Past Programs of the Frederic Remington Area Historical Society
Frederic Remington Area Historical Society Programs 1977—Spring 2019
- DVD available of the presentation
5/1/2023 – “Living on the Main Line – Railroads as Creators and Builders of Community” by Donald Skinner
4/3/2023 – “The First ‘Free’ Library in Kansas” by Marcia Sebree
3/6/2023 – “People, Places, and Politics in 1800’s Kansas” by John Burchill2/6/2023 – “History of August Hinz Family” by Karen Hinz
11/7/2022 – “Cemeteries and Undertakers” by Darryl Claassen
10/3/2022 – “Sunflower Music”by Cash Hollistah.
4/7/2022 – “FRAHS Tour to Etzanoa” by Sandy Randel
Cherokee Strip Land Rush Museum, 31639 US Highway 77, Arkansas City. 10:00 AM
4/4/2022 – “The Cox House: A Homesteader’s Legacy” by Carmen Fasnacht
3/7/2022 – “Chief Lucy of the Kaw Indians” by Pauline Sharp
The October, November, and February meetings of 2021were not held due to the COVID pandemic.
The October, November, February, March, and April meetings of 2020 -21 were not held due to the COVID pandemic.
*5/6/2019 “The Great Blue Heron Rookeries on Henry Creek.” Rachel Roth, Naturalist and Certified Interpretive Guide, Great Plains Nature Center, Wichita. And April/2019 photos of rookery on Henry Creek by Darryl Hill, Whitewater
*4/1/2019 “Kansas’s Unstoppable Pandemic: The Spanish Flu of 1918-1919.” Tyler Johnson, Historian & Librarian, Emporia State University, Emporia
*3/4/2019 “Ruralpreneurs: Tumbleweeds and Talents in Kansas Communities.” Ron Wilson, Director, The Huck Boyd National Institute for Rural Development, KSU, Manhattan
*2/4/2019 “The Heritage of the Abraham (1825-1910) and Anna (Bergmann, 1838-1917) Claassen Family.” Milton Claassen, M.D., Newton
*11/5/2018 “Education in Kansas: How It All Started, Where It Has Been And Where Might It Be Going?” Tim Bumgarner, Principal, Frederic Remington High School, Whitewater
*10/8/2018 “The Past, Present, & Future of the Whitewater Falls Stock Farm Barn.” Duane Busenitz, Barn owner, Towanda
*5/7/2018 “Bernhard and Marie Wilhelmine Entz: Their Lineage, Lives, and Letters.” Viola (Entz) Udd, Author, Missouri Valley, Iowa
*4/2/2018 “Water in Kansas: Past & Present.” Rex Buchanan, Interim Director of the Kansas Geological Survey, University of Kansas, Lawrence
*3/5/2018 “Finding the Extraordinary in the Ordinary.” Kevin Rabas, 2017-2019 Poet Laureate of Kansas, Professor of Poetry & Playwriting, Emporia State University, Emporia
*2/5/2018 “Opera House Culture on the Kansas Frontier.” Jane Rhoads, Author, Wichita
*11/6/2017 “Giant Dragonflies, Australia, and a Small Town in Kansas.” Roy Beckemeyer, Retired Engineer, Paleontologist, and Poet, Wichita
*10/9/2017 “The Chisholm Trail: The Rest of the Story.” Gary & Margaret Kraisinger, The Old Hardware Store, Halstead
5/1/2017 40th Anniversary of the Frederic Remington Area Historical Society, d’Veer Family Center, Elbing
*4/3/2017 “Children of the Promised Land.” Angela Bates, Executive Director of the Nicodemus Historical Society, Nicodemus
*3/6/2017 “Goat Glands to Ranch Hands –The KFDI Story.” Orin Friesen, Cowboy Singer at Prairie Rose Chuckwagon Supper, Benton
*2/6/2017 “The Tragic Story of Catlin.” Brian Stucky, retired art teacher Goessel High School, Goessel
*11/7/2016 “Remembering the Tornado of June 8, 1941.” Melvin D. Epp, FRAHS President, Whitewater
*10/3/2016 “The Story of Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) Meat Canning Programs.” Jason Unruh, Peabody
*5/2/2016 “Wichita on Rails.” Jim Mason, Director of the Great Plains Nature Center, Wichita
*4/4/2016 “Growing Up American.” Dr. Isaias J. McCaffery, Professor of History, Independence Community College, Independence
*3/7/2016 “Kansas BC.” Dr. Donald J. Blakeslee, Professor of Anthropology, Wichita State University, Wichita
*2/1/2016 “Meanwhile . . . local farming viewed on YouTube®.” Derek Klingenberg, Klingenberg Farms, Inc. and Klingenberg Farms Studios, Peabody
*11/2/2015 “Bloody Kansas.” Ken Spurgeon, History & Government Teacher, Northfield School of the Liberal Arts, Newman University and Executive Director of Lone Chimney Films, Inc., Wichita
*10/5/2015 “Kansas Anti-Horse Thief Societies.” John K. Burchill, Kansas Wesleyan University, Salina
*5/4/2015 “Citizen diplomats in the Democratic Republic of Congo: January-to-April, 2013.” Drs. John & Reinhild Janzen, Elbing, KS
*4/6/2015 “Kansas County Courthouses.” B. J. Davies, Postcard Collector, Wichita, KS
*3/2/2015 “The Journey to Kansas of Peter Epp (1825-1895) and John Epp, Sr. (1862-1943).” Melvin D. Epp, President, Frederic Remington Area Historical Society, Whitewater
*2/2/2015 “The Schools that Predated USD 206.” Darryl Claassen, Whitewater Photo Museum
*11/3/2014 “We Crossed the Walnut . . . –the Indian, Emigrant, and Southern Cattle Routes and across the Frederic Remington Historical Society Area.” Charles Durbin, Cherokee Trail Historian, Gentry, AR
*10/6/2014 “Head ‘Em up & Move ‘Em Out.” Jim Gray, Kansas Cowboy Historian, Geneseo, KS. A Kansas Humanities Council program.
5/3/2014 Historical Trip. Historical Manhattan, KS and the Flint Hills
*4/7/2014 “How Rural Electrification Transformed Kansas.” Bill Worley, Historian, Blue River Branch, Metropolitan Community Colleges, Kansas City, MO. A Kansas Humanities Council program.
*3/3/2014 “Wichita’s History in Picture Postcards.” Jim Mason, Naturalist and author, Great Plains Nature Center, Wichita, KS
*2/3/2014 “Prisoners of War in Kansas 1943-1946” Mark Schock, author, Rose Hill, KS
*11/4/2013 “Civil Rights Working in Kansa.s” Dr. Gretchen Cassel Eick, Historian, Department of History, Friends University, Wichita, KS
*10/7/2013 “Amelia Earhart” Ann Birney, Admire, KS
5/4/2013 Historical Tour of Abilene, Kansas
*4/1/2013 “The Old Time Radio Hour, Station SERF, Del Rio, Texas” Levi Goossen, Newton
*3/4/2013 “The Remington Singers” under the creative direction of Kathleen Poole, Director of Music, Remington High School, Whitewater
*2/4/2013 “Recalling the Seagoing Cowboys of 1945-1947” with a 20 minute DVD pre-view prepared by Peggy Miller, Seagoing Cowboy historian. Three local seagoing cowboys then told stories of their trips: Edwin Andres, Elbing; Pete Z. Friesen, Newton; and Nick Toews, Whitewater
*2/4/2013 Interview of Nick Toews for “Seagoing Cowboys”
*11/5/2012 “The History of Hydraulic Fracturing (Fracking) Oil Wells in Kansas” Dr. John Gries, Department Chair and Professor of Geology, Wichita State University
*10/2/2012 “Local Festivals in Small Towns” Marci Penner, Executive Director of the Kansas Sampler Foundation, Inman, KS
5/5/2012 Tour of Great Bend and the Quivira Natural Wildlife Refuge.
*4/2/2012 “Family History: The South Wiebes with special emphasis on the Johannes and Justine Wiebe Family” Wilbert Wiebe, Whitewater
*3/5/2012 “The Susanna Heatwole Brunk Story – Escaping the Confederacy and Surviving the Kansas Prairie” John Sharp, Hesston College, Hesston.
*2/6/2012 “My Experiences in the Railroads” Elmo Murray, Elbing
*11/7/2011 “The Prairie Trails of Kansas” Brian Stucky, Goessel
*10/3/2011 “Home on the Range: Kansas Folklore” Dr. Jim Hoy, Emporia State University, a Kansas Humanities Council Speaker commemorating Kansas Sesquicentennial
5/ 6 & 7 /2011 1880 Period Historical Dinner at the 1881 Morgan House, Peabody Historical Society, Peabody
*4/4/2011 “Some of my favorite finds through the years” Bruce Entz, Wichita
*3/7/2011 “Reviewing the year since we felt the earth shake in Haiti” Doug Thiessen, Whitewater
*2/7/2011 “The Schmidt Family History” Clinton J. Schmidt, Whitewater
*11/1/2010 “Breakfast in China and other recollections of a recent summer trip” Cynthia Rhodes, Whitewater
*10/4/2010 “Remington, the Artist” Beverly & Jim Dunning, Sr., Wichita
5/1/2010 Tour of Council Grove
4/5/2010 “Home Remedies and Patent Medicines” Milton Claassen, M.D., Newton
3/1/2010 “From Fibers to Fabrics: Clothing for Kansans in the Late Nineteenth Century” Rachel Pannabecker, Director, Kauffman Museum, North Newton
2/1/2010 “The Origin and Development of the Gerhard and Catherine (Wiebe) Regier Farm—1885-present” Daryl Regier, Whitewater, current owner of the farm
11/2/2009 “Caring for Your Family Treasures Now and in the Future” Mary Nelson, Special Collections & University Archives, Wichita State University Libraries
10/5/2009 “Wildlife in Kansas: Impact of the European Settlements” Jim Mason, Naturalist, Great Plains Nature Center, Wichita
5/3/2009 Tour to Abilene: Heritage Museum, Greyhound Museum, Eisenhower Museum and Seeley Mansion
4/6/2009 “The History of Corn” Kraig Roozeboom, Kansas State Extension, Manhattan
*3/2/2009 “The History of the Local Fire Department” Darryl Claassen, Whitewater
*2/2/2009 “The Busenitz Family History” Velma Busenitz Claassen, Plum Grove
*10/6/2008 “Self-guiding Tour Map for the Frederic Remington Area Historical Society” Theodore Regier, Elbing
*5/5/2008 Celebrated 30th Anniversary of the Frederic Remington Area Historical Society, Remington High School: R. D. Allen, Potwin & Jerry Peterson, Wichita, speakers
*4/7/2008 “The Central Asia Trek” Willard Wiebe, Whitewater and Carol Klingenberg, Peabody
*3/3/2008 “Bernard and Wilhelmina Warkentin” Karen Penner, President of the Warkentin House Association, Newton
*2/4/2008 The Petals of a Kansas Sunflower. The recreation of a West Prussian garden in northwest Butler County by his great-grandfather. Melvin Epp, Ph.D., Whitewater
11/5/2007 “The Quivira Indians in south central Kansas during the period 1400-1600 A.D.” John Torline, Newton
10/1/2007 “Stories of growing up in the olden days” Wilbur Brainerd, Wichita
*6/2007 “Tour of Whitewater High School / Remington Middle School Before Demolition: Demolished June 2007”
5/7/2007 Tour to Wichita: Museum of World Treasures & Botanica
4/2/2007 “The Interstate Highway System”
3/3/2007 Trip to Hutchinson: Salt Mine Vaults & Cosmosphere
*2/5/2007 “Threshing Days” discussion led by Arthur Busenitz, Whitewater
*11/6/2006 “Marion County Park and Lake” Helen Beckham, Marion, KS
*10/2/2006 “Unveiling the Remington Rock” followed with pot-luck dinner
5/6/2006 Tour to Arkansas City, Sedan & Dexter, Kansas
*4/3/2006 Roger Ward, archaeologist from El Dorado will present his findings of the dig he supervised south of Potwin.
*3/6/2006 “Gladys the Riveter” impersonated by Teresa Bachman, El Dorado
*2/6/2006 The Western, Greatest Western Trails, 1874-1886, book authored and discussed by Gary & Margaret Kraisinger, Halstead
*11/7/2005 “Life in the Dust Bowl” Nolan Samp, Salina, impersonating Hank Emerson, a Dust Bowl farmer
*10/7/2005 “The Early days of Peabody” Ross Baker and Joan Berns, Peabody
5/7/2005 Tour to Atchison: Emelia Earhart Museum & Muchnic Art Gallery
*4/4/2005 “Senior Trips” Eldon Wohlgemuth & Kelso Boldecker, Whitewater and Alberta Harms & Richard Hopkins, Potwin
*3/7/2005 “The Klassen store and family in Elbing” Pete Klassen, Whitewater
*2/7/2005 “Cattle Drives” Bob Baker, Herman Janzen, and Elvin Wiebe
*11/1/2004 “Review of Local Medical History” Dr. Kenneth Wiebe, Whitewater
*10/4/2004 “Into a World Unknown: Lewis & Clark and the Corps of Discovery” Philip Thomas, Wichita State University
5/8/2004 Tour to Salina: Smoky Hill Museum, Rolling Hills Zoo
*4/5/2004 “The Cherokee Trail” Elwood King
*3/1/2004 “The Oil Valley Community and the Elbing Oil Field” Ted Ferrier, Hattie Long, Lonnie Long, and Jessie Bay
*2/2/2004 “The Neiman Family History” Marilyn Umbach, Whitewater
11/3/2003 The Harvey House Museum, Florence, KS
*10/6/2003 “People of the Plains” Larry Hatteberg, KAKE TV, Wichita
5/3/2003 Tour to Dodge City & For Dodge: Boot Hill Museum
*4/7/2003 “War Stories” moderated by Gary Sommer with veterans of WW II
*3/3/2003 “To Keep or Toss” Peggy Goertzen, Director of the History Dept, Tabor College, Hillsboro, KS.
*2/3/2003 “Marie Harder Epp Poetry” Melvin D. Epp, Ph.D., Whitewater, KS
*11/4/2002 “A Lifetime of Auctioneering” Bernard Gatz, Halstead, KS
10/7/2002 Tour to El Dorado: Butler Country Oil Field Museum
5/4/2002 Bus Tour to Lawrence: KU Natural History Museum & Lecompton: Kansas Historical Museum
*4/1/2002 “The Vickers Family History” Members of the Vickers family
*3/4/2002 “Cornelius and Anna Regier Family History” Milton Claassen & Karen Siebert, Newton
*2/4/2002 “The Amish in the Information Age” Marion Bontrager, Hesston
*10/5/2001 “Alexander Hamilton, the Man” Impersonated by Mel Kahn, WSU
*9/22/2001 “The Story of Brainerd, Kansas” Kevin Roe, Toronto, ON, Canada
5/5/2001 “Museum Tour”—Woolaroc Museum, Bartlesville, OK
*4/2/2001 “The Life and Times of Johnny Reb and Billy Yank” Brad Amend, El Dorado and several members of the Butler Co. Historical Museum Staff. (Civil War)
*3/5/2001 “Mennonite Furniture: A migrant tradition 1766—1910” Reinhild and John Janzen, Elbing
*2/5/2001 “The Story of the Joseph Family” Alan Joseph, Wichita
*11/6/2000 “A History of the Eberhard Family” Nancy Phipps & Rollan Eberhard, Whitewater
*10/2/2000 “Charles Russell, the Artist” Impersonation by Philip Thomas, WSU
5/6/2000 Tour to Hays: Sternberg Museum & Fort Hays
*4/10/2000 “The Battle of Mine Creek” Dr. John Spencer, Mine Creek Battlefield Foundation, Ft. Scott, KS.
3/6/2000 “The Migration of the Russian Mennonites to Kansas” Jodi Enz, Newton
*2/7/2000 “The Osage Indians in Kansas” Jerry Shaw, WSU
*11/1/99 “The History of Thanksgiving in Kansas” Mike Kelly, WSU
*10/4/99 “The Story of the Vogelman Family” Charles & Joan Barlett, Emporia
5/1/99 A Tour of the Flint Hills & Cottonwood Falls
*4/5/99 “Walking the Appalachian Trail” Tom Jackson, Chicago, Illinois
*3/1/99 “The Story of the Whitewater Falls Stock Farm” Jim & Dot Osburn, Towanda
*2/1/99 “The Story of the David Lambert Family” Robert & Lois Kreider, North Newton
*11/2/98 “The History and Story of Circle “E” Feedlot” Jerry Peterson, Manager
*10/6/98 “New Light on the Coronado Expedition” Don Blaksely, Ph.D., WSU
*5/4/98 Visit Melvin Epp’s Farm, Whitewater—“Changing trends in Kansas agriculture.”
4/4/98 Tour of Kansas City: Arabia Steamboat Museum
*3/2/98 “King & Chase Family History” Elwood King, El Dorado
*2/2/98 “History of Plum Grove” Kim Claassen
*11/3/97 “Susan B. Allen Family of El Dorado” David Shaw, El Dorado, KS
*10/6/97 “Genealogical Mysteries” Charles Heilmann, El Dorado
5/5/97 “Black Spider over Tiegenhof” authored by James D. Yoder, Hesston
4/7/97 “Meet the Frederic Remington Area Historical Library” and “Abraham Claassen’s Sketch Books” with tour of historical library, Elbert Esau, Olin Claassen
*3/3/97 “History of the Whitewater Fire Department, Rollan Eberhard, Whitewater
*2/3/97 “Fred Hill, the Entrepreneur of the 40s” Arthur Neuman, Olin Claassen, and others
*11/4/96 “Patented Medicine Tins” Ron & Emma Stewart, Newton
9/28/96 Tour of Larned: Fort Larned National Historic Site, Santa Fe Trails Museum & Pawnee Rock State Historic Site
*5/6/96 “The Abraham Regier Family History” Theodore J. Regier, Jr., Elbing
*4/1/96 “The German Heritage of Kansas” William D. Keel, Lawrence, KS
*3/4/96 “Antique Items” & covered Dish Dinner
*2/5/96 “Yesterday’s Head Coverings” Zola Esau, Betty Baker, Sharon Regier, & Agnes Harder
*11/6/95 “Butler County Road Names” Randy Epperson, Butler County Zoning Commission
9/23/95 Bus Tour to Topeka, KS: Treasures of the Czars & the Kansas State Capital
5/1/95 “Hats ‘n Things” Zola Esau, Sharon Regier, Betty Baker, & Agnes Harder
4/22/95 Tour to Cherokee Strip Land Museum, Arkansas City, KS & Marlie Mansion, Ponca, OK
*3/6/95 “Orphan Trains in Kansas” Marilyn Holt, Abilene
*2/6/95 “The History of the Hammer” Darryl Claassen
11/7/94 “The History of the Only Natural American Musical Instrument, The Dulcimer” Jack Bruner, Burns
10/3/94 “Rocks, Minerals & Fossils” Kansas Geological Society, Wichita
5/2/94 “The William Brian Smith Family History” Homesteaded in Richland Township, Harvey County, Mildred Walling and Lillian Cave
3/7/94 “The Wilcox Story” Early Pioneer Family in Clifford Township, Butler Co., Ted Regier, Elbing
*2/7/94 “Why Come to Kansas” Kurt Harder, Hesston
11/1/93 “Indians and Arrowheads” Virgil G. Litke, Hillsboro, KS.
10/4/93 “The Santa Fe and the Newton Water Works” Mark Unruh, Newton
5/3/93 “The Le Tourneau Synthesis of Faith and Business and its Impact on this Community in the Thirties” Laverne Rutschman, Newton
4/5/93 “From the Pulps to the Pulitzers: The American West in Popular Fiction” Don Coldsmith, M.D., Emporia State University
3/1/93 “Our Kansas History” slide show, Glen & Alta Crawford
2/1/93 “John & Elisabeth (Thierstein) Claassen Family History” Claassen Family Members
11/2/92 “A Russian Agriculturist Visits Kansas Farms” Mike Dain, KSNW TV Agri-Newsscaster
10/17/92 Bus tour of Topeka, KS: Historic Ward-Meade Park, Governor’s Mansion, The Kansas Museum of History
5/4/92 “The History of Land Abstracts and Wills” Robert Bond, J.D., El Dorado
4/6/92 “School Days” reminiscing by Eudene Crabtree, Mildred Zuercher, & other former teachers
3/2/92 Kauffman Museum, North Newton: view West Prussian Furniture Exhibit and museum
2/3/92 “Basket Supper, bring ethnic foods with recipes”
“Coronado in Kansas” video produced by WSU
11/4/91 “The Newman and Hawk Family History” Arthur Neuman
9/28/91 Bus Tour to The Medicine Lodge Peace Treaty, Medicine Lodge, KS
5/6/91 “Trees of the Remington Area” Ron Tittle, Butler Co Ext Agent
4/1/91 “British Lords on the Kansas Plains” Vivien Minshell-Ford, KS Committee for the Humanities
3/4/91 “The Scully Story” Homer E. Socolofsky, KSU
2/4/91 “The Scrivner Family History” Dixie Scrivner Eperly
11/5/90 “A history of the Bodecker Family” Doris Bodecker Hopkins
10/14/90 Tour to Abilene: Eisenhower Centennial
5/7/90 “A General History of Whitewater, Kansas” Marjorie Wohlgemuth
4/2/90 “History of Elbing” Elmo Murray and Ronald Andres
3/5/90 “History of the Whitewater Bank” Marilyn Umbach
“History of the Whitewater Mill” Wilbert Wiebe
2/5/90 “Indians of the Area” J.M. Janzen, Curator, Kauffman Museum
11/6/89 Display of woods and crafts, Joe Gronau
Display of model tractors with their history, Ron Hill
10/9/89 Tour of Peabody: Walking Tour of Main Street
5/1/89 Mead family history, Dorothy and Wilma Sommers
4/3/89 Tour to Chase County
3/6/89 “Blacksmithing” Vic Jost
2/6/89 Valentine Party. Bring your old valentines to share. Old time box supper auction.
12/5/88 Remington Singers
11/7/88 “Kansas and the Cowboy” Jim Hoy, Emporia State
10/3/88 Trip to Potwin: May Joseph homestead followed by potluck supper at Remington HS
5/2/88 “Etched in Stone—Butler County Cemeteries” Corrine Afton, Benton
4/4/88 “Family Century Farms” Elma Esau
3/7/88 “The Adams Family—Early Settlers in the Plum Grove Community” Dr. Richard Adams
12/7/87 Christmas Tour to Olin & Carol Claassen to see Christine’s dolls and Kim’s trains; to Arnold and Ida Claassen to see Ida’s Christmas
11/2/87 “How to Begin, Where to Look, How to Chart Your Genealogy” Helen Lee, Pres., Midwest Historical & Genealogical Society of Wichita
10/5/87 Trip to Frederic Remington Farm, Whitewater, KS. Basket supper in Doug Claassen’s barn followed by “Barns of the Area” by Alfred Regier
5/4/87 Show & Tell—bring something of interest to share
*4/6/87 Early pioneers of Remington Area, Part I, Paulson & Joseph
3/2/87 Remington Singers
2/2/87 Box supper and old readings
12/1/86 Old Time Music
11/3/86 Letters from Paradise, KS by Jim Duram, WSU
10/6/86 Film about Fred Harvey and the Harvey Girls
5/5/86 “Presentation of Historical Papers” Remington Folklore Class
4/5/86 “Bus Trip to Council Grove, the Most Historical Town in Kansas”
3/3/86 “The Historical Value of Letters Written by Early Kansas Pioneers” Jim Duram, WSU
2/8/86 “Valentine Party” at Wheat State Manor
12/2/85 “Demonstrations of Ethnic Foods—Portzeln, Pierischki, Berliner Pfannkuchen and other items”
11/4/85 “Items of the Past” Mrs. Catherine Jacobson, Co-owner of Poor Kate’s Antiques, Sedgwick
10/7/85 “Old Time Picnic—Jim Paulson Farm”
5/6/85 “Presentation of Historical Papers” Remington Folklore Class
4/6/85 Bus trip to Topeka: Kansas Museum of History
3/4/85 “The Vickers Story—Potwin”
2/4/85 “Brainerd Centennial”
12/3/84 “Christmas Music” Remington Singers
11/5/84 “Rodeo History” Jim Hoy, Emporia State University
10/1/84 “Our Quilt Heritage” Pauline Toews
5/7/84 “Area Families and their Valued Treasures”
4/2/84 “Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Co.” Paul Taylor, Houston, Texas
3/5/84 “Early Practicing Medical Men and Women–Dr. & Mrs. W. E. Regier”
2/6/84 Benton’s Kitchen Cut-ups, Senior Citizens Group Band
12/5/83 “Stone Arched Bridges of Butler County” Ted Farmer, County Engineer
11/7/83 “Stalag Sunflower” Center for Great Plains Studies, Emporia St. U. video
10/3/83 “Early Family Histories—Zuercher family, Whitewater; Kimerlin family, Potwin; Thierstein family, Whitewater”
5/2/83 “Recollections of Mother’s Day”
4/4/83 “A Study of Birds in our Area” Herbert Claassen
3/7/83 “Excursion Trip in 1934 to the Chicago World’s Fair” Elma Esau
2/7/83 “A Study of Pioneering Families of our Area” William Regier, Elbing
12/4/82 “Remembering Christmases of Years Past” to be given at the Wheat State Manor
11/1/82 “European Interlude” Glen & Alta Crawford, Potwin
10/4/82 “Kanhistique”, a magazine of Kansa history and antiques, Edna Maire Lee, Editor
5/3/82 Newton County Jamboree presented country music
A mock reproduction of the former Liar’s Club program by local members
4/5/82 “Prairie Wildflowers of Local Area” Arnold Regier
3/1/82 “A Trip to the Hold Land” Carl & Alta Duvanel
2/1/82 “Tracing My Roots Back to the Netherlands” Elma Esau
12/7/81 “An Old Fashioned Christmas” local members
11/2/81 “A Trip to England” Hester & Mary Frances Snyder
10/5/81 “Wilcox Family” with slides by William Regier
5/4/81 Following a Basket Dinner, “The Last Day of School”—local members & L.U. West, former Butler County School Superintendent
4/6/81 Miss Jane Adams presented a program with Folk Songs and accompanying herself on a dulcimer
2/2/81 “A Trip to China” Bill & Nada Voth, Newton
12/1/80 “Early Day Harvesting and Threshing” slides and commentary by Henry Scrivner
11/3/80 “Frederic Remington Home and Museum” Alta and Glen Crawford
10/6/80 “Searching Switzerland for a Local Family’s Roots” Gary Sommers
5/5/80 “My Magic Show” Gene Rump, KAKE TV, Wichita
4/14/80 “Prime Time 1883”, a skit by Tammy Duvanel and Troy Herd
“The Story of Preservation” talk by Richard Wagner
3/8/80 “A Trip to the Mediterranean Area” Kaete Dyck
2/5/80 “History of Elbing” William Regier/Arnold Regier/Wilbert Wiebe/ others
12/3/79 Olsen showing pictures of his Belgian horses
10/1/79 “A Trip to Scandinavia” Alta and Glen Crawford
4/2/79 A display and descriptions of old artifacts and a Liar’s Club Game by local members
3/5/79 “Mountain Men” Indian artifacts & muzzle loaders, Larry Brown, teacher at Remington
2/5/79 “Land Management in the United States and Butler County” Ted Farmer, Butler County Engineer
12/4/78 “History of Annelly”
11/6/78 “Kafir Corn Carnival at El Dorado” Hoyt Smith
10/10/78 Historical Bus Local Tour of Whitewater & Potwin: Prussian Mennonite settlement, Frederic Remington Sheep Ranch, Oil Valley(National City), Howarce H. Wilcox Ranch, Holdeman Cemetery, Butler County Museum, Whitewater Falls Stock Farm, & Palmyra Baptist Settlement.
9/18/78 “Pyramids”—slide presentation of Northwest Kansas, Stan Clark, Oakley, KS
4/3/78 “African Explorer” Kaete Dyck
3/6/78 “Tornado of June 8, 1941” William Regier
Report of the Remington Area C B Civil Defense Team, Jessie Winters
2/6/78 “History of Palmyra Community Area: Arnold Regier/William Regier
“History of Plum Grover, Brainerd, Potwin, and Whitewater” Roland Ensz/Earnest Claassen
12/5/77 “John & Hans Regier Shorthorn Breeding in the 20s and 30. William & Hans Regier
“Robinson Farm, Breeders of Percheron Horses”
“Stories of their Mule Operation” Frank & Albert Bodecker
11/7/77 “History of Oil Valley”, i.e. Wilcox Area, William Regier
10/7/77 “Indians in the Areas” Dr. William Unrau, WSU