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Jacque Sherrill

Meet Jacque Sherrill

Jacque is the director at the Jetmore Public Library.

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Kirk Sharp

Full Story Meet Kirk Sharp Kirk is the Executive Director at the Gordon Parks Museum in Fort Scott. Full Story

Jancita Warrington

Full Story Meet Jancita Warrington Jancita is the Executive Director of Native American Affairs. Full Story

Bill Tsutsui

Full Story Meet Bill Tsutsui Bill Tsutsui is the Chancellor and Professor of History at Ottawa University. Full Story

Wickware

Full Story Frank Wickware: From Girard, Kansas to Schenectady, New York Phil Dixon’s visit to Girard for a Humanities Kansas Speakers Bureau presentation begins an unforgettable week commemorating a Negro League legend from Kansas: Frank E. Wickware. Full Story

Kansas Freedom Fighters

Full Story African American Soldiers in the Civil War: A Kansas Story African American Midwest Documentary Project and the Nicodemus Historical Society partnered to create the "Kansas Free Fighters" documentary, with the support of a Humanities for All grant. Full Story

Lutie

Full Story Celebrating Our Stories: Topeka Trailblazers The Our Stories traveling exhibition weaves together the stories of African American Topeka, past and present. Full Story

Sprouls

Full Story For the Love of the Prairie A four-part interview series is preserving the stories of Kansas farmers and ranchers. Full Story

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Full Story 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. Full Story

Cash Hollistah

Full Story Hotline: Winter Soundtrack Cash Hollistah shares a playlist of songs to get you in the winter spirit. Full Story

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Full Story 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. Full Story

Hyllningsfest

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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Full Story Porubsky's -- Transcendent Deli Lindsborg Old Mill & Swedish Heritage Museum received a Cultural Preservation Grant from HK supporting the Hyllningsfest Photo Digitization project. Full Story

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Full Story Hotline: "Mi Isla" Lindsborg Old Mill & Swedish Heritage Museum received a Cultural Preservation Grant from HK supporting the Hyllningsfest Photo Digitization project. Full Story

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Full Story Hotline: The History of Board Games Lindsborg Old Mill & Swedish Heritage Museum received a Cultural Preservation Grant from HK supporting the Hyllningsfest Photo Digitization project. Full Story

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Full Story Hotline: The Legend of the Blue Light Lady Lindsborg Old Mill & Swedish Heritage Museum received a Cultural Preservation Grant from HK supporting the Hyllningsfest Photo Digitization project. Full Story

McDaniel

Full Story From Wichita to Hollywood: Honoring Hattie McDaniel Lindsborg Old Mill & Swedish Heritage Museum received a Cultural Preservation Grant from HK supporting the Hyllningsfest Photo Digitization project. Full Story

Ada Limón

Full Story In Praise of Mystery: The Poetry of Ada Limón Lindsborg Old Mill & Swedish Heritage Museum received a Cultural Preservation Grant from HK supporting the Hyllningsfest Photo Digitization project. Full Story

Santa Fe Trail

Full Story A Rendezvous with History “Road of Conquest: Another View of the Santa Fe Trail” will be held September 19-21, 2024. The symposium consists of a documentary screening and presentations by scholars. Full Story

Tsutsui Godzilla

Full Story Humanities vs. Godzilla Godzilla is 70! Johnson County Community College’s Billington Library is celebrating this monster milestone in September with the Godzilla Friday Film Series. Full Story

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Full Story A New Portrait of Stafford County The "Hall of Portraits: Documenting our Diverse Legacy", supported by an HK Humanities for All grant, is a photography and film project at the St. John Homecoming Hall and Museum in Stafford County, KS. Full Story

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Full Story Snapshots of History Using a Culture Preservation Grant from HK, the Anderson County Historical Society Museum set out to catalog and digitize Philip Strain's photographs, with the help of the community. Full Story

Basketball History

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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