Troy Schaffer in front of his high school alma mater, Santa Fe Trail. Santa Fe Trail, located in Carbondale, Kansas, is presently considered a 3A school in Kansas with an enrollment number of 310.
The house Troy grew up in. It's seen better days.
Troy points out where he lifeguarded at the Carbondale city pool.
The Jones Youth Park in Carbondale, Kansas, hosts the town's swimming pool and baseball field. The chlorine room Troy described is behind the door seen here.
The long grey barn in the back used to store the combine.
Troy described the volume of land he helped his grandpa Emery and uncle John with. "I remember when they put those holes in there ... so they could get irrigation down there."
Troy points to a familiar part of the ground for him. "The outhouse used to sit right here. So there is some very, very fertile soil right here. The reason I know that is ... I had to dig a hole for the new one. So we dug the hole for the new one and you fill in the old one and then you move the outhouse and you just keep going."
Troy also talked about the time he painted a barrel (similar to the one on the right) with black tar instead of paint. "Well, when I went to look, I got the thing ... but it turned out it was like black tar. There was another can that was silver paint that I was supposed to use, but I was a stupid kid and didn't."
Standing gallantly, Troy stands in front of a cotton wood tree he used to climb as a kid.
Walnut trees line across the north side of the farm.
Troy said his cousin Stephen was still doing the farming. He joked about Stephen never learning John's (his father's) secret to planting a straight row, because John's were "straight as an arrow."
Troy roams the hall of Calvin Hall. He was looking for classrooms he may have remembered.
Troy peers in a window in Fairchild Hall, thinking it's the room he worked in during his time at K-State.
