Written by Hannah Palsa Chapman Center Scholar Student Curatorial Assistant – Beach Museum of Art “Oh, Cricket’s the name. Jiminy Cricket,” chirped the suave cricket in the Walt Disney Productions’ 1940 adaptation of Pinocchio. The sharp dressed cricket acted as Pinocchio’s conscience throughout the film, and sang the well-known Disney classic, “When You Wish Upon…
Category: Biography
We’re bringing back “Share Your Story” mini-events to the Going Home exhibit
You and a friend are invited to Share Your Story with the Chapman Center for Rural Studies Sunday, December 18; Saturday, December 31; Saturday, January 7; or Sunday, January 8. Sign up for a 45-minute “interview.” Each designated “Share Your Story” day will include four interview options beginning each hour from 1 pm to 4…
“On the Brink of Medical Change…” Lost Kansas Communities Student Returns to Serve
Blog by Emmalee Laidacker 2015-2016 Chapman Center Intern Each year, thousands of students graduate from K-State and move to bigger and better things outside Manhattan. However, one former student of Dr. Morgan’s Lost Kansas Communities class is doing bigger and better things after moving back to town. Dr. Taylor Funke, who recently began working at a…
We do Biography!
You’ll find biography among Kansas place histories in Chapman Center for Rural Studies online archives. With the Chapman Center for Rural Studies’ growing collection of lost community histories of Kansas (currently 147 and climbing), our undergraduate work is best known for recovering a sense of place. Tiny faded towns – from Doniphan County in the…
Their Memory Lives
Leo Chapman, the father of Mark Chapman, contributor to the Chapman Center, passed away peacefully on April 10th in Clay Center, Kansas. Leo was born June 4, 1919 to Chris and O’Tillie (Dietrich) Chapman. He attended Hannibal Grade School and graduated from Clay Center High School. He attended Kansas State University for 2 years where he…
Adams’ Collection Research Honors Family of Veterans
Thanks to a generous donation from Brigadier General Bruce Adams (Ret.), Hale Library Special Collections at Kansas State University is now home to a collection of military records, letters, and documents that trace the military and family history of George Adams, Sr., George Adams, Jr., and Bruce Adams. With the death of his own father,…
The Good Land: Chapman Center Students Visit the High Plains!
The Goodland Identity Project: June – October, 2014 An art student with a love of landscape photography, an agricultural business major, a graduate student in women’s studies and public history, and a GIS grad student specialist from the geography department: these talented students have tackled the far western town of Goodland, county seat of Sherman…
The Rural Telegraph 