Katie Goerl, Chapman Center Intern for fall, 2011, with early home canning equipment. Jars of canned green beans and apple butter pictured here were found on cellar shelves in Pottatwatomie County, dating probably from the late 1940s. According to intern research, the first zinc canning lids were devised around the Civil War era; the familiar…
Month: October 2011
Frank Gent ~ Fall 2011 Intern Biography
Frank is a K-State alumnus that graduated in 2003 with a degree in Social Sciences. Frank is currently working toward his second degree, this time in History. Frank considers his first major history project to be a 4th grade project about his relatives that helped found his hometown, St. George, KS. Frank works full-time and…
New Digital Archive of Lost Towns Coming Soon
With support from an NEH Digital Archive planning grant, the new Lost Town Archive is nearing completion and will go live at the end of 2011. Two graduate interns, Theresa Young and Daron Blake have been busy editing and preparing a new set of lost town research projects written by undergraduates in several classes. Kansas…
The Rural Telegraph 