Tuesday, July 21, 2020
Middens
The KSHS website has suddenly turned active again after several months of lockdown. Might be a sign that Kansas is starting to unlock? Hard to tell.
One of the new items happens to answer a random thought I'd been entertaining this week. I was thinking about the Goodnow Mansion, which was across the street from the house my parents owned for much of my school years in Manhattan. I spent a lot of time digging around in the midden behind the Goodnow house, which contained all sorts of relics from earlier decades. I remember a Model A bumper and other car parts.
Interesting trash disappeared in the '70s as part of EPA's "cleanup", which offshored trash along with industry and skills.
This week I was randomly wondering why K-State didn't pay any attention to that midden. They were doing archeology digs in those years, and the midden was just 6 blocks from campus, AND Goodnow was the founder of K-State. Should have been interesting to them, but apparently wasn't.
Turns out K-State did get around to investigating the midden, much later after it was buried.
Here's a horse bit from the Goodnow midden. (It's possible that I might have examined this item, but I was only interested in car stuff and electric stuff, so I wouldn't have remembered it.)
Labels: Asked and answered, skill-estate
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