Speaker: John Burchill. John is an author and criminal justice historian who teaches at Kansas Wesleyan University In the days when Wild Bill Hickok might ride his horse into your church service—it happened in Junction City—the life of a minister… Read More Lifelong Learning: Cowboys and Clerics
Dr. Jessica Klanderud will present her lecture, "Freedom Corner and the Modern Civil Rights Movement, 1950-1968," at this year's Richard G. Kyle Faculty Lecture on April 19 in the Franz Family Heritage Lobby. All are welcome to attend the lecture at 7 p.m.
Speaker: Jane Rhoads, Jane is an author and a 2009 Notable Kansas Book award winner! Frontier Kansas was not a cultural desert. Opera houses were homes to important community events such as dramatic productions, commencements, and traveling theater performances. This… Read More Lifelong Learning: Opera House Culture on the Kansas Frontier
Speaker: Jim Hoy, Jim teaches folklore and literature at Emporia State University. Grasshoppers so big that cowboys can ride them to herd cattle. Summers so hot that corn pops in the field. Rancher Henry Mudge wrecking pianos, shooting sheep, and… Read More Lifelong Learning: Kansas Legends and Folktales