County, Features

The Splotch: In a rural Eastern Plains community plagued by drought, stigma won’t be easy to overcome

SHOT 11/6/20 4:45:35 PM – Jimmy Brown, 52, is the Kiowa County Coroner as well as a farmer and owner of funeral homes in Eads, Cheyenne Wells and Burlington. He was photographed at the funeral home he owns in Cheyenne Wells, Co. (Photo by Marc Piscotty / © 2020)

EADS | “The Splotch,” as some here call the brown mark on the map they check weekly, is the color of scorched earth.

Here in Kiowa…