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2010 Kansas Day Celebration:
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Porubsky's Transcendent Deli — view the video trailer Return to Top of Page
2009 Lincoln-Harman Lecture
• Ad Astra Per Aspera • Do you love Kansas? Return to Top of Page
2009 Kansas Day Celebration: Fri., Jan. 30, 2009 3:30 PM, Henderson 208 
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SUMMER SESSION 2009
FALL SEMESTER 2008: Two Fellows of the Center, Chris Hamilton and Tom Schmiedeler taught a course "Global Warming: Science and International Policies." Sections were GG300 (geography) and PO300A (political science), which can fulfill an upper-level elective in the social sciences. Additionally, students pursuing a graduate Liberal Studies degree were encouraged to enroll in either LS501GB (geography) or LS502GB (political science). Return to Top of Page
 Somerset Café
SUMMER SESSION 2008: From June 10-June 13, 2008, nineteen juniors and three teachers from Waring School in Beverly, Massachusetts, visited Kansas. They were interested in seeing our landscape and in learning about the Kansas connection to issues of race and equality. Hosted by families lined up by Center for Kansas Studies fellow Tom Averill, these students went to Dover, Kansas, home of the Sommerset Café with its great pie, to Echo Cliff, to the Flying W Ranch (the Center helped pay for their lodging), to the State Capitol building, to the Brown v. Board Museum, to Lecompton’s Territorial Museum and to the Sunflower Music Festival. They experienced everything from rain to clear skies to tornado sirens. At the Flying W Ranch, poet Steven Hind (CKS has published four of his books of poetry) read his work and talked to the students along with Tom Averill and Amy Fleury. Some writing that came out of the experience: The Sommerset Cafe, June 11th, 2008, Dover, Kansas-- Today I learned that the Kansa Indians existed. They were here and now they are in Oklahoma, pushed off the limestone and dirt. In the corner, a 60-year-old man sits in his overalls, t-shirt, and cap. He is watching “Days of Our Lives.” When we trooped in, he looked amused but said nothing.  Waring Students
The Flying W Ranch, Kansas, June 11th-- I watch the tiny white flowers move with the gusts of wind. It seems to be a dance that has no name. They rise and fall, together in time with the beat of the sun. Everything I see within my peripheral vision is moving. The flowers, the leaves, the grass, the clouds, the hills…everything but me. I’m the stage on which the dancers dance. Part of the picture, but not part of the story.  Wagon ride
The Flying W Ranch, June 11th-- Farmland surrounds me. Beauty here in Kansas does not lie in many houses or a big city. Beauty lies in the rolling hills, the flatland, the crops that grow, and the trees. It lies in the small towns, big clouds that signal rain, lightning bolts, and horses. It lies in the people in the farm that surrounds me.  Flying W Ranch
Monroe School, Brown v. Board, June 12th-- The Kozol reading, as well as the facts of life around us, put me in the mind of Chief Justice Brown, who wrote the decision of Plessy v. Ferguson. He wrote along these lines: “The fourteenth amendment was undoubtedly not intended to abolish any distinction between the two races, a distinction that must exist so long as the two are distinguishable by color.” Is it possible, then, that segregation – at least in a de-facto sense – will continue until the sci-fi fantasy exists that intermarriage eventually makes the entire human race a shade of light-ish brown? Is there a way to extinguish human xenophobia? Monroe School, Brown v. Board Museum, June 12th-- Knowledge is Power Return to Top of Page
Supported with funding and web support by the Center for Kansas Studies— Return to Top of Page
Supported with funding by the Center for Kansas Studies— “Through Martha's Eyes” Reverend Thomas Johnson paid $800 for 15-year-old Martha on May 24, 1856 and took her from West Port, Missouri into Kansas Territory. But once there, he did not set her free but put her hands to work at the Shawnee Mission Indian Manual Labor School. There, besides laundry and scrubbing floors, it was Martha’s job to scrub Indians and cut off their hair. At night, Martha is drawn into an underground world where rules are broken but integrity is valued. She also finds unexpected romance and a dream of freedom. View still photos from the shooting of this film from Telemark Pictures.
Read Harris's "Ode to Kansas," The Observer, June 15, 2006. Read about Harris's Kansas Day presentation in the Washburn Review, January 29.2007.
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