind I thought I would share this 4 cent Kansas Statehood Centennial commemorative stamp issued on 10 May 1961 and featuring a sunflower, with an early pioneer couple standing in front of a stockade in the background.

Kansas, for anybody who lives outside the United States, is familiar to us from popular culture. I only really know three things about Kansas: the first is what I’ve gleaned from the lyrics of the Rodgers and Hammerstein show tune (I’m in Love with) a Wonderful Guy from the musical South Pacific that famously begins with the line I’m as corny as Kansas in August; the second is that young Superman, back when he was still Clark Kent, grew up in the fictitious Kansas town of Smallville; and last, but by no means least, that Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz, lived in the tornado prone state – Judy Garland’s line Toto, I’ve a feeling we’re not in Kansas any more, is a part of cinema history.

5 replies on “100th Anniversary Kansas Statehood”

Since I’m a Kansas girl, I think I need this stamp. Love the images on the stamp. You should visit my blog—everything is (almost) Kansas inspired on the background.

It is a nicely balanced stamp. Like you the first time I saw fields of sunflowers was in France. Wonderful sight. I always imagine Kansas as being huge, didn’t bison use to roam there, so perhaps the fields it will be on an even bigger scale.

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