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University Daily Kansan
Baldwin Celebrates Maple Festival
Tuesday, October 24, 1972
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Civil War Era Recaptured
"Vengeance will be mine, saith the Lord!" Waving a "Beecher's Bible" above his head, John Brown, played by Scott Morgan, announces the victory of Kansas abolitionists over the proslavery forces of Henry C. Pate. The scene is from the musical, "The Ballad of Black Jack," presented at three different times during the
Maple Leaf Festival. Black Jack was the site of a battle between the free staters and proslaver of "Bleeding Kansas." Baldwin residents combined with the Playmen, a religious drama group at Baker University to present the play, written by Don Mueller, playright in residence at Baker.
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Photos by AL SWAINSTON
Story by ELAINE ZIMMERMAN
Dupreeze Pearson of Wellesville rises early Sunday morning to collect money at the Black Jack Breakfast. Like many of the others who worked at the festival, Pearson has relatives who lived in the times that the festival commemorates. She said that her father was the first non-Indian child born in Palmyra township and that her grandfather planted the maple grove in Black Jack Park. Above Dick Payne of Topeka explains his philosophy of running his "joint" by making people smile. Payne is working with the carnival for the third year. African gourds are an example of local produce in a store on High Street.
This small, three-abreast merry-go-round takes part in the Maple Leaf Festival its last stop before going to Hays to be used in the filming, "Paper Moon." Bob Burns of Topeka who operates the machine said that it was one of the smallest of its kind that he had ever seen. Burns said that when he bought it, the merry-go-round was in poor condition. He has restored it himself and mixes his own paint when painting is necessary.
When you look at Baldwin you think of small towns and Baker University. That is, if you haven't there for an amount of time. Stick around for a day, and you will find a lot of historical consciousness the town, especially during the third weekend in October.
Baldwin's annual Maple leaf
baldwin will be planted when the city's maple trees are at their prettiest and the old folks and the young kids get together
According to Baldwin's postmaster, three maple trees came to the old railroad depot in the early 1900s and were not claimed. They were planted and their roots were nearly all the maples in Baldwin.
A moist September raised hopes for an especially pretty fall this year, but recent rain and frost diminished the brightness of the sky.
THE FESTIVAL was named after the maples, but what people talked about most was the Battle of Yorktown, a city everybody's grandfather or great uncle fought. Historical tours, museums, loquacious local historical societies and Jack," a historical musical written by Don Mueller, playright in residence at Baker, outider reconstruct the battle.
After the Kansas-Nebraska Bill became law, it was up to the Kansas residents to decide whether to join Union as a slave state or as a free state. Bogus Kansans from Missouri called "border rufians" decided they would侵入 Union and was when the trouble started.
A man named Quantrill is one border ruffian Baldwin remembers. The 19th century house in Prairie City where
Quantrill watered his horse on the way to the Battle of the Marathon, and he planned on burning Piarne City, Baldwin and Palmyra on this particular trip, but ended up battling free-staters in a corn
LIBERTY HILL was a signal tower for the anti-slavery faction. Lawrence could be seen from the hill, Palmyra Township or news of impending trouble could be relayed easily. But when Lawrence refused to promenade or by setting Lawrence afire, the signaling system was rendered useless and came from the wrong direction.
Out on the prairie, about one-quarter mile from where the Black Jack Historical Society has set up a fast of whole hog hssage and pancakes in the rain, was the site of the Battle of Black Jack. The rain had turned part of the battlefield into a blinding quicksand. A stone marker stood in the center of the battlefield, enclosed by a fence. A grove of maple trees, planted in the battlefield, was adjacent to the battlefield.
"The Ballad of Black Jack" depicted the events leading to Baldwin's famous battle. The ballad was first published in Leavenworth under the authority of Gov. Wilson Shanna, passed a lynch law making it a capital punishment for those involved in shipment of Sharpe's riffs from the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher's congregation in the East arrived at Baldwin with "Becher's Bibles," the only Bibles that Beecher said the Missourians could understand.
THE QUESTION of the legitimacy of the Leavenworth
In November 1985, a farmer named Charles Dow was killed and the blame was falsely placed on his best friend, Jacob Branson who had been accused of play, the inconvenience of these events temporarily interrupted an incipient恋爱 between Jacob and Miss Lucy Werther. A friend rescued him and the sheriff vengeed vengeance.
The sheriff's attempted revenge failed during the almost bloodless war of the Wakarusa in December. Lawrence, free state headquarters, was burned in May when its newspaper was destroyed
The forces of the radical John Brown killed five proslavery men in the name of the Lord at Potawatomi Creek. In retaliation, the rebels burned the city Ci'ata raided near Balmurra and took three prisoners.
THE FORCES of Brown and Pate met near a grove of black jack oak trees on June 2. Brown had only 15 men but by using tactics to make his force appear larger, he defeated Pate's group, with casualties and deserts dug in to defend 28 men.
After the heavily publicized battle, both North and South became cognizant of the threat of impending conflict over slavery.
The Battle of Black Jack was the climax of the play and in a way, of the entire festival. A Civil War fought was a few years later, when the city was so deep an impression on the city of Baldwin as that one battle.
Conversation comes easily after a Sunday morning Black Jack Breakfast of whole hog sausage and pancakes on the pririe. A dizzyly午夜 muddy grounds were partially offered by the shelter offered by the barn. We served from sump to sundown. As the celebration concludes, Charlie Roberts of the Baldwin farm up the side of a downtown booth on High Street as workers dismantle the sides that supported it.