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Suffragettes in Lawrence, c. 1910. Photo courtesy of KansasMemory.org 

I Am Woman, Hear Me Roar

A new traveling exhibition commemorates centennial of the 19th amendment

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Dr. Gayln Vesey Full Story People   Meet Galyn Vesey Dr. Galyn Vesey was a participant in the 1958 lunch counter sit-in at the Dockum Drugstore in downtown Wichita and is currently working on a book about the Black experience in Wichita, Kansas from the 1870s to the 1970s. Full Story Detail from Woodstock by Baron Wolman Full Story People   Three Days of Peace and Music Woodstock: Three Days of Peace and Music happened fifty years ago this month. Full Story Kit Auner Full Story People   Meet Kit Auner, HK Summer Fellow 2019 Full Story Leighann Thone Full Story People   Meet Leighann Thone, HK Summer Fellow 2019 Full Story
Image of Freddy Gipp against a starry background   Full Story Meet Freddy Gipp Freddy Gipp of Lawrence is the founder and CEO of Lead Horse LLC. An enrolled member of the Kiowa-Apache Tribe of Oklahoma, Freddy created the Young Professional powwow, an event for indigenous influencers. Full Story
William Allen White   Full Story Confronting the Klan The world watched through its newspapers as the 56-year-old newspaper editor William Allen White traveled 2,783 miles and made 104 speeches, all directed at expelling the Klan. Full Story
Sweetheart Dancing   Full Story Sweetheart Dancing Dressed in identical regalia, Adrian Stevens and Sean Snyder registered to perform in the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians powwow Sweetheart’s Special dance category. But, the judges disqualified them. Full Story
KS Memory_Chautauqua Full Story   Speaking Out: Women Speakers at the Chautauqua During the late nineteenth century, women challenged social, educational, and political systems that limited or excluded their participation in civic engagement. Full Story
Special Olympics Full Story   Let Me Be Brave Special Olympics Kansas incorporated in 1970 and that same year the first Kansas Special Olympics was held in Parsons with 300 participants. The event proved so popular that participation the following year doubled. Full Story
Moment by Moment Full Story   The Flesh and the Bones Your stories, too, are worth saving and telling. This workshop will help you to find and construct those stories, to share your sense of who your family is with whoever carries it on into the future.   Full Story
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William Stafford: Clarity in Times of Anxiety

For Kansas’s most beloved poet, William Stafford (1914-1993), poetry and activism went hand in hand.

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group of soldiers Full Story   How Did You First Learn About the Vietnam War? For Kansas’s most beloved poet, William Stafford (1914-1993), poetry and activism went hand in hand. Full Story Caroline S. Brooks Full Story   Dairy Queen For Kansas’s most beloved poet, William Stafford (1914-1993), poetry and activism went hand in hand. Full Story Historical photo of the girls of atomic city at Oakridge in Tennessee Full Story   The Girls of Atomic City For Kansas’s most beloved poet, William Stafford (1914-1993), poetry and activism went hand in hand. Full Story Three women looking at scrapbook Full Story   Goddard Woman's Club is TCB For Kansas’s most beloved poet, William Stafford (1914-1993), poetry and activism went hand in hand. Full Story US soldiers in front of supply convoy trucks in Vietnam Full Story   The Haunts of War For Kansas’s most beloved poet, William Stafford (1914-1993), poetry and activism went hand in hand. Full Story Sonia Nazario on a Train Full Story   Meet Sonia Nazario For Kansas’s most beloved poet, William Stafford (1914-1993), poetry and activism went hand in hand. Full Story
William Garcia Full Story People   William Garcia, HK Summer Fellow 2018 William Garcia shares insights from a summer as a Hall Center for the Humanities Fellow at Humanities Kansas. Full Story Casey Keel Full Story People   Casey Keel, HK Summer Fellow Chicago-native Casey Keel describes how her Hall Center for the Humanities summer fellowship with Humanities Kansas helped her "get" Kansas. Full Story William Allen White Full Story People   To An Anxious Friend In 1922, William Allen White, editor of the Emporia (Kan.) Gazette, published "To An Anxious Friend," an impassioned defense of the freedom of speech. For this he won the Pulitzer Prize, the first Kansan to do so. Full Story Annette Billings kayaking Full Story People   Meet Annette Billings Annette Billings is an award-winning poet and actress from Topeka. Full Story
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Meet Joan Weaver

Library Director Joan K. Weaver is the driving force behind the cultural programs and opportunities at the Kinsley Public Library in southwest Kansas.

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