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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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Hotline: "Mi Isla"
Poet Laureate of Kansas Huascar Medina reads his poem “Mi Isla.”
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Hotline: The History of Board Games
Daniel Ireton of Kansas State University shares the history of the board game.
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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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Oil and Gold: The McPherson Globe Refiners Basketball Story
Experience a Kansas basketball team’s triumph at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin.
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Voices and Votes: Out of the Mud
Experience a Kansas basketball team’s triumph at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin.
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Hotline: The Story of Kwanzaa
Experience a Kansas basketball team’s triumph at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin.
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Hotline: Winter Soundtrack
Experience a Kansas basketball team’s triumph at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin.
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Hotline: Marymount College
Experience a Kansas basketball team’s triumph at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin.
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Hotline: The Cultural Importance of Indigenous Food
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Hotline: Ghosts in Literature
Experience a Kansas basketball team’s triumph at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin.
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Voices and Votes: "The Most American Thing in America"
Theodore Roosevelt called Chautauqua “the most American thing in America.” Like many Kansas communities, Winfield played a vital role in this turn-of-the-20th century movement of ideas.
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Hughes and Parks: Renaissance Men
"Hughes + Parks" is a new exhibition supported by a Humanities For All grant at the Gordon Parks Museum in Fort Scott exploring the friendship and legacy of these two famous Kansans.
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Voices and Votes: The 43 Naked Voters of 1858
In 1858, a group of Franklin County Free Staters were so determined to cast their ballots against the pro-slavery Lecompton Constitution that they let nothing –not even a high creek or lack of clothing– get in their way.
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Voices and Votes: Edward P. McCabe, Political Pioneer
Edward P. McCabe of Nicodemus became the first African American to hold statewide office when he was elected state auditor in the 1880s.
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No Place Like Home
A book and new short film project explore the history of the LGBTQ movement in Kansas to spark meaningful discussion on the topic.
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