Weather Events
Spring-Summer 2018
The Volland Store will explore “weather” from the perspective of artists, poets, writers and scientists during
Lily Brooks’ exhibit SIREN CALL
and
Lynn Benson’s exhibit “River Compositions”
All events will be held at The Volland Store
March 10
“Telling Water’s Story: Art, Science, and Narrative”
Cynthia Barnett, author of
Rain and Jeff Davidson, Watershed Specialist, Kansas State University
1pm
April 8 “Kansas Weather in Life, Literature, and Photography”
Caryn Miriam-Goldberg, former Poet Laureate of Kansas | co-sponsored by the Kansas Humanities Council
2pm
April 15 “Climate Change: Testing the Resilience of Flint Hills Prairies”
Chuck Rice, Distinguished University Professor, Mary L. Vanier University Professorship,
Kansas State University
2pm
April 22 | Earth Day “The new science of weather: how the way we treat the land has an impact on the kind of weather we experience.”
Judith Schwartz, author of
Cows Save the
Planet and
Water is Everywhere; and Walter Jehne, Soil Microbiologist and founder of
Healthy Soils Australia
2pm
May 19
“Rattlesnake Creek, the Mississippi River, and Kansas”
Heidi Mehl, David T. Beals III Healthy Streams for Kansas Initiative Manager, The Nature Conservancy
2pm
June 24 “Water in Kansas Past and Present” Rex Buchanan, Director Emeritus, Kansas Geological Survey
co-sponsored by the Kansas Humanities Council
2pm
24098 Volland Road, eight miles southwest of Alma, Kansas.
Open Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays 1-4pm and by appointment 785-499-3616.
