Viewing event: "Rediscovering the Arkansas River"

WPL will host a satellite location to view the program "Rediscovering the Arkansas River" presented by Hannes Zacharias at the Cowley County Historical Society and Museum.

About the program:

"The Arkansas River pierces the heart of America, stretching 1,469 miles from the Tennessee Pass in Colorado to the Mississippi River at the eastern edge of Arkansas. As the nations sixth-longest river (45th longest in the world), it is both the economic engine and burden to millions of people and scores of cities bordering its banks. From raging rapids to diversion dams for irrigation ditches, to dry steambeds, and finally barge traffic, this presentation will examine the impact this wild, elusive, and embattled river has had on cities, towns and adjacent farmland, starting with the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 through to the present day.  Presented by Hannes Zacharias. Hannes Zacharias is the Robert A. Kipp professor of practice in public administration at the University of Kansas."

For more about the Arkansas River, check out WPL's upcoming event hosted at Chaplin Nature Center, "Animals of the Arkansas River."