FFNHA: Freedom's Frontier National Heritage Area



Meeting Notes 4/12/2007 :: Lawrence CVB Union Pacific Depot :: Wakarusa Township, Kansas

Judy Billings welcomed everyone shortly after 10:00 and summarized the Regionalism economic development conference at Lindsborg, Kansas that engages organizations from the Western side of the Freedom’s Frontier National Heritage Area.

I. Welcome and Introductions

The meeting was called to order by Judy Billings at 10:10 a.m.

Participants introduced themselves and briefly described partnership program

II. Approved March minutes submitted by Alisha Cole at 10:20 a.m.

The March minutes were approved without corrections.

Shawnee Indian Mission

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III. Financial Report (2/28-4/1/2007)

Martha Parker reported an ending balance of $ 1,572.27. Donations and service-in-kind continue to sustain start-up activities Contributions to Freedom’s Frontier are tax deductible via a 501-C-3 of the Kansas Tourism Alliance.

Featured Special Report:

Cindy Barry – Director of Development/Education reported progress on efforts to get CPB

co-funding for Interactive Kan-ed Network virtual tours for kids to Kansas Museums …

KTWU-TV Public Television’s Kansas History Electronic Field Trip Project

Handout included Project Goal and Activity Profile plus list of attendees at the

June 19, 2006 Community Collaboration Conference hosted at KTWU/Channel 11 (Topeka)

|In 2006, PNL awarded just under $3 million for thirteen Community Collaboration |

|Grants across the country. The award recipients will match the federal funds with |

|an additional $2.7 million. Many of the grants went to projects that address critical |

|needs in communities of unserved or underserved audiences, minorities and other |

|diverse audiences. |

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|PNL received 68 applications nationwide requesting over $14.9 million for this |

|highly competitive grant program. |

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KTWU

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Derry CNN News

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Old Business:

IV. Committee Reports

The Steering Committee is works by conference call to review previous meeting minutes and set the agenda for the upcoming meeting. The call takes place the Wednesday the week before each monthly meeting.

If you are interested in serving on this committee, please contact Judy Billings at (785) 885-4494

Freedom’s Frontier National Heritage Area: How to Contact Us

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a. Peer Review: (10:40 a.m.) Alexis Radil reviewed submission process to complete and submit Visitor Readiness forms for site review scheduling. These are available on our new website:

Olathe Neighborhood News :: olatheneighborhoodnews.

|Tim Talbott, Historic Site Manager, ttalbott@ |

|Alexis Radil, ... Olathe, KS - Mahaffie Stagecoach Stop & Farm Historic Site ... |

b. Website: (10:55 a.m.) Print quality pictures with captions for Freedom’s Frontier sites are needed.

There is a Partners section for the Partnership Team with an area for events. Member sites will also have hyperlinks. The State of Kansas is credited for providing funding. Members of the Partnership Team should obtain photo releases or copyright permission for website photo submissions.

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c. Tour: (10:58 a.m.) Don Traub (913)686-4425 reported that their group is developing portfolio of tours.

The first tour is about John Brown. The second is about Civil War sites of the area. Future tour themes will include the Underground Railroad, F1RST American Cultural Connections, and National Historic Trails.

The committee is looking at various media to distribute these tours to multiple market segments. They are looking for additional volunteers. These tours and related Freedom’s Frontier projects do not have to wait for the approval of the Management Plan to be implemented.

V. Organizational Reports (1:00 a.m.)

Judy Billings proceeded to explain the organizational make-up of the partnership team

and the Freedom’s Frontier National Heritage Area. This was new information for some

and a refresher for others.

This is an ongoing process.

The next project milestone will be reviewing management plan proposals that are due by May1, 2007.

A volunteer review board is still needed to help review and rank submissions. The management plan is the roadmap of how we go forward. It must be approved by the Department of Interior before 10/12/2009.

The Board of Trustees will be self-appointing, as it is not a membership organization.

Members of this board are comprised of people with national connections. They have

fiduciary responsibility for the heritage area and will be held accountable for the funds.

The partnership team will serve in an advisory capacity to the Board of Trustees,

who oversee the National Heritage Area,

New Business

VI: Themes of Freedom

Sue Pridemore facilitated the group exercise to continue defining our Freedom’s Frontier

story. She challenged participants to refine the proposed draft themes and sub-themes.

Using post-it notes, we exercised virtual team tactics to refine wall chart “theme maps” from last month’s small group efforts to categorize our region’s defining Freedoms: Struggle/Endurance, Of Believing, Way of Life.

Handout: Freedom is a dialog, a way of life and can be challenging to share.

Between 1804-1854, our Louisiana Purchase, Missouri Compromise and Kansas-Nebraska Act marked this place as the place for passionate verbal debate, altercations and battles. Controversies and conflicts revolved around defining the scope of freedom’s entitlements and determining who is empowered to exercise these liberties.

Collaborative guidelines for exercising the pursuit of happiness continue to be debated within this region known as Freedom’s Frontier. (RJB-Revised: 15-Apr-2007)

This month, Sue Pridemore recommends two readings:

ISBN: 0-375-75932-8 by Wallace Stegner (1909-1993)

Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs:

Living and Writing in the West

by Stegner, Wallace (0375759328 0-375-75932-8)

Nominated for a National Book Critics Circle award, Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs gathers together Wallace Stegner’s most important and memorable writings on the American West: its landscapes, diverse history, and shifting identity; its beauty, fragility, and power. With subjects ranging from the writer’s own “migrant childhood” to the need to protect what remains of the great western wilderness (which Stegner dubs “the geography of hope”) to poignant profiles of western writers such as John Steinbeck and Norman Maclean, this collection is a riveting testament to the power of place. At the same time it communicates vividly the sensibility and range of this most gifted of American writers, historians, and environmentalists.

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Deb White will email a list of these recommendations to the membership.

Next FFNHA Partnership Meetings:

May 10, 2007 at Doniphan County, KS

Brochures are available. Judy Billings recommends attending the

Heritage Development Conference in Detroit, Michigan in June.

IHDC - National Heritage Areas

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Meeting adjourned at 12:30 p.m.

Attendees:

I. Welcome and Introductions

II. Approval April agenda and March minutes

III. Financial Report – Martha Parker

IV. Cindy Barry – Report on KTWU’s efforts to secure CPB funds for Interactive field trips

for kids to KS Museums

OLD BUSINESS

IV.

Organizational Report Judy Billings

a.

Board Update

V.

Committee Reports

a.

Peer Review – Visitor Readiness Forms Overview (Short)

(In-depth informational discussion after partner meeting)

b.

Tours Don Traub

c.

Website Debbie White

NEW BUSINESS

VI.

Themes of Freedom (continued from March meeting) Sue Pridemore

VII.

May agenda suggestions

Announcements

Future Meetings…

June 14, 2007

Fort Scott, KS

June 18-21, 2007

2007 International Heritage Development Conference

Detroit, MI

July 12, 2007

Wabaunsee County, KS

August 9, 2007

Cass County – Harrisonville, MO

September 13, 2007

Kansas Environmental Health Association Newsletter—Spring 2007

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|Now, I’m Wakarusa Watershed Marshal from the Northeast Kansas |

|“Ghost Township of Monticello” overlooking the former Kaw River Port of Shawnee! ... |

|download/2007_spring_newsletter.pdf |

EarthSea-Keeping Eco-Challenges:

As CIM’s Cargo Deck Safety Officer during frequent underway replenishment operations,

my desired outcome was returning to port with ALL crew having ALL their parts intact …

Our crew achieved this “self-directed mission” before CIM’s 1968 decommissioning after being

crunched by the USS Hornet (CVS-12) during a faulty portside UNREP approach!

CIM’s crew learned to celebrate and exercise their INTERdependence so we could honor our

collective promise to preserve and protect the U.S. Constitution’s “Freedom of Choice” that remain vital to ur national ability to pursue life, Liberty and HAPPINESS.

As Public Affairs Officer, I helped arrange CIM’s final “Port of Call” in Cimarron, NM just downstream

from Eagle Nest Lake in the shadow of Wheeler’s Peak and “Angel Fire” …

Since I had 14 months left on my initial USNR active duty contract, I quickly accepted

a short 10 month extension to try learning more about computers and communications

supporting fleet operations at CincPac’s Emergency Operations Center (EOC) on Oahu.

At Pearl Harbor (1969), I participated in filming air attack scenes in Tora! Tora! Tora!

That project-based learning (simulation) experience shifted my global view of warfare.

❑ What military (social-political) “Leadership Lessons” had already been forgotten?

❑ What (if any) ALL-WinWin legacy did I choose to share with future generations?

❑ How can I distill leadership lessons learned as “thinkLets” or actionable insights?

Sidebar: This self-directed (under-funded) effort required another 32 years to “hatch”

as the Institute for Future Thought Leadership (i4FTL) via Minnesota-based “peer mentors”

who creatively and collectively subscribed to our “Mentorship Vision” 2005

…

See also: "Politics of Disasters" »

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Contributed by Bob Burkhart

2007 Digital Jaywalker: Commissioners' Minutes 1/30/07

|Eileen Robertson, Member of the FFNHA, Freedom’s Frontier National |

|... until February 6, 2007 at 8:30 a.m. in the Commission room ... |

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|Eileen Robertson, Member of the FFNHA, Freedom’s Frontier National Heritage Area (formerly BLEEDING Kansas National |

|Heritage Area) updated the commission on recent Congressional designation of FFNHA. Eileen gave a brief review of the |

|name change. She reviewed their management plan, which included a website and what has been accomplished by FFNHA. What |

|she is requesting is $300.00 support from Allen County for an $8,000 FFNHA website. Discussion followed. |

|Eileen, also serving as Sesquicentennial Committee Chair, invited the commission to celebrate Humboldt’s 150 years of |

|survival, established in 1857. February 18, and March 31, are among the planned events during 2007 which pertain to |

|Humboldt’s early history. |

|Activity: Heritage Partnership Programs |

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|In FY 2007, the NPS proposed to move Heritage Partnership Programs from the National ... Freedom's Frontier NHA partners.|

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|Freedom’s Frontier National Heritage Area was authorized in 2006. |

|The Area encompasses counties in both Eastern Kansas and Western Missouri conflict took place between the forces of |

|slavery and freedom. |

|As abolitionists and others fought to keep Kansas a free state and |

|pro-slavery forces gathered in Missouri, the Eastern press began referring |

|to the region as "Bleeding Kansas." This story and the continuing story |

|of the struggle for freedom of other groups - Native Americans, |

|African Americans, Women and Free Staters - are still reflected in the |

|communities and landmarks of this region. In FY 2008, the Area |

|will initiate the management planning process … |

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|1 . NATIONAL HERITAGE AREAS ACT OF 2006 |

|-- (House of Representatives - July 24, 2006) |

|2 . VALLE VIDAL PROTECTION ACT OF 2005 |

|-- (House of Representatives - July 24, 2006) |

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