Red Rocks State Historic Site
Orientation video for Red Rocks State Historic Site, home of the William Allen White family, Emporia, Kansas.
The fabulous world of William Allen White
William Allen White, a true Kansan who rubbed shoulders with giants, died on Kansas Day in 1944. At the height of his career, the famed and influential journalist kept company with everyone from Albert Einstein to Teddy Roosevelt in the comfort of his Emporia home, today a historical house open to the public.
William Allen White House Promotional Video
William Allen White - Midterm.wmv
A presentation about William Allen White and What's Right About Emporia, Kansas. White was one of the most famous people in the state of Kansas.
William Allen White: What's Right About Emporia?
Meet the Past: William Allen White - May 19, 2009
Fred Krebs portrays Walt Disney, William Allen White, the famous newspaper editor who gained political prominence after writing an editorial in 1896 titled What's the Matter With Kansas?
Walking the Path of Darkness: William Allen White and the Ku Klux Klan
National History Day 2005, junior individual documentary, second place, by Anna Hamilton and Sjobor Hammer
William Allen White Mary White
Emporia Living
Enjoy the views of Emporia, Kansas
Favorite Places in Emporia
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Emporia Celebrates Dwight D. Eisenhower
The Community of Emporia gathered together to celebrate Dwight D. Eisenhower - President, General & Kansan,
The evening featured Emporia State University Professor of History Emeritus Dr. Loren Pennington and the Keynote speaker was ESU Professor of History Gregory Schneider
Poverty Box Copperkettle Buskers (Montana Loibl & Solamon Jacobs)
Performing live at Poetry on the Porch, hosted by the William Allen White House, Emporia, Kansas. Special guests, Kevin Rabas and Ashley Feist. A Copperkettle original.
Kansas
Kansas /ˈkænzəs/ KAN-zəs is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. It is named after the Kansa Native American tribe which inhabited the area. The tribe's name (natively kką:ze) is often said to mean people of the wind or people of the south wind, although this was probably not the term's original meaning. Residents of Kansas are called Kansans. For thousands of years, what is now Kansas was home to numerous and diverse Native American tribes. Tribes in the Eastern part of the state generally lived in villages along the river valleys. Tribes in the Western part of the state were semi-nomadic and hunted large herds of bison. Kansas was first settled by European Americans in the 1830s, but the pace of settlement accelerated in the 1850s, in the midst of political wars over the slavery issue.
When it was officially opened to settlement by the U.S. government in 1854, abolitionist Free-Staters from New England and pro-slavery settlers from neighboring Missouri rushed to the territory to determine whether Kansas would become a free state or a slave state. Thus, the area was a hotbed of violence and chaos in its early days as these forces collided, and was known as Bleeding Kansas. The abolitionists eventually prevailed and on January 29, 1861, Kansas entered the Union as a free state. After the Civil War, the population of Kansas grew rapidly when waves of immigrants turned the prairie into farmland. Today, Kansas is one of the most productive agricultural states, producing high yields of wheat, sorghum, and sunflowers. Kansas is the 15th most extensive and the 34th most populous of the 50 United States.
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The Siren, Episode 2
Weekly podcast from the Emporia Gazette.
Shine On, Ad Astra
A lovesong for our great state on its 156th birthday.
Shine On, Ad Astra
Concieved, writ and produced by Macy/White 2016
(with help from Peery, Penner and Price, LLC)
The Oregon Trail winds its way from the home of the Santa Fe Railway
Cheyenne braves, amber waves, Free State Slaves of the Ninnescah
They had their fill so Mennonite will pioneered north of Wichita
Ad Astra shine on…
From Nicodemus, where Lord Jesus told the black man he’d free us
Now we’re calling on John Brown – a spirit from your very own hometown,
A Luminary from the prairie – Potawatomi bygone
Ad Astra shine on…
Presidents and malcontents all set the precedence
Quantrill’s raid, a tirade - brokered arrogance
Carry Nation, pure damnation ringing dust to dawn
Shine on, Ad Astra, shine on.
Tall Grass Ocean in slow motion – a milkweed genesis
Free at last, unsurpassed goodwill of the cowboy exodus,
Elevator grain, Conestoga train, refrain of a westward manifest
Ad Astra, shine on…
Barnstormers, reformers, trail blazers, stargazers
Keepers of the flame
Wheat shockers, flint rockers
Colonizing & baptizing - To the stars! People of the plains
Zebulon Pike, oh and I like Ike - both brothers of the land of the Southwind
A flyer named Clyde & William Allen White – progressives for the middleman
Amelia’s flight and then her fight for the goddam Woman’s right
Shine on …
From Sharon Springs to Abilene - Let freedom ring
Hear the cottonwood sing and a meadowlark call for the restoration of Udall
Back in ‘55 a twister from the sky left ‘em high and dry – but they didn’t run
Chautauqua Hills, Smokey River thrills, windmills spin the glory
Harnessing the breeze, pretty as you please, it’s our own love story
It's honey from the comb, a place that we call home where the buffalo roamed…
Shine on, Ad astra, shine on.....
Recorded at Greenjeans Studios, Wellington, Kansas (like Bartlett Arboretum, an unexpected jewel of Sumner County) by Carter Green, engineer, on one hellova hot July day in 2016
Produced by Kentucky White
Featuring members of Sycamore Swing, great musicians from both the tall and short grass prairies:
Drums - Brandon Lee Blackburn of Hutchinson
Upright acoustic bass - Nathan Eicher of Tulsa, Oklahoma
Fiddle - Tulsa Playboy, Shelby Eicher
Steel Guitar - Tulsa Playboy, Steve Bagsby
Guitars - Kentucky White, Belle Plaine
Vocals - The Cherokee Maidens who are Robin Macy, Monica Taylor, Lauren White
Stunning Kansas images by John Morrison: PrairieVistas.com
MARY WHITE
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Starring Kathleen Beller and Ed Flanders
William Allen White·s poignant editorial written after the accidental death of his beloved 16 year old daughter, who had steadfastly sought her own identity. As the daughter of a famous and wealthy newspaper publisher, and a young female activist, Mary steadfastly sought her own identity as an individual, which was against the social conventions of the time. She focused her battles on the issues of human rights where she struggled to truly understand the needs of people different from herself.
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The Klan in the Coal Mines: Southeast Kansas and the Hooded Order of the 1920s'
College Scholars: Professor James Leiker, History, will present this talk concerning radical politics in rural Kansas from the 1920s to the late 20th century.
The New Klan of the post-World War I era is mostly remembered as a hyper-conservative movement, distinct for its opposition to immigration, Roman Catholicism and communism. Surprisingly, the KKK had progressive roots as well, especially in southeast Kansas' mining districts. Only a decade before, the area was home to radical socialists, anarchists and labor organizers but after 1920 hosted some of the largest Klan chapters in the U.S. The phenomenon of workers turning abruptly from class-based to nativist politics blurs the distinction between Left and Right — and provides lessons about the politics of our own time.
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Spring 2012 Undergraduate Commencement Ceremony
Cheers with some air horns added in filled William Lindsay White Auditorium in Emporia on Saturday morning as undergraduates crossed the stage to collect their diplomas from Emporia State University. At the same time, graduate degrees were presented in Albert Taylor Hall on the Emporia State campus.
Richard Rick Frevert Memorial
Richard E. “Rick” Frevert, 63, passed away at his home in Emporia, Kansas, on Tuesday, October 20, 2015 with his family by his side. Rick had fought a 22-month battle with pancreatic cancer.
Rick was born November 8, 1951 in Iola, Kansas, the son of Paul H. and Betty B. (Stout) Frevert. Rick married Joy Hicks at the First Christian Church, Dodge City, Kansas on June 14, 1975.
Surviving family members include his wife, Joy; son, T.J. and his wife, Lea (Schlyer) Frevert, Andover, Kansas; daughter, Bre (Frevert) Johnson, and her husband, Reese, Emporia; four grandchildren, India and Aiden Frevert in Andover, and Jayden and Jared Johnson, Emporia; one sister, Paula (Frevert) Smethers and her husband, Larry, St. Louis, Missouri; one brother, Tim Frevert and wife, Kecia, and their son Ben, Emporia; brothers-in-law, Ward Hicks (Juanita) and their sons, James and Terry Hicks, and George Hicks (Cheryl) and their daughters, Alyssa Robertson and Emily Hicks; as well as nephews, Dave, Brian, and Corey Hicks.
Rick was the oldest of three children and grew up on the Frevert family farm near Yates Center, Kansas. He graduated from Yates Center High School in 1970 and went on to receive an Associate of Justice Degree from Allen County Community College.
He was a member of the First Christian Church (Emporia). He was also a member of Emporia Masonic Lodge #12, Scottish Rite Bodies, the Arab Shriners, and the Cartoon Unit of the Arab Shriners. His other memberships included the Kansas Peace Officers Association, Kansas Association of Chiefs of Police, Neosho Valley Shrine Club, Kansas DARE Officers Association, Kansas Crime Stoppers Association, and he was a graduate of the 20th Class of Leadership Emporia, as well as being a Certified Barbeque Judge of the Kansas City Barbeque Society.
Rick was hired by the Emporia Police Department in 1972 at the age of 21. Before his retirement in 2004, Rick had worked his way through patrol officer to the rank of Lieutenant. He had taken on a number of responsibilities within the Police Department, including school resource officer, community relations officer, DARE Officer (creating the program in Emporia), Crime Stoppers Coordinator, and had also been the supervisor of the dispatch center, records, animal control, parking enforcement, and school crossing guards.
He was the recipient of the Emporia Jaycees Young Public Protector Award in 1979 and 1987. He organized an annual Bicycle Rodeo sponsored by the Police Department, and took over and expanded the department’s Bicycle Safety School. He also organized and promoted crime prevention programs including Business Watch, Neighborhood Watch, Crime Watch telephone line, and Crime Stoppers. He was named a Paul Harris Fellow by the Rotary Foundation of Rotary International, Emporia Chapter.
In April of 1987, then Attorney General, Robert Steffan appointed him to the Attorney General’s Committee on Crime Prevention. During 1987, Rick was named Police Officer of the Year by the Emporia Police Department. In 1990 he received the Kansas State Crime Stopper Coordinator of the Year Award.
A few months after he retired from the police department, he was hired as Lyon County Emergency Management Coordinator. Later he became a member of the Northeast Kansas Homeland Security Council and was the Logistics Chief for the Northeast Region Incident Management Team. He led training and scenario drills and helped citizens not only in Lyon County, but also state and nationwide.
Cremation has already taken place.
Memorial services will be held at 1:00 P.M., Thursday, November 5, 2015 at William L. White Civic Auditorium in Emporia. The service will be conducted by Pastor Bob Colerick, First Christian Church. Masonic services will be provided by Emporia Masonic Lodge #12, A.F. & A.M. A service will follow at the Patio Garden of Memorial Lawn Cemetery, Emporia. Law Enforcement Honors will be present by the Emporia Police Department Honors Detail.
Memorials have been established with the Humane Society of the Flint Hills, Kansas Law Enforcement Torch Run, First Christian Church, or Lyon County Crime Stoppers. Contributions may be sent in care of Roberts-Blue-Barnett Funeral Home, PO Box #175, Emporia, Kansas 66801.