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Jay Antle
The Perfect Storm: Remembering the Dust Bowl in Kansas and Why It Matters
This presentation will examine how the Dust Bowl is remembered in Kansas and highlight how those memories continue to shape the future of the Plains.
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Rex Buchanan
Petroglyphs of the Kansas Smoky Hills
For centuries before European arrival, Native people lived on the plains, and some left behind rock carvings on soft sandstone in the middle of the state.
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Marla Day
Waste Not, Want Not: Reimagining Fashion through Thrift Style
Thrifting and upcycling are not new concepts. The practice of reusing empty feed sacks, flour sacks, and sugar sacks as raw material for clothing was popular during the austere decades of the 1920s through the 1940s.
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Megan Kaminski
Listening to Place: Nature and Poetry Walks
This beginner-friendly nature and poetry walk will be oriented to connecting with the more-than-human world through literature in the environmental humanities.
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Hannes Zacharias
Rediscovering the Arkansas River
From raging rapids to diversion dams for irrigation ditches, to dry streambeds, and finally barge traffic, this presentation will examine the impact this wild, elusive, and embattled river has had on cities, towns and adjacent farmland.
Jay Antle
The Perfect Storm: Remembering the Dust Bowl in Kansas and Why It Matters
This presentation will examine how the Dust Bowl is remembered in Kansas and highlight how those memories continue to shape the future of the Plains.
Speaker Details
Rex Buchanan
Petroglyphs of the Kansas Smoky Hills
For centuries before European arrival, Native people lived on the plains, and some left behind rock carvings on soft sandstone in the middle of the state.
Speaker Details
Marla Day
Waste Not, Want Not: Reimagining Fashion through Thrift Style
Thrifting and upcycling are not new concepts. The practice of reusing empty feed sacks, flour sacks, and sugar sacks as raw material for clothing was popular during the austere decades of the 1920s through the 1940s.
Speaker Details
Megan Kaminski
Listening to Place: Nature and Poetry Walks
This beginner-friendly nature and poetry walk will be oriented to connecting with the more-than-human world through literature in the environmental humanities.
Speaker Details
Hannes Zacharias
Rediscovering the Arkansas River
From raging rapids to diversion dams for irrigation ditches, to dry streambeds, and finally barge traffic, this presentation will examine the impact this wild, elusive, and embattled river has had on cities, towns and adjacent farmland.