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Organizations earn grant for exhibit to be spread across 6 Douglas County sites
Douglas County museums have earned a grant that will support an exhibition to be displayed across six historic sites throughout the county.
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Organizations earn grant for exhibit to be spread across 6 Douglas County sites
Douglas County museums have earned a grant that will support an exhibition to be displayed across six historic sites throughout the county.
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Lawrence’s Grover Barn tapped for federal grant preserving Underground Railroad sites
A federal grant will help the city of Lawrence conduct a drone study of Grover Barn’s structural integrity. The barn was a site on the Underground Railroad, and a local group has big hopes for its future potential.
What’s the status of the historical markers for Nick Rice and Tiger Dowdell’s deaths?
In the nine months since the Lawrence City Commission unanimously approved creating historical markers to memorialize two teenagers killed by Lawrence police, the conversation on what those markers might look like, where they’ll be placed, and how much they’ll cost has mostly gone silent.
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Community event to memorialize 3 Black men lynched in 1882
After 139 years to the day, community members will memorialize the deaths of three Black men who were lynched in 1882.
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Pinckney Neighborhood residents voting between 4 finalists for new name
About a year since talks began to change the name of a neighborhood in Lawrence, its residents are voting between four finalists.
August Rudisell/@KsScanner
Lawrence community members visit graves of loved ones
Over this solemn holiday weekend, Lawrence residents stopped by Oak Hill Cemetery to visit the graves of loved ones who have passed.
Events to mark 165th anniversary of Battle of Black Jack, 200th year of Santa Fe Trail
The beginning of June will mark the 165th anniversary of the Battle of Black Jack, […]
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John Brown had powerful enemies during his lifetime and still does today, speaker says at Lawrence Times party
Despite pouring rain for most of Saturday, dozens of community members stopped by The Lawrence Times’ party at South Park. Kerry Altenbernd spoke on abolitionist John Brown, among other attractions.
Who killed Nick Rice? Part 8: ‘I feel like I now know the whole story’
For years after Nick Rice’s death, his family fielded an untold number of letters, phone calls and the occasional in-person visitor telling them Nick deserved what he got.
Who killed Nick Rice? Part 7: Pocketing the bullet
KBI laboratory testing released 50 years after Nick Rice was killed revealed that a bullet found almost exactly where the teen’s body lay was fired from the gun of Officer Jimmy Joe Stroud. But a Lawrence police captain had tampered with that evidence, rendering it inadmissible.
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