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While Greensburg, Kansas, is rebuilding as a green community, it is also constructing new cultural cornerstones. The 5.4.7 Arts Center is a nonprofit organization that is fascinating in both look and mission. They are another important and quiet exciting piece in Greensburg’s rebirth and were kind enough to answer some questions: (more…)
In case you missed it, State of the Re:Union was on NPR’s ‘All Things Considered’ last Friday. They featured Al’s piece on Greensburg, Kansas, a town that’s rebuilding green after a devastating tornado three years ago. It’s a shortened version of our hour-long episode on Greensburg, named ‘To the Stars through Difficulties.’
You can listen to the story on NPR’s website.
Or, to hear the entire Greensburg episode of State of the Re:Union, visit our page featuring the show as well as supplemental stories and videos.
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Ed Schoenberger shows SOTRU host Al Letson some of what remains of his collection of old Greensburg photos
There’s a red, white and blue sign in front window of the house where Ed Schoenberger lives in Greensburg, Kansas. It says “Rebuilding Greensburg with Pride.” This is certainly true for Ed, who has lived in this town for decades, and cared for its history with equivalent pride for just as long. Ed is the caretaker of the cemetery in Greensburg, and is also the curator of the town’s historical museum—that is, before the museum blew away, along with most of Main Street, in the tornado that hit Greensburg in May 2007. It took most of Ed’s treasured artifacts with it, whole rooms of lovingly assembled displays, depicting Greensburg in its early days, as frontier town. (more…)
While Greensburg, Kansas, is rebuilding as a green community, it is also constructing new cultural cornerstones. The 5.4.7 Arts Center is a nonprofit organization that is fascinating in both look and mission. They are another important and quiet exciting piece in Greensburg’s rebirth and were kind enough to answer some questions:
