You can take the well-traveled, globally renowned celebrity journalist out of Southeast Kansas, but you can’t take Southeast Kansas out of its prairie-pining native son. At 83, still producing acclaimed media works, hobnobbing with influencers and reflecting on a long and accomplished career as one of the world’s most recognizable broadcast journalists, SEK is still where Bill Kurtis often longs to be. Specifically, on his beloved Red Buffalo Ranch near Sedan. “I want to go there right now. It’s what I think about all the time,” said Kurtis in a recent interview from his home in Mettawa, Illinois, north of Chicago.
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