set of slides used during a "course" on the past, present, & future histories of the Wakarusa to Westport section of the Kansas River

1. From Westport to Wakarusa: Past Present & Future History

2. Bob Burkhart & Alison Reber Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, Spring 2007

3. Class Hinges

7. Community

8. Drop the Ball Imagine

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13. Downtown Topeka 2006

14. Glacial erratics

15. Adapted from Silkwood (U.S. Forest Service); Aber, J.S. 2005 The Pleistocene Push… the muck stops here

16. 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

17. Turn up the Heat Tilling in the Till

18. ALR 2007

19. break

24. Self-directed Scavenger Hunt

25. See you next week….

26. From Westport to Wakarusa: Past Present & Future History

27. Bob Burkhart & Alison Reber Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, Spring 2007

28. Community of Learning

32. Flood of 1844

33. South side of the Kaw near Eudora 1856 Kansas Territory opened in 1854

34. recession moral persuasion Emigration 1841=1869

36. 1863 1867

37. 1867

40. Community Storytelling

41. See you next week….

42. From Westport to Wakarusa: Past Present & Future History

43. Community Storytelling

45. Wakarusa River Valley 1867

46. If you had a conversation with your descendant, what you ask? If you had a conversation with your ancestors what would you ask about?

47. Depression & Dust Bowl World War 2

48. Flooding

49. Wakarusa River Clinton Lake

50. http://www.flashearth.com/

52. Bob Burkhart & Alison Reber Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, Spring 2007