Kansas Day Presentation, 2011
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Fall 2010 Kansas Studies Courses Spring Semester 2011 Tom Schmiedeler, Director 785-670-1559 GL 103A, Historical Geology (with Kansas emphasis) MW 1–2:15, [email protected] Tanbra Eifert GL 103B, Historical Geology (with Kansas emphasis) MW 2:30– Deborah Altus, Human Services 3:15, Tanbra Eifert Sharon Ashworth, Biology GL 103C, Historical Geology (with Kansas emphasis) MW 5:30– Tom Averill, English 6:45, Will Gilliland Bob Beatty, Political Science HI 322A, Kansas History TR 11-12:15, Bruce MacTavish Patti Bender, Health PO 106B, U.S. Government MWF 12-12:50, Bob Beatty Roy Bird, KS State Library PO 107A, American State & Local Government TR 11-12:15, Marcia Cebulska, Playwright Mark Peterson Jeannie Chinn, KSHS PO 307A, Intern-State and Local Govenment PO 107 & Jr/Sr or Marion Cott, KHC Charles Cranston, Mass Media consent of instructor, Mark Peterson Virgil Dean, KSHS PO 309A, Kansas Legislative Experience TR 3-4:15, Bob Beatty Paul Fecteau, English William Gilliland, Geology Rachel Goossen, History Chris Hamilton, Political Science Kansas Day Presentation, 2011 Robert Hull, Finance Reinhild Janzen, Art he Center for Kansas Studies will sponsor its annual Kan- Jim Kelly, KTWU T sas Day presentation on Friday, January 28, 2011, at 3:30 p.m. David Kendall, KTWU in room 208, Henderson Hall on the Washburn campus, Topeka. Robert Lawson, English Our speaker will be John W. Carlin, former Gabrielle Lunte, Modern Languages Bruce Mactavish, History Kansas governor (1979-1987) and current Judith McConnell-Farmer, Education Visiting Professor, Executive-in-Residence, Eric McHenry, English in the Political Science Department at Kan- Jay Memmott, Social Work sas State University. Marguerite Perret, Art Carlin's talk is entitled “Kansas at 150: Mark Peterson, Political Science What Looking at the Past Can Tell Us J. Karen Ray, English Leslie Reynard, Communication about Moving Forward.” His service as an William Roach, Business Archivist of the United States for the National Betsy Kanabe Roe, Art Archives and Records Administration Tom Schmiedeler, Geography from 1995 to 2005, and as chair of Robin Shrimplin, History the National Historical Publications Bradley Siebert, English Sarah Smarsh, English and Records Commission during the John Margaret Stewart, English same time period, provide him with Carlin, William Wagnon, History the historical perspective needed Kansas Day Marydorsey Wanless, Art for evaulating Kansas at its sesqui- Speaker, 2011 David Winchester, Mabee Library centennial. Visit Carlin's website: Margaret Wood, Soc./Anthropology www.k-state.edu/polsci/faculty/car- Carol Yoho, Art lin-john.html Center for Kansas Studies This presentation is free and www.washburn.edu/cks refreshments will be served. 1 Fellows News Sarah Smarsh, assistant professor, Department of their setting here: from pre-Civil War battles, to English, read from her new book, It Happened in homesteader/rancher conflicts, to famed outlaws of Kansas, and also addressed her other new book, Abilene and Dodge City, to Western expansion and Outlaw Tales of Kansas, at 7 p.m., Monday, Sep- Indian removal. tember 20, 2010, at the Lawrence Public Library. The iconic Kansas film is also America's most- The Raven Bookstore sold copies of both books. viewed movie: The Wizard of Oz, whether watched It Happened in Kansas has been selected by on the big screen, annually on television, or paired the Kansas Humanities Council for an upcoming, with Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon. statewide book-discussion series on Kansas his- Kansas became a movie location in the mid-1950s, tory as we prepare to celebrate most importantly with Willliam Inge's Picnic. Soon the 150th anniversary of our after, Gordon Parks (The Learning Tree), Rich- statehood. The series is part ard Brooks (In Cold Blood) and Peter Bogdanovich of the successful program (Paper Moon) gave us three more ways of looking TALK, or Talking About Litera- at Kansas. ture in Kansas. Sarah chatted Our film heritage, from Western about the book with J. Scha- (Dark Command), to Small Town fer on Kansas Public Radio (Gypsy Moths), to Con Man (Leap prior to the library event. of Faith), to Science Fiction (A Boy and His Dog), to Horror (Carnival of Souls), is rich. Robert N. Lawson, professor This site hopes to enrich the emeritus of the Department of history, heritage and future of English, discussed his novel, Kansas in the Movies. The Bridge of Dreams, on Visit: http://www.washburn.edu/reference/cks/mapping/ Tuesday, November 23, 2010, movies/ in the Mabee Library iRead Site categories include: Lounge, Washburn University. • Map of Movies Filmed in Kansas Twenty-four of the sonnets • Listing of Movies Filmed in Kansas from The Collected Sonnets • Listing of Movies Set in Kansas of Robert N. Lawson open • Map of Movies Set in Kansas the chapters in the novel. Both • List of Kansans in the Movies titles were published by The Bob Woodley Memo- • Directors of Kansas Movies rial Press, Washburn University. Dr. Lawson also • List of all movies related to Kansas discussed his editing of the novel, Cry to Dream • Kansas Literature in the Movies Again, by Bob L. Woodley, for whom the Woodley Press is named. Dr. Lawson and Other News AMPAS Dr. Woodley shared an office at ® Washburn University for thirteen The 15th Annual Kansas Silent Film Festi- years. Following the presenta- val will be held in White Concert Hall, Washburn tion, copies of the books were University, February 25-27, 2011. This free public available for sale and autograph- event is sponsored by Kansas Silent Film Festival, ing. A companion website to The Inc., a local non-profit arts agency. The theme is Bridge of Dreams is accessible “The First Academy Awards, 1927-28.” These first on-line: http://www.washburn.edu/ awards, presented by the Academy of Motion Pic- reference/bridge24/ ture Arts and Sciences, were from the only year when all nominees were silent. Thomas Fox Averill, professor, Department of For event details visit http://www.kssilentfilmfest.org English, writes: Kansas has been a key state from For details about the First Academy Awards ceremony visit the beginning of the movies. Early Westerns found http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st_Academy_Awards 2 On the Road with Green River Ordinance he 1960s was had come ashore at mid decade, one of the most a number of rock and roll bands by Tom Schmiedeler T tumultuous decades in had sprouted from the prai- American history. The demand Professor of Geography, rie towns and cities of Kansas. for political and social change Dept. of Political Science Among them was a group of was in large part led by the four youths from Emporia who nation’s youth, many of whom, called themselves The Invad- as part of the baby-boom gen- ers. Stories of Kansas bands eration, became teenagers and young adults during like The Invaders can now be accessed at a variety the decade. In rejecting the social norms of pre- of websites, but there is limited information from vious generations, they forged new directions in these sources concerning the day-to-day life of a politics, lifestyles, and the arts. Music, in particu- Kansas rock band while touring. The road experi- lar rock-and-roll music, became one of the most ences of these bands—the logistics of travel, who popular avenues of youthful expression. Rock was they encountered and where they performed—are born in the 1950s from a variety of influences and important because they are a means of measuring more or less matured in the 1960s into a number of the pulse of change in the state at a critical time, genres, among them folk, rhythm and blues, soul, not only because it involved a potential clash of psychedelic and heavy metal. But unlike the swing generational values, but also because Kansas was music of the previous generation, “rock was accom- experiencing large-scale economic transformation panied by an ideological strain” and, along with the during the decade. In this essay, I explore this sub- associated “life-style and social creed,” it became ject through the reminiscence of Bob Yoos, one of contemptible to many older Americans because the guitarists and vocalists of The Invaders, who they interpreted it as unpatriotic and immoral.i became the better known and more widely travelled And so it was claimed by a youthful generation as Green River Ordinance.ii I got to know Bob while we its own with its popularity and accessibility greatly both pursued master’s degrees in geography at the enhanced by amplified sound and an evolving tech- University of Kansas. My approach is focused geo- nology that produced and recorded it in both visual graphically on the spaces and places utilized and and audio formats. encountered while the band toured Kansas during By the dawn of the decade it reached nearly a five year period from 1966 to 1971. everywhere and by the time the British Invasion Continued on p. 4… Figure 1. The six-piece Green River Ordinance band at a park along the Arkansas River in Wichita in 1970. From left to right, Steve Graves, Jimi Pritchett, Greg Taft (back), Dana Bennett (front), Glen Andrews and Bob Yoos. Photo, Green River Ordinance Archives. 3 On the Road with Green River Ordinance —cont. Beginnings at family gatherings. The Invaders thus began, The Invaders were originally a four-piece band that like so many others, as a raw but talented group plunged into the pool of budding Kansas rockers in of individuals who needed to hone their personal the spring of 1966 with Bob on guitar and vocals; skills while learning to play together. It was not an Tom Baysinger on bass and vocals; Glen Andrews easy task particularly as it required commitment on guitar and vocals; and Dwight Andrews, Glen’s and discipline at a time when rebelliousness was as brother, on drums.