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From Westport to Wakarusa:

Past Present & Future History

Bob Burkhart & Alison ReberOsher Lifelong Learning Institute, Spring 2007

Changes over time

Community stewardship

learn & share tales

knowledge sharing

land navigation aquiring

knowledge

Class Hinges

Culture EnvironmentJoiners

you are a part of something bigger

Place-based Awareness

Resource Awareness

you live here

Environmental

Self Awareness

Social Awareness

Social

you are important

groups make community

Cohesion Relevancy

acquire knowledge

apply knowledge

coordinating experiences

coordinating people

teaching learning

Community

Drop the Drop the BallBall

ImagineImagine

Community of LearningWho are you?

What do you like about where you live?

(ponder slide)

Downtown Topeka 2006

Glacial erratics

Adapted from Silkwood (U.S. Forest Service); Aber, J.S. 2005

The Pleistocene Push… the muck stops here

Wakarusa River

Till includes a little bit of everything overrun by the glacier – clay, silt, sand, gravel, & boulders as well as the remains of plants and animals. (J.S. Aber, 2005)

Glacial till settled in meltwater spillways as the ice receded.

Westport Area

Paleoindians

7,000 B.C. to A.D.

11,000 to 7,000 B.C.

Archaic Period

larger game leave area/die off

warming trend

peaked

more stablesettlements

increased population size

focus on available local resources

following animals

more site specific investment - focusing collective energies in new ways

Ice Age ending

Turn up the Heat Tilling in the Till



Resource Awareness

you live here

Environmental

Self Awareness

Social Awareness

Social

you are important


What does this mean for family dynamics?

How does this change the role of women? men?

children? elders?

Does this shift community structure?

Is there a social impact -- division of knowledge & skills parallel to new

divisions of labor?? generalists? specialists?

How does this change people's

sense of the world around them?

ALR 2007

Community Community CampfireCampfireShared stories about common experiences

Three Ended Rope StoriesThree Ended Rope StoriesEnforcementEntitlement

Encroachment

CommUnity Storytelling

If you could have a conversation with your

ancestors what would you ask about?

Self-directed Scavenger Hunt

See you next See you next week….week….

From Westport

to Wakarus

a:Past

Present & Future History

Cohesion Relevancy

acquire knowledge

apply knowledge


coordinating people

teaching learning

Community of Learning

Who are you?Who are you?What do you like about where you live?



Resource Awareness

you live here

Environmental

Self Awareness

Social Awareness

Social

you are important


Flood of 1844

South side of the Kaw near Eudora

1856Kansas Territory opened in 1854

practical considerationsleft in spring,

arrived in fall 4 months

people walked to keep weight load

down

1 in 10 travelers died

* cholera*drowning*getting lost*starvation

2,000 miles

recession

moral persuasion

Emigration 1841=1869

CommUnity Storytelling

If you could have a conversation with your

ancestors what would you ask about?

1863

1867

Culture EnvironmentJoiners

1867

• Flooding 1903• Mussel Industry • WWI

If you had a conversation with your descendant, what you ask?

All that they had they gave - they gave -In sure and single faith. There can no knowledge reach the graveTo make them grudge their death Save only if they understood That, after all was done, We they redeemed denied their blood And mocked the gains it won.

Rudyard Kipling The King's Pilgrimage1922

Liberty Memorial High School - completed in 1923, has served as a monument to the Lawrence High School students and graduates whose lives were cut short by World War I. Nineteen students were killed.

Community Storytelling

See you next See you next week….week….

From Westport

to Wakarus

a:Past

Present & Future History

Community Storytelling Cohesion Relevancy

acquire knowledge

apply knowledge


coordinating people

teaching learning

Cohesion Relevancy

acquire knowledge

apply knowledge


coordinating people

teaching learning

Cohesion Relevancy

acquire knowledge

apply knowledge


coordinating people

teaching learning

Cohesion Relevancy

acquire knowledge

apply knowledge


coordinating people

teaching learning

Cohesion Relevancy

acquire knowledge

apply knowledge


coordinating people

teaching learning

Cohesion Relevancy

acquire knowledge

apply knowledge


coordinating people

teaching learningWakarusa River Valley 1867

If you had a conversation with your descendant, what you ask?

If you had a conversation with your ancestors what would you ask about?

Cohesion Relevancy

acquire knowledge

apply knowledge


coordinating people

teaching learning

Cohesion Relevancy

acquire knowledge

apply knowledge


coordinating people

teaching learning

Depression & Dust Bowl

World War 2

Flooding

Wakarusa River

Clinton Lake

http://www.flashearth.com/

Self Awareness

Social Awareness

Social

you are important




Resource Awareness

you live here

Environmental

We will achieve a balance

between population

& resources

and approach

the maximum attainable

recycling of depletable resources.

We will preserve important historic,

cultural, and natural

aspects of our national

heritage, and maintain,

wherever possible, an environment

which supports

diversity, and a variety of individual choices.

We will attain the widest range of

beneficial uses of the

environment without

degradation, risk to health or safety, or

other undesirable & unintended

consequences.

All Americans should have

safe, healthful,

productive, and

aesthetically and culturally

pleasing surroundings.

Each generation is a trustee of

the environment

for the succeeding

generations.

NEPA 1969

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Education

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