Editing Liberal, Kansas (section)

==Arts and culture==
[[File:Baker Arts Center, Liberal, KS IMG_6001.JPG|thumb|Baker Arts Center]]

===Events===
Liberal is famous for its annual [[Pancake Day]] race that is held in competition with the town of [[Olney, Buckinghamshire|Olney, United Kingdom]] for the fastest time between both cities.<ref>{{cite news |title=Olney, England narrowly beats Liberal, Kan. in Pancake Day Race |url=https://www.kwch.com/content/news/Olney-England-narrowly-beats-Liberal-Kan-in-Pancake-Day--568193491.html |access-date=22 December 2021 |work=KWCH |date=25 February 2020 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20211222163857/https://www.kwch.com/content/news/Olney-England-narrowly-beats-Liberal-Kan-in-Pancake-Day--568193491.html |archive-date=22 December 2021 |language=en}}</ref>

===Points of interest===
[[File:Adventure Bay Water Park, Liberal, KS IMG 5977.JPG|thumb|Liberal's Adventure Bay water park in 2010]]
Liberal has a water park known as Adventure Bay.

The fifth largest collection of [[general aviation|civilian]] and [[military aircraft]] in the United States is located at the [[Mid-America Air Museum]]. Started with a gift of fifty planes by General Tom (Thomas) Welch, Jr., the museum has more than one hundred aircraft.<ref>[http://www.cityofliberal.com/airmuseum/index.html Mid-America Air Museum] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080509144501/http://www.cityofliberal.com/airmuseum/index.html |date=2008-05-09 }} - at CityofLiberal.com</ref>

The Coronado Museum has items from the [[Native Americans in the United States|Native Americans]] that lived in the area, as well as items from [[Francisco Vásquez de Coronado]]'s expedition to the area in 1541, and the history of farming and ranching in the county in more recent times.<ref>[http://www.sewardcountymuseum.com/ Seward County Museum] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090815112725/http://www.sewardcountymuseum.com/ |date=2009-08-15 }}</ref>

Liberal is home to "The Land of Oz" exhibit from ''[[The Wizard of Oz (1939 film)|The Wizard of Oz]]'', a recreation of [[Dorothy Gale]]'s house and the famed Yellow Brick Road, featuring donated bricks bearing the names of former [[U.S. Senator]] [[Bob Dole]], [[Ronald Reagan|Ronald]] and [[Nancy Reagan]], and [[Liza Minnelli]] ([[Judy Garland]]'s daughter). This exhibit was originally designed and displayed for [[Topeka, Kansas|Topeka]] in 1981, but relocated here eleven years later by its creator Linda Windler.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kansassampler.org/8wonders/customsresults.php?id=215 |title=The 8 Wonders of Kansas Customs - A Kansas Sampler Foundation Project |website=www.kansassampler.org |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120516165950/http://www.kansassampler.org/8wonders/customsresults.php?id=215 |archive-date=2012-05-16}}</ref>

Liberal Memorial Library is located on North Kansas Avenue between Fifth and Sixth Streets in Cooper Park.  The Book Front entrance was completed in April 1955 and designed by the building's architect George L. Pitcher.  Wheeler Williams, a sculptor from New York, signed an agreement in October 1960 to mold the "Pioneer Mother of Kansas."  This six foot statue, sponsored by Mr. and Mrs. D. K. Baty, was to be erected in Cooper Park on [[Memorial Day]], May 30, 1961.  It was placed opposite of the "Statue of Liberty," which was donated and placed in Cooper Park by the [[Boy Scouts of America]].