The first workshop, hosted on May 8-10, 1997, supported 26 community leaders at the Lied Conference Center in Nebraska City. The program materials, derived from the well established Your Town model, engaged participants in graphics and mapping exercises, hypothetical design challenge explorations, and relevant case studies to get them thinking creatively about their own communities. 

The second workshop, held on September 20-22, 1998, engaged people from Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa, Oklahoma, South Dakota, and Montana, as well as tribal members from the Prairie Band of Potawatomi. Sessions were primarily led by Kansas State faculty, with case studies presented by the National Park Service’s Rivers, Trails and Conservation Assistance division, Mountain/Plains Regional Office of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, and local community planning officials. 

The third workshop, held on October 1-3, 2000, invited participants from Nebraska and surrounding states, following the highly successful models from previous Nebraska City workshops. One of the case studies was presented by Latane Donelin, a member of the Potawatomi Nation and attendee from the 1998 workshop. 

Learn more from the Nebraska City Workshop Notebooks from 1998 and 2000.