On September 20th, a group from the Between the Rock and a Hard Place project took to the water to explore the place where the Big Red Rock lived for thousands of years before being removed to Lawrence. Led by project partner Dawn Buehler and the Kansas Riverkeepers, we entered the Kansas River just west of Tecumseh and floated downstream along the south bank until we met the Shunganunga Creek. (All of us wore protective face masks and kept proper social distance during the trip).
In addition to project filmmaker Nicholas Ward, we were joined by artist Lisa Grossman who piloted her drone to capture unique footage of our trip. It was and easy paddle. The river was low with hardly any wind as we quietly imagined the river and the Rock one-hundred, two-hundred, a thousand years ago.
This is the confluence of the Kansas River and Shunganunga Creek. In the background is the railroad bridge over the creek where a crane was used to remove the Big Red Rock in 1929.