Subject: RE: another question
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 04:28:24 +0000
From: Katherine Good [email protected]
To: Gloria Freeland [email protected]

Hopefully this covers all of your questions!

Favorite part about the �Lost Towns� project:

I thought it was interesting to learn that Morganville wasn�t just a small town with some cool piece of architecture such as a church, schoolhouse, etc, but it has history deep in the roots connecting it with the town�s sister city of F�ves, France. It was also interesting because Morganville put on a pageant to help raise funding for F�ves and much of it was done by people of all ages.

Challenges we faced:

One struggle that we faced was finding a topic to write about. We kept researching founders of the town, and information about the land plots, but then we were kind of just like �this pageant thing sounds interesting.� Another challenge we came across was finding the first name of some of the people in the pageant; the biggest was finding who �Lafe� Todd was. I think we finally figured it out by the third or fourth draft! It was also difficult finding live sources other than Cathy Haney to talk to since this pageant occurred so long ago; many people were deceased or no longer live in Kansas.

What I learned:

Morganville isn�t really a �lost town� of Clay Center, it still lives on! The pageant stage still exists, there�s a caf�, and they even hold annual car shows! I also learned how to dig deeper into investigating reporting � finding out the facts I need to know and putting them into a story.

What do I think about our story sparking things in motion:

I feel FAMOUS!!! Not really, but I thought this story would just die off since it was just a class project, but apparently we started a revolution or something! Our project has grown bigger and bigger � I can�t imagine how Cathy must feel about our work! I'm so proud of all of us!!!

To ID me:
Katie Good, Junior
Major: Mass Communications (Public Relations), B.A. Spanish
Concentration: Music

-Katie

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Subject: Re: another question
Resent-Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 22:31:54 -0500 (EST)
Resent-From: [email protected]
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 21:31:39 -0600
From: Logan Falletti [email protected]
To: Gloria Freeland [email protected]

I can't believe how much this has blown up. I thought we would turn it in and that would just be it. I was even surprised when Freeland said that she wanted to submit it anywhere. It was kind of like, 'okay, if that's what you want to do with your winter break, that's cool.' Suddenly, people were reading it, and wanting it for their own newspapers. I'm glad that the work my team and I did is making an impact on anyone, let alone so many people. I know Cathy has wanted someone to talk about Morganville for a long time, and seeing that kind of validation for her and the museum has been great too.

On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 6:21 PM
Gloria Freeland [email protected]
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wrote:

What do you think about the fact that your story was the spark that set things in motion for people from Feves wanting to come to Morganville in December?

Gloria

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Subject: Re: quotes about Morganville-Feves story
Resent-Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 22:22:24 -0500 (EST)
Resent-From: [email protected]
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 21:22:10 -0600
From: Logan Falletti [email protected]
To: Gloria Freeland [email protected]

My favorite part about researching a lost town was revisiting the connection I have with my own hometown. I come from Frontenac, Kansas, which is very small, like Morganville. It made me feel that if we were researching Morganville, which was so tiny, that maybe the work that I did and people in my town had done wasn't so insignificant either.

The file in Leasure Hall on Morganville was practically nonexistent. I understand how people can find their own work insignificant, so it isn't recorded in many places if at all. We had to go back and forth to Morganville and dig around in Cathy's archives to find anything.

The project was a good exercise in finding the story in anything. There wasn't much to work with at the beginning. Finding the focus of the paper took the longest because we had so little to work with. Finally deciding on the topic was an incredible relief.

On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 5:20 PM
Gloria Freeland [email protected]
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wrote:

Would you guys provide me with quotes about the Morganville-Feves assignment? I'm doing a blurb for "Update" magazine, our alumni magazine, and I also want to do more follow-up blurbs in other publications. (I put three questions below FYI, but if you think of other things you'd like to say, please go ahead.)

Please get them to me by tomorrow at noon if you can. Thanks!

Gloria

�What was your favorite part about the "lost towns" project?
�What were some of the challenges you faced working on the project?
�What did you learn from the project?