Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2025/04/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Kansas City is one of the few places in flyover country that I have visited, many years ago. I never figured the reason why it was not in the state of Kansas. Cheers, Nathan Nathan Wajsman photo at frozenlight.eu http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws http://www.greatpix.eu http://www.frozenlight.eu @nwajsman.bsky.social ????? ???????! ?????? ?????! > On 18 Apr 2025, at 15:10, Don Dory via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote: > > Greetings to all. This series comes from a wall in Overland Park Kansas > located in the old main street. The greater Kansas City area was home to > the Pawnee and Shawnee tribe predominantly and on the Kansas side was home > the the Shawnee Mission school whose aim was somewhat the same as the > Canadian schools but possibly less coercive. In any case we start with a > stylized image: > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/don_dory_gmail_com/Austin+Signs/gift+giver.jpg.html > > Kansas City sits on the edge of the Eastern Forest and the plains that > extend just to the west. The native housing resembled the eastern rather > than the western: > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/don_dory_gmail_com/Austin+Signs/Native+themed+eastern+US.jpg.html > > I am not sure about the context of this image but it is part of the panel: > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/don_dory_gmail_com/Austin+Signs/Peace+and+harmony+with+nature.jpg.html > > While a poor position this does provide a bit more context to the series: > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/don_dory_gmail_com/Austin+Signs/interconnected.jpg.html > > All the best. > > -- > Don > don.dory at gmail.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information