Return to Table of ContentsThis week we take you to AWACKS: A Week at Chanute, Kansas. The site is the photo gallery of four Kansas State University students who spent their spring break documenting the people of Chanute and Neosho County, Kansas, by camera.
It was not the typical college break experience but the four student photojournalists had a very specific project in mind. In the United States, many rural and small town people continue to migrate to the cities. But some people stay.
You will meet the folks who stayed in this prairie town in photo essays which will change throughout the week.
One resident is Roy Carter, known as the island farmer because his farm is on an island in the middle of the Neosho River.
Another is Chanute's mayor, Leroy Chard, who runs the local gas station. With their instructor and input from former and present staffers at the Chanute Tribune, the students present their story, "They Stayed."