with help from the Iola Tourism Fund, the Daniels
Estate, the Clopton Family Trust, and private
donations
Film comedian and director Buster Keaton was born in Piqua
(Pick-way),
Kansas, in 1895 while his parents were performing in a traveling
medicine
show. Each year Iola, KS, -- ten miles east of Piqua -- hosts a two-day
celebration in Keaton's honor.