Moving Companies and moving services Kansas, KS

     What can you say about a state whose official song is "Home on the Range"? Kansas is the heart of America's heartland. Geographically, Kansas is in the dead center of the U.S. Culturally, Kansas straddles the line between West and Midwest: endless fields of corn and wheat blanket the state, but traces of the Old West - like Boot Hill and Fort Hays, where Wild Bill Hickok was a marshal - are all around.

     Kansas also straddles the line between past and present, even myth and reality. Wichita and Kansas City, leaders in advanced aerospace manufacturing and financial services, point the way to a globalized future. Statewide institutions like the University of Kansas and Kansas State are intent on preparing future generations for it. But visiting tiny Abilene, Kansas - the picture perfect hometown of Dwight Eisenhower - it's hard not to be a little nostalgic. Visiting the Wizard of Oz Museum in equally tiny Liberal, Kansas - and seeing a recreation of Dorothy's house - it's just a little difficult to keep straight which Kansas is real and which is imagined.

     Now that you're moving to Kansas, you'll want to get a few facts straight:

• Topeka is Kansas' state capital. The state's capitol building took 37 years to complete, from 1866-1903, at a cost of $3.2 million. But once you see it you'll know why it was worth it.
• 2,688,418 people live in Kansas (a.k.a. The Sunflower State). The largest cities are Wichita, Kansas City, Topeka and Overland Park.
• Farming dominates Kansas' economy, but it isn't the only game around. Kansas also produces zinc, coal, salt and lead as well as petroleum products. Kansas City is a major meat-packing and transportation hub. Wichita is a center for private, commercial and military aerospace industries.
• They may call Chicago the Windy City, but technically Dodge City, Kansas is the windiest town in America.
• In 1874, Kansas was in the middle of a "grasshopper plague." Millions of the insects were roaming Kansas in devastating swarms. That same year, the First Methodist Church was being built in Hutchinson, Kansas. The Pastor refused to stop construction, and as a result, thousands of the bugs were mixed into the concrete and mortar of the Church, where you can still see them today.
• Kansas hunting and fishing regulations prevent sportsmen from using mules to hunt ducks.