Who boy, isn't this a hoot? After 43 years of every vandalism and violence imaginable, Dist. Court sent me a check for $25 restitution a few days ago. Nearly every upper floor window of original historic handmade glass of Rosalea's Hotel has been shot out (now boarded over). Nearly every windshield of every vehicle I've ever owned has been smashed. Dents, key scratches and spray paint to my vehicles is common. The Valentine Diner Sandwich bar has had every window broken out. A retired sheriff told me the other week that is "just impossible to catch criminals who vandalize in small towns." HUH? Yet I can make a statement and within hours it is all over town. So after 43 years it is impossible to catch a criminal who has done things to try to hurt and destroy me? None?

Once there was even a recorded confession I heard in a Sheriff's office, of someone who broke out nearly every plate glass window of Rosalea's Hotel and the Anchor Oyster Parlor...a.bout 30 years ago or so. Yet nothing could be done to arrest the couple. HUH? And she still roams free and when I ask her about the violence she says "oh that was a long time ago". Well thank you very much--you have helped ruin our historic town and tainted the minds of simple minded people who believe Rosalea deserved your violence because it was never prosecuted.

I understand La Cosa Nostra moved into Harper in the 1920s and perhaps is still here in one form or another? In those days it was farmers with secret stills (including some of my Mennonite brethern) who made hooch for the mobsters to sell. And why do we have "secret" secret tunnels under the streets? And why does a person who demolished one of the underground bases now have a hotshot job in Topeka? Any body smell a rat, and I don't mean a sewer rat.

Of course in the late 60s Harper County mobsters, eerrrrr, business men, got involved in drug trafficking, gun running and who knows what else. Oh the stories I could tell of vehicles rammed thru store windows, pay-offs, people who suddenly left town, unsolved murders, silence, etc. Anyone with fame and clout want to help me co author a book for Kindle? ha ha

So now I seek the people with a sense of history and integrity who will help restore the famous Rosalea's Hotel of 1968! (Patterson House 1883). See that "Donate" button in the side bar? Just click on it ....every dollar counts--$5 or $5,000. Thank you very much for saving an important slice of Kansas history.