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The Worlds Largest Souvenir Travel Plate is a 14' satellite dish painted with the history of Lucas and the Lucas area.

Honoring the multiple Outsider Art environments that have flourished in Lucas since the early 1900s, the World's Largest Souvenir Travel Plates depict those environments alongside a visual history of the town.

The dish itself is 14' in diameter, formed from a large fiberglass satellite dish with another, smaller dish mounted inside as the center medallion. Lots of local help went into realizing the project, with the City of Lucas crew providing labor, cement, and engineering expertise and the local telephone company providing one of their decommissioned communications dishes. Funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, the large travel plate was painted during September, October, and a little bit of November 2006 on-site, alongside state highway K-18.

13.5' diameter, decommissioned satellite dish painted with OneShot on-site, Sept. 4 - Nov. 8th 2006 by Erika Nelson

Funded by an NEA Challenge America grant through the Lucas Arts and Humanities Council The plate was donated by Wilson Telephone Company The site was donated by J. Jean Mettlin.

A guide to the depictions on the plate can be studied at http://www.worldslargestthings.com/kansas/travelplateinfo.htm

Attractions and Upcoming Events

Postrock Limestone Courtyard

A three million acre formation in central Kansas is known as post rock limestone. Cutting of this post rock grew out of the uniqueness of the land and the needs and inventiveness of early settlers. From 1870-1920, limestone was the only building material used in this area. By the mid 1880

Lucas, KS Arts

World's Largest Souvenir Travel Plate

The Worlds Largest Souvenir Travel Plate is a 14' satellite dish painted with the history of Lucas and the Lucas area. Honoring the multiple Outsider Art environments that have flourished in Lucas since the early 1900s, the World'

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Art Center Building

The Grassroots Art Center has been open since 1995 and occupies three turn-of-the century native limestone buildings on the Main Street of Lucas. The main building was a bank until the bank holiday in 1933; it did not re-open as a bank but became the town's post office;

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Brant's Meat Market

Stop by Brant's Meat Market and sample some of Doug's homemade bolonga fresh from the smokehouse. His specialty meats are made from family recipes passed down for three generations occupying this same downtown Lucas building.

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Ed Root Sculptures

Ed Root farmed south of Lucas until an automobile accident forced an early

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Things to do near Lucas, KS

The Delphos Kansas UFO Landing Ring

Old Dutch Mill

The Organ Factory

Plymouth Stone Schoolhouse

Webster Lake Hunting