While Cawker City, Kansas suffers from the same empty Main Street maladies that have devastated most rural towns, something different is going on here. Vacant storefronts have
been turned into dioramas depicting local history. A Twine Walk of painted footprints meanders along the sidewalk (the twisty path is blamed on local high school boys recruited to paint).
Painting replicas of some of the great masters are depicted in the windows...i.e. "American Gothic (with Twine Ball)", as they all have a Ball of Twine 'somewhere' in the picture....