Travel: Postcard from Abilene, Kansas
Anyone who has ever done a cross-country road trip on Interstate Highway 70 has passed through Abilene, Kansas.
This city with its population of 6,460 souls at the last census is one of those quintessential small towns. Note I didn’t describe it as Midwest, as I reject the argument some Kansans make that their state is somehow not part of the surrounding Great Plains. That dispute aside, Abilene looks and feels like the definition of Small Town, U.S.A.
Notwithstanding all the small-town charm, which is in and of itself a draw, Abilene’s real claim to fame is General of the Army and President Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969).