Watkins Museum of History
Watkins Museum exhibition to spotlight abolitionist John Brown
A new traveling exhibition on abolitionist John Brown will make its debut at Lawrence’s Watkins Museum of History next Saturday.
Watkins Museum of History
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League of Women Voters of Lawrence-Douglas County to celebrate 100 years, set the record straight
A local organization is celebrating a century of encouraging civic engagement and responsive governance by elected officials. It’s also setting straight a “historicized record.”
City of Lawrence
Amtrak depot parking lot project resumes; old freight house brick floor will be preserved
A contractor for the city is to resume work on Tuesday refurbishing the parking lot next to the Amtrak/Santa Fe depot in East Lawrence — and the project will incorporate a large swath of historic brickwork that workers uncovered earlier this year.
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Watkins Museum events to commemorate Quantrill’s Raid on Lawrence (Sponsored post)
Now in its 26th year, Civil War on the Border provides participants with unique and meaningful explorations of Lawrence history — including Quantrill’s Raid, one of the most notorious atrocities of the war.
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‘Ghosts of Segregation’ traveling photo exhibition to debut at Lawrence Arts Center in September
Lawrence will have the distinct honor of launching the first traveling exhibition for “Ghosts of Segregation,” a photo series by Richard Frishman, this September at the Lawrence Arts Center. The local community can still help Frishman choose sites to be included.
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Free State High School student wins Equal Justice Initiative essay contest
“A Black body is the most disposable body in America. America has proved this time and time again,” Free State High School student Ryan Brown read from her prize-winning essay Tuesday.
Who killed Nick Rice? Epilogue: An eyewitness still grappling with painful memories of a tumultuous era
As an epilogue to The Lawrence Times eight-part series on the death of Nick Rice in July 1970, read a personal account of the night’s events from a bystander just feet away from Rice when he was killed.
Conner Mitchell / The Lawrence Times
Work begins in Oak Hill Cemetery to pinpoint grave sites of Black men lynched in 1882
Though a final answer is likely still a few months away, work began Monday to solve a question that originated just over 139 years ago: where are the three Black men lynched in Lawrence in the summer of 1882 buried? One Kansas researcher is using ground penetrating radar technology to find out.
KU Libraries Exhibits
The KBI declined to release its case file on Rick ‘Tiger’ Dowdell’s 1970 killing by Lawrence police; here’s why it matters (Analysis)
The KBI will, at least temporarily, continue to keep in the dark records that could finally shed light on a case of police violence that has been imprinted in the fabric of Lawrence for exactly 51 years.
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Residents select new name for Pinckney neighborhood: Pinkney
The residents of the neighborhood formerly known as Pinckney have spoken.
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