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Haskell professor accepts Heartland Emmy By Elvyn Jones ejones@ljworld.com

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PICKERS WORK IN QUARTER-MILE ROWS OF GRAPES at Davenport Orchards and Winery, 1394 East 1900 Road in Eudora, on Wednesday.

Kansas wine industry lacks key designation BY ELVYN JONES ••••••••• ejones@ljworld.com

the grapes for this wine came from the Napa Valley, for example. Imagine the day he first of this season’s when wine bottles may carry grapes in the vineyards a statement touting the grapes of local wineries were were grown in the Kaw River picked in recent days and Valley. the rest will be harvested Serious wine drinkers like in the busy weeks ahead. to know where their grapes The freshly harvested come from, and the most grapes will then be pressed, serious of wine producallowed to ferment and age, ing regions are granted a and poured into bottles, many government stamp called an with labels embracing the American Viticultural Area wines’ Kansas origins. But designation. Kansas’ wine missing from those labels industry is still seeking its will be a key designation that first such designation. other fine wines across the The state wine induscountry carry. You’ve pertry has grown in the past haps seen it: A government> WINE, 8A approved statement saying

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Bond Love doesn’t consider himself in famed documentary filmmaker Ken Burns’ league, but they do share award hardware. Love was presented last month with an Emmy for his collaboration on a documentary on the history of Tulsa, Okla., “Boomtown: An American Journey.” The film aired last year on the Tulsa public broadcasting station, he said. In the interest of full disclosure, Love’s award was a regional Emmy, although the trophies he and his producer Russ Kirkpatrick were presented last month in Denver were identical to those Burns has collected for such work as “The Civil War” and “Baseball.” “I didn’t know until recently they had regional categories in addition to the national Hollywood thing,” the Haskell English professor said. “It was a Heartland Emmy, which is basically the lower Midwest.” Bond, who was working as an educational consultant and tutor in Tulsa, wrote the script for the film Kirkpatrick produced with the sponsorship of the Tulsa Historical Society and Museum. The film covered Tulsa’s history from its settlement

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DAVENPORT ORCHARDS AND WINERY OWNER GREG SHIPE comes in with a pair of nippers to clip a gathering of Niagara grapes on Wednesday.

KU welcomes 151st freshman class at convocation UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SENIOR KAI ONO PLAYS an improvised version of Stevie Wonder’s “Sir Duke” during KU’s 151st convocation ceremony Sunday at the Lied Center.

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University of Kansas Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little and other top academic officials formally opened the new academic year Sunday night, challenging students to both accept and be agents of change. “Jayhawks, I don’t want you to be the same person when you leave here in four years that you are

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today,” Gray-Little said. “And similarly, I don’t want you to leave the university as the same place you find it today.” Sunday’s ceremony at the Lied Center marked the 151st convocation of a new term at KU, and much of the ceremony was tinged with a sense of history, from the medieval regalia worn by the academic leaders on stage to reminders about

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BOND LOVE, HASKELL INDIAN NATIONS UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH, recently accepted a Heartland Emmy for his writing on Boomtown, a historical documentary on the city of Tulsa, Okla. Love is pictured on Friday at Haskell.

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