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watershed (1)
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waterway (2)
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Watkins Comm. Mus. coll./cour. Ed Bumgardner (1)
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Watkins Community Museum (1)
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Watkins Community Museum of History, formerly Watkins Bank, 1047 Massachusetts St. (1888) Langston Hughes writes about the constant threat of foreclosure his grandmother endured: But we were never quite sure the white mortgage man was not going to take the house. Mark Scott suggests the mortgage man could be Albert L. Stanton, listed in the 1907 city directory as an employee of the Watkins Land Mortgage Co. In Hughes's autobiographical novel Not Without Laughter, he names the small Kansas town Stanton. However, A.N. Fuller signed the mortgage, on behalf of the Lawrence National Bank, not Stanton. This bank is similar to the Lawrence National Bank building that no longer exists. J.B. Watkins built this red-brick structure in 1888. At one time it was the city hall. The Romanesque Revival building remains an example of opulent architectural details, especially the interior of marble and polished hardwood. According to town lore, J.B. Watkins inspected all materials for the building and returned all that did not meet his standards. (1)
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Watkins Community Museum of History, formerly Watkins Bank, 1047 Massachusetts St., second floor (1888) James Patti created this life-size sculpture of Langston Hughes as a paperboy. In The Big Sea, Hughes remembers delivering the Saturday Evening Post, daily newspapers, and the Appeal to Reason. John Taylor, a boyhood friend of Hughes, helped Patti with details of dress. Taylor maintained a life-long friendship and correspondence with the great writer. In 1974 he told a news reporter that Hughes sent him a copy of each new book. He remembered Hughes was beyond most children in school and didn't need to study much. He also remembered Hughes had a sunny disposition most of the time: He loved people, lots of people and had a ready smile. He frowned very little, but when he did, had a reason. His theory was that it took more muscles to frown than to smile. In this depiction, the young poet does smile, but he seems reflective as well. (1)
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Waverly, 0.5 mi W, 1.5 mi N. Cedar Bend Conservation Park; E end. Fence row in clearing in maple-basswood forest. (1)
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Waverly, 1 mi E, 1 mi N. Laquschulte Prairie. (1)
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Waverly, 1 mi N. Cedar Bend Conservation Park. Mesic, upland oak-hickory forest on hills S of the Cedar River. (1)
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Waverly, S of town. Tallgrass prairie remnant along railroad right-of-way. (1)
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Wayland Shale (6)
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We Can't Seem to Know More than We Know (1)
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We Can't Seem to Suffer More than We Have (1)
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We Danced a Silver Waltz (1)
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Webster County (1)
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Wedgeleaf draba (2)
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Weeds for Delacroix (1)
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Weeds in Cornfield (1)
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Weight (1)
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Weir, 4.5 mi E. (2)
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