When Cawker City farmer Frank Stoeber began making a ball out of the twine that littered the floor of his barn on Dec. 24, 1953, he had no idea that ball would one day grow into a popular tourist ...

The Midwest has no shortage of wide-open highways, but what makes a plains-state drive memorable are the gloriously strange things waiting just off the interstate. Corn-covered buildings, car ...

Tourists are flocking to Kansas to see world's largest ball of twine The beginning of the world's largest ball of sisal twine dates back to 1953, when a Cawker City farmer looked at the floor of his ...