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Arts & Events July 9, 2025 - 11:06 am

Early Lawrence Christian churches to star in Watkins Museum’s new temporary exhibition

by Lawrence Times

More than three dozen Christian churches founded in Lawrence prior to 1900 will be featured in a new temporary exhibition at the Watkins Museum.

Tom Harper/Lawrence Times
Arts & Events May 10, 2025 - 11:27 am

Liberty Hall launches silent movie series to celebrate 100 years of screenings

by Maya Hodison

Liberty Hall in downtown Lawrence is celebrating a century of screening movies by showing a 1925 silent film once a month through the remainder of the year.

Molly Adams / Lawrence Times
Lawrence news August 19, 2023 - 12:56 pm

Lawrence community memorializes victims of Quantrill’s Raid as 160th anniversary approaches

by Photos by Molly Adams

Lawrence community members gathered at the Watkins Museum Saturday morning for the annual reading of the names of the known victims who died in Quantrill’s Raid, just ahead of the 160th anniversary.

Watkins Museum of History
Lawrence news August 27, 2021 - 5:09 pm

Watkins Museum exhibition to spotlight abolitionist John Brown

by Lawrence Times

A new traveling exhibition on abolitionist John Brown will make its debut at Lawrence’s Watkins Museum of History next Saturday.

Douglas County Historical Society/Submitted Photo
Arts & Events August 12, 2021 - 12:11 pm

Watkins Museum events to commemorate Quantrill’s Raid on Lawrence (Sponsored post)

by Will Haynes, Watkins Museum of History

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.

Lawrence news April 3, 2021 - 5:23 pm

Chance find in Lawrence City Hall answers a 138-year-old question: Where are the 3 Black men lynched in 1882 buried?

by Conner Mitchell

A small pink flag signifies an answer 138 years in the making: the burial location of Pete Vinegar, one of three Black men lynched in Lawrence in the summer of 1882.

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