| Max
and his friend Jay inspected
stones in Ritchie Cemetery, a small Topeka cemetery on
a bluff near Shunganunga Creek. John Ritchie, who donated land,
is an early Freestater of Topeka. The cemetery is believed to
contain the graves of early Black settlers and, perhaps, Native
Americans. Few graves included stones, but those graves that were
identified impressed visitors. |
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| Max
and Jay inspect the gravestone of John J. Scott and his great-grandmorhter,
ex-slave Martha Ransom, known as Granny Ransom. See photo, far
left. |
Here
lie four veterans of the Spanish-American war. They are, very
likely, Black soldiers. Native Americans may also be buried here
in unmarked graves. This cemetery is old, by Topeka standards. |
Stone
marks the grave of a ex-slave, Martha Ransom, and great-grandson
John J. Scott. John was a lawyer involved
in the Brown vs. the Topeka Board of Education civil rights case.
Topeka magnate school, Scott Elementary is named after this man,
his father and brother. |
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Fall
color is evident in the leaves of this maple on the grounds of
the local veteran's hospital. |
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Domestic
sunflowers are much smaller and delicate than those raised for
seeds. Here are both. Also, squirrel gather the nuts we provide
on our patio. |
Washburn University officially dedicated its new Living Learning
Center at homecoming, Oct. 2001. The new center includes dormitory
facilities, food services, and meeting rooms. |
  
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Our
lives were horribly changed by the events of September 11th.
The evening sky in Kansas that evening reflected the fires and
the terrors to the East. Our thoughts and prayers are with our
nation. |
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