For nine years, three Idaho professors have researched the early culture of the irrigated settlement communities along the Snake and Boise Rivers in southern Idaho. Massive federal projects in the early 1900s transformed southern Idaho from desert into arable land, thereby creating the foundation for Idaho as it is today. Through historical photographs and writings, the work of historians, and first hand visits to historical sites, we have tried to understand this brief, pivotal period in Idaho history. We have presented our findings through in poetry and videos, what Richardson (1994) calls “evocative representations” of research data. A host of current technologies has insulated all of us from our immediate physical surroundings. We are using some of these technologies in an attempt to reconnect the public with the land and our historical roots. Our research process has been a journey into the lives and landscapes of cultural figures of the irrigated settlements. On January 11, 2012, we visited Twin Falls, Idaho, and advanced our knowledge of Clarence E. Bisbee, a professional photographer. While viewing 2,000 of Bisbee’s digitized photographs and some of his original 8 x 10” glass plate negatives, we gained a visceral sense of his passion to document the explosive growth of crops and communities in the Magic Valley. near Twin Falls, we photographed the Greenwood School, named for Annie Pike Greenwood, a farmer’s wife and teacher who wrote about Idaho life in We Sagebrush Folks (1934). The buildings current owner, Don Morrill, pulled up in his truck and we started talking. He told us stories about the school, which closed in 1952; then he took us inside where he and his mother were students. Our presentation will include highlights from this “day in history” and our resulting poetic and video responses to the cultural contributions of Bisbee and Greenwood.