In Greensburg

Good news and bad news:
First, the bad news: We’ve lost our place at the Friends Church in Haviland next week.
The good news: We’ve located a place to stay, thanks to the help of June Boettcher, the wonderful secretary at the church where we’ve stayed this week while we were working on our Greensburg project.
We knew [...]

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Three students spent time this afternoon looking for the former site of Starla’s Stitch ‘n’ Frame on Main Street in Greensburg.
The store is temporarily open in Mullinville. Owner Starla McClain told them she plans to relocate back to Greensburg.
At the site of the old store, the students found spools of thread and pieces of [...]

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There was a 25-degree difference in temperature from Wichita to Greensburg this afternoon. Someone attributed it to a cold front. Obviously, as Merril Teller would say.
Not all of us (including me) brought jackets. But it’s supposed to warm up in a day or so.
Tonight, we trying to grill hamburgers on a small charcoal grill outside [...]

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Front row, from left, Jelena Petrovic, Dana Dinkel, Annie Cook, Nicole Hess, Ashley Arnold, Roni Ayalla, Candice Tullis. Back row, from left, Cort Anderson, Quinn Addis, Ashley Stone, Ian Crane, Todd Vogts, Patrick Vera, Matt Heilman, Andrea Molinari, Les Anderson. Not pictured — Kristin Mehler.
Our caravan of cars arrived at the Friends Church in Haviland [...]

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My students and I leave Tuesday morning for Greensburg and the start of a two-week class.
We’ll be staying in the Friends Church in Haviland, 10 miles east of Greensburg. The church has hosted hundreds — maybe thousands — of volunteers since the tornado struck the area May 4 a year ago.
Our goal is [...]

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