{"id":422,"date":"2022-02-18T13:57:10","date_gmt":"2022-02-18T18:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/stormlake\/?p=422"},"modified":"2022-02-18T17:27:11","modified_gmt":"2022-02-18T22:27:11","slug":"back-in-the-712","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/stormlake\/2022\/02\/back-in-the-712\/","title":{"rendered":"Back in the (712)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It\u2019s great to be back in Storm Lake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At least, that\u2019s what it feels like. Over the last few weeks, \u201cResearching Midwestern History\u201d has been convening for the second time. With a new roster of students\u201419 undergraduates, and 3 Master\u2019s candidates\u2014we have begun to investigate Storm Lake\u2019s past and present once again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This year, introducing students to the town has been a whole lot easier. The documentary, Storm Lake<\/a>, offers a view into the local setting better than any lecture I could pull together, though its emphasis on the important issue of local journalism sidelines to a degree other aspects of town that make it so fascinating. To these ends we hope that our work can contribute in a significant way to Anchor Pictures\u2019 The Americans<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The research completed by students in 2021 also offers a tremendous boost to this year\u2019s group. It has been wonderful to review completed notes and interview transcripts as a way to jumpstart our investigations. Students now are copyediting transcripts from past interviews, and preparing them for publication or donation to the BV County Historical Society. Before long, we will begin publishing online the profile pieces written from these interviews in a series, \u201cSmall Town, Big World.\u201d Central to this was our previous collaboration with Dr. Andrea Frantz\u2019s class at BVU, and the assistance of Superintendent Stacey Cole.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Michael “Doc” Whitlatch visited our class on January 31.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

So things are more developed, the second time around, as we expand upon the work of those before us. Importantly, we have kept one \u201ctradition\u201d to class. Doc Whitlatch visited us two weeks ago, to speak on his own experiences in town. We couldn\u2019t ask for a better visitor. Doc, as most of you know, was once a long-time resident of Storm Lake and professor at Buena Vista, who now lives near Dayton, and (believe it or not) is an alumnus of Miami University! As a professor of theater, he knows a few things about oration and holding an audience\u2019s attention. When I think back on the creation of this class, I had no idea Doc lived near us. Now it\u2019s hard to think of teaching it without his visit to kick off the semester.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Starting next week, student blogs will resume. The first couple of posts will bring you all up to date on our early conversations. We have spoken with two guests and read two books already. But get ready for some older news stories to frequent the posts. Students will be researching the period of 1880-1940, so that we can have a stronger comparison point to contemporary Storm Lake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And I\u2019ll add this: we will continue our interviews with local residents. If you would be open to participating in this project, please reach out<\/a> to us at any time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We look forward to working with you all in the coming weeks!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dr. Andrew Offenburger is associate professor of history at Miami University and can be reached at offenba@miamioh.edu<\/a> or at https:\/\/offenburger.miamioh.edu<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s great to be back in Storm Lake. At least, that\u2019s what it feels like. Over the last few weeks, \u201cResearching Midwestern History\u201d has been convening for the second time. With a new roster of students\u201419 undergraduates, and 3 Master\u2019s candidates\u2014we have begun to investigate Storm Lake\u2019s past and present… Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3041,"featured_media":424,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4],"class_list":["post-422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-project-update","tag-project-update"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/stormlake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/stormlake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/stormlake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/stormlake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3041"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/stormlake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/stormlake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/stormlake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/stormlake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/stormlake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/stormlake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}