Annual Meeting and "The Lost Towns Project and Work of the Chapman Center" (Annual Meeting)
The annual meeting takes place at 2pm followed by an educational program at 2:30.
The Lost Towns Project and the Work of the Chapman Center...
Begun in 2008, the Lost Towns project brings K-State students in conversation with community experts to preserve and celebrate Kansas memories. This presentation shares some of our favorite Lost Town stories, including Silkville, Eureka Springs, and our most recent Lost Towns project... Windhorst. Each community reveals a story about why settlers came to Kansas, the obstacles they faced, and the decisions they made to make it (or not) on the Great Plains.
Mary Kohn is an English Professor and Director of the Chapment Center for Rural Studies at Kansas State University. As the Director of the Chapman Center, Dr. Kohn brings faculty, students, and community members together to tell the stories of rural Kansas and to launch research that will help rural communities thrive. As a sociolinguist, her work examines regional and social variation in language with a focus on the Great Plains.
