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Trail Talk
Santa Fe Trail Center Museum and Library uses Humanities For All grant for new immersive exhibition called "The Trail Through their Eyes"
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In Their Own Words: Mexican American Vietnam Era Veterans
American Legion Post #213 in Kansas City, Kansas, recorded 13 oral histories with veterans as part of the Kansas Stories of the Vietnam War initiative.
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Hand Talk
Long before spoken English or Spanish dominated the region, the Plains Indian tribes, of what is now called Kansas, developed a solution rooted in visual communication: Hand Talk.
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Hotline: Ghosts in Literature
Kim Stanley of McPherson College discusses the role of ghosts in Western literature, from The Odyssey to Hamlet to The Haunting of Hill House.
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Hotline: The Legend of the Blue Light Lady
Generations of Hays residents have stories about seeing or seeking the ghostly "Blue Light Lady." Jim Hoy tells the story of Elizabeth Polly and how she became the "Blue Light Lady" of Hays.
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Meet Jancita Warrington
Kirk is the Executive Director at the Gordon Parks Museum in Fort Scott.
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Meet Bill Tsutsui
Kirk is the Executive Director at the Gordon Parks Museum in Fort Scott.
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Frank Wickware: From Girard, Kansas to Schenectady, New York
Kirk is the Executive Director at the Gordon Parks Museum in Fort Scott.
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African American Soldiers in the Civil War: A Kansas Story
Kirk is the Executive Director at the Gordon Parks Museum in Fort Scott.
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Celebrating Our Stories: Topeka Trailblazers
Kirk is the Executive Director at the Gordon Parks Museum in Fort Scott.
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For the Love of the Prairie
Kirk is the Executive Director at the Gordon Parks Museum in Fort Scott.
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Hotline: Marymount College
Dr. Patricia Ackerman, freelance writer and professor of language arts at Kansas State University, shares the holiday traditions of Marymount College on the Humanities Holiday Hotline.
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Hotline: Winter Soundtrack
Cash Hollistah shares a playlist of songs to get you in the winter spirit.
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Hotline: The Story of Kwanzaa
Kwanzaa is observed for seven days after Christmas through New Year's Day. Lona Reeves of The Kansas African American Museum talks about the history and traditions of this celebration of African American culture.
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Go Swedes! Preserving Hyllningsfest in Lindsborg
Lindsborg Old Mill & Swedish Heritage Museum received a Cultural Preservation Grant from HK supporting the Hyllningsfest Photo Digitization project.
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Porubsky's -- Transcendent Deli
Porubsky’s – Transcendent Deli follows Matthew Porubsky on his journey to discover the history and appeal of the business his grandparents began in the Little Russia neighborhood in Topeka over seventy years ago.
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