but he will also be interested in education and he will be instrumental in the founding of washburn university, to be an institution that is part of this community. the idea that we are going to have an educated citizenry, and inclusive citizenry, is an improvement over what we had east of the mississippi at the time. kansas is a fertile ground for a new america. we tell the story to visitors, principally -- we have a heritage education program, in which we deal with middle schoolers and elementary education schools. we talk about the underground railroad and we connect the activities that the house represents because it was a station on the underground railroad. we tell the richies story and kids can identify with it. they also go five blocks to the south and they go to the monroe school where they talk about the issues that lead to the civil rights movement of the 1950's. so you have freedom issues in the 1850's that we talk about here and at the monro school, we talk about freedom issues of the 1950's at the monroe school. kids can begin to understand that something really important about a