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The Lawrence Times1d
Watkins Museum exhibit to showcase 75 years of Bert Nash in Douglas County
A new exhibit at Watkins Museum of History will take visitors through Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center’s history ...
Lawrence Journal-World19y
Museums face challenges in keeping artifacts intact
The Watkins Community Museum of History in downtown Lawrence has thousands of items ... well-funded museums like the Spencer – and the state-run Kansas History Center in Topeka – have ...
The Lawrence Times6d
Federal cuts raise challenges for Watkins Museum, Humanities Kansas
A $250,000 grant for the Watkins Museum to expand exhibits on local Indigenous history is in limbo and a Lawrence event ...
Lawrence Journal-World9d
Humanities Kansas suspending some programs as federal funding cuts emerge; longterm survival in question
A statewide nonprofit that brings authors, speakers, historians and others to both large and small communities across the ...
Kansas City Jewish Chronicle14d
Lawrence Jewish community history emphasized this month
The Jewish history of Lawrence, Kansas, will be highlighted this month with a discussion with Dr. David Katzman at the Lawrence Jewish Community Congregation (LJCC) and an exhibition of Judaica at the ...
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Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr. speaks in Lawrence on Emmett Till’s 1955 lynching murder
is in Lawrence, Kansas Wednesday night. Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr. tells his story at the Spencer Museum of Art, continuing to push for justice and equality. “I was an eye witness. For 30 years no ...