Actually, one of the better ideas we've seen for a local landmark . . . Here's the plan:
A forgotten lodge in Swope Park, sealed for more than 20 years, has become Cotten’s passion project. The lodge is tucked off an access road in the more than 1,800-acre park.
Cotten intends to make the 8-acre site a regional gathering place for indigenous people, including members of the four nations that have tribal lands in Kansas: the Prairie Band Potawatomi, the Kickapoo of Kansas, the Sac and Fox Nation of Missouri in Kansas and Nebraska, and the Iowa of Kansas and Nebraska.
The lodge once served as Camp Hope, a residential camping program for Black children before integration.
For years, campers formed a municipal government as part of civic education activities. White children had similar programs and attended Swope Park’s larger Lake of the Woods.
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