Lecture 12: The Community of Progress

Community life – another lecture in progress. Working from outline & notes.

Outline of Lecture

Prologue: Galleries of Community

· Grandin Smelt Fry

· Corpus Christi at St. Mary’s, Dazey

· Goat Game

· Candles at Canaan

· Lindaas Barn Dance & Lindaas Barn Dance 2

How did the settlers of the Great Plains organize themselves into communities? What happened to these communities? How do people on the plains today organize themselves into communities?

Settlement

· Urban communities

· Rural communities

Consolidation

· Farm consolidation

· Institutional consolidation

Micopoli on the Plains

· Carl Kraenzel’s vision

· Renewal

Assignments
WWW	Sites
Reading	Thinking About the Great Plains	Debo, Angie. Title "Writing Local History," Writer 55 (January 1942): 19-22.
	The Great Plains at the Grassroots	Address to Old Settlers' Reunion, Lincoln, Kansas, 1915
		"Mary White," 1921
		Tommy Douglas, "The Challenge of the Times," 1955
	Selected Bibliography	Kraenzel, The Great Plains in Transition
Film	The Last Picture Show Picnic

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