Boyer Animated Carvings - Native Dancers
Belleville, Kansas / Boyer Museum
Paul Boyer animated sand company at work.
Funny video of mechanical sculpture by Paul Boyer of Belleville, Kansas from
Ride to Belleville, KS in early January
January 5th..... 65 degrees....... no way that we're going to stay inside.
So off to Belleville Kansas via motorcycle to visit the High Banks Hall of Fame..... a museum dedicated to the history of Midget Car Racing in America.
Belleville, Ks. City Block Destruction
This video was taken in Belleville, Ks. One whole city block was taken down due to neglect
Jesse James Bank Museum
The first successful armed bank robbery in the United States occurred at this location in Liberty, Missouri on February 13th, 1866. The robbers of the incident were never caught which led many to believe it was pulled off by the James-Younger gang. One bystander, a young man on his way to college, was shot dead in the street during their escape. If you notice, the clock is stopped at the exact date and time of the incident. For more info please see the links below:
My RV Life 93: Greensburg Well Museum
Have you ever been to the bottom of a well? Well, no pun intended, I have!
In Greensburg, Kansas they just so happen to be the home of the world's largest hand-dug well. Crazy, huh?! It is 109 feet deep and 32 feet in diameter and was finished in 1888. It has been turned into a museum over the years and is very nicely done. There was a beautiful spiral staircase that took you to just about the bottom.
Check out the video and this link to learn more about this gigantic well.
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Around Kansas - State and National Historical Sites in KS - Nov. 18, 2015
(Deb) Welcome back and Frank and I are always encouraging you to get out and see the state and there's so much to see and do of course. And again, following up on a theme of what to get people for Christmas, there are memberships available at the friends' groups that support a lot of our state and national historic sites. But there's a few in particular I wanted to share with you today. And the Parks and Tourism asked me to write a blog for them a while back and we'll share that link for you. They wanted me to name my ten favorite sites and I thought, well that's the way to make enemies, you know, win friends and influence people. So, what I did was preface what I wrote about by saying if it's a state site or if it's a national site, it's so designated for a good reason. And those are places that you just ought to see. Period. So, with that being said, what's your favorite state or national site? (Frank) Oh boy... (Deb) What's one you love to go see? (Frank) Well I think, the Tall Grass Prairie. (Deb) Oh yea. (Frank) I mean it's a beautiful, beautiful place. It's been well preserved. And you can go there and just kind of spend a couple hours or you can go there and actually spend a week if you want because of all the hiking and camping trails and all that. And any time of the year is a good time to go there because it changes with the seasons. So, Tall Grass Prairie, I think is...now that's a national site... (Deb) It's beautiful. (Frank) It's a beautiful place. (Deb) It's beautiful. When my sister came out to visit a few years ago, that's one of the places I took her to because it so much exemplifies the prairie and that era, when the farmhouse was built there. So that's a beautiful, beautiful site. Now, one of my favorite state sites is the Pawnee Indian site, in Republic County, because it's on an actual site of an Indian Village. It's so unique. It's one that is sort of off the beaten path So, a lot of people don't pass it every day. You have to sort of be on your way to get there. But that's one, everybody's got to see that one at some point. So, let's take a look at a few others. The story of Kansas is interpreted through dozens of historic sites around the state. Each tells one piece of the story whether it is westward expansion, the struggle for statehood, or the rich and varied cultures that have called Kansas home. There are four National Park Service sites: Forts Scott and Larned, Brown V Board, and Nicodemus. In addition, the Tallgrass Prairie Natural Preserve celebrates the grassland ecosystem of the Great Plains. Five nationally recognized trails cross Kansas: the Santa Fe , with more miles in Kansas than any other state; the Pony Express; the Oregon; the California; and Lewis and Clark. Signage and sites along the way, in addition to pre-recorded audio tours, are available for the explorer. The Kansas State Historical Society administers several sites including its museum and the newly restored statehouse. They are Constitution Hall in Lecompton, Fort Hays, Grinter Place, Hollenberg Station, Kaw Mission, Shawnee Indian Mission, Pawnee Indian Museum, Red Rocks, Home of William Allen White, and Mine Creek Battlefield. Self-guided sites are Iowa and Sac & Fox Mission, Pawnee Rocks, and Marais des Cygnes Massacre site. Partner sites are Cottonwood Ranch, the First Territorial Capital, Goodnow House, and the John Brown Museum. Merely listing these names gives you an idea of the variety of eras and stories represented at each of these places. Many of them have Friends Organizations and gift shops. Support those with your dollars. Take the kids. Take the grandkids. Pick up a National Park Service passport and encourage your family to begin collecting the stamps from across the nation, Kansas first. Often, we plan trips to experience something new when we haven't even experienced what we have here at home. Click your heels and repeat, There's no better history than in Kansas, There's no better history than in Kansas, there's no better history than in Kansas! (Frank) Gee, we're out of time again. So well, I'm Frank. (Deb) I'm still Deb. (Frank) And we'll see you, somewhere... (Both) Around Kansas.
Republic County Fly-Through
A fly-through of Republic County, Kansas. It visits the County Line Bowstring bridge, the survey monument at the intersection of 40 degrees north and the Sixth Principal Meridian, Pawnee Indian Museum, and the Belleville High Banks.
Trade Beads On Display At Pawnee Indian Museum
THS blog interview with historian Paul S. Boyer 10/24/09, PART 1
Randall Stephens interviews Paul S. Boyer (Merle Curti Professor of History Emeritus, University of Wisconsin) on publishing history textbooks, narrating American history, and writing about religion. Conducted at the Ellen White Project Conference in Portland, Maine on October 24, 2009.
Michael Thompson Automata
My friend in Chicago's work
Voices of Labor and Social Justice in Wisconsin ~ Paul Boyer 1
Bruce Mouser, Professor Emeritus in the Department of History at UW-LaCrosse, and Paul Boyer Professor Emeritus in the Department of History at UW-Madison, introduce two powerful voices from the 19th century in this look at the deep roots of labor activism and social justice in Wisconsin. Mouser focuses on George Edwin Taylor while Boyer explores Robert Koehler's painting, The Strike.
The Hillbilly Folk Art Traveling Roadshow
Mark McDowell maintains working studios in Arizona and New Mexico. His work has been featured in over thirty, one-man shows and numerous group exhibitions in museums, art centers and galleries across the United States and Europe since 1976.
He has been interviewed by, and has had his work reviewed in more than one
hundred books, magazines, and journals from around the country, including The New York Times, USA Today, The Denver Post, The Cleveland Plain Dealer and Time magazine. His work is in many public, Corporate and Private collections.
In addition to his studio work, Mark publishes artist's portfolios and catalogs available through tinysatellitepress.com
- The Hillbilly Folk Art Traveling Roadshow booklet.
Music: Stockholm Blues by: Tony Joe White Bubble House by: Medeski,Martin, and Wood. Sally by: Soul Bossa Trio.
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CSC Kupuna Coffee Talk - Day at King Kamehameha V Judicial History Center
CSC's Kupuna Coffee Talk group takes an educational day trip to the King Kamehameha V Judicial History Center.