FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

 

Contact Bethany Kendrick
Director Public Relations
Labette Community College
(620) 820-1280

 

LCC offering classes through KU’s Osher Lifelong Learning Institute

 

Labette Community College will be offering a course through the University of Kansas’s Osher Lifelong Learning Institute this spring. While the program was originally designed to meet the needs of Senior Citizens, there is no minimum age to take a class and the cost is very reasonable.

The first class being offered is The Cowboy Culture of Kansas and will take place Mondays, January 25^th and February 1^st and 8^th from 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. The class will be held in the Main Building at LCC in room #302.

 

These three sessions will be offered in-person with Jim Hoy, Director of Center for Great Plains Studies at Emporia State University. Hoy, a Professor of English at Emporia State University, has lived in the Flint Hills area most of his life. His chief interest is the folk life of ranching, both historical and contemporary, in various parts of the world, with special emphasis on the Great Plains and the Flint Hills of Kansas. He is the author of nine books, including Flint Hills Cowboys: Tales of the Tallgrass Prairie.

 

This course will focus on the origin of the American cowboy, the unique Flint Hills ranching culture, and the cowboy folk song and poetry traditions of Kansas. The recommended reading for this course includes; Vaqueros, Cowboys, and Buckaroos; Flint Hills Cowboys; Prairie Poetry: Cowboy Verse of Kansas.

 

The cost for the class is $35. For more information or to enroll in the class, please call MiChielle Cooper at (620) 820-1278.