An Ethnographic Study of the Kansas Historical Society's

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FACE, SPACE, AND ANXIETY: AN ETHNOGRAPHIC STUDY OF THE

KANSAS HISTORICAL SOCIETY’S SOCIAL MEDIA USAGE

SJOBOR HAMMER

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Master of Arts

Department of Cognitive Linguistics

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TABLE OF CONTENTS LIST OF TABLES ...... 5 ABSTRACT ...... 7 INTRODUCTION ...... 1 LITERATURE REVIEW ...... 1 AN INTRODUCTION TO THE KANSAS HISTORICAL SOCIETY ...... 14 METHODOLOGY ...... 19 ANALYSIS ...... 28 STRATEGIES AND CONCLUSIONS ...... 50 APPENDIX ...... 55 1. TWITTER POSTS ...... 55 2. FACEBOOK POSTS: KANSAS HISTORICAL SOCIETY ...... 120 3. FACEBOOK POSTS: KANSAS STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICE ...... 164 4. FACEBOOK POSTS: KANSAS MUSEUM OF HISTORY ...... 210 BIBLIOGRAPHY ...... 227

LIST OF TABLES

Table 1. Face threatening acts according to face threatened……………………………23

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I would like to express my gratitude to the many people who helped and encouraged me in this work. I particular, I would like to thank the staff of the Kansas Historical Society and my committee members Professors Todd Oakley, William Deal, and Mark Turner.

Face, Space, And Anxiety: An Ethnographic Study Of The Kansas Historical Society’s

Social Media Usage

ABSTRACT

SJOBOR HAMMER

Social media has emerged as an ideal medium for the creation of online spaces that promote discussion and the sharing of ideas between individuals. For cultural institutions, this medium can help bring together community members to further the aim of the institution: the education of community members and preservation of local history

(Levin 2007; Rosenberg 2011; Karp 1992). However, restrictions on time, staff, and funding, as well as self-reported anxiety (KSHS 10/28; 11/18) around the use of social media lead to online spaces that are distant, awkward, or threatening, to which few or no community members will contribute. This paper examines issues of institutional face creation through a case study with the Kansas Historical Society. Utilizing Penelope

Brown and Stephen Levinson’s Politeness Theory (1987), as well as Paul Grice’s

Cooperative Principle (1989), I argue that individual anxieties bleed into online spaces and negatively affect the Society's ability to connect with community members in a meaningful way.

Introduction

Museums and cultural institutions offer a focal point for communities around which individual and group identity narratives are formed (Rosenberg 2011). Social media has become a cost-effective tool for cultural institutions to create spaces for communities to share and discuss these identity narratives. However, many museums struggle to serve their local communities due to small budgets and staff, some functioning with only one part- or full-time staff member (Levin 2007).With fewer staff members, it becomes difficult to invest time in activities, such as the upkeep of social media, which benefit the education and growth of the community especially when these activities are in addition to an already full workload. When restrictions in budgets and manpower are coupled with the stressors of restrictions in a museum’s presentation and a lack of confidence with using social media, the result can be a space that feels not positive and welcoming, but awkward and uncomfortable. This paper examines one such institution, the Kansas Historical Society, and the efforts of its promotional team on social media.

Using Politeness Theory (1987) and Paul Grice’s Cooperative Theory (1989), I examine how one team’s insecurities and stressors are manifested online by comparing individual self-report with social media posts from the last year. Lastly, I outline some strategies for museums looking to improve their online presence.

Literature Review

Museums and cultural institutions are capable of forming strong bonds between themselves, individuals, and communities, frequently in the form of nostalgia or pride in a community narrative. The ways in which they do this have been a great subject of discussion among museum scholars, often in defense of these public institutions under

threat from structural budget cuts. Many museums and libraries are the recipients of federal funding, which when compared to spending in other high profile areas, can seem outside the responsibility of the federal government (Alizar 2009). Consider the proposed federal budget for 2015 from House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan who argues,

The Federal Institute of Museum and Library Services is an independent agency

that makes grants to museums and libraries. This is not a core federal

responsibility. This function can be funded at the state and local level and

augmented significantly by charitable contributions from the private sector.

(2014)

Though Ryan’s budget did not pass, and arguably never will, individuals like Susan

Boren, a specialist in social policy legislation, noted:

Funding for the arts and humanities is a perennial issue in Congress. Although

arts funding represents less than 1% of the...FY2007 total estimated

budget...Congress continues to address the concern of whether federal funding is

crucial to sustain arts institutions. (2009)

Because of the constant need to defend federal funding for cultural institutions, groups such as the American Library Association and the American Alliance of Museums have made advocacy for funding part of their normal operations (aam-us.org; ala.org). Both groups argue that cultural institutions are highly beneficial for a region’s economic and educational success. Others such as Amy Levin and Tomas Alizar note that museums and libraries are just as much members of the community as individuals are, and through curation and promotion, can bring together communities and affect the identity narratives of those communities (Karp 1992; Levin 2007; Rosenberg 2011). Such dialogue has been

limited almost exclusively to the field of museum sciences, but I believe museums and other such institutions can benefit from a cognitive linguistic approach to how museums interact with members of their communities.

Amy Levin writes about our adapting communities and how museums adapt to new narratives of place and identity. Local museums, in particular, are an expression of community identities.

When, as often happens, people talk of their ‘roots,’ they are referring to a

personal identity that sinks deep into the soil of a place. Local museums often

serve to distill the identity of the community with which people identify, and

whether they do it well or badly will affect attitudes toward the locale in question.

(Kyvig 2007)

Museums can act as keepers of local history and do have an impact on the community’s morale and understanding of itself. Take, for instance, how historic homes on the New

England coast have evolved their narratives over the last century. Levin notes that many of these homes were opened up by their wealthy inhabitants who “considered themselves

‘true’ Americans” with direct ties to colonial America. These homes focused much more heavily on an upper-class narrative. However, “no mention is made of the injustices that occurred during this period” in favor of a nostalgia for a bygone era. Most notably, Black

Americans were depicted as servants rather than as slaves and tour scripts “in the

1930s…made ‘no reference to the fact that half of eighteenth-century Williamsburg’s population had been black slaves.’” By the late 20th century, stories of slaves and

“common lives” were introduced to visitors to provide a more holistic view of life in

Colonial Williamsburg. This shift illustrated a change in how the museums balanced the

expectations and desires of their communities and the history of the homes as museums

(Levin 2007).

Describing museums solely as members of their communities ignores one other crucial role museums serve; they can often act as mediators between groups that are at odds with each other. Depending on the groups involved, the exhibits, or the artifacts on display, the museum’s response can vary significantly. One very visible example can be seen with the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum (NASM). The museum exists in two branches: the main museum on the Mall in Washington, D.C. and the

Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia. The former hosts exhibits focused on interpretation, meaning artifacts are provided alongside the museum’s interpretation of events. While this may not always seem to be contentious, especially in a museum primarily dedicated to science, NASM faced difficulties with the latter location, the

Udvar-Hazy Center, which primarily displays aircraft without interpretation

(airandspace.si.edu). This is largely due to controversy over the museum’s exhibit on the

Enola Gay, which “seemed to portray [World War II veterans] as villains” (Rosenberg

2011). Though the museum attempted to provide varied viewpoints and encourage thought about the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, veterans, among other groups, were angry that the exhibit did not “celebrate their heroism.” The museum responded by removing interpretation for the aircraft and allowing visitors to understand the events through their own personal narratives.

In instances where there are multiple communities, perhaps with varied or disparate interests, a museum can act as a mediator between groups in a few ways. First, curators can create exhibits in such a way that multiple identity narratives are present

(Levin 2007; Rosenberg 2011). Second, museums can provide events for discussing the members of the community, for example hosting a “Heritage Month” or a holiday event meant to teach visitors about different holiday traditions (KSHS 11/18). Finally, museums can use social media to start dialogues between community members and bridge gaps that may be present both among community members and between the museum and its community. In this way, a museum can also attempt to bring new community members into the conversation.

An important element of using social media for connecting with individuals is understanding online spaces. Conversations about the nature of “space” are a common theme in philosophy (Malpas 1999) and in discussion of social movements (Stryker et al.

2000; Dale & Burrell 2008; Barrassi 2013) where spaces can invite discussion among individuals. These spaces need not be concrete locations, but can occur anywhere where a community wishes to create dialogue. Space creation is a critical component of cultural institutions’ mission, to educate the public and inspire critical thought and dialogues among communities, and aligns with the shift toward a postmodern approach, which encourages active engagement by museum visitors with artifacts and concepts (Karp

1992; Rosenberg 2011). Art and science museums have more easily transitioned their collections into interactive experiences, but history museums have struggled to bring their collections to life (KSHS 10/28). The notion of creating positive spaces is recognized, if not by name, by KSHS staff members who have experienced the frustration of encouraging followers to engage with posted content. (Barassi 2013) Barassi described this creation through the use of “ethnographic cartography:”

By relying on the metaphor of cartography, the intention is to propose an

approach that considers how social movement networks are incorporated into

practices and narratives of place-making...and how they create complex and ever-

changing spaces of meaning and action. (p. 49)

While Barassi focuses exclusively on how social movements can grow and spread information through social networks, the same model can be applied elsewhere. Her paper highlights how identity narratives, or how a member of a social movement came to join an organization, created “the ground for shared experiences and understandings.”

These identity narratives are the “communal common ground” of communities described by Howard Clark (2004). Utilizing the understanding that the amount of inside information of communities, that is information members of the community know about the community, vastly outnumbers outside information, the information outsiders know or assume about a community, he argues, assists individuals in forming a bond by creating a sense of “shared experience.” In a social movement, Barassi found that identity narratives were often similar, which for this movement meant that members were:

mostly British, middle class and middle-aged individuals, many of whom came

from a background of social injustice and poverty, but throughout their life had

reached a level of financial stability. Within their stories, there was a strong

emphasis on the values of internationalism, solidarity, progressive policies,

dactivism, worker’s rights, collectivism and the Welfare state. (p. 53)

Within a social movement, these traits create the necessary background and understanding that would need to bind an organization based on policy and activism. A cultural organization, on the other hand, would also need to examine the commonalities

between its own members to examine both their shared experiences as well as the identity narratives that drew them to the institution in the first place. Understanding these narratives can assist the museum with creating events and dialogues that encourage camaraderie among its members as well as narrow down who an intended audience might be. Take, for example, a traditional museum-goer as explained by a KSHS employee.

Typically, the audience for KSHS includes young families with children, school groups, and seniors aged 60 or above. The explanation for this was that museums are frequent destinations for school field trips and they often have activities and events geared toward children, which draw in young families looking for family-friendly activities (KSHS

11/18). Seniors, however, frequented the museum because they saw it as an institution of value to the community, and many senior members were donors or board members who had the leisure time and disposable income to support such an organization (KSHS

11/18). While there were some young adults and older adults who did attend the museum and its events, the numbers for these groups were much smaller, some saying museums in general were “not considered fun” (KSHS 10/28). Those who did attend, however, seemed to have had positive experiences in their childhood, which inspired them to come back or assist the museum in other areas (KSHS 11/18). These sorts of numbers are easily collected by counting the number of attendees at an event, paying attention to social media page followers, and noting general trends in the audience. In doing so, a museum may better understand an existing audience, and through careful study or surveying, a museum may understand an individual’s motivations for attending throughout a lifetime, and such longitudinal studies are more easily carried out by a staff that may have been working at an institution for many years. Not only can a museum better target audiences

it knows to have as part of its core group, but it can also foster stronger and deeper bonds among that group (Stryker et al. 2000). It is clear, as will be explored later, that when the spaces are comfortable, it would seem that individuals are more inclined to participate, but the question remains, how to create welcoming spaces, especially when those creating the spaces are themselves uncomfortable creating the spaces

Before we can examine how museums communicate with their audiences, we need first to develop a better understanding of how social media platforms encourage the spread of information. Social media websites are extraordinary in their ability to allow users to interact almost instantaneously with hundreds, thousands, or even millions of people (Twitter Counter, Social Bakers). Twitter, the popular microblogging platform, boasts 284 million active monthly users with 500 million tweets sent daily (Twitter.com).

Each post is public, allowing any user to find, respond, or promote a post, and non-users are free to view any tweets users have made. Hashtags, created by following a pound sign with an unbroken stream of letters or numbers, keep even casual users in touch by helping them find and participate in discussions. As of November 2014, the hashtag

#WeCanLandOnACometButWeCant is a trending topic, meaning it is one of the “most popular subjects on Twitter.” The hashtag was created following the European Space

Agency’s landing of the unmanned probe Rosetta on a comet. Some users have taken the hashtag seriously, adding “get objective journalism in our media” (Hemingford 2014) or

“find a missing plane on earth [sic]” (Reeves 2014). Others have taken the trend more humorously adding that we can’t “believe it’s not butter” (radhenry 2014) or “stop socks from mysteriously disappearing in the washing machine.” (Marrins 2014). Regardless of the intention of the hashtag creator, a quick scroll through the many posts on the subject

shows that users are using the hashtag as a way to discuss issues they find meaningful.

One user, Wayne Dupree, used the hashtag to comment on President Barack Obama and ask for his impeachment. The post prompted a conversation criticizing his immigration policies from supporters and criticisms of Dupree “beating a dead horse (Dupree 2014)”

Examining how social media platforms encourage discussion among many groups, especially between strangers, may help organizations understand the best ways to organically promote conversation.

Each social media platform has its own affordances that separate it from other platforms. Affordances were first defined by James J. Gibson in 1979 as what an environment can “offer the animal…. It implies the complementarity of the animal and the environment” (Gibson 1979; Scarantino 2003). In this instance, we can understand affordances as the features and functions of the platform and how they give rise to certain behaviors among a platform’s user base. It is important to note that the behaviors and the functions have evolved together as users and developers inform each other about the capabilities of the platform. One very clear example of this can be seen in the Facebook comment system. The early comment system simply let users comment on an original post, however, as the comments area increasingly became used for conversations between commenters, as would happen in a face-to-face conversation, Facebook introduced the ability to reply to first-level comments, that is, comments on the original post. To best understand the affordances of different social media platforms, it may be wise to examine how and why the platforms were created. Early “social media” included email, personal webpages, and Bulletin Board Systems, which acted similarly to forums or peer-to-peer file-sharing websites. As the Internet grew, so too did the demand to connect with friends

and families. The late 1990s saw the beginnings of AOL Instant Messenger, Google,

LiveJournal and Blogger, all designed for the creation of personal websites and blogs, and Napster, a more formalized peer-to-peer file-sharing service. The year 2000 saw a much more rapid expansion of social media websites, and by 2006, we had begun to see the beginnings of Facebook, Twitter, Wikipedia, Digg, Flickr, LinkedIn, MySpace,

Wordpress, Skype, and YouTube (Digital Trends). Melissa Dodd and Shannon Campbell

(2010) established a system of categorization that can assist us in thinking about the affordances of each platform and, in turn, the types of individuals or businesses that might use each platform. These categories include blogs, such as Tumblr, MySpace, or

LiveJournal, which aim to provide an “online public diary"; forums and microblogs, such as Twitter, which are a much condensed form of blogging; Really Simple Syndication

(RSS) feeds for aggregating news or information from any frequently visited websites; search engines: social bookmarking sites, such as Pinterest or Digg; social networking sites, like Facebook, Google+, or LinkedIn; video sharing sites, such as YouTube; and

Wikis such as Wikipedia.

In choosing the correct platform or category for an institution, responsible parties will need to reflect on what the nature of the page will be and if it is worth the investment of time and resources. KSHS faced a similar problem over the course of this study.

Although the Society had established pages on Facebook and Twitter, team members asked if branching out to new platforms such as Instagram, an image sharing website, would bring in new audiences.

TM3: I’d like to know what’s the future of Instagram? What you were saying is

maybe fewer is better with our limited resources. But how does Instagram, and

this is something I’m sure I can pursue on my own, but what is Instagram and

what is the attraction of Instagram over Facebook?

TM1: I think that Instagram skews lower, it’s certainly is lot more visual, but

there are a lot differences that are utilized in it. (KSHS 11/18)

Exploring different platforms, while a useful exercise for the team, was a bit of a departure from the aims of the team. In this case, they believed being on Instagram would attract younger followers, but without a discussion of how the platform would be used or why, beyond question of audience, the team’s interest the platform, moving to Instagram would not have been productive.

This study examines two of the most popular platforms: Facebook and Twitter, both of which have become more homogenous as their user bases have grown, but have still retained the unique elements that established them as leaders in their categories.

Facebook is by far the most popular social media site with 1350 million users (Statista).

The platform is unique even among other platforms in its category due to the way users create their networks. Individual users must mutually add each other as “friends” before they can share material on each other’s profiles. By becoming friends, users share their individual profiles with that friend, along with any past or future posts. To anyone outside of a user’s network, his or her profile will only display information the user has chosen to make public, which could include a profile picture, education or work information, and contact information, among other options. The notable exception to this rule is

Facebook’s Pages, which can be created by companies, celebrities, brands, or other organizations who wish to provide information to a large group of people. Any Facebook

user can subscribe to these pages without needing mutual approval and the posts by that page will be displayed in a user’s newsfeed.

This study examines three such pages. Most other social media platforms, including Twitter, Tumblr, and Pinterest, utilize public profiles that any visitor, regardless of whether or not he or she is a user, can view. For users of these platforms users can subscribe or follow another user’s activity, but this does not need to be mutual.

In this way, Facebook users often have smaller networks, with an average of 648 friends, while users of Twitter have an average of 838 people in their network (Pew Research

Center). It should come as no surprise then that looking at the Twitter hashtag from earlier, #WeCanLandOnACometButWeCant, would generally be more humorous than an equivalent on Facebook, which affords much more extensive discussion through the use of its comments system. Twitter seems to afford a sense of anonymity, especially for users with fewer followers, due to the sheer volume of tweets that are created. Even celebrities and major companies seem to be unable to ignore this affordance as far greater number of “scandals” seem to be reported from Twitter than any other social media platform. Understanding this tendency may be important in ensuring that tone and messages on Twitter are well thought out and in keeping with an organization’s mission.

It may be prudent, as I will examine later, to be more business-like and keep more light hearted posts on Facebook where individual networks may be smaller and more connected, perhaps affording a closer connection between an organization and its followers.

Though it is often thought of in terms of marketing and brand development, social media has the opportunity to more easily create spaces where discussion may happen and

community bonds may form. The clearest example of this is through Facebook’s Group function in which a user may create a group, decide its function, and choose its privacy level. There are countless groups that one may join (in fact, so many that no estimate seems to exist) and Facebook makes creating a group a simple 4-step process

(Facebook.com). While it is impossible to describe the variety of groups that exist, I can share my own experiences as a Facebook user. There are multiple student groups who have created their own private Facebook groups as means of having discussion only among members of that group, as well as alumni groups meant to bring together former members who are at another stage in life. Other groups such as the “Construction

Grammar” group aim to bring together linguists around the world to discuss linguistics and create close bonds. Yet others simply provide a place to share campus events and encourage members of the Case Western community to support each other in their endeavors. As discussed earlier, there is the possibility that groups such as the “Topeka

History Geeks” might connect well with KSHS and through the use of these online groups, not only bring attendance to the museum but help individuals connect more closely with each other.

Articles detailing the inner workings of social media platforms are ubiquitous and at times overwhelming, but are often aimed at those wishing to grow a business or a personal “brand” (Radian6; Shelley 2014; Lee 2012). Rarely, if ever, are social media papers designed for groups wishing to grow a community. Instead, these papers are designed to help businesses analyze the analytics that can be retrieved from social media platforms, namely Twitter and Facebook. While these numbers can be valuable, and these papers can provide a great deal of help when trying to cultivate a certain “reputation”

(Radian6), I believe they fail to address the unique issues cultural institutions face when trying to create their social media presence. Radian6 (2012), a company focused on

“social media monitoring and engagement” outlines a plan to develop a social media marketing plan that can inform a more culture oriented plan. The paper provides a solid outline for what a company must do in order to reach much broader company-wide goals.

First, it asks the individual to establish what the goals of the company are for social media, what type of content will be produced, what topics will be addressed, where the content will be hosted, and how it will be carried out. Next, the company needs to determine who is its target audience and how that audience is consuming media.

Following this is the establishment of a team who will be in charge of the content production, ensuring voice and tone are consistent between posts, as well as keeping the quantity of each type of post proportional to the audience need or demand and the goals of the organization. Radian6 assumes the organization reading its paper already has a least one person, but perhaps a team of people, who are already in charge of marketing and although this may be the case for some larger organizations, many smaller museums may be hard-pressed to find one person to dedicate to a social media marketing plan.

Even when this is the case, it is important that social media is approached sincerely and genuinely and to ensure the mission of the institution is always at the forefront of any promotion.

An Introduction to the Kansas Historical Society

This study worked with one institution, the Kansas Historical Society (KSHS), as a case study for how it engages with its audiences and promotes itself in the community using social media. KSHS was founded in 1875 in Topeka, Kansas, by a collection of

newspaper editors as a way of preserving manuscripts and documenting the past. In 1879,

KSHS was named a public trust to protect state records and in 1905 was entrusted with the task of “actively safeguarding and sharing the state’s history to facilitate government accountability, economic development, and the education of Kansans” with its vision being the “[enrichment of] people's lives by connecting them to the past” (kshs.org).As the Society grew, so too did its collections, both in number and scope. Over the course of the 20th century, KSHS acquired buildings that would become State Historic Sites, new artifacts, and new divisions. The buildings currently housing KSHS were constructed in

1984 and 1995 to house these new collections and archives, expand exhibit space, and provide more offices for staff. Today, the state agency encompasses the divisions of

Administration, which oversees the day-to-day operations of the Society and includes the marketing team; Cultural Resources, which includes the State Historic Preservation

Office, archeology, and Historic Sites, Museum and Education, which were unified in

2014, Research Collections, and the State Archives, dealing with state records and IT.

The Kansas Historical Foundation was separated from the parent agency and created in

2000 as a private branch of KSHS to provide financial support to the state agency. The

Foundation “offers membership to the public and institutions, manages grants for the state agency, operates the museum and historic sites stores, and provides fiscal support for various programs,” including KSHS’ scholarly journals and publications (kshs.org).

This study corresponded with an internal desire by KSHS to improve its social media habits and it was decided that a team of representatives currently managing the

Society’s major social media pages would meet to discuss how the usage of these pages could be improved. The team included 2 members from Administrative staff, and 1 staff

member each from the Kansas Museum of History, the State Historic Preservation Office, and the State Archives. During the last 3 meetings, the team was joined by a representative responsible for overseeing the Historic Sites pages. 7 meetings were held between October 2014 and February 2015 during which team members discussed issues of audience, online presentation, desired demographics, promotional efforts, events and event turnout, and the social media efforts of other, similar historical societies.

Though KSHS was one of the first state historical societies to create a website and though it has had a consistent web presence since 1993, it is only in the last 5 years that the organization has had a social media presence, and only in the last year that that presence has become a priority (@kansashistory; KSHistoricalSociety). The Society has

28 pages spanning 9 separate social media platforms promoted on its main website, one of which is an internally created blog, though each page is updated with varying consistency and efficiency. The primary social media accounts used by the Society exist on Facebook and Twitter, although there are also active accounts on Pinterest and

Google+, but even among the active accounts, there is a great deal of inconsistency in tone and page managers have reported difficulties knowing what content to publish and how to present their division, Historic Site, etc. As might be expected, the team members also have greatly varied opinions on how to approach this problem, which direct the ways in which their individual pages are managed.

Some of the inconsistencies seen on the pages can be traced to the lack of a unified strategy from the Society. Before the creation of this team, there was no person or committee to manage all of the social media pages or to provide guidance to those running the pages (KSHS 10/28). The Society is in the beginning stages of utilizing

social media as a tool to engage the community and find new potential visitors and museum members, but team members have stated that work is needed to better understand what the needs of its followers are (KSHS 10/28;11/18). Social media can provide ideal places for this kind of growth because, as mentioned earlier, many of these platforms were created with the sole purpose of creating online communities where individuals could come together to discuss common interests. Even in Topeka there are

Facebook groups such as “Topeka History Geeks” who share stories about the city and their families, help each other identify buildings, and talk about how the city has grown and changed over time. The group is active with over 8000 members and at least 1 new post every day and with nearly every post creating discussion among its members (Rison

2010). Such groups are not uncommon and simple to create when there is a need, but the team has expressed frustration at the fact that their own social media efforts do not garner the same response.

It is clear from the group discussion that there is a great deal of institutional insecurity surrounding the organization’s social media usage. This is due in large part to the fact that several members of the team and others involved with social media at KSHS, are either largely unfamiliar with social media or uncomfortable being a public face. For those managers who have personal pages, and many do not, they have found the face switch from a private and more intimate voice with friends and family to the more institutional voice necessary for the KSHS pages difficult. These concerns are made more stressful because they are coupled by the fact that creating a solid and effective presence is a high stakes endeavor. KSHS is self-defined as “a small agency, and getting smaller”

(KSHS 11/08) due to an over 50% decrease in funding over the last 8 years (KSHS

Annual Report 2007; 2014). Thus, existing staff members have been asked to take on greater roles to compensate for lost manpower, as well as new tasks from initiatives such as those presented during this study. This is not an uncommon problem, particularly for local museums, which may be reliant on private funding or grants (Levin 2007; Alizar

2009). Even as a State Agency with both state and private funding, KSHS is not immune to budget restriction, which can negatively affect the number of staff hired, and thus, the amount of work existing staff members must take on to provide the same services. Many conversations during the team meetings circled around balancing these restrictions against the time commitment social media often takes. Take for example one instance of a staff member who was considered to be a model for other page managers:

TM5: We used to have a personality in M. I thought that was a pretty forward-

looking thing.

TM3: And he dedicated a lot of time and he was just personally committed and

just comfortable with that.

TM5: Why did we stop, just stop doing that?

TM1: It was mainly because of personality, we didn’t have anyone when he left.

TM3: There was no more staff.

TM5: It wasn’t that you didn’t think it was successful.

TM3: It was very successful, but it was finding someone.

TM1: We also didn’t replace his position. (KSHS 10/28)

This point is returned to many times throughout the meetings: that it takes time and familiarity with social media to run a successful and engaging page. With steep budget cuts it becomes difficult or impossible to dedicate even one staff member to social media

promotion full time and, as is seen here, the responsibility falls to others who already have full-time jobs, including the management of a 10,000 page website (kshs.org; personal correspondence) and the management of their respective divisions, who are then required to fit in new and often unfamiliar tasks. As is also examined here, social media efforts are frequently paired with events or efforts, which take money, time, and staff.

Even if a page manager decides to only put effort into an online presence, visitors still expect a multimodal experience (KSHS 10/28), which often requires a phone or a camera or the ability to make graphics and a general knowledge of how pages are usually structured. It is difficult to devote these resources when staff are already stretched thin and may not have the skills or familiarity with social media to meet expectations. This insecurity is evident on the platforms analyzed here and it has a negative effect on how followers seem to be viewing KSHS. How this insecurity is manifested we will return to later. For now, it is important to understand that addressing this insecurity and teaching users to watch for specific markers may improve how the page performs.

Methodology

This study was divided into two parts: the collection and analysis of social media posts from KSHS, and following a series of meetings conducted by the Society’s promotional team. Prior to the start of this project, no set team or strategy had been defined, rather, individual departments, including the Society's marketing team, the

Kansas Museum of History, and the State Historic Sites, among others, created Facebook pages under one administrative account. A Twitter account was created for the entire

Society and is, at present, managed and updated by many departments at once. Post data was collected from four pages: 3 from Facebook and the overarching Twitter feed. Both

Twitter and Facebook, like many social media platforms, provide a Developer

Application Programming Interface (API) that allows programmers request a range of information from users. Such information might include a list of friends, any public user information, or in the case of this study, any public posts. It is relatively simple to request specific information using a Python script. In this way, I was able to request specific information from Twitter. Facebook offered more of a challenge. Due to time constraints,

I utilized Facebook’s Insights rather than its API. These insights are helpful, but can be overwhelming and confusing if one is unfamiliar with how Facebook organizes its data.

In fact, so many articles have been written on the subject of decoding these analytics that one wonders if Facebook truly wants users digging through their data. Downloading these Insights provides a Workbook with 13 separate spreadsheets. The first of these,

“Key Metrics,” offers numbers for “Reach,” “Engagement,” “Consumption,” and

“Impressions,” with “Organic” and “Total” breakdowns for each of these categories, with the descriptions of these being self-referential. Other spreadsheets provide the number of comments, likes, shares, and “other” interactions, counted by either the number of unique users who interacted with a post or by the number of “stories” which were created.

Stories are created when a user likes, comments on, shares, or otherwise interacts with a post and that post is shown to the user’s friends (Darwell 2012). After reading descriptions of each of these metrics, it was decided the total counts of comments, likes, shares, and “other” interactions for each post would be most helpful for gauging the popularity of each post.

Posts were first assigned a category based on its topic to determine both the volume of posts in each category and to find if any given topic was better received than

another. These categories were designed to reflect how a potential reader would see the content, rather than a reflection of how the Society was structuring its content. Each page had largely similar categories, covering topics such as events, Kansas history, and administrative posts.

To provide a metric of audience response, a “clicks per post” metric was determined from either the retweet and favorite count (for Twitter) or the like, comment, share, and

“other” count (for Facebook.) Post success was determined from the total number of clicks; any post with clicks above the 3rd quartile was considered popular and those below the 1st quartile were considered unpopular. Finally, posts were passed through

CLipS pattern.en for sentiment analysis (De Smedt & Daelemans 2012). This analysis assisted with determining if there were markers of discomfort present in the posts.

Finally, I examined the use of first person plural and singular pronouns to determine 1) if exclusivity of posts had a negative effect on audience response, 2) if the presence of a

“personality,” indicated by specific mentions of a person or the use of first person singular pronouns, had a positive response or 3) if the absence of pronouns, indicating a more institutional or formal voice, was preferred.

The second part of this study, conducted in tandem with the social media analysis, utilized recordings of meetings of the KSHS promotional team. The team was assembled for the purpose of assisting this study and reviewing the organization’s efforts in social media. The team conducted a total of 7 meetings, 3 of which the researcher was present for and 4 of which were conducted by the team only. The team determined that the ultimate goal of the meetings was to determine an overall strategy for the Society and to

unify its online presence. This was done primarily through discussions of the intended audience, the tone to be used, and difficulties faced in previous efforts.

Much of the direction of this study was determined in conjunction with KSHS to first assist the Society with its social media endeavors and second to understand the sorts of problems an organization such as this encounters when using social media. Thus, analysis was developed as new information was found, and there was no defined problem to resolve at the start of this study.

As the study progressed, it became apparent that mix of insecurity and high stress on the team to create a successful social media presence might have created an image that felt awkward and uncomfortable. Because it can be difficult when reading online communication to easily discuss how a relatively innocuous post can give rise to complicated feelings in a reader, and it can be equally frustrating as a researcher to try to articulate that feeling without any sort of additional scaffolding, it was decided that an established framework in discourse analysis was necessary, and that the Politeness

Theory put forth by Penelope Brown and Stephen Levinson’s 1987 book Politeness:

Some Universals in Language Use might be able to explain how insecurity manifests itself in social media, and perhaps guide future recommendations for online communication.

Brown and Levinson developed their theory of politeness to discuss how individuals navigate social situations. The theory is based around Goffman’s idea of

“face” or the public self-image one constructs throughout one’s lifetime. They argue that all “model persons” have this sense of face, which is manifested two ways: a positive face, which is created by the desire to be liked, accepted, or approved of by others,

Face Speaker Hearer Threatened

Positive Apologies Indications the speaker is indifferent Acceptance of compliments to hearer’s positive face: Mention of Admissions of guilt or topics inappropriate to the responsibility conversation, misidentification of H Emotional leakage in an offensive or embarrassing way, blatant non-cooperation

Negative Expressing thanks Those that predicate some future act Acceptance of thanks or A of H: Orders, requests, apology suggestions, advice, threats Excuses

Table 1: FTAs according to face threatened. Reproduced from Brown & Levinson (1987) and a negative face, which is the desire to be unimpeded in one’s actions by others and which can be threatened through “the demand of a specific action or answer”

(Brummernhenrich & Jucks 2013). In a polite conversation, they argue, each person, being a rational agent, works to maintain both the positive and negative face of the other participants. However, conversations often involved the needs or wants of either the hearer or the speaker and impoliteness is occasionally difficult to avoid. These are called

“Face-Threatening Acts” and when used they can damage either the speaker’s or the hearer’s positive or negative face. Figure 1 provides some examples of how face can be threatened. A speaker can decide whether or not to do the FTA, as well as if he or she will provide redressive action to minimize the threat to the hearer’s face. Brown and

Levinson have outlined a set of strategies for managing these FTAs.

The first strategy presented is the Bald On-Record strategy, which involves no redressive action to the hearer’s face. These statements, as we will see from the posts collected, often involve direct imperatives and are, at their most threatening, designed in such a way that there are no “exits” for the hearer, that it, the on-record nature of the

statement is such that the hearer can take no other interpretation from the statement than the one that was intended. Some statements, such as those made in emergencies or for the hearer’s best interest, do nothing to minimize the threat because the ability to clearly communicate necessary information is more important than the hearer’s or the speaker’s face. In other instances, for example, when inviting others to one’s home or instructing guests to eat, the threat is implicitly minimal and there is no need to make redressive action.

The second set of strategies introduced involves positive politeness, which is designed to improve or minimize the threat to the hearer’s positive face when it is threatened. Brown and Levinson note that positive politeness can also act “as a kind of social accelerator, where [the speaker], in using them, indicates that he wants to ‘come closer’ to [the hearer]” (103). The strategies primarily work through the creation of common ground or the implication that the speaker and the hearer are cooperators.

Implying the speaker and hearer are closer than they may truly be, as we will see, can be an intuitive way for the speaker to share his or her interests or to convince the hearer to attend an event or support a cause. Some of the most common strategies found in this study were exaggerations of or attempts to intensify the hearer’s interest in a particular event put on by the Society, but other strategies included markers of in-group membership, appeals to the hearer’s wants or needs, optimism, and jokes. In this case, positive politeness was used to create or imply camaraderie between the hearer and the speaker in attempts to improve the relationship between the two.

The second set of strategies involved negative politeness, or “the heart of respect behavior” (p. 129). These strategies are utilized when the speaker wishes to acknowledge

and avoid threatening the negative face of the hearer. Brown and Levinson note that where positive politeness create closeness, negative politeness can create “social distance.” I would also argue in instances of mediated online communication that these strategies can provide markers of discomfort. We will see later examples of individuals who are uncomfortable with placing themselves in the foreground of their posts using distancing techniques and individuals who desire to be foregrounded but are unsure of how to do so. These examples include instances of apology, hedges, the use of passive statements, and attempts to minimize the imposition of an FTA. These allow the speaker to state a desire without damage to hearer, and while allowing the hearer multiple exits in the conversation should the hearer not wish to acknowledge the speaker’s wants.

The final strategy is Off-record statements involving the use of conventionally indirect statements, meaning that the statement is known by convention to be a request without threat to the hearer. A statement such as “My, I am thirsty” would signal to any other interlocutor that the speaker desired something, in this case, water, but the present social situation would not allow him or her to act. In placing a request or demand off- record, the speaker gives the hearer the ability to understand and act on a request or to ignore the request without fear of damage to face. Like Bald On-Record statements, placing requests off-record can also have negative consequences. For instance, if the speaker is perfectly capable of fulfilling his or her own request, the indirectness can come across as lazy or entitled if he or she expects the hearer to fulfill the request instead, and in such instances where the off-record statement was repeated or more forceful, the insistence would damage the speaker rather than the hearer.

When discussing Politeness Theory, it is often useful to also address Paul Grice’s

Cooperative Principle with respect to the politeness strategies outlined above. I believe this principle can serve as an additional way to explain some of the discomfort or awkwardness followers may feel when reading these pages. Grice outlines in Studies in the Way of Words (1989) four categories under which he has organized maxims that interlocutors must follow if they are to be seen as cooperators. They are as follows:

Quantity: 1. Make your contribution as informative as is required (for the current purposes of the exchange). 2. Do not make your contribution more informative than is required. Quality: 1. Do not say what you believe to be false. 2. Do not say that for which you lack adequate evidence. Relation 1. Be relevant. Manner 1. Avoid obscurity of expression. 2. Avoid ambiguity. 3. Be brief (avoid unnecessary prolixity). 4. Be orderly.

Grice notes that these are not the only maxims for cooperation, specifically mentioning

“Be Polite” as one, but that the maxims listed here allow for the “maximally effective exchange of information.” Adhering to these maxims above all else would make one an exceedingly effective communicator, but might also draw the ire of those around one.

Bald On-Record statements follow each of the maxims, but no one would communicate in only this way without being seen as rude or tactless. Grice points out that much of language involved managing one’s own wants and desires as well as “influencing and directing the actions of others” (28). Thus, pairing Politeness Theory with the

Cooperative Principle provides a balance for discussing communication, which will be useful when discussing discomfort online, which as we will see can often be meandering.

I believe that there are compelling arguments for utilizing this method of analysis to measure the effectiveness of social media communication and potentially explain why certain posts may perform better or receive more attention than others, especially when conventional wisdom cannot explain how the public reacts, although we must ask how online communication can threaten the face of a party who is not physically present. This is not a new area of study, as computer-mediate communication has been examined since it has been possible (Park 2008a; Taleghani-Nikazm 2013). Others have found that face can indeed be threatened in an online communication between individuals, but many of these studies have focused on specific interfaces, which model face-to-face conversations, such as chat rooms or email (Park 2008b). In these cases, there is still a known speaker and hearer, both of whom have faces. For instance, if a speaker blatantly ignores the hearer’s wants, the speaker’s positive face is still damaged and the hearer is still aware that the speaker does not care about the hearer’s wants. However, when we consider a platform such as Facebook or Twitter, we must adjust our thinking. Take for example an individual with a Facebook profile who posts a status that remains unanswered by her friends. If we assume her friends are people with whom she interacts on a normal basis, then we can assume that her positive face has been damaged by her friends in ignoring her post. The interaction may exist over a longer time frame than a face-to-face conversation, but because our individual knows the other potential interlocutors, she understands the potential conversation that was missed. Now, if we take an institutional page, we must adjust again. The number of followers of the pages examined in this study fall between several hundred and several thousand. In this case, it is highly unlikely that the page manager knows every individual following the page. This,

I would argue, decreases the pressure of the follower to interact with the page, especially if he or she feels that doing so would place them in vulnerable position of being the ignored party. In the case of our earlier example, if the woman were to make a post, an individual may feel pressured to comment or “like” the post if others in his or her own social circle had done so. However, pages like this are unidirectional. A speaker, in essence, throws information into the void and hopes for a response. A reader may opt into the communication by commenting or “liking,” thereby placing him or herself on stage, but if a reader opts out, he or she can avoid participation and thereby prevent any potential threat to his or her face. Such a threat may occur if the reader becomes the only other participant in the conversation, as it is still in full view of the public. In this way, we can see how even in institutional online communication, the hearer’s face is still a concern.

Analysis

The institutional insecurities outlined earlier are clearly visible on the Society’s social media pages, and this section will outline how this is manifested and how a follower might read that insecurity. When an individual’s discomfort manifests itself, thereby creating an uncomfortable space for others, it detracts from the institution’s mission to engage and educate its community by making it more difficult to use the space created. Presented here are the team’s findings as well as post examples and analysis of the four social media pages examined in this study.

One of the team’s primary concerns was ensuring that each page manager had a clear understanding of who the page was intended for, who was following it, and how to adjust the voice if necessary. These decisions are included with the outlined pages. The

second effort involved a comparison of KSHS’ current efforts with similarly sized institutions as well as a few organizations team members considered models for online presence. For example, the team was in contact with the Wisconsin Historical Society in

Madison, Wisconsin (WHS) which, they noted, was similar in size and scope to KSHS, and that both were beginning to work on a social media approach. From TM1: “And then in one case Wisconsin Historical Society….All of them seemed to be going for kind of a friendly casual tone, some more than others. Some were trying to go for a more conversational approach using terms like “wanna” and things like that. . . .” (KSHS 12/2).

WHS has attempted a more conversational approach across all of its pages, of which there are many. The team notes that many topical have been created to target very specific subgroups of the WHS audience, including groups for genealogy, children in the

Wisconsin History Day program, totaling 35 separate pages across 7 platforms (Connect with the Society). On the other end of the spectrum the team found the Getty Museum in

Los Angeles, California, which has limited itself to 4 pages across as many platforms, showing a more focused approach to social media. The team discussed doing a mix of both approaches. The Getty provides a model for streamlining social media platforms, which given the team’s earlier predilection for new platforms may be a wise model to follow, while WHS gives an example of creating separate pages for different audiences, which may be beneficial given the Society’s apparent struggle with targeting multiple audiences simultaneously.

One oft discussed topic in attempts to make content more interesting to a greater number of followers was the work of Emily Graslie, the “Chief Curiosity Correspondent” at the Field Museum in Chicago, Illinois and host of “The Brain Scoop” blog and video

channel. Through these channels, Graslie has utilized social media, particularly YouTube,

Tumblr, Facebook, and Twitter, to teach school groups and the public about the Field and its activities and research (Graslie 2008; Thebrainscoop; The Brain Scoop). Of particular interest was the idea that one individual acted as a voice for the museum, and that a personality might reach a greater viewership than one authoritative voice.

TM3: She's enthusiastic, she's upbeat, and she presents it to the general public. I

think that's one of the things we are struggling with in our discipline in

museums, I will speak just from that angle. You know, for so long we gave other

intellectuals what they wanted. Museums, you can get all that data on Wikipedia,

you can get all this information on the internet so we have to give our audience

something different to make it socially engaging. I mean it's the same thing with

our Facebook. We just keep giving them content, then we are just talking to other

people who like content.

TM2: But they are liking, they comment, they say oh this is great information. Do

we not heed that, do we not pay attention to that?

TM1: I don't think that's what they are saying. I think that

TM4: That works with the audience we have.

TM1: Right.

TM2: So we want to change the audience?

TM5: Build a broader audience.

TM1: But to do that in a friendly, personal tone. The tone of the regular KSHS

Facebook page may be very different than the Museum Facebook page. (KSHS

11/18)

This model of social media has been put forward many times over the course of the meetings. “You'd have to trust [the page manager] and there's not going to be a review of it. As Emily Graslie said, what's the review process, there is no review process, that's not how social media works” (KSHS 11/18). This idea, however, is problematic for a State

Agency and highlights the main issue that will arise when any formal institution decides to become more social media “savvy”: that there is a fine distinction between acceptably

“fun” demeanors for a State Agency to have and the types of “fun” that are common or popular on less formal pages. Therefore, it may be that the strictest best practices for

Facebook or Twitter violate or distract from the overall mission of KSHS, and should this be the case, a team would need to balance between these two ideas: that KSHS is 1) a

State Agency responsible for informing the public of Kansas history and maintaining state documents and 2) concerned with the growth of its online presence and connecting and growing audiences in Kansas communities. Being a state agency also means that the process of learning to use social media cannot include “stepping in it” as there are consequences beyond damage to positive face that include, at the extreme end, loss of jobs. From one team member:

TM5: We get some kind of training. And I'm not saying we go this direction. But

if we go this direction, anybody that's going to be doing this, it's like here are, the

sites are getting it now, here are the parameters. If you start criticizing the

governor on Facebook, that's a bad thing, you can't do that….But you can set the

parameters. You don't talk about politics, you don't talk about religion.

TM1: Here's some sensitive areas you might stay away from. (KSHS 11/18)

Thus, while this process may be time consuming, the end product will be a cultural organization that can communicate effectively, genuinely, and compellingly with its followers.

The last major goal for the team was to ensure that the strategies they outlined would help the Society create a unified online face. Cross-promotion of pages and divisions was named as the primary method for keeping separate audiences aware and in touch with each other. To ensure internal consistency of face within the pages, the team also discussed how pages should relate to each other and each page’s tone and purpose.

In this way, the team reasoned that the Society, rather than the individual pages, would be seen as one cohesive space for followers to discuss Kansas history. Many of the posts examined for this study (see FBMusem70, FBMuseum7, FBKSHPO200 for examples) seemed to serve only to increase the positive face of the page managers rather than further the mission of the Society. The team noted that current and previous efforts have not created a consistent or cohesive face for the organization, and reading through the transcripts now, it is apparent that although the issue has been addressed, the attempts to create this image have thus far been unsuccessful. Currently, each page addresses only the audience the page manager believes should be targeted, and this is usually done without regard to the face of the Society and independent of what other pages or divisions are posting. Discussions of tone for each page have been unfocused and inconclusive, leading to descriptions such as “cocktail party,” “informational,” “professional,” “fun,” and “not scary” (KSHS 12/19; 1/20; 2/3). Individually, these may accurately describe how the team wants the pages to appear to readers, but in this context, it is clear that this is one area the team had difficulty conceptualizing.

The difficulty the team faced with describing the tone and goals of each page speaks to the difficulty in creating a face for an organization. Firstly, the Society has many different facets and audiences that it must manage, from children and families, to community historians, to those looking for advice in areas such as research, genealogy, or restoration. Secondly, each individual responsible for the joint creation of the Society’s face has his or her own interpretation of that face. When team members are unable to articulate what that interpretation is, it makes creating cohesion between pages, each of which with a different face a tone, difficult. To combat this, the team attempted to outline specific goals so that every post created would be made to further that goal, but they have faced similar difficulties with this task as with tone. These difficulties, and the individual interpretations of face, can be seen on the Society’s pages, which we will review in turn.

The Kansas Historical Society Facebook page is by far the most popular of the

Society’s pages with 9133 followers (KSHistoricalSociety). This is due mostly to the fact that the page represents the entirety of the Society and it is promoted as the main

Facebook page. The page supports other pages in the agency by sharing information from

Historic Sites and other divisions as well as serve several different audiences: those interested in Kansas history, educators, those travelling from out-of-state, and potential donors. Lastly, it provides administrative information such as job postings, closings, “or other things that are timely” (KSHS 2/10). The page reads more formally than the other pages looked at in this study, which might be expected given that it represents the entire organization. This page stays away from the use of personal pronouns and FTAs. Instead, the page makes use of indicative statements to share Kansas history. There are few instances of readers being asked to comment or otherwise engage with the posts. In fact,

only 3 of the top posts (82) featured an FTA, one of which was an Off-Record invitation to a special exhibit with the other two only including expanded “read more” tags.

This tone can be attributed to the page manager who has stated on many occasions that she does not wish to be at the forefront of the page.

TM2: I’m not going to put myself on Facebook. And R said he didn’t want to be

on Facebook and don’t put me on Facebook. So there’s some people, I mean I

respect people’s wishes if they don’t want to be on Facebook or you know make

them go on anyway. (KSHS 11/18)

Not only this, but TM2 had previously attempted to engage followers with page content by asking direct questions.

TM2: Well I asked, like when the hat exhibit came on, the hat exhibit at the

museum, I asked which one is your favorite, nobody replied. If you ask a

question, What's you're favorite, I never get anybody to comment. But if I just put

the information out there I get, Oh I used to live in Concordia, or my great

grandmother grew up here and here or my great grandmother used to live in this

town, or we used to go to that church, or my great grandmother went to that

church. (KSHS 12/19)

Although the specific examples discussed here are not present in the data set, we can see from posts FBKSHS3, FBKSHPO326, and FBMuseum76 that this strategy has not garnered interest among followers, whereas posts such as FBKSHS244, which was the

3rd most popular post from the data examined and the 2nd most commented on, simply marked the birth of Laura Ingalls Wilder and made note of her “Little House on the

Prairie” books and prompted followers to comment with their own experiences with the

series. Even among posts in the same category, that is, posts commemorating specific days in Kansas history of which there were 91, only 3 were considered unpopular and only 1 of those received no clicks at all. To examine this effect closer, I have selected three posts, presented below, which featured some sort of imperative directed toward readers.

The first example falls in the same category as the previous post, but adds an encouragement for followers to visit the Historical Society:

August 25, 1939: The "Wizard of Oz" was released. The movie won Oscars for

Best Music Score and Song, and a special juvenile Oscar to Judy Garland. For a

variety of fun "Wizard of Oz" memorabilia, visit the Museum Store at the Kansas

Museum of History, the Capitol Store at the Kansas State Capitol, or shop online

at store.kshs.org. (FBKSHS68)

The post performed well, falling at 68th in clicks per post out of 326. A glance through the visible responses to the post seems to indicate followers engaged with the posts on an emotional level, the post having elicited their nostalgia for the movie. The post does feel, to this reader, to be somewhat more cheerful than other posts on this page, which can be attributed to the positive politeness strategy used in the final sentence. According to

Brown and Levinson (1987), imperatives are always considered FTAs, and in this instance, this imperative reads as an attempt to intensify the interest of the reader in the

“memorabilia.” The post instructs the reader to visit one of the Historical Society’s stores

“[f]or a variety of fun...memorabilia” which seems to simultaneously provide an order while also not explicitly mentioning what the speaker wants the reader to do. In using the ambiguous dependent clause, the post places the purchase frame off-record, and thus, the

post reads as only a half completed FTA, until the “shop online” instruction at the end of the post. The indirectness of the imperative asks the reader to understand the speaker’s intention; the speaker wants the reader to purchase something, but does not wish to state it so openly. This example highlights again the desire of the speaker to stay off-stage and tendency to keep to a more subdued tone.

The next example received only 49 interactions and ranked 181 out of 326. It was the last of three posts written in commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the current

KSHS home.

July 10, Kansas Museum of History, Topeka: the “Real People. Real Stories.”

gallery opened, featuring these notable Kansans: George Washington Carver,

John Steuart Curry, Amelia Earhart, Dwight Eisenhower, Carry Nation, Satanta,

and William Allen White. Visit the Museum 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. Tuesday – Saturday,

1 – 5 p.m. Sunday. kshs.org/museum (FBKSHS108)

This post feels disjointed as it matches the established format of posts in the “On This

Day” category while referencing an event that happened only one day ago. Again, the post lacks the use of pronouns and feels somewhat distant. Given the promotion of the event by other pages and the internal importance the event had, it would be expected that the poster would demonstrate greater enthusiasm, but the post reads like a statement of fact with an imperative to visit the museum. The lack of excitement may originate from the lack of first-person pronoun usage. Had mention been made that the reader should visit “us” or that “we” at the museum would want to see the reader, the post may have felt more inclusive and less like a report on a third party.

The last example features a Bald On-Record request to the reader.

On June 3, visit the Kansas Historical Foundation's booth at the Topeka Gives

event in Fairlawn Plaza Mall, 21st and Fairlawn, Topeka. (FBKSHS180)

This status shared a post by another organization holding an event at the location mentioned here. However, between the two posts, very little information was presented to the reader, and certainly not enough to educate the reader, or this researcher on the nature of the event. The lack of information represents a seeming dual violation of both the

Maxim of Quantity and the Maxim of Manner. The post has not provided enough information for readers to understand what the event is or why they should attend, while the shared post has taken too many words to share the relevant information. This is represented in audiences’ reactions. Only 7 people engaged with the post at all, one of whom was the organization hosting the event shared in the post. Unless the reader clicks through the link provided, the reader would have no information about why KSHS was in attendance or what it would be doing there, and even then, the reader would have to seek out additional information on his or her own to fully understand what is being asked. The post seems to expect the reader to have previous knowledge about the event, hence why there is no explanation given about who the organization is or why they are important.

Had the link provided contained more information, it is likely the post would have performed better, but in this case, it may have been the responsibility of the sharer,

KSHS, to supplement this information.

What seems to be a common thread through KSHS’ most popular posts are the nostalgic feelings they elicit in readers. This effect was noticed by the page manager who attempted to duplicate it.

TM2: The first day I had a really cool black and white picture and I had all kinds

of likes on it and I said the same sort of information both days, on this day you

know January 25 became, and when I put the color picture of Grinter picture up I

had the same sort of information written there but the picture was color instead of

black and white and I did not get nearly as many likes. It was the weirdest thing.

It was weird I don't know why. It was a gorgeous picture of the site it was color I

don't know what the deal was. (KSHS 2/10)

It is unclear why exactly this was the reaction received, but assuming it was purely due to the content, it may be that the black and white picture triggered a nostalgic reaction where the color photo did not. Based on what we have seen elsewhere, this nostalgic reaction seems to encourage readers to bring forward their own narratives to share with others. For an organization that encourages such discussion, this is an important reaction to notice. It may be that the Society will want to test this reaction further under different circumstances. This may provide the basis for a future study, but to ensure ecological validity, testing the phenomenon first on pages such as these, with interested but not always engaged members, may be an important first step.

Because of TM2’s approach, the KSHS page does feel more formal and detached, although the tone does not seem to push followers away, rather, it seems to have found a way to connect with individuals’ identity narrative through the use of nostalgia.

The Kansas Museum of History Facebook page faces a different set of difficulties than the main KSHS one. First, the team identified two separate audiences for the page, and balancing the interests of these demographics with the page manager’s desired demographics has proven challenging. At this stage in the Society’s efforts it has been

decided that “those...who make museums much more of their life than...just...school trips” (KSHS 11/18) specifically meaning families with young children, were the core museum audience and thus should be the main target for the museum’s efforts. In earlier meetings, however, it was stated that the page manager was targeting millennials, taken here to mean teenagers, college students, and young professionals, perhaps in an attempt to keep the page feeling more energetic. The team members all reported the image of

“stodginess” that seems to pervade museums, and specifically history museums, which they noted have struggled to keep up with some of the newer innovations their colleagues in art and science museums had already adopted. This fear of being seen as boring is clearly represented in the data set. There are three sets of events discussed here as well as a few singular posts that highlight this effect.

The Museums Facebook page featured a special exhibit on quilts from the collection between January and September 2014. The Museum Facebook page ran a series of posts alongside this to encourage visitors to vote for and comment on their favorite quilts, as there is a sizeable quilting community in Topeka and across the state that enjoys studying and critiquing quilts in the museum collection. Each week the votes were counted and announced on the Facebook page, and each week the votes were largely the same, although the raw numbers were not reported. The page manager expressed frustration at the lack of involvement by the public given the Museum’s attempts to engage their followers.

TM3: Oh, one of the things that we did with the new exhibit was I have the board

that says name one thing you like about this exhibit. I had been getting some

comments. I wanted the comments but I thought it would be fodder letting people

know what the audience is responding to and what they like and what they are

thinking. It would give me something to talk about. Even put up some hand drawn

images.

TM1: You did that with quilts. Did you get response on that? You did your

surveys on Facebook.

TM3: Right. Yeah. I had following but there were no comments. And that about

killed me. It was once a week. It’s Friday again! The problem with that was it was

the same stinking three quilts, one each time. How many times can I post this.

There is nothing else to say. (KSHS 10/28)

When the posts for this exhibit are examined side-by-side, this frustration is evident. The posts, listed in the Appendix, when read in chronological order, help illustrate how the frustration built over several months. One might also notice how loquacious these statuses seem to be, and they read as somewhat awkward. For these posts, we can return to Grice’s Maxim of Quantity. There are a number examples here which provide a great deal of information, but this information is not necessarily relevant to the reader or to the topic at hand. Let’s examine the post from May 2, 2014.

This week's quilt winners are as follows: 1st place: Iris Garland 2nd place: The

Garden 3rd place: Spirit of St. Louis Sound familiar? Yes, these quilts are pretty

much favored by many of our visitors. In a few days we will be moving the four

quilts you see as you enter the museum gallery. Those quilts we call "community"

quilts will move just around the corner to the middle of the exhibit, and will be

folded in cases. We are gearing up for a brand new exciting entry to our gallery!

That's all I'm going to say! (FBMuseum86)

From a reader’s perspective, it feels as if the museum page is providing too much information in an attempt to improve its positive face by appearing helpful and knowledgeable. However, much of the information provided here is simply not relevant to the reader, and it buries the content that is. Firstly, this, as well as multiple other posts directly address the fact that the poll frequently ranked the same three quilts as the most popular, and volunteering that information serves only to highlight that the Museum staff members are uncomfortable with that result. Secondly, announcements of changes to the museum are important, especially in this instance as the change coincided with the 30th anniversary of the Museum’s dedication. Although numbers of unique visitors per week are unavailable, it is unlikely that the exhibit would have had a large number of repeat visitors, but this post, in discussing the additions to the museum lobby alongside the quilt winners seems to address only the previous visitors to the exhibit who might be confused about the rearrangement of the lobby. Had the post been split into two separate thoughts on the page, they might have avoided the disjointedness felt here. I cannot say for certain if splitting this post would have increased the public’s interest in the topic. It seems from a review of the posts that followers may not have cared for the way in which the poll was conducted, but that is outside the scope of this paper. In an attempt to be as informative as possible, may have left the reader feeling more uncomfortable than engaged.

Under the direction of an intern, the museum launched a new series of events called “Museum After Hours” in March 2014 intended to bring college students and young professionals to the museum for “dancing...food, games, and music.” Each night was based around a specific time period and clothing pieces and photographs were

brought out of the collection to encourage attendees to dress up in period appropriate costume.

The first post presented here was the most popular for the page in the “Museum After

Hours” category with 61 clicks, and ranked 10th out of 117 in popularity overall.

Well intern [C] has been a big help with our upcoming Night on Madison Avenue

event! She wears 1960s fashion well, doesn't she? This is our backdrop for your

own photo ops next Friday night. Tickets are $15 online, by phone, or at the door!

Cocktails, fondue, and retro games as well as live music by Washburn

University's Jazz Combo! Who wants to Cha Cha? Dance instructors will be on

hand too! Call 272-8681 ext. 415 for more information and tickets. (FBMuseum

14)

Like with the quilt show posts, this violates the Maxim of Quantity. This is far from the only instance of posts in this category listing activities the event will have rather than relying on the follower to understand the etiquette that typically follows when hosting an event at this time (Martin 2005). What makes this post different from the quilt exhibit example above is that the post seems to be exaggerating the amount of fun the event will be to intensify the hearer’s interest. The post is not so much trying to seem knowledgeable, as was the case before, but to do all it can to make the reader interested in attending. The combination of this strategy and the Maxim violation, as well as the multiple other posts on the topic, gives an air of desperation that is difficult to ignore. The poster so desperately wants followers to be excited in this event and to come to the museum that it bleeds into their online presentation.

While this may have been a popular post, others did not fare as well. The following post ranked at the bottom of original posts, which does not include posts shared from other sources, in the “Museum After Hours” category with 10 clicks total.

Museum After Hours: A Night of Country is THIS SATURDAY! Here's the

deal...... we may have to cancel if we don't sell tickets TODAY. Please call [us] or

go to our website at KSHS.org to order tickets. I've posted photos from our last

Museum After Hours event: A Night at Gatsby's. It was loads of fun! Please

consider buying tickets today! (FBMuseum49)

Ultimately, the event was cancelled due to lack of interest, and the (rightful) fear of that outcome is displayed here. There are multiple politeness strategies used here which when combined create the sense of panic and discomfort presented here. First, like in other examples, the mention of the date in all capitals with the indirect request for followers to view the photos from the last event demonstrate at attempt to intensify the reader’s interest in the event. In stating how fun the last event was, the speaker is attempting to build common ground with the reader who the speaker assumes would want to attend such a fun event. Secondly, in saying “here’s the deal,” the speaker introduces an in- group marker to build rapport with the reader. In-group markers are often used when attempting to create common ground between two individuals. Nicknames and colloquial speech are some of the most common examples. In this instance, the phrase, “here’s the deal” provides an idiomatic way to express that the speaker does not wish to hide any details from the reader and implies that the two are cooperators; the reader, in the speaker’s mind, does not wish for the speaker to fail in this endeavor, thus the reader would want to assist in any way possible. Given this relationship, the speaker assumes

reader can trust them when they state that the event is truly something they believe the reader would enjoy. What we find, however, given the actual response to this post and the event, readers were put off by the double imperatives, which although both made less intense by the addition of please still feel commanding, and the pleading nature of the text already described.

The last example was middling in terms of popularity. The post was accompanied by an image of 1960s-era glasses and sunglasses from the museum’s collection.

Did someone say 1960s? New exhibits just for A Night on Madison Avenue.

Sorry, these are only for "looking" not for trying on. Kansas Museum of History,

7 to 9:30 p.m., $15 at the door includes a classy cocktail, canapes, games, music

and dancing. You won't want to miss it! (FBMuseum4)

This post follows a similar pattern as the ones presented earlier, but introduces another dimension to this analysis. Unlike previous posts, which overutilized positive politeness to keep the reader’s interest, this example apologizes to the reader, possibly in hopes that readers would understand the photo did not constitute an offer and would not attend the event with the expectation of “trying [them] on.” Again, the speaker seems to want to keep all communication on record so as not to mislead or confuse the page’s followers.

This inclusion is strange, however, because in pairing the image with the “new exhibits” utterance at the start of the post, the speaker activates an “artifact” frame in which items deemed artifacts are usually not available for the public to use or manipulate. It would be worth noting in such a post if this frame would be violated, thus providing another incentive for the reader to attend, but to activate a frame and apologize for not violating it

is unnecessary given this context. The reader takes for granted that fact that artifacts are not to be interacted with and the apology only serves to violate this expectation.

The final Facebook page examined here was the Kansas State Historic

Preservation Office. The page manager, TM4, mentioned multiple times during the team meeting that preservationists, like museum staff, face negative perceptions, but in this case, the image is a “hysterical” one. Thus, the major aim of the SHPO office has been to be “not scary” and “interest people in everyday places” by placing members of the staff in the foreground (KSHS 12/19). The SHPO office also faces difficulty with its audience segmentation. TM4 notes that even with their fairly significant following, they often have difficulty engaging their followers.

TM4: They want grant money….that's the kind of phone calls we always get. I

have a barn do you have any money? Their motivation is

incentives….Occasionally we get calls about, do you know of any good

contractors who might be sympathetic to preservation.... We get that question a

lot. Less frequently we get questions about techniques and how to repair things...

Mostly from, sometimes property owners but mostly from government officials.

(KSHS 12/19)

With these audiences, it is understandable why the SHPO office might face more barriers in creating spaces for their followers to interact. But what we find is slightly different.

The page manager displays a greater comfort with social media than is seen on the other two pages which seems to help followers engage with the material. Half of the most popular posts on this page fall under the “Historic Buildings” category in which SHPO staff present buildings from around Kansas in various states of renovation. These posts

average about 8 comments per post, greater than the average for the page of 5. Sharing these buildings seems to elicit feelings of nostalgia from followers, especially those who grew up near the buildings or who had family or friends who lived there.

One of the less successful ways the office has attempted to engage their followers has been to post links to blogs or websites discussing an issue in building preservation.

The most popular of these posts (FBKSHPO339) received 65 clicks, which by itself would be an indicator that the post was successful. However, although the post was shared 17 times, Facebook indicates the post was only commented on once, which I am unable to verify due to user privacy settings. For a post asking followers to comment with their thoughts, it fails to elicit the expected response. Let’s compare the text of this post with one from the same category. The first reads:

What do you think? "Old buildings attract people, maybe not you, but they attract

people." (FBKSHPO339)

While our next example, posted in reference to an image of a book, reads:

We just purchased a copy of this book for the office - what a great source! It's full

of excellent photographs, provides helpful typologies related to building form and

style. (FBKSHPO49)

The second post was only shared 3 times, but had a total of 41 clicks with 32 likes and 6 comments. We have encountered similar situations in the other pages. When faced with a direct question and a clear invitation to interact, followers tend to shy away and their engagement is limited to “likes.” When the post is open-ended with no expectation on the reader, then it seems more likely that the reader will engage by volunteering information.

According to Politeness Theory, this sort of invitation should create common ground

between the conversation participants by including them and through the speaker’s acknowledgement that he or she is interested in what the hearer has to say. Such an invitation in a face-to-face conversation would yield a response, as ignoring the speaker would damage the hearer’s positive face. And indeed, this seems to be the consensus among social media consultants; that direct questions lead to more engaged followers.

In other instances, excessive positive politeness can feel threatening rather than pandering. Let us take for example a status from the State Historic Preservation page:

Did YOU know that today (10.10) is National Electronic Records Day? To

celebrate, our state archivist, Matt Veatch, has agreed to buy the SHPO staff ice

cream for each "like" we get on this post. Don't you want to help us have a very

vanilla day? Also, for more reading about SERI, the State Electronic Records

Initiative, visit their site:

http://www.statearchivists.org/seri/ElectronicRecordsDay.htm (FBKSHPO343)

There are multiple issues in such a post that can create a sense of confusion and threat for a reader. Given what we know about the viewpoint of the SHP Office, we understand multiple intentions of the post. First, it attempts to endear the reader to the staff members by introducing the State Archivist by name and by implying that the staff, like the implied reader, enjoy ice cream. Second, it intends to demonstrate to the reader that

National Electronic Records Day is a holiday worth celebrating, and by showing the enthusiasm the staff has for the day, invites the reader to understand its importance.

Finally, it encourages the reader to engage with the KSHPO Facebook page by giving a direct task that is assumed by the staff to be relatively simple act for the reader to do.

However, the reader, ideally, has no knowledge of these intentions and thus reads this as

somewhat threatening. This post tells the reader that unless he or she “likes” the status, the staff will not receive a treat (ice cream). There is no presented incentive for the reader to like the post, or to learn more about the holiday, other than the implied happiness of the staff members. Should the reader interpret the post in this way, we can understand the post as threatening to his or her autonomy. Presented here is an unintentional disregard for the hearer’s face by discussing a topic that is inappropriate in this situation, that the staff are being bought ice cream on the condition of the reader’s action. If we omit mentioning the condition, the post remains exclusive to the staff members but becomes non-threatening. This is one instance in which it is important to think about whether the

“likes” gained through this method are worth even unintentional damage to the hearer’s face. When the aim of the institution is to gain the hearer’s support and cooperation in future endeavors, the answer to this issue is a resounding “no,” the hearer’s face is more important. Though direct imperatives may garner what appears online to be a greater positive reaction, it may be prudent to find alternative methods to connect with followers.

The last point I wish to make is that the amount of layering in this post should concern us. It would seem to highlight the concerns the team members have already brought to our attention. These team members are universally concerned with the image of “stodginess” and formality they believe the Society to have. This concern is so deep that is pervades their social media, regardless of poster, but it presents itself in different ways.

The final pages examined here was the joint Twitter account that is shared by all of the KSHS divisions with similar authorship as the pages reviewed above. This page is what could best be described as a haphazard conglomeration of topics, tones, and voices

due to multiple authors who have thus far been without a specific image to conform to.

Without a strategy, there is an imbalance of topics covered with 31.5%, 339 out of 1074, of posts on the topic of preservation, while the next largest category was on the topic of famous Kansans at 11%. Because this is the only Twitter page for the Society, it caters to multiple, diverse audiences (KSHS 1/20). Thus, it is difficult to judge the success of individual posts. For example, if we take the page’s audience to consist those looking for preservation workshops, which are usually more personable, and those interested in facts on Kansas history, which are often more formal, a post discussing a famous Kansan may perform reasonably well with the history group, but very poorly with the preservationists.

This can make it difficult for page managers to accurately determine to what extent the tone, audience, or content are engaging the audience. If Twitter were the primary social media outlet for KSHS, this might be concerning, and the organization may wish to create more targeted pages. As it stands, however, a unique approached has emerged in the Society’s Twitter usage.

The Society has taken a unique approach to Twitter that may be worth further examination. The presentation is, overall, quite formal due to the lack of FTAs. This is opposite what the team found on other institution’s websites.

TM5: I was looking at the Getty…but I looked at their Facebook page it seemed a

little dry, It was very institutional, no personality. Lots of sharing of articles and

things like that. They make it more personal in other parts of social media, Twitter

is a little more easy to be that way, a little more spontaneous. (KSHS 12/2)

Given what we already know about what actions different social media platforms afford, it is clear to see how having a more formal or informational presence might be well suited

to Twitter while a more personable approach might work well on Facebook. The team has decided that although Twitter is one of the Society’s primary accounts, it is simpler to maintain as a newsfeed rather than as a way to interact with followers (KSHS 2/10). In this way, the Society has a quick way to share the most relevant information about events, job postings, closing, and other promotional efforts. As we have explored earlier,

Twitter often seems to invite thoughtless or ill-advised posting due to the structuring of the site. The newsfeed from which tweets can be made is a conglomeration of tweets from other users who may or may not be following the user, and thus it is simple to forget who exactly will be reading the post. Not only this, but for institutions which desire communication and interaction not only between the individual and the organization, but among the followers as well, keeping these affordances in mind, and directing effort toward platforms which support the aims of the institution is critical. In the case of

KSHS, it would seem the team has stumbled upon a new way of thinking about Twitter, and their decision to keep their feed as a purely informational and live account of events is one I believe will yield positive results for the Society.

Strategies and Conclusions

This study was designed as a case study of one institution’s social media usage and how individual insecurities could be manifested online. There are conclusions and examples here relevant primarily to cultural institutions in how anxieties lead to certain types of behavior, which can be described more easily through politeness strategies.

Using Politeness Theory offerings are two-fold. First, it provides a way to express how and why certain types of communication elicit, in this case, strong negative responses in readers and second, it provides a framework for discussing these reactions with the

people in charge of those communications. For an individual consulting with these institutions, having a politeness framework provides a concrete foundation on which to provide constructive criticism of the organization’s online facework. In the course of this study, however, one interesting finding has been revealed that warrants further study.

In most instances of a direct question, the audience response was minimal or limited only to likes. This effect has been demonstrated in at least one other study from

Patricia Zebrowski (2002) found that an “advance-retreat-advance” strategy was helpful when speaking to teenage clients in therapy settings and that direct questions do not always yield an answer. This goes against the common wisdom of social media, which is to ask direct questions of one’s followers (Shelley 2014, Lee 2012, KSHS 2/10. What seems to have happened here is that the speaker, or poster, has presented this question to an unknown audience, and given the unidirectional nature of social media, the hearer is capable of opting in or out of that conversation without damage to his or her face.

Because the speaker has placed this request for information on the reader, he or she may interpret this as a threat to his or her negative face. In other examples in which readers volunteered information, the threat did not exist, and readers were not confined to one area of discussion. Definitive conclusions cannot be drawn here, but this is an area that requires further research, especially given the predilection of social media consultants to encourage the use of direct questions as a method of “increased engagement.”

To conclude this study, I have developed some general strategies for museums and cultural institutions to take stock of how they are utilizing social media. These would serve not as requirements, rather, they would hopefully act as guidelines for page managers when attempting to create welcoming spaces for followers.

1. Communicate and coordinate with others who are or should be involved

Though KSHS’ social media pages were developed independently, the page managers understood the importance of creating a unified face for the Society, which required the communication of different divisions as well as the Society’s Director, who would need to approve any changes to the overall strategy. It is up to individual organizations to determine how communication should occur, i.e. whether regular meetings of a committee are necessary, or if responsible parties simply wish to create guidelines for page managers to follow, etc. Communication ensures a consistency in the institution’s face, which assists followers in understanding the message being presented.

2. Choose a social media platform that matches the aims of the institution

There are an ever growing number of social media platforms, each with its own set of affordances and its own demographic. Just because a platform is new or is popular among a demographic you would like, especially if they are outside of your normal audience, does not mean the platform is worth pursuing. It is critical for institutions that rely on communication between community members to choose a platform that is equipped to handle that. Facebook is a wonderful example of this as the status and comment system allow for discussion of topics chosen by the museum. Twitter is useful, but in the case of KSHS, it is better suited to a newsfeed style of communication than an interactive one. Choosing a platform purely for its novelty will do nothing to support the institution’s mission.

3. Have a clear understanding of your audience

One of the major concerns dealt with during the team’s meetings was to understand first the existing audiences and second the desired audiences, and the

differences between those two groups. We saw earlier what happened when one team member decided to pursue a demographic outside of the existing range, which led to issues with event attendance and frustration for the division involved. There is no need for an institution to avoid targeting audiences outside of its so-called “bread and butter” groups, but do so without forgetting about those who make up the core of the organization.

4. Determine the appropriate tone for your audience

Deciding on a tone is a critical component of face creation. It is not unusual for a cultural institution to cater to multiple audiences who differ in age or interest. KSHS has addressed this issue, albeit somewhat inadvertently, through the creation of a Kansas

Museum of History page, specifically for museum visitors and families, and the State

Historic Preservation Office page, which serves community members interested in historic buildings, restoration, and other preservation topics. These pages are more capable of remaining relevant to their followers because they can more easily address topics followers want to hear or talk about. Generalized pages are useful for sharing information with blended audiences, but it is worth consideration if topical pages are practical, as they allow for multiple voices.

5. Ensure you have a clear understanding of face as it pertains to your followers

Part of this strategy is to address a curse of knowledge problem. If we look at the example presented earlier of the threat, we are certain that the SHPO office page meant no threat to its followers, despite the way the post read. Page managers should be cognizant of the fact that hearers will not always be privy to the institution’s intentions.

How the institution chooses to manage the hearer’s face will depend on how the

institution designs its voice, but striking a balance with either positive or negative politeness will ensure the hearers do not feel threatened or needlessly pandered to.

6. Understand how stressors and insecurity can seep into language

As we have explored here, insecurity toward social media can create posts and spaces that feel awkward or threatening to followers, which are not the sort of spaces that promote thoughtful discussion. This is where it can be useful to have second opinions of a page, such as a co-worker or a community member, who can give an honest assessment of how the page reads. While Politeness Theory is a useful tool for discussing why a post elicits certain emotions, there seems to be no correlation between the usage of certain politeness strategies and markers of discomfort. Being mindful of one’s own anxieties and how they manifest can be helpful when creating positive spaces.

Appendices

1. Twitter posts from @kansashistory: October 1 2013- October 1 2014 (Reverse Chronological Order)

Clicks/ ID Date Text Retweets Favorites Post RT @KarenDuling: #SS teachers, looking for primary source documents? Check out 1 10/1/2014 1 0 1 http://t.co/yCY9PIYSr1, http://t.co/pw5BIZr8yj, @kansashistory Chocoate is often used to make molé. Like chocolate? Try molé, try http://t.co/roKphfA3pE 2 10/1/2014 1 2 3 #ddlmtopeka @VisitTopeka http://t.co/FOk1IjBmCC Even if the Aztecs made molé first, you can make it 3 9/30/2014 best! http://t.co/roKphfA3pE #ddlmtopeka 1 1 2 @VisitTopeka #kscooking http://t.co/HGedcANYN1 RT @NikaelaZ: @kansashistory @WashburnUniv 4 9/27/2014 1 0 1 They are awesome! A HUGE Thank You to the @WashburnUniv Jazz 5 9/27/2014 Band for their smooth tunes this evening #MAHkshs 1 3 4 http://t.co/JV9fmmb6by Our very own Craig Dannenberg won the ice bucket 6 9/27/2014 0 3 3 door prize! #MAHkshs http://t.co/9lcQnax6M0 On Madison Ave. #MAHkshs 7 9/27/2014 0 1 1 http://t.co/BLHSNKor1X 8 9/27/2014 So much fun! #MAHkshs http://t.co/TDHGMiglvV 0 1 1

9 9/27/2014 Cha cha cha #MAHkshs http://t.co/lqch942ssn 1 2 3 Time for the cha cha! #MAHkshs 10 9/27/2014 0 2 2 http://t.co/tvSyQX2k4v The beatnik corner #MAHkshs 11 9/27/2014 0 2 2 http://t.co/ryfI3e272N @KSCorrections why yes, and we may have video 12 9/27/2014 0 1 1 evidence Who doesn't love to play dress up! We have many 13 9/27/2014 0 2 2 hats to try on #MAHkshs http://t.co/ckVGQQzecI A Night on Madison Avenue #MAHkshs 14 9/27/2014 0 1 1 http://t.co/tjugKrhhwo RT @NikaelaZ: 1960s Madison Avenue is the place 15 9/27/2014 to be! #MAHkshs #kshistory @kansashistory 2 0 2 #madmen http://t.co/rnPubmuRUM

Serious fun trying on all the hats #MAHkshs 16 9/27/2014 1 4 5 http://t.co/CyWdd39IUj @seveneightfive @VisitTopeka @ktwu11 Museum 17 9/27/2014 After Hours is grooving along this evening. It's Hip 0 1 1 #MAHkshs http://t.co/F3Ilf3xIIs More Rumba lessons [slow, quick, quick] 18 9/27/2014 1 4 5 #MAHkshs http://t.co/uQnk30AbXC Rumba lessons! #MAHkshs 19 9/27/2014 0 2 2 http://t.co/xOfqDGKrNw click click click #MAHkshs 20 9/27/2014 0 2 2 http://t.co/81TLhoXWwz The view at night is lovely! #MAHkshs 21 9/27/2014 0 0 0 http://t.co/QJebaQmdeb If you didn't come dressed to the 9s you can find 22 9/27/2014 some duds to groove in here! #MAHkshs 0 2 2 http://t.co/htXxyQpTag Check out the style! #MAHkshs 23 9/27/2014 0 1 1 http://t.co/A4EY5TaiFV 24 9/27/2014 Photo Wall! #MAHkshs http://t.co/dkHNrgfR4i 1 2 3 The @WashburnUniv Jazz ensemble is getting 25 9/27/2014 everyone into a groove! Kick up your heels on 0 3 3 Madison Avenue #MAHkshs http://t.co/8aQ3Ou6zto Museum After Hours! #MAHkshs is getting into the 26 9/27/2014 swing of things! Come Groove with us @ the 0 1 1 Museum http://t.co/LMbaY0ISoL A Night on Madison Avenue, starts at 7 (can buy tkts 27 9/26/2014 at the door). We will see you there! 0 0 0 http://t.co/MFQz03ekmj Don't know how to Cha Cha? No problem, there will 28 9/26/2014 0 0 0 be dance lessons #MAHkshs http://t.co/gjcji2mPj3 Dapper! Swanky! Groovy! All of these terms 29 9/26/2014 describe Night on Madison Avenue, Museum After 0 2 2 Hours Tonight #MAHkshs http://t.co/riro5YrH3A RT @xyztopeka: Free admission at @kansashistory 30 9/26/2014 Museum. Must print off Smithsonian Magazine’s 2 0 2 Museum Day Live ticket at http://t.co/9B6aXge… This young man will be at Museum After Hours 31 9/26/2014 tonight, will you be his Mystery Date? #MAHkshs 0 2 2 @kprnews @VisitTopeka http://t.co/7qbZ37ad4f Long week? Come have some fun at Museum Aftr 32 9/26/2014 Hours. Dancing Cocktails History 7-9:30 at the KS 0 1 1 Museum of History http://t.co/l0DfOgbFb4 33 9/26/2014 Come On Baby...Lets do the twist! Tonight at 0 0 0

Museum After Hours #MAHkshs http://t.co/0Jzuyly5FC What would Jackie Kennedy wear to Museum After 34 9/26/2014 1 0 1 Hours tonight? #MAHkshs http://t.co/5CpcnTsXel @MattTheQuick @VisitTopeka Probably the 35 9/26/2014 0 1 1 chaperone making sure no one gets too rowdy! It's a Groovy Day! Tonight is Museum After Hours 36 9/26/2014 is 7-9:30, dancing, drinks, don't miss out! 3 2 5 #MAHkshs #kshistory http://t.co/ao7dgj6tbN Looking for a good time? Come to the KS Museum 37 9/25/2014 of History for A Night on Madison Ave 9/26 $15 at 1 0 1 the door. #MAHkshs http://t.co/iJOXdrMQlA Put on an apron. Grab a skillet. #kscooking it's that 38 9/25/2014 easy to make molé http://t.co/roKphfA3pE 0 0 0 #kshistory #ddlmtopeka http://t.co/bU828T6YJv Get your game face on at A Night on Madison Avenue 9/26 #MAHkshs @seveneightfive 39 9/24/2014 0 2 2 @TopekaChamber1 @VisitTopeka http://t.co/TETCrFdo3S @TheRandomRen And those might be market rate 40 9/24/2014 apts. If a developer can figure out how to make it 0 0 0 work. Now they are looking for ideas and $$$ @TheRandomRen There is a lot of work underway 41 9/24/2014 for apts downtown on the second floor of many of 0 0 0 the buildings there. Invasion of the 1960s at the KMH on 9/26 A Night 42 9/23/2014 on Madison Ave. Tickets $15, food, music, dancing, 1 0 1 games #MAHkshs http://t.co/DsE5jTwvIF #TaxCreditTuesday staff is at the Lee Bldg in Salina 43 9/23/2014 today. How would you rehab the home of Lee Jeans? 0 0 0 #KSHistory http://t.co/RIOJ3RpTVJ Here is the tasty molé a very well cooked molé. Must 44 9/23/2014 be our #kshistory molé class! http://t.co/KcHlek4JiN 0 0 0 #ddlmtopeka http://t.co/wJE4AQgWer Document your house forever and ever! Learn how to do it at this free event @TopekaLibrary 45 9/23/2014 4 0 4 @kshumanities @PresTopeka http://t.co/vdViu9BAPO Flashback to 1960s where martinis & cigs 46 9/22/2014 might get in the way of your typewriter cartridge 2 0 2 return! 9/26 #MAHkshs http://t.co/u4CXWwiYaf Thanks to everyone who traveled with us! 47 9/20/2014 0 0 0 http://t.co/8HtVdGNLFE 48 9/20/2014 Miner's Memorial , #Pittsburg. http://t.co/LkSJjfhFaz 2 1 3

49 9/20/2014 Big Brutus! http://t.co/GXCCJxA30a 4 5 9 Parting treats from Circle's Pecans. 50 9/20/2014 0 0 0 http://t.co/PyvqYJYGoP Randy Roberts on mining and labor relations. 51 9/20/2014 1 1 2 http://t.co/oeDXkJekoA Patrick at #HotelStilwell in #Pittsburg. 52 9/20/2014 1 2 3 http://t.co/OVpLuZHxDt Patrick talking about #HotelStilwell #Pittsburg. 53 9/20/2014 0 2 2 http://t.co/5xHPG8hSo8 54 9/20/2014 The smell of fresh bread! http://t.co/0JqQz00XEE 0 1 1 Headed to #FrontenacBakery. 55 9/20/2014 1 2 3 http://t.co/CkLDZOWSgw On a mission, #Frontenac cinnamon rolls. 56 9/20/2014 0 2 2 http://t.co/kUC6CiySIS Manny will take us to Frontenac tomorrow. 57 9/20/2014 0 0 0 http://t.co/5G3VB6CLSy Pie at Hometown Cafe, #CrawfordStateLake 58 9/19/2014 1 1 2 http://t.co/SBoB7pkNX5 Dave Gobel, #CrawfordStateLake 59 9/19/2014 0 0 0 http://t.co/Zn5IU4hFPx One week left to buy tickets for A Night on Madison 60 9/19/2014 Ave. It will be a smokin' hot time 9/26 #MAHkshs 3 2 5 @VisitTopeka http://t.co/Wlp8UvzPKj @ErinKSWX Not sure, the city took the action to 61 9/19/2014 demolish it. Our office was contacted this am by the 0 0 0 local hist. soc telling us about it. This happened today here in KS. We are very sad to 62 9/19/2014 lose this pretty lady (from Cawker City, KS) c. 1879 1 0 1 http://t.co/Q6EtkSktC2 Learning about #Haldeman-Julius house. 63 9/19/2014 1 0 1 http://t.co/AGg0UQlxE4 RT @Celia_LJ: @kansashistory Just seeing that 64 9/19/2014 1 0 1 graphic makes me hungry. Now I want seafood. RT @VisitCrawford: @kansashistory Bus Tour 65 9/19/2014 visiting the @MinerHallMuseum So excited to have 2 0 2 them in @VisitCrawford http://t.co/0qmN34d8X7 Jerry Lomshek at #MinersHallMuseum, #Franklin, 66 9/19/2014 1 0 1 Kansas. http://t.co/YrTIo1bXYl #Polka dancing, John Zibert band 67 9/19/2014 1 1 2 http://t.co/vHT8espBNG 68 9/19/2014 Jim Barone on #miningcamps http://t.co/IbiQQkJqtD 1 0 1 69 9/19/2014 Lunch at Franklin Park from Pallucca's. 1 1 2

http://t.co/VZIZ1fGcaj Jennie Chinn on #LittleBalkans. 70 9/19/2014 1 2 3 http://t.co/kdsVzXGbai What's popular in Mexico that you can learn to make 71 9/19/2014 in Topeka on 10-19? http://t.co/roKphfA3pE 1 0 1 #kshistory #ddlmtopeka http://t.co/nwjAaPXnWY David Jenkins said this is a willdlife Mecca. 72 9/19/2014 0 0 0 http://t.co/EUMxyQCyUX Mined Land reclamation, we saw egrets. 73 9/19/2014 1 1 2 http://t.co/53uYHMlNQP RT @TreanorHistoric: Building blocks are real, and they’re used in real buildings. 74 9/19/2014 1 0 1 http://t.co/URL9VVfy3o #Shoptalk. #architecture #preser… Our bus is really here now headed out soon! 75 9/19/2014 1 0 1 http://t.co/3u5FCA3RL6 Nifty bags for A Taste of Southeast Kansas! 76 9/19/2014 1 2 3 http://t.co/sDtvAMmvKo Almost ready for A Taste of Southeast Kansas! Can't 77 9/19/2014 1 0 1 wait to start! http://t.co/8QINRAF3h2 Molé today, the 1st int'l dish in the Americas 78 9/18/2014 w/ingredients from N America, Europe and Africa 0 0 0 http://t.co/roKphfA3pE #ddlmtopeka #Kshistory The party favors have arrived for A Night on Madison Avenue 9/26 at KS Museum of History. 79 9/18/2014 2 4 6 #MAHkshs @seveneightfive http://t.co/mXHiH4ykhq Hats like this deserve their own Party! A Night on 80 9/17/2014 Madison Ave is just that 9/26 at the KS Museum of 2 2 4 Hist #MAHkshs http://t.co/MeXFPvexD4 The KS Hist. Resources Inventory is where we try to 81 9/17/2014 document bldgs all across KS. Is your house on 0 0 0 there? http://t.co/sBzb4RYrkb Bring a friend. Make a friend. Learn to cook a 82 9/17/2014 traditional Mexican dish. http://t.co/roKphfA3pE 0 1 1 #ddlmtopeka @TonantzinKansas #Kshistory RT @kansasdotcom: John Anderson Jr., former 83 9/17/2014 Kansas governor, dies at 97 http://t.co/kDckm9iQYa 7 0 7 http://t.co/xDwij4chv3 Exhibits honor Hispanic Heritage Month & #ddlmtopeka - Topeka's KS Museum of History 84 9/16/2014 0 0 0 @kansashistory @tonantzinkansas http://t.co/cmssprhA9T

Mark it in Pen! Oct.11th @TopekaLibrary is your 85 9/16/2014 chance to learn how to document/survey historic 2 2 4 buildings #kshistory http://t.co/y4Lr5jSEoq Waiting for homemade molé? Learn to make your own. http://t.co/roKphfA3pE #ddlmtopeka 86 9/16/2014 1 0 1 #kshistory @TopekaEvents_ http://t.co/EbnFKk9Gfk RT @archivists_org: Arrangement and Description 87 9/16/2014 of Electronic Records, Parts I & II, will be held 1 0 1 in Topeka, KS @kansashistory! #SAA_DAS ht… RT @djronan: .@StanHernly The pleasure was 88 9/15/2014 certainly mine! @kansashistory #preservation 1 0 1 #kpaconf RT @ERockandTalk: @kansashistory that he wears 89 9/13/2014 a Detroit jersey in Chicago is a subtle cue to his 1 0 1 character, something pointed out to me ju… RT @You_DontHate_Me: @kansashistory havin a 90 9/13/2014 blast to the past! #sundownfilmfest 1 0 1 http://t.co/NrOpyAU6Zz Thanks for joining us at the #SundownFilmFest this 91 9/13/2014 summer! Send us your comments and suggestions. 0 0 0 We hope you had fun! #kshistory One real Ferrari was filmed for close-up shots on a 92 9/13/2014 soundstage. #saveferris #kshistory 0 0 0 #SundownFilmFest No Ferraris were harmed in the making of this film. 93 9/13/2014 Three "replicars" were made from fiberglass. 0 0 0 #saveferris #kshistory #SundownFilmFest Cameron put his hat on backwards. Man, he is really 94 9/13/2014 cutting loose! #saveferris #kshistory 0 0 0 #SundownFilmFest Jeanie doesn't recognize her principal? How many 95 9/13/2014 days has she missed?! #saveferris #kshistory 0 0 0 #SundownFilmFest Jeanie's Fiero cost about $8K, the same amount as 96 9/13/2014 Ferris' synthesizer. #SundownFilmFest #saveferris 0 1 1 #kshistory Over 10K people showed up at the parade for a 97 9/13/2014 chance to be in a Hughes film. #SundownFilmFest 1 1 2 #kshistory #saveferris Film crew slipped Ferris' float into the parade. 98 9/13/2014 Officials had no idea what it was. 0 0 0 #SundownFilmFest #saveferris #kshistory 99 9/13/2014 Von Steuben was a Prussian who volunteered to 1 0 1

whip the Continental Army into shape during the American Revolution. #SundownFilmFest Parade scenes filmed at Chicago's Von Steuben Day 100 9/13/2014 Parade, a celebration of German-American culture. 0 0 0 #saveferris #kshistory #SundownFilmFest If you played hooky, would you visit our museum? 101 9/13/2014 Seriously, though, stay in school! SundownFilmFest 0 1 1 #saveferris #kshistory This film shares some antics with Home Alone, 102 9/13/2014 another John Hughes movie. #SundownFilmFest 0 2 2 #kshistory #saveferris Baseball game they're at: Cubs v Montreal. 103 9/13/2014 0 0 0 #saveferris #SundownFilmFest #kshistory Baseball game on TV: Cubs v Braves. 104 9/13/2014 0 0 0 #SundownFilmFest #kshistory #saveferris Ferris recommends we pick up a Ferrari if we have 105 9/13/2014 the means. The car is worth $16 million today. 0 0 0 Anyone? #SundownFilmFest #kshistory "Finski" is regional slang for a $5 bill. #saveferris 106 9/13/2014 0 2 2 #SundownFilmFest #kshistory Cameron wears a Gordie Howe jersey. Howe played 107 9/13/2014 for the Red Wings from 1946 to 1980. Wow! 0 0 0 #kshistory #saveferris #SundownFilmFest The insignia on Ferris' beret is for the 32nd Armored 108 9/13/2014 Division. Their motto was "Victory or Death." 0 0 0 #kshistory #saveferris #SundownFilmFest Is Ferris supposed to be Mr Peterson or Inspector 109 9/13/2014 0 1 1 Gadget? #saveferris #SundownFilmFest #kshistory Ferris doesn't have a car, but the synthesizer in his 110 9/13/2014 room cost $8K in 1984. #saveferris 0 3 3 #SundownFilmFest #kshistory 104 1961 Ferrari 250 GT California Spiders were 111 9/13/2014 made. In 1986, the car was valued at $350K. 0 0 0 #SundownFilmFest #saveferris #kshistory Ruck's Mr Peterson was an impression of a 112 9/13/2014 Broadway director Broderick & Ruck knew. 0 0 0 #kshistory #SundownFilmFest #saveferris Sloane was called "Tandy" in the original script. 113 9/13/2014 0 0 0 #SundownFilmFest #saveferris #kshistory Edie McClerg (Grace) did her own hair for the film. 114 9/13/2014 It could hold 3 pencils. They checked. #saveferris 0 0 0 #kshistory #SundownFilmFest Stein delivered an actual Econ lecture. None of his 115 9/13/2014 0 0 0 lines were scripted. #saveferris #SundownFilmFest

#kshistory Does Rooney's computer make anyone else want to 116 9/13/2014 play #oregontrail? #SundownFilmFest #kshistory 0 0 0 #saveferris Alan Ruck was 29 when he played teenager 117 9/13/2014 Cameron Frye. #SundownFilmFest #kshistory 0 0 0 #saveferris Stein got his role through a six-degrees chain that 118 9/13/2014 began with Richard Nixon. #SundownFilmFest 0 0 0 #saveferris #kshistory Ben Stein is an economist who studied at Columbia 119 9/13/2014 0 0 0 and Yale. #saveferris #kshistory #SundownFilmFest MTV launched in 1981 and originally showed actual 120 9/13/2014 music videos. #iwantmymtv #SundownFilmFest 0 0 0 #kshistory #saveferris The actors who played Ferris' parents married in real 121 9/13/2014 life after making the movie. #SundownFilmFest 0 1 1 #kshistory Matthew Broderick was 23 when he played Ferris. 122 9/13/2014 0 1 1 #SundownFilmFest #kshistory Our museum director, Mary Madden, went to high 123 9/13/2014 school with Al Ruck, aka Cameron Frye. 0 3 3 #SundownFilmFest #saveferris #kshistory It's almost movie time! #SundownFilmFest 124 9/13/2014 0 0 0 #saveferris #kshistory Tom Cruise & Johnny Depp were all up for the 125 9/13/2014 role of Ferris. Matthew Broderick had the Jimmy 1 3 4 Stewart charm Hughes wanted. #SundownFilmFest Hughes wrote & directed popular films, like 126 9/13/2014 Sixteen Candles, National Lampoons Vacation, and 0 0 0 The Breakfast Club. #saveferris #kshistory #SundownFilmFest movie tonight is Ferris Bueller's 127 9/13/2014 Day Off. It's a John Hughes film. #saveferris 0 0 0 #kshistory There's a Lamborghini at the #SundownFilmFest! 128 9/13/2014 Come check it out (just don't breathe on it!). 0 1 1 #saveferris #kshistory http://t.co/xr8xcmAdEg #minioldjohnbrown had a great time and hopes to 129 9/12/2014 see you all soon! #kpaconf #kshistory 1 2 3 http://t.co/ao5IvATtvY Thanks Emporia for being such a great place to talk 130 9/12/2014 0 2 2 about #Preservation @ETownMainStreet #kpaconf 131 9/12/2014 Such a great conference, we hope you keep the 0 1 1

#preservation conversation going Thanks Emporia #kpaconf @ksbugeater that's the benchmark set by the fed govt 132 9/12/2014 and us census. Kansas is often more resilient :) 0 0 0 #kpaconf Looking at buildings and types of construction can 133 9/12/2014 help show the settlement patterns and help us figure 0 1 1 out info about lost towns #kpaconf Whomever settled the original community leaves the 134 9/12/2014 most significant stamp on the community over the 0 0 0 years #kpaconf #savingplaces The census says that if a town has less than 500 135 9/12/2014 people then it will most likely not exist by the next 3 2 5 census #kpaconf #savingplaces 136 9/12/2014 Lyon Co itself has 81 lost towns! #kpaconf 0 1 1 Be careful about "lies" when it comes to 137 9/12/2014 documenting these comm. Artists may have made 0 0 0 things prettier than they were in rural KS #kpaconf In towns with no pics, the Chapman Cntr will create 138 9/12/2014 a map based on what info they can find to recreate 0 0 0 the town landscape and Env. #kpaconf 139 9/12/2014 @DBZNappa yep! That's a lot of lost small towns 0 0 0 The Chapman Center for Rural Studies @KState 140 9/12/2014 utilizes undergrad research to document lost KS 1 1 2 communities with photos and memories #kpaconf There are over 9000 communities in KS that are no 141 9/12/2014 more we don't want all that history to disappear 2 4 6 #kpaconf #savingolaces Our last conference session is discussing the work to 142 9/12/2014 0 0 0 document the history of lost towns #kpaconf Designing to fit your space and needs AND using 143 9/12/2014 historic incentives can do amazing things with a 0 1 1 product budget #kpaconf Find a space that fits with your use. That will save 144 9/12/2014 1 1 2 on the cost of conversion. #kpaconf Next up: how to design on a budget with Architect 145 9/12/2014 Ben Moore. Many bldg owners have limited $$ so 0 0 0 what can they do with those funds #kpaconf @mamajah would Topeka be the same without the 146 9/12/2014 0 0 0 statehouse? The museum? #kpaconf Does a natural disaster damage a towns identity? 147 9/12/2014 0 0 0 #kpaconf #savingplaces 148 9/12/2014 RT @mamajah: @kansashistory @StanHernly 2 0 2

@djronan The statehouse, or maybe the museum. Where we keep our history. @kimmiegant if a disaster struck your hometown, 149 9/12/2014 what bldg would you save? #preservation 0 1 1 #savingplaces #kpaconf RT @djronan: @kansashistory @StanHernly 150 9/12/2014 @mamajah I would save the local theater! 2 0 2 #preservation #kpaconf @StanHernly @djronan @mamajah if a disaster hit 151 9/12/2014 your home town what building would you save first? 1 0 1 #kpaconf #savingplaces We are talking about how to deal with historic 152 9/12/2014 buildings and disasters @greensburg_ks #NatlPrep 1 2 3 #kpaconf @fema @femaregion7 @historicgreen Back from lunch and listening to Daniel Wallach 153 9/12/2014 from @greensburg_ks talks about saving historic 0 2 2 treasures when faced with disaster #kpaconf RT @djronan: Talking about the benefits of 154 9/12/2014 preservation at #kpaconf ! @ETownMainStreet 2 0 2 #preservation http://t.co/XxF96BfgoK RT @PresNation: Interesting #preservation 155 9/12/2014 conversation happening over on the #kpaconf 1 0 1 hashtag. Go give it a look! @ETownMainStreet thanks for sharing so much 156 9/12/2014 0 1 1 great info about growing your town #kpaconf Find what people care about and then talk to them 157 9/12/2014 about #Preservation in a language that makes sense 1 1 2 to them. #kpaconf #savingplaces Use historic buildings to create a unique space to 158 9/12/2014 incubate business opportunities. Create an 1 1 2 experience #kpaconf #savingplaces Tax Credits on the big screen. #RealRehab in 159 9/12/2014 Emporia (bldg before and after) #savingplaces 0 0 0 #kpaconf #preservation http://t.co/07VWjMT2Yy $1 Million in preservation investment creates 23 160 9/12/2014 jobs. New construction only creates 18 jobs. 4 0 4 #kpaconf #savingplaces #preservation DIY that the year following the completion of a 161 9/12/2014 rehab project, new construction near that rehab 2 0 2 increases 150% #savingplaces #kpaconf Economic Development on Main Street! Historic 162 9/12/2014 Tax Credits! Now your are speaking our language! 1 1 2 #kpaconf @ETownMainStreet #savingplaces 163 9/12/2014 Rehab and community growth involve a good 0 1 1

infrastructure and significant planning! Preservation requires some planning #kpaconf @djronan they can get here, and the experience is 164 9/12/2014 great, but how do you get them to know to come? 1 1 2 #kpaconf @djronan hey thanks for thoughts last night Q: how 165 9/12/2014 do you let the young ppl know that we have 0 0 0 experiences already waiting #kpaconf Today's conference sessions are here! A Gorgeous 166 9/12/2014 & successful #historictaxcredit project #kpaconf 1 3 4 #savingplaces http://t.co/zAH64XOU8G @ETownMainStreet thanks Casey for sharing 167 9/12/2014 insights about preparing your community for growth 0 1 1 #kpaconf Are your bldgs where people want to be? How do 168 9/12/2014 you make your existing bldgs where people want to 0 0 0 be? #KPAconf #savingplaces #Preservation #SundownFilmFest is indoors this evening. Free 169 9/12/2014 admission after 5 p.m. Come early & see a 1 1 2 Lamborghini! http://t.co/IHXAvnVUzq #saveferris How do you use existing building stock to fit into the 170 9/12/2014 0 0 0 development markets? It's day 2 of the Kansas #Preservation conference. 171 9/12/2014 Time to talk about planning for the future with 0 0 0 Preservation #kpaconf Dan Ronan from the Natl Public Housing Museum 172 9/11/2014 will be talking about Millennials and #preservation 2 1 3 @ETownMainStreet @thenphm #kpaconf Tonight's #Preservation conference is going to be 173 9/11/2014 @emporiastate. We are loving #Emporia 4 1 5 @emporiagazette @ETownMainStreet Reception time starts at 6pm! Then the Keynote 174 9/11/2014 speaker talking about Preservation and Millennials 2 0 2 & tons of good stuff tom. #KPAConf Hoover the cat is here! (Next to the visitors center) 175 9/11/2014 #wawmeow #kpaconf #kshistory 0 1 1 http://t.co/l9eCuru3y4 Presidents visited here, you should too! #kpaconf 176 9/11/2014 1 1 2 #kshistory http://t.co/DcO5YOaH0i Where else can you play Mystery Date in this day 177 9/11/2014 and age but at MAH A Night on Madison Avenue! 1 1 2 #MAHkshs http://t.co/INyYOzRn4f William Allen White's lovely home is open today 178 9/11/2014 1 2 3 and the SHPO staff is helping with tours #kpaconf

#kshistory http://t.co/DG766hJqui They are also having a good time @EmporiaGranada 179 9/11/2014 at the CLG training. #kpaconf 1 1 2 http://t.co/Ev2DrogEgo Staff Selfie with WAW! #KPAConf #ksHistory 180 9/11/2014 0 3 3 #staffselfie http://t.co/cfeKQoUCpV Hanging out at the William Allen White House. 181 9/11/2014 #KPAConf is underway. Stop be and see us. 1 0 1 #KSHistory. http://t.co/Nh4gpM0scU @RadiusBrewing yummy lunch today before our 182 9/11/2014 #Preservation Conference! #KPSConf Love the tin 0 1 1 ceiling in your restaurant. RT @StanHernly: Welcome to Emporia! #KPAconf 183 9/11/2014 3 0 3 http://t.co/DTxWLnj4H2 RT @StanHernly: The marquee is LIT! #KPAconf 184 9/11/2014 2 0 2 http://t.co/fY4RWex4O8 Happy Birthday to meterologist #NeilFrank, born in 185 9/11/2014 #WellingtonKansas! 1 0 1 http://t.co/xzVp4GYZyM http://t.co/PaQSC4Ruz7 @ETownMainStreet We are packing up and headed 186 9/11/2014 your way! Ready to talk #Preservation #Emporia 2 2 4 #KSHistory http://t.co/2WHxj2r94w You guys, the KS #Preservation Conference starts 187 9/11/2014 today. The SHPO staff is headed to Emporia and will 0 1 1 see you there! Emporia is the Place! Tomorrow! Preservation Conf. 188 9/10/2014 Registration 11:30, tours 1:00, Reception 6pm 1 4 5 Keynote 7pm #KPAConf http://t.co/jak6hmkiIX We promise our tour of downtown Emporia 189 9/10/2014 tomorrow won't be this messy! @ETownMainStreet 2 4 6 #KPAConf http://t.co/YwV85kzckz RT @ETownMainStreet: @kansashistory We were 190 9/10/2014 thinking about making it this cool... 3 0 3 http://t.co/ye6Rbf30HD @ETownMainStreet is our tour of downtown 191 9/10/2014 Emporia tomorrow going to be as cool as this? 2 2 4 #KPAConf #KSHistory http://t.co/5iBmFMSz0k Tomorrow is the Preservation Conference in Emporia. We cant wait to explore historic 192 9/10/2014 2 1 3 @ETownMainStreet and visit the @EmporiaGranada #KPAConf Ferris would bring Cameron and Sloane. Who are 193 9/9/2014 you bringing to the #SundownFilmFest on 9/12? 0 0 0 http://t.co/IHXAvnVUzq #kshistory #saveferris

It's #TaxCreditTuesday and you can see this TC 194 9/9/2014 project and others at the Pres Conf in Emporia this 2 3 5 week. #KPAConf http://t.co/5b2neC8FjH RT @BoothieBarn: Items from #JohnWilkesBooth's slayer, Boston Corbett will be on display 195 9/9/2014 3 0 3 @kansashistory in Oct. http://t.co/IHzzA1a6wn http… Travel back in time in style for a night on Madison 196 9/5/2014 Avenue at the KMH 9/26 Tickets for sale now 1 2 3 #MAHkshs http://t.co/xttUNjI3Dz The #KansasHistoricalSociety is rescheduling the 197 9/5/2014 Lecompton Window Bootcamp to April 6-10, 2015. 0 0 0 Please join us then! On this day in 1867, the first load of cattle was 198 9/5/2014 shipped via rail from #AbileneKansas. 3 1 4 http://t.co/TJj6nFEw80 http://t.co/rJTW5aCWWp RT @kprnews: Kansas Trivia: What's the oldest 199 9/5/2014 operating courthouse in Kansas? 5 0 5 http://t.co/KpBeTMQ2sE Daniel Ronan of the Natl Public Housing Museum 200 9/5/2014 will be speaking on Millennials and #preservation at 0 0 0 next week's Conference in Emporia, KS Radio commentator #PaulHarvey was born on this 201 9/4/2014 day in 1918, he worked at KFBI Salina, Kansas, 4 2 6 http://t.co/iXEzYOxjNX RT @hipster818: @kansashistory two open two #exhibits that celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month 202 9/4/2014 1 0 1 from @kansasdotcom http://t.co/j4yJ2WowzN One week away from the #KPAConf in Emporia. Excited to talk #preservation and explore Hist 203 9/4/2014 0 1 1 Emporia @ETownMainStreet http://t.co/Zy9IKhR7bo It's not too late to register for the #KPAConf in 204 9/3/2014 Emporia next week Disaster Prep Ghost Towns and 0 1 1 so much more! http://t.co/cTRkyDCHhl @femaregion7 The theme of the KS #Preservation 205 9/3/2014 conference, next week in Emporia, KS is being 0 0 0 prepared for #disaster #NatlPrep @lawrencemodern @docomomo_us @_RPPN We 206 9/3/2014 lured you in, now here is some #modernarchitecture 0 1 1 truly unique to #Kansas http://t.co/Ea3yocZ2Am @lawrencemodern @_RPPN @docomomo_us If 207 9/3/2014 1 1 2 you love modern as much as we do, come to our

Modern Museum Party #MAHkshs http://t.co/vx2BF16q22 208 9/3/2014 @SethStillings Great Job Seth! 0 0 0 RT @lawrencemodern: @docomomo_us @kansashistory @_RPPN more cool stuff on our 209 9/3/2014 1 0 1 web-site: http://t.co/MlXXSOfAXR @ our brothers/sisters @ htt… In addition to being a City Pool/Bathhouse, this bldg 210 9/3/2014 did a #TaxCredit rehab project #whereisitwednesday 0 0 0 #kshistory http://t.co/iLdh2XM4Ry @docomomo_us @archmod @_RPPN Here's another #modernarchitecture bldg hiding in KS Any 211 9/3/2014 0 1 1 guesses where? @lawrencemodern http://t.co/UhE81Jig0E @accesstvks YES AccessTV! That is Ulysses and an 212 9/3/2014 0 0 0 amazing Modern Church. RT @docomomo_us: @lawrencemodern @kansashistory That's a great #modernarchitecture 213 9/3/2014 1 0 1 gem! What other #modern sites are you hiding in #kansas?… @lawrencemodern @_RPPN @docomomo_us Great 214 9/3/2014 0 0 0 Job spotting our Ulysses Church!! 215 9/3/2014 @accesstvks Not Goodland. 0 0 0 #WhereisitWednesday A hidden Modern Gem in KS, anyone know where this is? @_RPPN 216 9/3/2014 0 1 1 @lawrencemodern @docomomo_us http://t.co/GDz3O8KBFY Happy Birthday to #MortWalker, born in El Dorado, 217 9/3/2014 Kansas, creator of #BeetleBailey and #HiandLois 1 1 2 http://t.co/Re0I0gJ8Se #WhereisitWednesday Hint: it's in Western Kansas. 218 9/3/2014 2 1 3 #KSHistory #MAHkshs http://t.co/5Q4LG3wk1J #WhereIsItWednesday Where in Kansas can you 219 9/3/2014 find this awesome example of Modern Architecture? 1 1 2 #KSHistory http://t.co/utZ9bGEYPD Happy #TaxCreditTuesday Our State and Fed Rehab 220 9/2/2014 Tax Credits are the best 1-2 Rehab punch in the 2 1 3 Nation #KSHistory http://t.co/2OQ2I8cLUa The Kansas #Preservation Conference is only 2 weeks away! Register now at 221 8/29/2014 2 3 5 http://t.co/BBcUVD7hju The Preservation Office staff will be there Join us for Museum After Hours: A Night on 222 8/29/2014 3 7 10 Madison Avenue 7 – 9:30 p.m. Friday, September 26

http://t.co/rdq3mIyduu http://t.co/e3K4z5BQxc Dont forget to include a trip to Hollenberg State 223 8/29/2014 Historic Site for your weekend plans! Hollenberg 4 1 5 Festival is Sunday http://t.co/no19tqnuUb Have a classic car? Show it off at the next #SundownFilmFest movie on Sept.12! 224 8/29/2014 1 0 1 http://t.co/IHXAvnVUzq @TopekaCarScene #kshistory #SundownFilmFest is back on 9/12 with Ferris 225 8/29/2014 Bueller's Day Off! How can we not love a museum- 3 2 5 going truant? #kshistory http://t.co/5SUV7ZzZG0 1962 was a very good year. Come relive the era at 226 8/28/2014 Museum After Hours #MAHkshs @cjonline 2 2 4 @seveneightfive http://t.co/9WroUp9OtY Segregation in Kansas City - Posted by Jocelyn 227 8/28/2014 Wehr (Digital Archivist) The Major Hudson School 0 0 0 was first... http://t.co/wU0vIMp5K1 Help us spread the word, #HappyBirthdayKansas! 228 8/27/2014 photo contest for students, with great prizes! 3 0 3 http://t.co/Gi1ke858eU http://t.co/NHgMc1bgVD Don't forget to pack your dancing shoes for A Night 229 8/26/2014 on Madison Avenue 9/26 #MAHkshs #kshistory 1 2 3 @TopekaLibrary @KCStar http://t.co/xml4FrtGoo Celebrating the birthday today of astronaut Joe 230 8/26/2014 Engle, born in Chapman, Kansas! 1 0 1 http://t.co/qOsV3YZ91J http://t.co/kHRRHqt0ZN 8 of our Kansas State Historic Sites are part of the 231 8/25/2014 Freedom's Frontier Heritage Area. #heritagearea30 3 0 3 @ffnha http://t.co/e9kJKtPcSl Don't fight over the molé. Learn to make your own. 232 8/25/2014 http://t.co/roKphfA3pE #ddlmtopeka #kshistory 0 0 0 @TonantzinKansas http://t.co/aEUVxOwphl RT @jocohistory: Can you help? RT @JoCoMuseum If you attended Porter School in PV 233 8/25/2014 4 0 4 from 1954-1960..We need to identify students in a series … Happy 30th to the NPS Heritage Areas. The Freedom's Frontier Heritage Area documents the 234 8/25/2014 1 1 2 struggle for freedom in KS & MO #heritagearea30 Tomorrow is a big day, Artifact ID day @ Pawnee Indian Museum & Researching your House 235 8/22/2014 2 2 4 @TopekaLibrary, don't forget the Museum is open too.

RT @amhistorymuseum: Today in 1956: Pres. Eisenhower & VP Nixon nominated for 2nd 236 8/22/2014 17 0 17 terms by @GOP. Eisenhower campaign potholder ('52): http:… RT @WichitaCowtown: Curious about blacksmithing? Then you'll definitely want to check 237 8/22/2014 3 0 3 out the blacksmithing demonstrations that... http://t… Shaken or stirred? Have it both ways at Museum After Hours 9/26 #MAHkshs @TopekaChamber1, 238 8/21/2014 1 2 3 @kprbrogdan, @kansasfirst, http://t.co/GBmEvZpOZo Discover the names for the ghosts in your old house! 239 8/20/2014 #KSHistory @CJOnline @tenntown @PresTopeka 3 4 7 @TopekaLibrary http://t.co/VZleAqs4Iz @TheREALJB1RD In Republic Co, just a little west 240 8/20/2014 0 0 0 of Belleville, KS. @RepCoED Artifact ID Day at the Pawnee Indian Museum is coming your way this Sat. 241 8/20/2014 1 2 3 http://t.co/71ZrUmh9bI for details http://t.co/xnlD38fRar Don't miss out on Artifact ID Day at Pawnee Indian 242 8/20/2014 Museum this Saturday. It's your chance to learn 0 0 0 about your finds! http://t.co/S0rTwPHKTM “Life being lived… I'd like to stop talking about it 243 8/19/2014 and get back to it.” ~Don Draper Get back to it at 0 0 0 Museum After Hours 9/26 #MAHkshs Cocktails anyone? Museum After Hours lights up the 244 8/19/2014 night. @CJOnline @wibw @seveneightfive 0 0 0 #MAHkshs http://t.co/BO9zJQ0Gt5 RT @wibw: Kansas Historic Landmark Needs 245 8/19/2014 4 0 4 Repairs http://t.co/nG2cA4OTGm Wanna find out more about your old house? 246 8/19/2014 "Researching Historic Properties" will be presented 1 1 2 this Sat at 4pm @TopekaLibrary #KSHistory Get historic splinters in your fingers! There are spots 247 8/18/2014 remaining for the window workshop in Lecompton! 2 1 3 #KSHistory http://t.co/rRNq6dTgbm What are your weekend plans? Do they involve a 248 8/15/2014 visit to our #KSHistory Museum, or one of our State 3 1 4 Historic Sites? What did you find? #Archaeology Artifact ID Day is 249 8/15/2014 Aug. 23rd and Pawnee Indian Museum More details 0 0 0 at http://t.co/71ZrUmh9bI #KSHistory

Bob Yapp could help you fix these. His class at the Lecompton Historic Site! Go to 250 8/15/2014 1 2 3 http://t.co/71ZrUmh9bI to sign up http://t.co/Cfr5Ml0Dx6 Nationally known Window Repair Expert, Bob Yapp 251 8/12/2014 will be at our Window Bootcamp. Don't miss out! 3 2 5 #historicwindows http://t.co/kfuLAYn4um Registration for our Window Repair Bootcamp is 252 8/12/2014 limited, don't miss a chance to learn window repair 1 1 2 from the experts http://t.co/RRYRxKhIof What's cooking in #Topeka? Molé! Make some from 253 8/12/2014 scratch and take home your leftovers. 1 1 2 http://t.co/cIhWrENPvx #ksfood RT @HernlyArchitect: St Luke AME Church has a 254 8/12/2014 BEAUTIFUL restored sanctuary! A #HTFgrant from 2 0 2 KSHS @kansashistory helped fund the work. http… RT @HernlyArchitect: A photo of St Luke AME's 255 8/12/2014 sanctuary. The tin ceiling spent 40 years hidden in an 4 0 4 "attic". @kansashistory http://t.co/o… Hands On #Preservation Opportunity in Kansas @CJOnline @histpres @PresNewsLink 256 8/11/2014 1 3 4 @PresTopeka @ktwu11 @jocohistory http://t.co/QFdYSIRGEl Repairing your Wood Windows helps the Env, Saves 257 8/11/2014 Money and looks great. Learn to #DIY at our 0 0 0 workshop #savingplaces http://t.co/qx5vYN09Uu @jeffhombrenuevo Do you have any old family 258 8/11/2014 0 0 0 photos of the buildings? Thanks for joining us today at our Historic Sites 259 8/9/2014 Board of Review Meeting, we are adjourned 0 3 3 #gaveled #KSHistory #savingplaces #preservation Setting the Dates for our 2015 Historic Sites Board 260 8/9/2014 of Review Meetings. Our next meeting this year will 0 0 0 be November 8th at KSHS. @roadsidebliss Gas Station in KS, has just been 261 8/9/2014 listed to our #KansasRegister of Historic Places! 0 1 1 http://t.co/QCLG7Loj1i Last item on today's agenda is a discussion of the 262 8/9/2014 Historic Marker Text for Fool Chief's Village. 1 1 2 #KSHistory Next up is the Whiting Service Station in Jackson Co 263 8/9/2014 built in 1938. #savingplaces #KSHistory 3 7 10 #KansasRegister http://t.co/qSx0leycnf 264 8/9/2014 RT @dbhaire4: @kansashistory @kansasdotcom 1 0 1

@BarnAlliance Once 'advertised as the largest barn in KS' - Barns of KS, A Pictorial History. (… 265 8/9/2014 @kansaswriter We love it too! 0 1 1 @emporiagazette The History of Craftsman Houses 266 8/9/2014 in Emporia was presented at the Hist Sites Board of 1 2 3 Review #KSHistory http://t.co/4Ilile2Prw Next we "Find" Lost Spring along the Santa Fe Trail 267 8/9/2014 @SantaFeTrail1 #rutnut #wagonsho #KSHistory 2 8 10 http://t.co/M2EawE7dNK The Schwartz Farmstead has become the 5th 268 8/9/2014 property listed in Lane Co. @KSHistory, 1 4 5 #Familyfarm http://t.co/p4m946GvO1 The Schwartz Farm (house barn and smokehouse) 269 8/9/2014 were constructed of hollow clay tile just in time for 4 4 8 the dust bowl http://t.co/QFnUm3PVHZ 270 8/9/2014 @KevinsView Independence, KS 0 0 0 Built in 1928, the Schwartz Farmstead was settled 271 8/9/2014 and farmed by Russian immigrants #KSHistory 0 1 1 #opencountry http://t.co/YvFX8GVVWx Back to W KS to the Schwartz farmstead 272 8/9/2014 @BarnAlliance #KSHistory 0 3 3 http://t.co/F2wxWUgH5a Built in 1910, the church was designed by an 273 8/9/2014 architect from Chicago and has has very few changes 2 7 9 #KSHistory http://t.co/dA2sfRxqmX Further S to Independence KS, we see the First 274 8/9/2014 Congregational Church #NationalRegister 2 2 4 #KSHistory http://t.co/4VdPO0qI0C This barn is a favorite of Barn Fans here in KS! It 275 8/9/2014 has been recommended for Listing! @kansasdotcom 9 13 22 @BarnAlliance http://t.co/40mNaROTzX Whitewater Falls Stock Farm is a great gem of 276 8/9/2014 @ButlerCountyKS #savingplaces #KSHistory 4 4 8 http://t.co/GtWTCCiVT0 The farm, near Towanda, raised horses. Barn built 277 8/9/2014 1908, house 1917. @ButlerCountyKS #KSHistory 2 3 5 http://t.co/x3g5RwvSDp We are moving quickly through the agenda now. 278 8/9/2014 Next up is the Whitewater Falls Stock Farm 4 6 10 @BarnAlliance #KSHistory http://t.co/097mqJtbOF Derby High School, now a museum, has been 279 8/9/2014 recommended for listing! #KSHistory 1 6 7 http://t.co/Id26QmB5F2

Next we visit the old Derby High School for 280 8/9/2014 consideration for #NationalRegsiter Listing 0 2 2 #KSHistory @kansasdotcom http://t.co/5LrCtermUy @TheKCFreemason The Masonic Grand Lodge 281 8/9/2014 Building in Topeka has been recommended for 0 0 0 listing on the National Register of Hist Places @MurlRiedel It was built, it just didn't hold enough 282 8/9/2014 0 1 1 water to solve the irrigation problem in SW Kansas The Grand Masonic Lodge Building in Topeka has been recommended for listing on the 283 8/9/2014 4 7 11 #nationalregister @CJOnline http://t.co/QKQFhXC0Ys The Masonic Lodge Building, built in 1917, is feature of downtown Topeka @CJOnline 284 8/9/2014 5 4 9 @seveneightfive @cityoftopeka http://t.co/Q6YWQtc0SQ Next up for #NationalRegister consideration is the 285 8/9/2014 Grand Masonic Lodge Building in #Topeka 0 1 1 #KSHistory @kolisach No, the Ammunitions Plant is not 286 8/9/2014 included (different owner), this is just the housing 0 0 0 development. The Handel Martin House in Lawrence has been 287 8/9/2014 approved for listing. Martin was a prof at KU who 1 2 3 helped develop the Nat. History Collections. @kolisach @JoCoMuseum @jocohistory Just 288 8/9/2014 outside, those grounds. Its the housing built for those 0 0 0 working there in WW2 RT @kolisach: One of my favorite twitter events is 289 8/9/2014 today! When @kansashistory tweets along with this 1 0 1 Kansas Historic Places designations. … @kolisach @JoCoMuseum @jocohistory Just 290 8/9/2014 0 0 0 outside DeSoto, KS. The next property being considered is the Handel 291 8/9/2014 Martin House in Lawrence @lcom @lawrenceks 1 3 4 #KSHistory http://t.co/ENebUxhBPi The Sunflower Village has been approved for Listing 292 8/9/2014 #NationalRegister #KSHistory @JoCoMuseum 3 5 8 @jocohistory @KCStar http://t.co/h8YqVu9bXX @syoungusd260 We meet in Feb. May Aug & 293 8/9/2014 Nov. If you want to see pics and the written 0 0 0 Nominations check out http://t.co/71ZrUmh9bI. @syoungusd260 We have Quarterly Meetings that 294 8/9/2014 0 0 0 meet to consider nominations to the

#NationalRegister and State Register of Historic Places. Sunflower Village may be one of the earliest 295 8/9/2014 "suburbs" in KS! Designed by Hare & Hare 1 2 3 Landscape Designers #savingplaces #KSHistory After the War, the concrete block houses became Veterans housing, and low-income housing. 296 8/9/2014 1 3 4 @JoCoMuseum @jocohistory http://t.co/3UOJfkeg3L Sunflower Village was the worker housing built for 297 8/9/2014 the Sunflower Ammunitions Plant in DeSoto, KS in 4 3 7 WW2. http://t.co/RvzVJ3JyZD Next we look at the Sunflower Village Historic 298 8/9/2014 District. #KSHistory @KCStar @jocohistory 0 2 2 @JoCoMuseum http://t.co/UC88D7jtOw The Historical Context gives a framework for listing 299 8/9/2014 Craftsman Style Houses in Emporia. #KSHistory 1 1 2 #preservation http://t.co/xrYB0OsCVJ 300 8/9/2014 @syoungusd260 "Sool" 0 0 0 Next we are looking at the Historic Context of 301 8/9/2014 Craftsman Dwellings in Emporia #KSHistory 1 5 6 #Savingplaces http://t.co/X4hVvldMtB Soule Canal segments in Gray Co, have been 302 8/9/2014 recommended for listing on the #NationalRegister 2 4 6 #savingplaces #KSHistory http://t.co/8ongY9j17E Is the Soule Canal significant to #KSHistory even 303 8/9/2014 though it is was a failed venture? That's the 1 2 3 discussion this AM http://t.co/FobvYWq2aV @kavoorah Contact our State Historic Preservation 304 8/9/2014 0 0 0 Office M-F 8-5 to discuss the situation Today we present a Historical Context and two 305 8/9/2014 segments for listing on the #NationalRegister 0 1 1 #KSHistory #savingplaces http://t.co/aieyi6pbov The canal was not a success due to seepage, lake of 306 8/9/2014 maintenance, but not for lack of vision! #landlocked 2 2 4 #KSHistory http://t.co/1rYyHv1XnB Asa Soule from Rochester NY invested heavily in 307 8/9/2014 Gray Co and the town of Ingalls 0 0 0 http://t.co/yRFpM5Gg1v First up, the Soule Canal! The Canal, was an attempt 308 8/9/2014 by Asa Soule to bring irrigation to SW Kansas 1 1 2 #savingplaces http://t.co/7AJkmYwbzC RT @HernlyArchitect: Window Bootcamp! What a 309 8/9/2014 1 0 1 great idea! Thanks for sponsoring this

@kansashistory http://t.co/hoGf27xZ05 And here we go! Meeting called to order, SHPO 310 8/9/2014 0 1 1 updates underway #gaveled Getting Set up for our Review Board Meeting this 311 8/9/2014 morning! #KSHistory #KSCapitol #SavingPlaces 1 3 4 #Preservation http://t.co/gHYqioPsOm This has been fun! Thanks for joining us. Let's do it 312 8/9/2014 1 4 5 again next month! #SaveFerris #SundownFilmFest RT @MurlRiedel: Elli smokes and she just stole a 313 8/9/2014 car. Ms Prentice is the worst chaperone ever! 1 0 1 #SundownFilmFest @kansashistory 314 8/9/2014 @MurlRiedel #tourism 0 1 1 RT @MurlRiedel: They should use Hawaiian fire 315 8/9/2014 dancers to burn the tall grass prairie. Make a real 1 0 1 Vegas act out of it! #SundownFilmFest @ka… "Older woman" and teacher Ms. Prentice was played 316 8/9/2014 by Nancy Walters. She was only 18 months older 0 1 1 than Elvis. #SundownFilmFest Jenny Maxwell, who plays the troublemaker Ellie, 317 8/9/2014 was a distant relative of Marilyn Monroe. 1 1 2 #SundownFilmFest The actor playing Tucker Garvey was from El 318 8/9/2014 Dorado, KS. Tucker's manners, however, were not! 1 0 1 #Kansansarenice #SundownFilmFest Unlike Chad's mother, the Kansas Museum of 319 8/9/2014 0 1 1 History loves tourists! #SundownFilmFest Elvis shook his legs while singing to compensate for 320 8/9/2014 nervousness. Crowds loved it, so he played it up. 0 2 2 #SundownFimFest Elvis signed that ukulele and gave it to Hank 321 8/9/2014 Garland, who he thought was one of the finest guitar 0 1 1 players in the country. #SundownFimFest RT @MurlRiedel: Who brought Jan Brady to 322 8/9/2014 Hawaii? Lighten up! #spoiledbrat 1 0 1 #SundownFilmFest @kansashistory RT @MurlRiedel: Just happens to be a 4-piece 323 8/9/2014 orchestra floating by on a canoe? #SundownFimFest 1 0 1 @kansashistory Ukuleles are a Polynesian instrument. The name 324 8/9/2014 means "jumping flea," which describes how the 0 2 2 fingers look while playing. #SundownFilmFest The actor playing Mr. Chapman is best known as 325 8/9/2014 1 0 1 Floyd the Barber on The Andy Griffith Show.

#SundownFilmFest Pineapple is one of Hawaii's major industries, along 326 8/9/2014 with tourism, coffee, and sugarcane. 1 2 3 #SundownFilmFest "Sound of youth"? Lansbury was only 10 years older 327 8/9/2014 than Elvis when they made Blue Hawaii. 1 0 1 #SundownFilmFest Note to self: use pop stars as tour guides to increase 328 8/9/2014 0 0 0 museum attendance? #SundownFilmFest The Blue Hawaii soundtrack was the #1 album of 329 8/9/2014 1961 and was nominated for a Grammy. 0 0 0 #SundownFilmFest Chad mentioned the GI Bill of Rights. It was written 330 8/9/2014 1 1 2 by Kansan Harry Colmery! #SundownFilmFest Angela Lansbury! #jessicafletcher #mrspotts 331 8/9/2014 1 1 2 #SundownFilmFest Surfing is Hawaii's other official sport. 332 8/9/2014 1 2 3 #SundownFilmFest Poor Maile, stuck in the water without her bikini top. 333 8/9/2014 1 1 2 #thatdoesnthappenwithaonepiece #SundownFilmFest Outrigger canoeing is one of Hawaii's two official 334 8/9/2014 0 1 1 sports. #SundownFilmFest The bikini was introduced by Louis Reyard in 1946. 335 8/9/2014 This is actually just a 2-piece because it covers her 1 2 3 navel. #SundownFilmFest #modest The film's producer thought Elvis was too pale and 336 8/9/2014 suggested that he sit under a sun lamp to darken his 0 0 0 skin. #SundownFilmFest Elvis like the little red MG so much, he bought it. 337 8/9/2014 You can see it today at Graceland. 1 2 3 #SundownFilmFest When Blue Hawaii was filmed, Elvis was just back 338 8/9/2014 from being stationed in Germany with the Army. 0 1 1 #SundownFilmFest 339 8/9/2014 Is that a Boeing?! #wichita #SundownFilmFest 0 2 2 The title song "Blue Hawaii" was originally a hit for 340 8/9/2014 Bing Crosby. He sang it in the movie "Waikki 0 0 0 Wedding." #SundownFilmFest Before filming began, Elvis played a benefit concert 341 8/9/2014 to raise money for the USS Arizona memorial. 0 0 0 #SundownFilmFest The movie was filmed on the island of Kaua'i and in 342 8/9/2014 1 1 2 a studio on the Paramount lot in California.

#SundownFilmFest Movie time! The original title of Blue Hawaii was 343 8/9/2014 1 0 1 Hawaii Beach Boy. #SundownFilmFest RT @MurlRiedel: Any excuse to wear a Hawaiian 344 8/9/2014 shirt! #SundownFilmFest @kansashistory 1 0 1 http://t.co/x8uWHpvArb RT @MurlRiedel: Ukulele players are killin' it! It's 345 8/9/2014 like I'm on a Pacific island. "Blue Hawaii" 1 0 1 SundownFilmFestival @kansashistory http://… Beach attire is en vogue tonight. #SundownFilmFest 346 8/9/2014 2 2 4 http://t.co/A54eifQVOh Even the adults got in on the hula hoop action! 347 8/9/2014 0 2 2 #SundownFilmFest http://t.co/mwSIb6PwRc And the Ukulele Players are strumming away! 348 8/9/2014 1 2 3 #SundownFilmFest http://t.co/aYiaXb1ydy The hula hoopers are warming up! 349 8/9/2014 0 1 1 #SundownFilmFest http://t.co/dEqLPVOXEr The Ukulele Players are arriving, and they are stoked 350 8/9/2014 0 1 1 to be here! #SundownFilmFest The US annexed Hawaii in 1898. It purchased the 351 8/8/2014 land that became Kansas in 1803. 3 1 4 #SundownFilmFest #lewisandclark Blue Hawaii premiered in 1961. Kansas had been a 352 8/8/2014 state for 100 years, Hawaii for only 2. 2 3 5 #SundownFilmFestival We'll be tweeting Blue Hawaii trivia all evening! 353 8/8/2014 Share your photos and thoughts, too. Use 3 0 3 #SundownFilmFest. http://t.co/XVHLo9A2gS Blue Hawaii is happening tonight! Ukulele music 354 8/8/2014 starts at 7:30, movie starts at 9. And it's free! 2 0 2 #SundownFilmFest http://t.co/XVHLo9A2gS Love #OldBuildings #history #preservation 355 8/8/2014 #savingplaces #KSHistory ? Sat we dig into it at the 0 1 1 Review Brd Mtg. Follow our Live Tweet here Any ideas how #KsHistory should celebrate National 356 8/7/2014 0 1 1 Lighthouse Day? #Landlocked #Preservation #throwbackthursday is a fav of ours. This is the 357 8/7/2014 Grand Masonic Lodge in Topeka (photo 1917) 2 2 4 #KSHistory #preservation http://t.co/sFXjYRj4Jz 358 8/6/2014 @Kcurge its a trail site, but not that river or trail 0 0 0 Where is it Wednesday. This spot is "Lost" here in 359 8/6/2014 KS But can be found on Sat's Review Board Agenda 1 1 2 #KSHistory http://t.co/Mu5c7MUTvh

360 8/6/2014 @dfins34 sorry about the misspelling there! 0 0 0 361 8/6/2014 @dfins34 Nicely done Mr. Fisher! 0 0 0 "Where is it? Wed" A little bit of modern 362 8/6/2014 architecture for your mid week musing. Know where 2 1 3 it is? #KSHistory http://t.co/6JuLvzdOlC What were these guys up to? Find out more about 363 8/5/2014 Kansas's Canal this Sat at the Hist Sites Review 6 3 9 Board Mtg #kshistory http://t.co/eOhT6WS6lX It's that time again! The Hist Site Review Board 364 8/4/2014 meeting is this Sat, 9am at the KS Statehouse. As 2 1 3 always we will live tweet it! Mole fact #3 - Mole is so much a part of major 365 8/4/2014 celebrations that 99% of all Mexicans have tried it. 2 0 2 http://t.co/roKphfj0nE We don't need an ocean to have a beach party! Come 366 8/1/2014 see Blue Hawaii for FREE on our lawn! Aug 8, 9 2 0 2 p.m. http://t.co/XVHLo9A2gS Mole fact #2 - Different moles are made with 367 7/30/2014 different ingredients. What is the one common factor 0 0 0 in all moles? http://t.co/roKphfj0nE Molé fact #1 - This sauce is a culinary symbol of 368 7/29/2014 Mexico’s mixture of indigenous and European 1 1 2 heritage. http://t.co/lz1sm5xGmi There's lots of activities here at West Fest. From face 369 7/26/2014 painting to craft making and even balloon animals. 1 0 1 Not to mention free food! Come rope some cattle or check out some horses 370 7/26/2014 1 0 1 right on the museum fairgrounds! #WestFest Ever been in a tipi? Come check out West Fest and 371 7/26/2014 1 0 1 live like Native Americans! http://t.co/Fr4apcMBle Kansas Cooking: Making Mole – October 19. Chef 372 7/23/2014 Gonzalo Sánchez will show how to make molé. 1 1 2 Limited space. Register at http://t.co/roKphfj0nE Ever tried cowboy caviar? Museum After Hours: A 373 7/15/2014 Night of @Country on July 26th is your chance to 0 0 0 have a taste! #cowboys #caviar Did we mention the free hotdogs and chips from 1- 374 7/15/2014 11(while supplies last) at #westfest on July 26th? 0 0 0 #cowboyfood #delicious #hotdogs Ride a stagecoach, pan for gold, learn to rope a horse, and eat old-fashioned icecream at #westfest! 375 7/14/2014 0 0 0 #DayOfTheCowboy http://t.co/DI4yKizDDt

Excited about #ANightOfCountry July 26th with a live performance by Phantoms of the Opry! 376 7/14/2014 0 0 0 @OpryPhantoms #livemusic http://t.co/XzFeTK1pRj Prefer something for the kids? How about West Fest 377 7/14/2014 National Day of the Cowboy July 26 from 10-4 1 1 2 @kansashistory! http://t.co/HdChe7gLaE Join us for Museum After Hours: A Night of 378 7/14/2014 @Country July 26. Featuring Phantoms of the Opry! 2 0 2 http://t.co/dD6XCTbnGp Watch Apollo 13 for free under the stars tonight! Movie starts at 9 p.m. on the lawn. Bring your 379 7/11/2014 4 3 7 friends! http://t.co/Gv5J4cGrk3 Help us celebrate 30 years and see what's new on 380 7/8/2014 July 10! Free admission to the museum from 3-8pm! 3 2 5 http://t.co/idWZxizUS3 On this day in 1937 Amelia Earhart made her last 381 7/2/2014 transmission somewhere over the Pacific Ocean in 11 4 15 her around the world flight... RT @KansasCounties: On June 17, 1928, Kansas 382 6/17/2014 daughter, Amelia Earhart, began her historic trans- 2 0 2 Atlantic flight. Via @kansashistory, http:/… The lawn is filling up. First SFF movie tonight-- 383 6/14/2014 1 1 2 Grease is the word! Free movie on the lawn tomorrow night: Grease, 9 p.m. Hand jiving is encouraged! 384 6/12/2014 5 3 8 http://t.co/fG5UP22uPT #SundownFilmFestival RT @kshumanities: Save the Date for Grants 385 6/11/2014 Workshops in #Hays on 6/23 and #Topeka on 7/8. 2 0 2 @kansashistory http://t.co/SxfhMwPoRt 400,000 images! - The Kansas Historical Society is 386 6/11/2014 excited to announce that we’ve reached the 400,000 3 4 7 image... http://t.co/CArRvCEjr6 On this day in 1958 a tornado hit El Dorado, 13 387 6/11/2014 3 0 3 people were killed http://t.co/rmZ5MMHADB Join us tonight to learn about preserving your 388 6/10/2014 historic house @kansashistory! 2 1 3 http://t.co/u8KzpXDOsY On this day in 1895 Academy Award winner Hattie 389 6/10/2014 McDaniel was born in Wichita 1 0 1 http://t.co/TqFANaKKeV 390 6/9/2014 On this day in 1852 internationally known botanist 1 0 1

Elam Bartholomew was born, who lived in Kansas http://t.co/Ghpi8LZBmI On this day in 1824 the seventh governor of Kansas, 391 6/9/2014 George T. Anthony, was born and served from 1877 2 0 2 to 1879 http://t.co/XcAEpCWIdM On this day in 1966, an F5 tornado struck Topeka, 392 6/9/2014 7 3 10 leaving 17 dead. http://t.co/ZkkJbfSHvP On this day in 1904, architect Bruce Alonzo Goff 393 6/8/2014 was born in Alton, Osborne County, known for his 2 2 4 Imaginative Design http://t.co/QbHPuEyCMZ On this day in 1917 Pulitzer Prize-winning poet 394 6/7/2014 Gwendolyn Brooks was born in Topeka 0 0 0 http://t.co/xXg5ntTmD7 On this day in 1980 Up the Academy was released, 395 6/6/2014 1 1 2 filmed in Salina http://t.co/bln7VFDoLs KATP #Archeology field school going on this 396 6/6/2014 weekend in Osawatomie. 0 0 0 Stop by and say hello! On this day in 1920 test pilot Daniel H. Forbes was 397 6/6/2014 0 0 0 born in Carbondale http://t.co/tBetuDTa5B On this day in 1921 artist Blackbear Bosin was born, 398 6/5/2014 2 0 2 he lived in Wichita http://t.co/H62DMeAJaw Want something to do Tuesday night? Come to 399 6/5/2014 @kansashistory for a free program on #historic 1 2 3 home maintenance @ 6:30. http://t.co/aRzsbtdcSh On this day in 1885 author John Ise was born, he 400 6/5/2014 lived near Ross and in Lawrence, who wrote Sod 0 0 0 & Stubble http://t.co/mM83icgwqa Loving Your Stuff: Furniture Edition June 5! Learn 401 6/3/2014 to care for antique furniture at this free workshop 2 0 2 @TopekaLibrary http://t.co/0LqyWgGZsn If you are near Osawatomie drop by and check out 402 6/2/2014 archeologists in action at 1926 Parker Avenue until 4 2 6 June 14! Visitors are welcome! Want to learn about historic #architecture in Kansas? 403 5/30/2014 Join us in Osawatomie June 12-13! #preservation 3 0 3 http://t.co/3XM2pqOTkf RT @BamaStephen: @kansashistory Could you 404 5/30/2014 encourage fans to #VoteKansas in "Ultimate Classic 1 0 1 Rock" Hall of Fame Finals? @KansasBand http:/… @AshleighTidwell Actually both spellings are 405 5/29/2014 correct. The State of Kansas and the National Park 0 1 1 Service use "archeology."

The archeologists are off and running to KATP! 406 5/29/2014 1 1 2 #fieldschool #archeology The Sundown Film Festival starts June 13! What 407 5/28/2014 better way to watch a movie than under the stars! 3 0 3 http://t.co/TubkSTVTJZ RT @hist_enthusiast: My favorite place to do 408 5/28/2014 research is @kansashistory. Friendliest staff, best 2 0 2 working environment in the reading room, a… RT @tauycreek: I think Google Maps got a satellite 409 5/28/2014 picture of @kansashistory doing the archaeology dig 2 0 2 at Fool Chief's Village: http://t.co… Save the date! West-Fest National Day of the 410 5/22/2014 0 2 2 Cowboy is July 26 at the museum! How Legacy Architecture Shapes Our Experience of 411 5/21/2014 1 0 1 Place http://t.co/tlW8xts6i9 Countdown to KATP is on! #KSHistory #archeology 412 5/21/2014 1 0 1 #fieldschool RT @kprnews: Stone cold truth: One KS county provided limestone for the Statehouse, Allen 413 5/16/2014 2 0 2 Fieldhouse & Ahearn. Can you name it? http://t.c… Shop @AmazonSmile and Amazon donates to your favorite charity. Support KSHS! 414 5/16/2014 1 0 1 #YouShopAmazonGives #KSHistory http://t.co/iVbdlxmFe2 An economic defense of old buildings 415 5/15/2014 1 1 2 http://t.co/nVqNCkPIvJ Planning to apply for a Heritage Trust Fund grant 416 5/15/2014 this year? Get the scoop here: 2 1 3 http://t.co/ND1Rx3vqpM RT @BrownvBoard60th: Twitter Re-enactment of 417 5/15/2014 Brown v. Board of Education US Supreme Court 7 0 7 Decision Saturday, May 17, 2014 thru... http://t… RT @PresNation: Jane Jacobs was right: neighborhoods with character have greater economic 418 5/15/2014 15 0 15 & social vitality: http://t.co/ZmioeapQZ7 #greenp… DYK that our Historic Resources Inventory is one of 419 5/13/2014 the best in the US? Go to http://t.co/qeYJYMoJlG to 1 1 2 see the 60K documented KS resources DYK that May 18th is International Museum Day? 420 5/12/2014 What better way to celebrate than to visit our 0 1 1 Museum or a State Historic Site #KSHistory 421 5/12/2014 RT @genecassell: I follow @kansashistory and so 2 0 2

should you Today the Robinette Bldg is a vital part of the rebuilt 422 5/9/2014 downtown #savingplaces #KSHistory 0 5 5 #rehabtaxcredits http://t.co/Eafl04ortl 7 yrs ago Greensburg, KS was hit by a tornado. The 423 5/9/2014 Robinette Bldg was one of the few bldgs left in town 4 2 6 #KSHistory http://t.co/QHriuIEEEx The Topeka Neighborhood Fair is tomorrow at 424 5/9/2014 Marvin Auditorium from 10-3! Stop by and chat 1 0 1 with #preservation staff about your historic home From May Fete to First Woman Treasurer of the 425 5/8/2014 United States - Kansas Memory Blog May 6, 2014 0 0 0 by Jocelyn... http://t.co/C5EopzShvt Osawatomie will be busy this summer. KATP Field 426 5/7/2014 school starts in three weeks and the Our Town 0 0 0 #Preservation program in 5 weeks. #KSHistory Dont miss out on the Neighborhood Fair this Sat at 427 5/7/2014 the Topeka Library. Tons of info about #history in 5 0 5 Topeka. http://t.co/60WtPh2lmW Glad Everyone enjoyed the Historic Sites Board of 428 5/5/2014 Review Meeting. The next board meeting will be 0 0 0 August 9th! #KSHistory Hope you enjoyed our live tweeting of the Historic 429 5/3/2014 1 2 3 Sites Board of Review Meeting #KSHistory #gaveled And we are adjourned for today! Todays 430 5/3/2014 agenda has been considered. See you again in 0 1 1 August! #KSHistory We want to make sure our History is explained in the 431 5/3/2014 best way possible, so we will keep working on the 0 0 0 text for the hist marker @CJOnline Our Board is going to continue to talk and work on 432 5/3/2014 the Historic Marker Text, tabling approval for a 0 1 1 future meeting. #KSHistory Fool Chief's Village was studied by KSHS 433 5/3/2014 archaologists is located near US 24 and Menoken Rd 1 0 1 in SN Co. @KDOTHQ @CJOnline #KSHistory New territory! Our board is now reviewing text for 434 5/3/2014 the Historic Marker text that will document Fool 0 1 1 Chief's Village archaological site The board has approved listing of the Seybold Bldg 435 5/3/2014 in Eudora for listing on the State Register. 3 3 6 #KSHistory http://t.co/wbNBByg8Yu The Eudora Museum hopes to make this their 436 5/3/2014 4 4 8 permanent home on Main Street in Eudora.

#KSHistory @kprnews @LJWorld http://t.co/MFbEZDTNL3 This 130+ year old bldg was a hardware store, tin 437 5/3/2014 shop, post office, heating and electric business over 1 1 2 the years. http://t.co/3NfX3a4Yc5 The Seybold building c. 1880s has a long history in 438 5/3/2014 downtown Eudora #KSHistory @LJWorld 8 7 15 http://t.co/zjbUY5ErwY Hello Eudora! The Seybold bldg is being reviewed 439 5/3/2014 for listing on the State Register of Historic Places 1 2 3 #KSHistory http://t.co/5BrSkl0G8a The Lawrence Modern historic arch. context has 440 5/3/2014 been approved! @LJWorld #KSHistory @_RPPN 3 6 9 @archmod @kprnews http://t.co/ksM5xKadHv This little lady is following the Hist. Sites Review 441 5/3/2014 Board. KS cultural and arch. history is fascinating. 0 1 1 #KSHistory http://t.co/NTWEEIZ37p With board approval "Lawrence Modern" will be 442 5/3/2014 available at http://t.co/N2fS8087mn #KSHistory 1 2 3 @_RPPN @archmod http://t.co/smgnPZ0VWY @LJWorld The city of Lawrence has a rich history 443 5/3/2014 of Modern Arch. that should be explored 0 2 2 #KSHistory @savingplaces http://t.co/cjJ6c4NXoI Lawrence Modern from 1945-1975 documents this 444 5/3/2014 unique style of design in Lawrence #KSHistory 0 2 2 http://t.co/Rb0gg942Ty The ECM building right off the KU campus is an 445 5/3/2014 already listed example of Modern #architecture in 0 2 2 Lawrence @archmod http://t.co/aP9IKoKkRE Lawrence has some great examples of Modern Architecture The RR Depot that welcomes you to 446 5/3/2014 1 0 1 town #KSHistory @_RPPN http://t.co/CewWekbwGN The board is now reviewing an Modern Architectural 447 5/3/2014 context amendment to the Historic Resources of 0 1 1 Lawrence, KS The N Rock Creek Masonry Arch Bridge in Mitchell 448 5/3/2014 Co, has been approved for listing @KDOTHQ 2 3 5 #KSHistory #savingplaces http://t.co/V326MGZgy5 This 3rd bridge in Mitchell Co this morning doesn't 449 5/3/2014 have any WPA documentation, but is similar to the 0 0 0 construction and stone of the other 2 Next up the N Rock Creek Bridge in Mitchell Co, no 450 5/3/2014 0 0 0 documentation if it's WPA, but still a treasure.

#KSHistory http://t.co/DQZTOYnC5d And the board has approved listing of the Antelope 451 5/3/2014 Creek Masonry Arch Bridge #KSHistory 0 0 0 #savingplaces http://t.co/3uJPGrCvW4 Constructed in 1940 of locally quarried stone in 452 5/3/2014 Mitchell Co, this double arch masonry bridge is 4 2 6 another WPA project http://t.co/QOUz2BemZ4 Another Mitchell Co WPA Bridge is up next 453 5/3/2014 4 2 6 #KSHistory #savingplaces http://t.co/aCsNnhvWkS And the Mitchell Co Brown's Creek Tributary 454 5/3/2014 Masonry Arch Bridge has been approved for listing 5 4 9 #KSHistory @KDOTHQ http://t.co/pLzRJWlF8p The stone was mined locally from Postrock 455 5/3/2014 limestone in Mitchell Co @TravelKS #preservation 1 6 7 #KSHistory #savingplaces http://t.co/Vgc4lCpOPi The Brown's Creek Bridge in Mitchell Co was built 456 5/3/2014 in 1936 as part of a WPA project #savingplaces 0 0 0 #WPA #KSHistory http://t.co/X92KHObL1A Took a short break and now back to the nominations. 457 5/3/2014 Bridges are up next. First the Brown's Creek 1 0 1 Masonry Arch Bridge http://t.co/nG7ATXlv5A We are thrilled that this house is nominated for 458 5/3/2014 listing on the register #KSHistory 1 3 4 http://t.co/tJiYgVgHcE The Washington House has been a jewel in the city 459 5/3/2014 of Leoti for many years #savingplaces #preservation 0 0 0 #KSHistory http://t.co/c4umEFVDvx This 1892 beautiful Queen Anne even survived 460 5/3/2014 unscathed a tornado that hit Leoti #KSHistory 0 0 0 #historictornados http://t.co/pkZHgmCiSW Now our first bldg in Wichita Co, the beautiful 461 5/3/2014 Washington House in Leoti. #KSHistory 2 0 2 #savingplaces http://t.co/MubUPe35D4 The Moyle bldg has been approved for listing on 462 5/3/2014 Natl Register #historictaxcredits to come 0 0 0 #savingplaces #KSHistory http://t.co/lfvICin1F5 The Moyle bldg c 1918 housed retail space and a 463 5/3/2014 hotel on the N end of Augusta's Main Street close to 1 1 2 the RR tracks. #KSHistory 464 5/3/2014 Sorry that is Augusta, KS 0 0 0 Back to Butler Co where we look at the Moyle Bldg 465 5/3/2014 in August @ButlerCountyKS @BCtimesgazette for 0 2 2 listing #savingplaces http://t.co/orwWWQqjdo

The Hist. Sites Review Board has voted to approve 466 5/3/2014 the 1st Congregational Church of Anthony for listing 1 0 1 #KSHistory http://t.co/3cjkG4Z4m0 This Gothic-Revival brick church's stained glass 467 5/3/2014 windows honor the founders of Anthony, KS 0 1 1 #KSHistory @TravelKS http://t.co/XLzaLeLPCH Next is the 1st Congregational Church in Anthony, 468 5/3/2014 Harper Co, built in 1910 #KSHistory 2 0 2 @kansasdotcom http://t.co/bvsHWeiHxM And the board has approved listing of the Victor Ct. 469 5/3/2014 Apts. in Wichita #KSHistory @kansasdotcom 1 3 4 http://t.co/hwdIwZ8XKD The Victor Court Apartments are currently in he 470 5/3/2014 midst of a #historictaxcredit rehab project. 0 1 1 #savingplaces #preservation Built in 1935 these apts on Hydraulic retain their 471 5/3/2014 state of the art (for 1935) masonry and characteristics 0 1 1 #savingplaces @KSHistory Moving down to Wichita, the Victor Court Apts are 472 5/3/2014 the next to be considered for Hist. Regsiter listing 1 0 1 @kansasdotcom http://t.co/JQDq5Dn7LD The board has voted to approve the nomination of 473 5/3/2014 the Elwood School in DP County @TravelKS 1 2 3 @BrownvBoard60th http://t.co/jttV2TaL6g Elwood School closed in 1955 when Brown v Board 474 5/3/2014 ended school segregation #KSHistory #savingplaces 1 2 3 http://t.co/9dQqz3Ncrv Next up Elwood School in Doniphan Co. Built in 1935, the last segregated school in DP Co 475 5/3/2014 0 1 1 @BrownvBoard60th #KSHistory http://t.co/SiX7rlmwk8 @BCtimesgazette The 1st Presb Church of DeGraff 476 5/3/2014 has been approved for listing on the National 0 0 0 Register of Historic Places #KSHistory @SethBate Don't miss anything that might be on a 477 5/3/2014 0 0 0 test! This bldg is the only landmark still in the town of 478 5/3/2014 DeGraff and it has been approved for listing on the 1 3 4 register http://t.co/vw5Wn9Tlk9 This Carpenter Gothic church, c. 1903, is still 479 5/3/2014 serving the local community of DeGraff 1 1 2 #savingplaces #KSHistory http://t.co/wNXJIKXW1x @ButlerCountyKS The 1st Presb Church of DeGraff 480 5/3/2014 0 0 0 is nominated to the National Register of Hist Places

#KSHistory http://t.co/5lSYeFS7aI @VisitKCK The Town House Hotel has just been 481 5/3/2014 reccomended for listing on the National Register of 0 1 1 Historic Places http://t.co/C8NLGlnwdz The interior of the Town House Hotel still reflects 482 5/3/2014 the 1950s design and characteristic @archmod 2 2 4 @_RPPN http://t.co/zruz2ZkNT8 Next up the Town House Hotel in KCK. Built in 483 5/3/2014 1951this bldg was KCs largest downtown hotel in 2 3 5 1951-1978 #preservation http://t.co/VtbplLLzHg The Baxter Sprigs HS has been approved for listing 484 5/3/2014 on the Register! The school suffered only minimal 1 3 4 damage in the recent tornado #KSHistory Baxter Springs HS was built in 1918 and is currently 485 5/3/2014 undergoing a #historictaxcredit #rehabilitation 1 2 3 #savingplaces http://t.co/yMfYahj37m Now on to our National Register Nominations. First 486 5/3/2014 up is the Baxter Springs High School #savingplaces 0 2 2 http://t.co/nigp36UsDL Page 2 of the #HPF Grant Report. Great to see these 487 5/3/2014 0 0 0 #preservation efforts http://t.co/UawSnqYr6A The board has voted to award this years Historic 488 5/3/2014 #Preservation Fund Grants. Congrats to the grantees 3 3 6 http://t.co/GuHyXmCoqA #gaveled Public meeting is open and starting 489 5/3/2014 business. DYK there are 1,350 Kansas Listings on 0 1 1 the Natl Register? We are live tweeting the Historic Sites Board of 490 5/3/2014 Review today. What are we gonna list on the Natl 0 1 1 Register? Stay Tuned #KSHistory Sunday is the next installment of the Kaw Councils 491 5/1/2014 2014 Speaker Series. Learn about products of the 2 0 2 First Kansans http://t.co/tlcKG1hXuE May 1 is the last day for early registration for our 492 4/30/2014 #archaeology Field School! After May 1 it will cost 0 0 0 more $$ to play in the dirt with us @CivilWarTravel Drop in to the KS Constitution 493 4/29/2014 Hall Hist Site this Sunday for Bleeding Kansas 1 1 2 Reenactors! #KSHistory http://t.co/uDA4FFv5wC This Sunday the Lecompton Reenactors will be 494 4/29/2014 portraying colorful characters of the "Bleeding 2 3 5 Kansas" era. #KSHistory http://t.co/JhPNN86ZlK DYK that when it rains the KS #archaeology Field 495 4/29/2014 1 0 1 School does work inside in labs to examine artifacts

they have found? Early reg ends May 1 May 1 is the deadline for early registration for the 496 4/28/2014 #archaeology Field School this year in Osawatomie. 1 1 2 After 5/1 the cost to dig goes up! The Grinter Place #quilt show is today through 497 4/25/2014 Sunday. Don't miss out on some great #history in 0 0 0 KCK! http://t.co/pyX4cXbs3W We're excited about #HappyBirthdayKansas photo 498 4/25/2014 1 0 1 contest just for students! http://t.co/tMfu0o1kY8 Happy Birthday, Kansas! - Governor Brownback: 499 4/24/2014 1 1 2 http://t.co/SZogb2NUwx via @YouTube Happy Birthday, Kansas! - Jennie Chinn: 500 4/24/2014 0 0 0 http://t.co/7QOolq0G1P via @YouTube Happy Birthday, Kansas! - Marearl Denning: 501 4/24/2014 0 0 0 http://t.co/pwlQYwbiMo via @YouTube Happy Birthday, Kansas! - Marearl Denning: 502 4/24/2014 0 0 0 http://t.co/PwE4Hs3K7b via @YouTube Happy Birthday, Kansas! - Governor Brownback: 503 4/24/2014 0 0 0 http://t.co/YK1ums7ggd via @YouTube Happy Birthday, Kansas! - Governor Brownback: 504 4/24/2014 0 0 0 http://t.co/FYqxwfys44 via @YouTube Happy Birthday, Kansas! photo contest - Jennie 505 4/24/2014 0 0 0 Chinn: http://t.co/XHFJJvPlsK via @YouTube Rain can't stop us ! We have moved inside for the 506 4/24/2014 History & Environmental Fair. 0 2 2 http://t.co/TXXgkn85o1 Come join us for #history & #environment 507 4/24/2014 today! Did someone say "petting zoo"? 1 1 2 http://t.co/8s8KjXf2vJ What will you see at the History & 508 4/23/2014 Environmental Fair tomorrow at the Kansas Museum 2 1 3 of History? http://t.co/r3tjxywjzU Looking forward to the weekend? Don't forget to 509 4/23/2014 plan to visit Grinter Place State Historic Site for the 0 0 0 #quilt show! http://t.co/vmBnc9mDpa Happy Earth Day! Our own History and Env. Fair is 510 4/22/2014 this Thurs from 9-3 at the KS Museum of History. 1 0 1 Admission is Free So much is going on this spring at our museum & State Historic Sites check out 511 4/22/2014 2 2 4 http://t.co/71ZrUmh9bI to see it all http://t.co/neuc2wniEX 512 4/21/2014 Beautiful weather is coming this week, so make 2 0 2

plans to attend the #history & Environmental Fair this Thursday at the KS Museum of History! These 2 will be at the #history and Env. fair next 513 4/18/2014 week! They want you to be there too April 24, 9-3 0 0 0 Free Admission http://t.co/ov7oRMGf9V It's lovely outside, time to appreciate Kansas 514 4/18/2014 #history and the #environment April 24 at the 4 1 5 Kansas Museum's Hist & Environmental Fair Annie & Moses Grinter built their home in 515 4/18/2014 1857 and operated a trading post in #KCK they want 3 0 3 you to visit! http://t.co/aZA70HhdFF Grinter Place a KS #Historic Site is the oldest house 516 4/18/2014 in Wyandotte Co and they are having a #quilt show 2 2 4 April 25-26 http://t.co/JfKi6D9qkP Ask appraisers for information about heirlooms at 517 4/18/2014 Loving Your Stuff: Gems in the Attic, Kansas 3 0 3 Historical Society http://t.co/Zlocr0aQZV Experts from the Historical Society and Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library provide 518 4/18/2014 0 0 0 information about preservation http://t.co/zOaz4fCByi We're excited about Gems in the Attic, tomorrow at 519 4/18/2014 10 at the Kansas Historical Society, hope you can 1 0 1 join us! http://t.co/B7i6ZfrzMf Just a couple weeks away from the KS Hist. Sites 520 4/17/2014 Board of Review Mtg. We will live tweet it to share 0 1 1 of KS History http://t.co/rB6XKQrqLg Lots of great chances to get into #preservation this 521 4/17/2014 Spring. This one is put on by the State Pres. Office 0 1 1 staff http://t.co/dyZEkfHyFk RT @HistoricKC: Tomorrow 4/18 is the deadline to 522 4/17/2014 submit nominations for 2014 #MostEndangered #KC 1 0 1 #preservation #savingplaces #history #sus… Doing any spring cleaning? Wanna know what those 523 4/17/2014 treasures are worth? Check out Gems in the Attic 0 2 2 Sat. at the Museum http://t.co/LQJTYOXXQe On this day in 1940 Dark Command was released, 524 4/15/2014 starring John Wayne, the story of Quantrill's Raid 2 1 3 http://t.co/Xcn74MYpPR On this day in 1876 Mabel Chase was born, Kansas’ 525 4/15/2014 first woman sheriff, who served Kiowa County 7 3 10 1926-1928 http://t.co/LB7UxdXalH On this day in 1871 James Butler Hickok became 526 4/15/2014 3 3 6 marshal of Abilene http://t.co/VEVFafOom8

Happy Birthday relief pitcher Kyle Farnsworth, born 527 4/15/2014 2 0 2 on this day in Wichita http://t.co/neLmDv38lL On this day in 1892 silent screen star Claire Windsor 528 4/14/2014 1 0 1 was born in Phillips County http://t.co/j7WhdUCsGh This day is in 1935 is known as Black Sunday, when 529 4/14/2014 a massive dust storm covered the Midwest 7 2 9 http://t.co/JqXo1hFVrv The one and only Bob Yapp talking to the 530 4/14/2014 Hutchinson DIY #preservation Workshop last 0 2 2 Friday. http://t.co/g91LncTe2s On this day in 1900 Kansas comet football star 531 4/14/2014 Marvin Allen Stevens was born in Stockton 0 1 1 http://t.co/FWroVGkqGd @rarey4 The Sand Creek Bridge is N of La Crosse, 532 4/14/2014 KS, in Rush Co. All properties, after listing, can be 0 0 0 found at http://t.co/71ZrUmh9bI On this day in 1935 actors Lyle Waggoner was born 533 4/13/2014 1 0 1 in Kansas City http://t.co/iyYYKceIRP Happy Birthday to musician Jennifer Knapp, born on 534 4/12/2014 5 2 7 this day in Chanute http://t.co/YHdTkUJf9U On this day in 1990 Harney Loam Silt became the 535 4/12/2014 1 2 3 official soil of Kansas http://t.co/IiiqUqUOoY On this day in 1955 the Kansas City As played their 536 4/12/2014 first game and beat the Detroit Tigers 3 3 6 http://t.co/sDJNYlYrpK On this day in 1861 the James Lane formed the 537 4/12/2014 Frontier Guard in Washington to protect President 3 1 4 Lincoln http://t.co/JREMDytGcX On this day shots were fired on Fort Sumter, 538 4/12/2014 officially beginning the Civil War 8 6 14 http://t.co/gXMpvQIJDm On this day in 1986 Critters was released, starring 539 4/11/2014 Kansan Dee Wallace, filmed in Kansas 3 1 4 http://t.co/xuOghJKrOB On this day in 1946 General Eisenhower’s wartime 540 4/11/2014 rank of General of the Army was converted to 1 0 1 permanent rank http://t.co/gub0KGDf9I On this day in 1987 The Secret of My Success was 541 4/11/2014 released, starring Michael J. Fox, whose character 2 1 3 was from Kansas http://t.co/LhMY73GkYo Happy Birthday to Katrina and the Waves’ lead 542 4/11/2014 singer Katrina Leskanich, born on this day in Topeka 0 0 0 http://t.co/OtjSPVYHp8

Happy Birthday to sports broadcaster Steve Tasker, 543 4/10/2014 born on this day in Smith Center 0 0 0 http://t.co/3OQJcRdIHj On this day in 1865 Fort Dodge was established 544 4/10/2014 2 2 4 http://t.co/Nfm34egBr5 On this day in 1835 Samuel Crawford, third 545 4/10/2014 governor of Kansas was born who served 1865-1868 0 0 0 http://t.co/NVCWg0LvZx Today I'm taking the pledge to slow down in work 546 4/10/2014 zones and being aware of construction crews. 0 1 1 #goorangeks http://t.co/PloFW9htyb Happy Birthday to Survivor winner Earl Cole, born 547 4/9/2014 on this day in Kansas City 1 0 1 http://t.co/dD7YCVhVMN On this day in 1950 football coach Glen Mason was 548 4/9/2014 born, he was at KU 1988-1996 1 0 1 http://t.co/VbRF6iV9MZ On this day in 1860 Washington County was 549 4/9/2014 0 0 0 organized http://t.co/vyCcSiOrSa On this day in 1924 sports announcer Max 550 4/9/2014 Falkenstien was born in Lawrence 2 0 2 http://t.co/zXbTDhRRXp On this day in 1969 the Kansas City Royals defeated 551 4/8/2014 the Minnesota Twins in their inaugural game 2 0 2 http://t.co/gBhgDeiMoV Don't forget to about the KATP Field School. 552 4/8/2014 Doesn't everyone want to spend part of their summer 0 0 0 digging in dirt? http://t.co/7V32MedKN2 On this day in 1939 Dodge City was released, 553 4/8/2014 starring Errol Flynn and Olivia de Haviland 3 1 4 http://t.co/hvRBuufPyq On this day in 2008 the University of Kansas 554 4/7/2014 Jayhawks won the NCAA Championship Game 3 4 7 http://t.co/UQd7yz5V4n On this day in 1875 Jacob Mohler was born who 555 4/7/2014 served on the Kansas State Board of Agriculture 0 0 0 http://t.co/5jilJykt5d This Sat. Hollenberg Pony Express Station a KS 556 4/7/2014 State Historic Site will be hosting a Victorian Tea! 2 1 3 Pinkies Up! http://t.co/71ZrUmh9bI On this day in 1869 botanist David Fairchild was 557 4/7/2014 born, he grew up in Manhattan 0 0 0 http://t.co/DwsYAN6kid 558 4/7/2014 Can't make it to Hutch? Don't worry there will be a 3 0 3

Topeka Neighborhood Fair, May 10 at Topeka Library #preservation http://t.co/J4aPdJU3zK Don't Forget the Hutchinson #Preservation 559 4/7/2014 Workshop is Thursday and Friday this week! Learn 1 0 1 some Preservation DIY, we promise it's not scary. Happy Birthday to actor Paul Rudd, who grew up in 560 4/6/2014 0 2 2 Overland Park, attend KU http://t.co/9i6Vzewf0r On this day in 1922 stunt pilot Harold Krier was 561 4/6/2014 2 0 2 born in Olpe http://t.co/bbvilLsWTM Happy Birthday to cartoonist Tom Tomorrow, born 562 4/5/2014 on this day as Dan Perkins, in Wichita 0 0 0 http://t.co/9VHZOxVeOM On this day in 1915 Kansan Jess Willard won the 563 4/5/2014 world heavyweight boxing championship title 1 1 2 http://t.co/Ihh71N6HOb On this day in 1875 Ford County was organized 564 4/5/2014 0 0 0 http://t.co/lCOB5fXOnp Happy Birthday to guitarist Andy McKee, born on 565 4/5/2014 1 1 2 this day in Topeka http://t.co/qbHVhkKmsy On this day in 1900 actor Spencer Tracy was born 566 4/4/2014 who lived for a time in Kansas City, attended St. 1 1 2 Marys College http://t.co/P9ujp1c38k On this day in 1906 newsman John Cameron Swayze 567 4/4/2014 0 0 0 was born in Wichita http://t.co/rofBUrWF7P Weather this weekend will be great, get out and visit 568 4/4/2014 the Kansas Hist Museum or a St Historic Sites Near 0 1 1 You! http://t.co/gFOPgfGIqu On this day in 1858 Nemaha County was organized 569 4/4/2014 1 1 2 http://t.co/LHjWXEP44m Check out the now open William Allen White Home 570 4/4/2014 "Red Rocks" in Emporia. Now open Thurs-Sat 3 2 5 11am-5pm. http://t.co/IC6zWUohjt The fate of the Docking State Office Bldg in Topeka 571 4/3/2014 is being discussed tonight at the Statehouse. Voice 0 2 2 your opinion http://t.co/nAURB4XSI0 On this day in 1860 the first Pony Express rider left 572 4/3/2014 St. Joseph headed for San Francisco 3 1 4 http://t.co/UlO14SzJ5B The deadline for sign-up for the Hutchinson 573 4/2/2014 #Preservation Workshop has been extended till April 0 0 0 4th! Don't miss it! http://t.co/ALnUdw9QWM Just a few more days left to sign up for the 574 4/2/2014 #preservation workshop in Hutch. Learn some DIY 0 0 0 for your spring projects http://t.co/UrpFPb8hjY

Hollenberg Pony Express Station near Hanover, KS 575 3/31/2014 Opens April 2nd. Visit the Station Building, Trails 1 4 5 and explore! http://t.co/MFTmdEgLbO @CivilWarOnTour Mine Creek Battlefield a KS 576 3/31/2014 State Historic Site opens Apr 2nd. More info at 0 0 0 http://t.co/fcLdJ8EB0T http://t.co/HIrUPHzUaC @CivilWarTravel The Mine Creek Battlefield 577 3/31/2014 Historic Site in #Kansas Opens April 2nd! Visitors 0 0 0 Center open Wed-Sat 10-5 trails open dawn/dusk Ready to find some #history? Mine Creek Civil War 578 3/31/2014 Battlefield State Hist Site opens for the season on 0 0 0 Wed. April 2nd! http://t.co/yTXGvVb1rw Tudor Revival - Glick-Orr House, Atchison, 579 3/28/2014 Atchison County, remodeled 1913, (39.566426,- 1 0 1 95.115515) H http://t.co/DnFXQGnDsT Queen Anne - Seward Graham House, Hiawatha, 580 3/28/2014 Brown County, built circa 1899 Descriptor: The 0 0 0 single-f http://t.co/ICxoLhDDOc @SHA_org Field School in Kansas. The Adair 581 3/27/2014 Cabin is an important site in our Bleeding KS, and 2 0 2 Civil War Heritage! http://t.co/B3coqO3sn1 Got Spring Fever? Ready to get out & get dirty? 582 3/27/2014 Check out our #archaeology field schl going on this 1 2 3 summer. Let's Dig http://t.co/b2vvRio8xY Just a couple weeks left to sign up for Hutch's 583 3/27/2014 #Preservation workshop. Don't miss out on a great 1 0 1 opportunity! http://t.co/umDjq2pQiI @HutchNews Our Arch. staff will be talking about 584 3/20/2014 the hist. claim shack located in Hutchinson at the 0 1 1 Flint Hills #archaeology Conf tomorrow Museum After Hours: a Night of Country, Saturday, 585 3/20/2014 July 26, 2014 Kansas Museum of History, Topeka 0 0 0 http://t.co/RMspnkPQAK Our archeologists are presenting at the Flint Hills Arch. Conf in MO on Fri & Sat 586 3/20/2014 0 1 1 http://t.co/2WhjGhaxwE Find out what's under our surface! Gothic Revival - A 2.5-story lodge hall with a mix of 587 3/20/2014 Collegiate Gothic and Art Deco stylings, Great 0 0 0 http://t.co/b43Hhljqgi Gothic Revival - Collegiate Gothic University 588 3/20/2014 Building, University of Kansas Hoch Auditorium, 0 0 0 Lawren http://t.co/oQPLs1jNEC 589 3/20/2014 Simplified vernacular Gothic Revival church - Old 0 0 0

Runnymede Church/St. Patrick’s Episcopal Church, H http://t.co/IGzY3kWHvJ Vernacular Gothic Revival - Gothic Revival - 590 3/20/2014 Amelia Earhart Birthplace, Atchison, Atchison 1 0 1 County, b http://t.co/NcRdcciSEt Italianate Charles Duncan House, Lawrence, 591 3/20/2014 1 0 1 Douglas County, built c. 1869 http://t.co/IiciGsvSEN Second Empire Cimarron Hotel, Cimarron, Gray 592 3/20/2014 County, built 1886 The Cimarron Hotel, constructed 0 0 0 by http://t.co/djLhzBrvMr Vernacular Stone Barn, Kramer Barn, Russell 593 3/20/2014 0 0 0 County, Built 1903 http://t.co/DEKz2elmsZ Horse Barn, Whitewater Falls Stock Farm, Butler 594 3/20/2014 0 0 0 County, Built 1908 http://t.co/VGcLFA3bAL Gable roof barn and boxcar barn, McNee Barns, 595 3/20/2014 Chase County, Built 1920, 1948 0 0 0 http://t.co/OGp5e96TA7 Midwest Prairie Barn, Eliason Barn, Dickinson 596 3/20/2014 1 0 1 County, Built 1915 http://t.co/zW8JIP0hRQ Limestone Bank Barn, Brown Barn, Montgomery 597 3/20/2014 1 0 1 County, Built circa 1885 http://t.co/2hfNGbOoKi @histpres KS has an upcoming #preservation wkshp 598 3/20/2014 featuring how to fix windows with Bob Yapp! 0 0 0 http://t.co/UHcw3yeErM RT @NatlMainStreet: “Historic preservation is 599 3/20/2014 Economic Development 101. It costs less to preserve 18 0 18 than to demolish and then rebuild" http:… March Winds But No April Showers - The year was 600 3/20/2014 1935. Southwest Kansas was in the midst of the 1 1 2 Great... http://t.co/Hlw1cXDgwO Staff photoed 1858 bldg. in Anderson Co. Any other 601 3/19/2014 territorial era resources out there? #savingplaces 2 1 3 #preservation http://t.co/AZkk0ZCwnC @kansashistory Gordon Jump went to Kansas State 602 3/19/2014 Univ. and got his start on radio and tv in Manhattan 0 0 0 and Topeka, KS @BryonCannon Walter Johnson was born in 603 3/19/2014 0 0 0 Humboldt, KS. William Allen White, known as the “Sage of 604 3/18/2014 Emporia,” newspaper editor, wrote influential 1 0 1 editorials http://t.co/fftddlSl1d Alfred Landon, Kansas’ 26th governor, 1933 to 605 3/18/2014 1937, Republican nominee for president in 1936 1 1 2 http://t.co/jyByc4gMht

Jack Kilby, Invented integrated circuit or microchip, 606 3/18/2014 co-invented pocket calculator, received 2000 N 0 1 1 http://t.co/5pLTkemcJl Stan Kenton, developed a progressive jazz style 607 3/18/2014 0 0 0 known as the wall of sound http://t.co/3MlhDm2faC Kennekuk, referred to as the "Kickapoo prophet" for 608 3/18/2014 encouraging peacefulness and abstinence from alc 0 0 0 http://t.co/prUEcXWAKm Emmett Kelly, major attraction for the Ringling 609 3/18/2014 Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus from 1942- 1 0 1 1956 http://t.co/lKc9T2D9mT Nancy Landon Kassebaum, followed father’s career 610 3/18/2014 in politics, served as United States senator 1978 t 0 1 1 http://t.co/LVJJ4UJOSt Gordon Jump, began television acting career in 611 3/18/2014 1960s, starred as Arthur Carlson in CBS' WKRP in 0 0 0 Cinc http://t.co/Xhpxqr9eK3 Charles Jones, fearing extinction of the buffalo, he 612 3/18/2014 established new buffalo herds 1 0 1 http://t.co/GkWSX8kjUO Lucy and William Johnston, she was Kansas Equal 613 3/18/2014 Suffrage Association president and organized most 0 0 0 of http://t.co/Af2pg760xz Walter Johnson, one of first five players elected to 614 3/18/2014 0 0 0 Baseball Hall of Fame http://t.co/DxK2dAF9Lg Martin and Osa Johnson, adventurers who made 615 3/18/2014 films about trips to Africa, the first pilots to fly ov 0 1 1 http://t.co/IQ0YIelNvM Eva Jessye, led nationally celebrated choir through 616 3/18/2014 Europe, walked with Martin Luther King, Jr., in 1 0 1 http://t.co/0Gxp9SX7uZ William Inge, proclaimed as Broadway's most 617 3/18/2014 promising playwright, received both a Pulitzer Prize 0 0 0 and http://t.co/zjRxfdVdLf John J. Ingalls, who coined phrase that became 618 3/18/2014 Kansas state motto, Ad astra per aspera, featured in 0 0 0 http://t.co/cP1JhgoFk1 Alexander Hyde, who started soap business in 619 3/18/2014 Wichita in 1888 that became Mentholatum Company 0 0 0 http://t.co/AWxjRh3MXT Langston Hughes, who published his first poem at 620 3/18/2014 age 19, and became an important writer in Harlem in 1 2 3 http://t.co/j586WeHj5Z 621 3/18/2014 Dennis Hopper, who co-produced and directed Easy 0 0 0

Rider in 1969, one of the American Film Institute's http://t.co/XlWKoLeKKq Cyrus K. Holliday, who organized the Atchison, 622 3/18/2014 Topeka and Santa Fe Railway in 1859 and was its 0 0 0 first http://t.co/ImVuuZAtny Gerat and Sophia Hollenberg, who established a way 623 3/18/2014 station for travelers on Oregon-California Trail 0 1 1 http://t.co/8ehyapXP35 Takeru Higuchi, who is known as the father of 624 3/18/2014 0 0 0 physical pharmacy http://t.co/5yl6BLHzrf Coleman Hawkins, who is known as the father of the 625 3/18/2014 0 0 0 tenor saxophone http://t.co/BMYoNytV6X Fred Harvey, who created chain of Harvey House 626 3/18/2014 restaurants known for good food in a sophisticated se 0 1 1 http://t.co/F51W14Q3y7 Emanuel and Marcet Haldeman-Julius 627 3/18/2014 0 0 0 http://t.co/bNosOYDprH RT @PresNation: Kansas City, MO is ISO a developer/group to take on a threatened historic 628 3/18/2014 2 0 2 school project. Learn more: http://t.co/rBWgMCZMT… @HutchNews Great opportunity to learn about hist. 629 3/18/2014 preservation in your community! Our staff will be in 1 0 1 Hutch to help! http://t.co/cJ8UNyErzL Happy St. Patrick's Day from the Kansas Historical 630 3/17/2014 0 0 0 Society! http://t.co/RwMq0B48IG City of Hutchinson is having a #preservation 631 3/17/2014 workshop. It's not as scary as you might think! 3 1 4 #savingplaces http://t.co/q4BbfC0j4M Kathryn O'Loughlin McCarthy, Kansan of Irish 632 3/13/2014 descent, first Kansas congresswoman, served 1933 to 1 0 1 193 http://t.co/LC6hbMzfQ6 Emmett Kelly, entertainer, Kansan of Irish descent, 633 3/13/2014 0 0 0 lived 1898-1979 http://t.co/mJr4cfUBvp Irish to Kansas: A Bibliography 634 3/13/2014 0 0 0 http://t.co/CLyaoSKeTf The State of Kansas and Irish Immigration, 1871 635 3/13/2014 2 1 3 http://t.co/zRhqnpYaQM Double Irish Chain postage stamp quilt, by Gertrude 636 3/13/2014 0 0 0 Hawks, 1949 http://t.co/NHkof82BNe Mary Elizabeth Lease, Irish American, moved to 637 3/13/2014 Osage Mission, Kansas, in order to teach school at St 0 0 0 http://t.co/wcCWeS3jWI

Marking Irish settlement, Map of foreign settlements 638 3/13/2014 0 1 1 in Kansas, 1894 http://t.co/4x3aW4xCR1 Hall of Irish American Protections Club, March 17, 639 3/13/2014 0 0 0 1885 http://t.co/FUIH2B8aGy Double Irish Chain quilt, between 1880 and 1930 640 3/13/2014 0 0 0 http://t.co/fpYrOgC0jR Double Irish Chain quilt, by Emma Cartwright 641 3/13/2014 Copeland, between 1900 and 1904 0 0 0 http://t.co/etf4zZCgWG On International Women's Day we would like to 642 3/7/2014 celebrate Susanna Madora Salter of Argonia, Kansas, 0 2 2 the first woman mayor in the U.S.... Junius Groves, known as "Potato King of the 643 3/5/2014 World," founded community of Groves Center and 0 0 0 sold smal http://t.co/bjfIN1dhwK Annie and Moses Grinter, she was Lenapi 644 3/5/2014 (Delaware), they lived on Wyandot-Delaware 0 0 0 Reservation land, http://t.co/O9Vw9JI791 Minnie Grinstead, first woman elected to the Kansas 645 3/5/2014 Legislature, later elected probate judge in Libe 0 0 0 http://t.co/rxgzo1QduF Georga Neese Clark Gray, President Harry S. 646 3/5/2014 Truman appointed her the first woman U.S. 2 0 2 treasurer, he http://t.co/SjoCUoZw1s Isaac and Ellen Goodnow, abolitionists who moved 647 3/5/2014 to Manhattan in 1855, he founded Bluemont College, 0 0 0 http://t.co/45as5yjmrr Olive and Ray Garvey, they pioneered style of large- 648 3/5/2014 scale corporate, harvested one million bushels o 0 0 0 http://t.co/PnuJ6gJusG Dionicio Campos Garcia, first Hispanic elected 649 3/5/2014 Garden City commissioner and mayor, received 0 0 0 numerous http://t.co/djH2vBPQIv Frederick Funston, captured rebel leader in 650 3/5/2014 Philippine Islands during Spanish American War 0 0 0 http://t.co/sDhLFtXqej Joan Finney, first woman governor of Kansas, served 651 3/5/2014 0 0 0 1991-1995 http://t.co/4RdETt8qvW Alfred Fairfax, elected in 1888 as first African 652 3/5/2014 American to serve in the Kansas Legislature 0 0 0 http://t.co/QidhDZg66D Ron Evans, Apollo 17 command module pilot, last 653 3/5/2014 0 0 0 U.S. mission to the moon http://t.co/nJCdknBbOo

Milton Eisenhower, Kansas State College president 654 3/5/2014 who changed from agricultural school to broad-base 0 0 0 http://t.co/OEHldmHvN9 Dwight Eisenhower, allied forces commander during 655 3/5/2014 World War II; 34th president of the United States 1 2 3 http://t.co/k4fXE8OLyN Wyatt Earp, served as deputy marshal in Dodge City, 656 3/5/2014 survived gun battle at OK Corral 0 1 1 http://t.co/OpHFiQAdR6 Amelia Earhart, first woman to fly solo across the 657 3/5/2014 Atlantic Ocean, wrote books and lectured on aviat 2 2 4 http://t.co/iSJWHIAScu Alva Duckwall, with his brother operated Duckwall 658 3/5/2014 Brothers Racket Store – A Little Bit of Everythin 0 0 0 http://t.co/GllT2oY2YW Aaron, Douglas, father of African American art for 659 3/5/2014 using his ancestry to inspire his paintings 0 0 0 http://t.co/Mv4vhrLqF6 Bob Dole, Republican presidential candidate in 660 3/5/2014 1996, received American Patriot Award in 2004 1 0 1 http://t.co/bNVuJUkoCG Samuel Dinsmoor, Civil War veteran, teacher, 661 3/5/2014 sculptor, and grassroots artist 0 0 0 http://t.co/KAA5ZcBjoy Congratulations to Summer Parsons, winner of the 662 3/4/2014 Liberal Pancake Race today! Awaiting 0 1 1 announcement of international winning times!... John Dillon, opened J.S. Dillon Cash Store in 663 2/28/2014 Hutchinson in 1913, a new concept to customers 0 1 1 http://t.co/vUBMyfac8i Annie Diggs, writer who supported women’s rights 664 2/28/2014 0 0 0 and the populist movement http://t.co/LTfdYvccXA Peggy Hull Deuell, first woman to serve on four 665 2/28/2014 battlefronts, known for writing about soldiers’ pers 0 0 0 http://t.co/KO6Y2uy52P George Armstrong and Elizabeth Bacon Custer, he 666 2/28/2014 commanded Seventh U.S. Cavalry headquartered at 0 0 0 Fort http://t.co/QJO7NiPFCK Charles Curtis, elected with President Herbert 667 2/28/2014 Hoover in 1928, becoming first American Indian 0 0 0 U.S. v http://t.co/bCAlnBYs1O John Steuart Curry, his mural Tragic Prelude, of 668 2/28/2014 John Brown, is among nation's most famous public 0 0 0 ar http://t.co/1CjP25Qv8f

Glenn Cunningham, participated in 1932 and 1936 669 2/28/2014 0 0 0 Olympics http://t.co/2idIKgGEbm Teresa Cuevas, formed Mariachi Estrella in 1977, 670 2/28/2014 early all-female mariachi band 1 0 1 http://t.co/XjjVa5n6Vn Samuel Crumbine, abolished community drinking 671 2/28/2014 cup and credited with creating the modern fly swatter 1 0 1 http://t.co/ptLZ4QGYrS Francisco Vásquez de Coronado, he and his men 672 2/28/2014 among first Europeans to visit Kansas 0 0 0 http://t.co/DzgqsB84W7 Thomas "Boston" Corbett, known as avenger of 673 2/28/2014 Lincoln for killing his assassin, John Wilkes Booth 0 0 0 http://t.co/sdImp7rxxQ Harry Colmery, wrote in longhand on hotel 674 2/28/2014 stationery what would later become adopted G.I. Bill 0 0 0 of Ri http://t.co/M0mT56Z1af William Coleman, soldiers used Coleman stoves 675 2/28/2014 0 0 0 during World War II http://t.co/bek28uxiId William "Buffalo Bill" Cody, organized wild west 676 2/28/2014 shows; entertained audiences with roping, bronc rid 1 0 1 http://t.co/Lf5Twy1ced Walter Chrysler, Chrysler Corporation became the 677 2/28/2014 second largest car company in the nation 0 0 0 http://t.co/7TO9hlSShP Jesse Chisholm, Chisholm Trail named for him, 678 2/28/2014 which ran cattle from Texas to the Kansas railheads 0 0 0 http://t.co/mWdBXJW1En Mabel Chase, among first women elected sheriff in 679 2/28/2014 U.S.; served one term, 1926-1928 0 0 0 http://t.co/4cOTwEXdc9 Wilt Chamberlain, scored 100 points in a game in 680 2/26/2014 1962 for the Philadelphia Warriors, never fouled ou 2 2 4 http://t.co/6GEo7HQC6f Clyde Cessna, started Cessna Aircraft Corporation in 681 2/26/2014 0 0 0 1927 http://t.co/3fToiICbeR George Washington Carver, found more than 300 682 2/26/2014 uses for the peanut while working at Tuskeegee 0 0 0 Institu http://t.co/rLrgKp5Qrd Frank Carlson, only Kansas governor to serve both 683 2/26/2014 1 0 1 branches of Congress http://t.co/BDKARHzld3 Arthur Capper, governor, publisher, established what 684 2/26/2014 became Easter Seals Capper Foundation to aid ch 1 0 1 http://t.co/yay8YNPSAa

McKinley Burnett, president of Topeka NAACP, 685 2/26/2014 which led challenge against racial segregation in 0 0 0 Kansa http://t.co/YTHsTdBvuZ Abram Burnett, interpreter and mediator for the 686 2/26/2014 1 1 2 Potawatomi http://t.co/7Tvw1ZE43r Oliver Brown, the namesake in the Brown v. Board 687 2/26/2014 of Education Supreme Court case 0 0 0 http://t.co/RWnrbeIkxd John Brown, his efforts led to territory being called 688 2/26/2014 0 0 0 "Bleeding Kansas" http://t.co/hmXuDOM8mg Esther Brown, civil rights activist 689 2/26/2014 1 0 1 http://t.co/eVNCULHv5r Louise Brooks, popular silent film star 690 2/25/2014 0 0 0 http://t.co/q01OtFZWrT Gwendolyn Brooks, Pulitzer Prize winning pet from 691 2/25/2014 1 0 1 Topeka http://t.co/Ei3LDBPmWl Blackbear Bosin, Kiowa and Comanche member, 692 2/25/2014 1 0 1 self-taught artist http://t.co/H1USpLvuVB Sallie Bluejacket, member of the Shawnees who 693 2/25/2014 attended what is now Shawnee Indian Mission State 1 0 1 Hist http://t.co/9EZyZ3PFGc Mary Ann Bickerdyke, she helped build 300 694 2/25/2014 1 0 1 hospitals during Civil War http://t.co/PVD9LlqhsJ Walter and Olive Beech, he was test pilot, instructor, 695 2/25/2014 and engineer for the U.S. Army Air Corps dur 0 0 0 http://t.co/I8nZR4CHVG Charlie Angell, Sr., developed one-way disc plow 696 2/25/2014 that was suited for the plains of western Kansas 0 0 0 http://t.co/Ul8GkuZNn4 Walter Anderson, co-founded White Castle 697 2/25/2014 restaurants in Wichita, oldest hamburger chain 0 0 0 http://t.co/uncSdRgTOe Henry J. Allen, owned Wichita Beacon newspaper 698 2/25/2014 0 0 0 http://t.co/lRZplQkqQn Forrest "Phog" Allen, played basketball at the 699 2/25/2014 University of Kansas under coach James Naismith 0 2 2 http://t.co/wwUQt1DqyP Allegawaho, Kaw leader at the time of tribe's 700 2/25/2014 removal from Kansas in 1872 0 1 1 http://t.co/fvNDETwavn 701 2/25/2014 Samuel and Florella Adair http://t.co/PYlFkX0Osh 0 0 0 Plenty of Pancakes, (recipes for Shrove Tuesday) 702 2/24/2014 0 0 0 http://t.co/hiFYoN8aiA

Seward County known for International Pancake 703 2/24/2014 Race on Shrove Tuesday in Liberal 0 1 1 http://t.co/1kFmO0g3gU Liberal pancake race on Shrove Tuesday 704 2/24/2014 0 2 2 http://t.co/qTA0mdh6E7 The International Pancake Race on Shrove Tuesday 705 2/24/2014 0 0 0 in Liberal, 1960s http://t.co/c7OYrxeXlL International Pancake Race on Shrove Tuesday in 706 2/24/2014 0 0 0 Liberal, 1960s http://t.co/EXO2gsfoW7 A Mardi Gras club in New Orleans was named for 707 2/24/2014 Carry Nation, much to her disapproval 0 0 0 http://t.co/jJBmz2c0yL The Dodge City Cow-Boy Band played for the 708 2/24/2014 0 0 0 Pueblo Mardi Gras in 1889 http://t.co/dXvnPp2hzN Do you have your tickets for Museum After Hours: 709 2/20/2014 A Night at Gatsby's, March 6 at the Kansas Museum 2 0 2 of History? http://t.co/4yfiax8wOJ Stopping by Woods on a Snow Evening - You never 710 2/19/2014 know what you will find in a collection of records. 0 1 1 The... http://t.co/iTLVIO9zQD Andrew Gayden, Kansas farmer, 1934 711 2/19/2014 0 0 0 http://t.co/GbY5a6bxP0 Alvin and Lucinda Todd which their daughter, 712 2/19/2014 0 0 0 Nancy, 1946 http://t.co/Jr3SOpw6bh Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority bracelet, which 713 2/19/2014 belonged to Mamie Williams, 1953 0 0 0 http://t.co/8elwBZYlDW Allen Williams, Kansas farmer, between 1865 and 714 2/19/2014 0 0 0 1870 http://t.co/Cf5rbIRJYO Alfred Fairfax, member of the Kansas House of 715 2/19/2014 Representatives, between 1889 and 1890 0 0 0 http://t.co/qse5xmRWpr Account of an 1860 journey on the Underground 716 2/19/2014 0 1 1 Railroad http://t.co/IFf6vqUYRw Unidentified woman, between 1860 and 1865 717 2/19/2014 0 0 0 http://t.co/c3tMIz095K Member of the U.S. 9th Cavalry from Fort Riley, 718 2/19/2014 0 0 0 between 1881 and 1885 http://t.co/drD0RWaG6o Graham County pioneers, 1915 719 2/19/2014 1 1 2 http://t.co/JP70Id7vnk Lawrence musicians, between 1890 and 1919 720 2/19/2014 0 2 2 http://t.co/l2ClkA2zrU 721 2/19/2014 Cowboys, circa 1865 http://t.co/LsR4tws2jk 0 0 0

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Kansas family between 1875 and 1899 722 2/19/2014 0 0 0 http://t.co/DDMyx5imNG Adult education class, Kansas City, between 1935 723 2/19/2014 0 0 0 and 1943 http://t.co/iWhZ6ZNNKI A. M. Thomas of Topeka, 1913 724 2/19/2014 0 0 0 http://t.co/FLXyL7CNPE First Kansas Colored Infantry flag, between 1862 725 2/19/2014 1 1 2 and 1864 http://t.co/ewRG2AFvfi Lincoln in Kansas, an online exhibit 726 2/17/2014 0 0 0 http://t.co/KZKtRS7hpx Warren G. Harding, the 29th president of the United 727 2/17/2014 States, in a visit to Hutchinson, Kansas, 1923 0 1 1 http://t.co/aBeebldpQh Poster promoting the visit of Rutherford B. Hayes, 728 2/17/2014 the 19th president of the United States, to the P 0 0 0 http://t.co/hW4UtFQE9o William Howard Taft, the 27th president of the 729 2/17/2014 United States, speaking at the Kansas State Capitol, 0 1 1 http://t.co/rTtNn08xs1 Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th president of the United 730 2/17/2014 States, visiting the home of William Allen Whit 0 2 2 http://t.co/ZZjrYAyc3J Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th president of the United 731 2/17/2014 States, speaking in Ellis, Kansas, 1903 0 0 0 http://t.co/rQa6oy6cmz William Howard Taft, the 27th president of the 732 2/17/2014 United States, speaking at the laying of the cornerst 0 0 0 http://t.co/yeySOUDoho Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United 733 2/17/2014 States, with Roy Menninger of the Menninger 0 2 2 Foundatio http://t.co/bDke6w4HTd Harry Truman, the 33rd president of the United 734 2/17/2014 States, touring flood damaged Kansas City, Kansas, 0 2 2 19 http://t.co/QUTLdb6X6l Gerald Ford, the 38th president of the United States, 735 2/17/2014 speaking on the south steps of the Kansas Stat 0 2 2 http://t.co/033owvgO4j Calvin Coolidge, the 30th president of the United 736 2/17/2014 States, with members of the Osage tribe, 1928 0 2 2 http://t.co/nrxrMPJkJC George Herbert Walker Bush, the 41st president of 737 2/17/2014 the United States, with Kansas Senator Nancy Lando 0 2 2 http://t.co/e9xhS1Oawj

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William Jefferson Clinton, the 42nd president of the 738 2/17/2014 United States, with Kansas Senator Nancy Landon 0 2 2 http://t.co/kvt9hubGpA President Calvin Coolidge, the 30th president of the 739 2/17/2014 United States, with Kansas Senator Arthur Cappe 0 1 1 http://t.co/KcHqSvCxv9 George Herbert Walker Bush, the 41st president of 740 2/17/2014 the United States, with Mike Hayden, former Kansas 0 1 1 http://t.co/b5l0iAxvjr Ronald Reagan, 40th president of the United States, 741 2/17/2014 with Kansas Speaker of the House Mike Hayden, 19 0 2 2 http://t.co/MsmBFHt1cU Herbert Hoover, the 31st president of the United 742 2/17/2014 States, with Vice President Charles Curtis of Kansa 0 1 1 http://t.co/IIFBMlPzf9 Harry Truman's panama hat, 1950, the 33rd president 743 2/17/2014 0 0 0 of the United States http://t.co/gCAWvlQ6RC Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd president of the United 744 2/17/2014 States, with Kansas Governor Harry Woodring, 193 0 1 1 http://t.co/FsqyMJMkAk Franklin D. Roosevelt on a whistle stop campaign 745 2/17/2014 tour in Colby, Kansas, 1932, who would become the 0 0 0 3 http://t.co/f5RZPMDxRo Campaign button for Dwight D. Eisenhower of 746 2/17/2014 Kansas, 34th president of the United States 2 0 2 http://t.co/9ETZp30sms President Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th president of 747 2/17/2014 the United States, speaking from the back of the 0 0 0 http://t.co/3FxupEwxBF President Herbert Hoover, 31st president of the 748 2/17/2014 United States, with Vice President Charles Curtis of 0 0 0 http://t.co/VP0oS3eEGp Herbert Hoover, 31st president of the United States, 749 2/17/2014 who served with Vice President Charles Curtis o 0 1 1 http://t.co/AT9nQcww9z President Herbert Hoover, 31st president of the 750 2/17/2014 United States, visited Kansas several times, picture 0 1 1 http://t.co/uDKxkIFXzU Dwight D. Eisenhower of Kansas, 34th president of 751 2/17/2014 the United States, second from right 2 2 4 http://t.co/DeEr8Gqkwc Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United 752 2/17/2014 States, visited Kansas Territory in 1859 0 1 1 http://t.co/10fP99G61m

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Dwight D. Eisenhower of Kansas, the 34th president 753 2/17/2014 2 0 2 of the United States http://t.co/RTnoL5FZCv On this day in 1887 the 27th governor of Kansas, 754 2/16/2014 Walter A. Huxman, was born who served 1937-1939 0 0 0 http://t.co/qPVyfPMFoW On this day in 1909 actor Hugh Beaumont was born 755 2/16/2014 3 1 4 in Eudora, Kansas http://t.co/a7I3yW3h1A On this day in 1975 the story of the Daltons, The 756 2/15/2014 Last Day, was released, starring Richard Widmark 0 0 0 http://t.co/rAfEk7e0NG On this day in 1860 Saline County was organized 757 2/15/2014 0 0 0 http://t.co/TrhmxK3cH5 On this day in 1820 Susan B. Anthony was born, 758 2/15/2014 who crusaded for women's suffrage in Kansas 5 2 7 http://t.co/2ZJMgkrYJg Happy Valentine's Day! Enjoy these Civil War era 759 2/14/2014 5 2 7 cards. http://t.co/N8InuqH1Js http://t.co/66JbrUXfEc Real People. Real Stories. William Allen White, 760 2/13/2014 0 0 0 activity book, $5.95 http://t.co/Akr4khNC8v Real People. Real Stories. Satanta, activity book, 761 2/13/2014 0 0 0 $5.95 http://t.co/ylfNOZREMc Real People. Real Stories. John Steuart Curry, 762 2/13/2014 0 0 0 activity book, $5.95 http://t.co/K7xkejYEOe Real People. Real Stories. Dwight Eisenhower, 763 2/13/2014 0 0 0 activity book, $5.95 http://t.co/UHFnH2wxgB Real People. Real Stories. Carry A. Nation, activity 764 2/13/2014 0 0 0 book, $5.95 http://t.co/4FFF8SJq3j Real People. Real Stories. Amelia Earhart, activity 765 2/13/2014 0 0 0 book, $5.95 http://t.co/MBON26rhhr Kansas A to Z, an illustrated alphabet of Kansas, 766 2/13/2014 0 0 0 $8.95 http://t.co/xRGCRtT768 Story of Kansas Coloring Book by Buddy Buffalo 767 2/13/2014 0 0 0 http://t.co/skcVNYJwCF Kansas State Capitol, a photographic history from 768 2/13/2014 construction through restoration 2 0 2 http://t.co/3TrOTVCOlk On this day in 1867 Crawford County was organized 769 2/13/2014 2 1 3 http://t.co/vbAcDtdKnu On this day in 1893 the Populists blocked the 770 2/13/2014 Republicans from entering the House at the Kansas 0 1 1 State Capitol http://t.co/TBOyuoNJKG On this day in 1930 former Senator Arlen Specter 771 2/12/2014 1 1 2 was born in Russell, who served from Pennsylvania

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Happy Birthday to actress Sarah Lancaster, born on 772 2/12/2014 0 0 0 this day in Overland Park On this day in 1925 the 42nd and first woman 773 2/12/2014 governor of Kansas, Joan Finney, was born in 1 0 1 Manhattan, served 1991-1995 http://t.co/nroyatycCm On this day in 1858 Kansas Territorial Governor 774 2/12/2014 James W. Denver signed the charter establishing 2 0 2 Baker University in Baldwin... On this day in 1834 the 13th governor Kansas, 775 2/12/2014 Edmund N. Morrell, was born who served 1895- 1 1 2 1897 http://t.co/Ez3sso0EoO As we observe the birth of Abraham Lincoln today, 776 2/12/2014 we remember his visit to Kansas in 1859 1 1 2 http://t.co/SygsFtErHS We're so excited about Museum After Hours: a 777 2/12/2014 Night at Gatsby's! We can't wait to share. It's March 2 1 3 6 at the Kansas Museum of History!... Join us for Museum After Hours: A Night at 778 2/11/2014 Gatsby's, Kansas Museum of History, Topeka, 2 1 3 March 6, 2014 http://t.co/OOTdcTZ2uR Women perhaps enjoying Valentine's Day candy, 779 2/10/2014 0 0 0 circa 1900 http://t.co/2tQiwWYr91 The perfect Valentine gift, a box of Russell Stover's 780 2/10/2014 0 0 0 chocolates! http://t.co/6DsnRj2I4d Quilting stitches of hearts and flowers were used on 781 2/10/2014 this colorful Rose of Sharon quilt. 0 0 0 http://t.co/DKoTXbrBc5 Two hearts are created in this Civil War era carved 782 2/10/2014 butternut pin, between 1861 and 1865 1 0 1 http://t.co/ngRLKSr9lv Approval of the Kratzer Bldg ends the KS meeting! 783 2/8/2014 Thanks for sharing KS History today! #savingplaces 1 1 2 #preservation http://t.co/Z777Y6PTpy The Kratzer Bros Bldg when it was the only thing 784 2/8/2014 hoppin' in Volland! #savingplaces #preservation 1 1 2 http://t.co/yqh9WjYTWL Built and operated by the Kratzers in 1913 and 785 2/8/2014 operated till 1970 in Wabaunsee Co. #preservation 1 1 2 #savingplaces Has no roof currently Kratzer Bros Store in Volland KS for the State 786 2/8/2014 Register. Bldg is nominated as a ruin. #preservation 2 2 4 #savingplaces http://t.co/G7JKldVYaG Edwards house has been listed on the State Register! 787 2/8/2014 2 3 5 #savingplaces #preservation http://t.co/LF0ADblxDk

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Edwards house has had some significant interior and 788 2/8/2014 exterior changes over time, but has rich history 1 1 2 #savingplaces http://t.co/zVZ1DCc3kD The house in Oswego was part of a military 789 2/8/2014 academy, women's college dorm, chicken farm 1 2 3 house, and now a residence http://t.co/OtIEvhwed1 On to the Kansas Register of Historic Places! First 790 2/8/2014 up Edwards House in Labette Co #savingplaces 1 2 3 #preservation http://t.co/EkuNaBM8GL Little Arkansas Crossing is approved! #savingplaces 791 2/8/2014 #preservation A toll bridge is no longer extant. 2 2 4 http://t.co/X7yTAPWdvF 792 2/8/2014 @Sodbusterk It's in Olathe and Johnson County. 0 0 0 793 2/8/2014 @trace1821 We are pretty nuts about our history! 0 0 0 @Sodbusterk Sorry, which property were you asking 794 2/8/2014 0 0 0 about? Upper and lower crossings and remains of stone 795 2/8/2014 coral are included in the nomination of the property 1 1 2 in Rice Co. http://t.co/Nwyx22GkQe The Little Arkansas River Crossing on the Santa Fe 796 2/8/2014 Trail is up next! #preservation #savingplaces 1 2 3 http://t.co/j2LqmkFtLR Another significant Trail site has been approved! 797 2/8/2014 Westward Ho! #preservation #savingplaces Lone 1 2 3 Elm Campground http://t.co/Fx5CK8UrnF The DAR marker is also included in the nomination 798 2/8/2014 (check out http://t.co/YhzQRtWFIN for photos) 1 1 2 http://t.co/ki3uTq0Fkg Lone Elm Campgroud Swale was on all 3 trails as 799 2/8/2014 they left the KS City Area. Important site for 1 2 3 Westward Expansion. http://t.co/0cemwZuY9f Lone Elm Swale on the Santa Fe Trail Oregon Trail 800 2/8/2014 & Cali. Trail is up next! #preservation 1 1 2 #savingplaces http://t.co/t4ZbeEf0xm Approved! The Sand Creek Bridge c. 1942, but 801 2/8/2014 WPA has been approved #preservation 4 3 7 #savingplaces http://t.co/40nVzEPNsX @KDOTHQ Love the Sand Creed Tributary Stone 802 2/8/2014 Arch Bridge in Rush Co Just discussed at the 1 1 2 Historic Sites Review Board http://t.co/r3mmhXzlcZ Sand Creek Stone Arch Bridge in Rush Co is up 803 2/8/2014 next! KS hearts stone arch bridges #savingplaces 3 2 5 #preservation http://t.co/MKLZYDlvdb

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Lowe Center Schl has been approvd! Discussion 804 2/8/2014 about the privys and what they can tell us about 3 1 4 bldgs #savingplaces http://t.co/r3QNTttkdc Lowe Creek Schl has their original outhouses & 805 2/8/2014 desks go to http://t.co/YhzQRtWFIN to see pics of 3 0 3 this bldg and others today #preservation The 1884 Lowe Creek School in Washington County 806 2/8/2014 is next on the agenda. #savingplaces #preservation 2 1 3 http://t.co/i4fXBwotZs @bryan_olson The woodwork is all original! The 807 2/8/2014 house is still owned by the Truitt family, they have 0 0 0 done amazing work preserving this gem! Sylvan Grove UP Depot is next on the agenda. 808 2/8/2014 Constructed in 1887 in Lincoln County 3 3 6 #savingplaces #preservation http://t.co/b8tHEBs7La We cant stop tweeting pics of this house! It was just 809 2/8/2014 approved for listing #preservation #savingplaces 2 3 5 http://t.co/DajIqtE8zE Truitt who built this house, was a well known, 810 2/8/2014 awarding winning horticulturalist who grew his 2 1 3 business in Chanute KS http://t.co/xQOfOLhj97 The Truitt House in Chanute c. 1887 brings Queen 811 2/8/2014 Anne to the board today #preservation #savingplaces 2 2 4 http://t.co/tLvXSgvyal Love the 1878 Birchmore House in Abilene, KS that 812 2/8/2014 has just been approved #savingplaces #preservation 3 4 7 2nd Empire!! http://t.co/dASoj6mgdv The Miner House, a Stickley House in Highland, KS 813 2/8/2014 has been approved! We heart this! #preservation 1 2 3 #savingplaces http://t.co/SViwe26Jfr The Norcatur City Hall, a new Deal Era Bldg. in NW 814 2/8/2014 KS has been approved! #savingplaces #preservation 3 3 6 http://t.co/nUpv8d96F9 Here's a list of the HTF Grant Awards for 2014 815 2/8/2014 #savingplaces #preservation Lets keep rehabbing 2 3 5 Kansas! http://t.co/POpRqiSQJF First up Heritage Trust Fund Grants! Pending current 816 2/8/2014 legislation 14 awards will be made to help #preserve 0 1 1 bldgs across KS #savingplaces Today we are live tweeting the Hist. Sites Board of 817 2/8/2014 Review. Lets list some buildings on the Register 0 1 1 #savingplaces #preservation Eleanora and Maurice Mouvet, 1920s 818 2/7/2014 0 0 0 http://t.co/AL3KODRw4I

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Eleanora and Maurice Mouvet, 1920s 819 2/7/2014 0 0 0 http://t.co/jRLiVBNuY5 Adelaide and Eleanora Ambrose, 1920s 820 2/7/2014 0 0 0 http://t.co/xm1neyNyJB 821 2/7/2014 Adelaide Ambrose, 1920s http://t.co/YSJS7JzTyw 0 0 0 822 2/6/2014 Catharine Wright, 1925 http://t.co/FAu1pvO1hK 0 0 0 Eleanora Ambrose and Maurice Mouvet in 823 2/6/2014 0 0 0 Reflections, Spring 2009 http://t.co/Knd53SIs2S 824 2/6/2014 Louse Brooks, movie actress http://t.co/yoJNqETF29 0 0 0 Eleanora Ambrose Mouvet, 1926 825 2/6/2014 0 0 0 http://t.co/ELRjPBd7OJ Maurice Mouvet and Eleanora Ambrose, 1926 826 2/6/2014 0 0 0 http://t.co/GGHS8YSFfj 827 2/6/2014 Jo Everhart, 1920s http://t.co/9O7nqllkFD 0 0 0 828 2/6/2014 Jack Hale, 1920s http://t.co/WKml2NXKil 0 0 0 829 2/6/2014 Panama hat, 1920s http://t.co/StViPHCdvp 0 0 0 830 2/6/2014 Bathing suit, 1920s http://t.co/Sbj658de1K 2 0 2 Motoring coat and goggles, 1920s 831 2/6/2014 0 0 0 http://t.co/kYI4oEXsJV 832 2/6/2014 Cool Things Party Dress http://t.co/7shr2xtSob 0 0 0 Orange floral brocade dress, 1920s 833 2/6/2014 0 0 0 http://t.co/OmLRqvk1Qy Orange georgette dress, 1920s 834 2/6/2014 0 0 0 http://t.co/8bR0PPsFEO Green organza dress, late 1920s 835 2/6/2014 0 0 0 http://t.co/Q7MJZz09hv Sequined green rayon dress, 1920s 836 2/6/2014 0 0 0 http://t.co/r8CpvQ5Sdr 837 2/6/2014 Sequined net dress, 1920s http://t.co/2ZWzbqYRmt 0 0 0 838 2/6/2014 Cut velvet dress, 1920s http://t.co/ChYFJupi9g 0 0 0 Dark brown crepe dress, 1920s 839 2/6/2014 0 0 0 http://t.co/Vd5GlKIOfc On this day in 1902 Charles Lindbergh was born 840 2/4/2014 who flew out of Bird City from 1922-1923 0 1 1 http://t.co/jshXn9N6dK On this day in 1991 Sarah, Plain and Tall was 841 2/3/2014 released, starring Glenn Close and Christopher 2 0 2 Walken http://t.co/oVnSMZIvuv On this day in 1887 Ground Hog Day was first 842 2/2/2014 2 0 2 observed http://t.co/Xs0Rylrt84

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Happy Birthday to Rich Williams of the rock band 843 2/2/2014 0 1 1 Kansas http://t.co/0StYwTDu60 On this day in 1941 When the Daltons Rode was 844 2/2/2014 released, starring Randolph Scott as a Kansas 1 0 1 pioneer http://t.co/xIpKzdRcHt On this day in 1905 President Theodore Roosevelt 845 2/1/2014 created a national forest, in Kansas in Finney, 3 1 4 Kearney, and Grant counties... On this day in 1902 writer and poet Langston 846 2/1/2014 Hughes was born who grew up in Topeka and 2 0 2 Lawrence http://t.co/9nJkaOWFbM On this day in 1872 Smith County was organized 847 2/1/2014 2 0 2 http://t.co/QlE1Ve2jG0 On this day in 1844 buffalo hunter and breeder C. J. 848 1/31/2014 “Buffalo” Jones was born who lived in 2 1 3 Garden City http://t.co/LeNuoXpw9I On this day in 1947 South of the Chisholm Trail was 849 1/31/2014 released, starring Charles Starrett 0 0 0 http://t.co/QI4G7VdUKP On this day in 1955 NFL football player and coach 850 1/31/2014 Nolan Cromwell was born in Smith Center 0 0 0 http://t.co/V3TLHr73HA On this day in 1920 director Delbert Mann was born 851 1/30/2014 0 0 0 in Lawrence http://t.co/iPpg8HWI5X On this day in 1891 aviation pioneer Walter Beech 852 1/30/2014 1 3 4 was born http://t.co/YWPjqClpIh On this day in 1990 Where Pigeons Go to Die was 853 1/30/2014 released, starring Michael Landon, filmed in Kansas 0 0 0 http://t.co/pGZAOz37j5 On this day in 1886 Hamilton County was organized 854 1/29/2014 1 1 2 http://t.co/Ew01UPEM6t On this day in 1859 Wyandotte County was 855 1/29/2014 2 1 3 organized http://t.co/WGMlE8Tv8R Join us for Kansas Day at the Capitol Dedication 856 1/29/2014 2 0 2 today at noon! http://t.co/UYVrvOvvSx Join us for Kansas Day at the Capitol with special 857 1/29/2014 activities for students on ground level from 11 until 1 1 0 1 http://t.co/jVujSVGkVl On this day in 1861 President James Buchanan 858 1/29/2014 signed a bill making Kansas the 34th state in the 5 5 10 Union! http://t.co/do3aTlaYkT Join us for Kansas Day at the Museum from 9 until 3 859 1/29/2014 1 0 1 today! http://t.co/8FsNYcB6f6

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Happy Kansas Day! How are you celebrating the 860 1/29/2014 5 3 8 state's 153rd birthday? http://t.co/irzoVfNMGz On this day in 1999 Kerry Livgren presented his 861 1/29/2014 platinum album, Monolith, to Kansas 2 1 3 Historical Society http://t.co/eDWSGwmNgH On this day in 1928 actor Lila Leeds was born in 862 1/28/2014 Dodge City, screen actor in who starred in Lady in 0 0 0 the Lake http://t.co/poQjKXNvh9 On this day in 1949 The Sheriff of Wichita was 863 1/22/2014 released, starring Rocky Lane and Black Jack, set 0 0 0 in Wichita http://t.co/j1myvd6ii9 864 1/10/2014 Kansas Day, January 29 http://t.co/2DBmtctP6O 0 0 0 865 1/10/2014 Woman's Kansas Day Club http://t.co/fGcTAhiVt7 0 0 0 Kansas Day in the Classroom 866 1/10/2014 1 0 1 http://t.co/8Ge6muSjNm 867 1/10/2014 Kansas Day at the Capitol http://t.co/Q9NwgN60H8 0 0 0 868 1/10/2014 Kansas Day at the Museum http://t.co/kWiuInfgPq 0 0 0 Celebrating Kansas Day in the classroom and with 869 1/10/2014 1 0 1 the Historical Society http://t.co/ANDBRkTeIa Woman's Kansas Day Club meeting, 1913 870 1/10/2014 0 0 0 http://t.co/W5pi31eHEY Mary Prescott Horton, member of Woman's Kansas 871 1/10/2014 0 0 0 Day Club, circa 1919 http://t.co/w7a5rrnTCV Mary Prescott Horton, member of Woman's Kansas 872 1/10/2014 0 1 1 Day Club, circa 1870 http://t.co/CoWqx0DfId Lucy Browne Johnston, member of Woman's Kansas 873 1/10/2014 1 1 2 Day Club, circa 1911 http://t.co/BRQdt0arpk Kansas Constitution, approved at the Wyandotte 874 1/10/2014 Constitutional Convention, July 29, 1859, which 1 0 1 becam http://t.co/s2acsDStFX 875 1/10/2014 Kansas Day, 1925 http://t.co/xg4REoR2fT 0 0 0 876 1/10/2014 Kansas Day, 1919 http://t.co/B2sgKBTz4Y 0 0 0 877 1/10/2014 Kansas Day, 1882 http://t.co/jl3LilPTHr 0 0 0 878 1/10/2014 Kansas Day, 1994 http://t.co/jLvcx9v0Lb 0 0 0 879 1/10/2014 Kansas Day activities, 1967 http://t.co/93TJCEB2cf 0 0 0 On this day in 1871 citrus expert Walter T. Swingle 880 1/8/2014 was born, he grew up near Manhattan 2 0 2 http://t.co/cjrdIHXepk On this day in 1906 an earthquake affected an area of 881 1/7/2014 4 1 5 about 10,000 square miles in

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Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska http://t.co/Dm97sp1Gwn On this day in 1856 Anderson County was organized 882 1/7/2014 1 0 1 http://t.co/2XOylcvFzm On this day in 1899 actress Phyllis Haver was born 883 1/6/2014 0 0 0 in Douglass http://t.co/hSabSlSYee On this day in 1799 early explorer and fur trader 884 1/6/2014 1 1 2 Jedediah Smith was born http://t.co/eOhRaNpP1q Sketch of James Lane at Constitution Hall, 1857 885 1/6/2014 0 0 0 http://t.co/QkP6Yr9kt6 Sketch of Constitution Hall, 1869 886 1/6/2014 0 0 0 http://t.co/PVD9QQ8qv0 887 1/6/2014 Constitution Hall, 2013 http://t.co/fulZNhTCOJ 0 0 0 888 1/6/2014 Constitution Hall, 1939 http://t.co/0S0BVwy8Fd 0 0 0 889 1/6/2014 Constitution Hall, 1903 http://t.co/6Mbi1F8dy8 0 0 0 890 1/6/2014 Constitution Hall, 1957 http://t.co/yD4Ae5Tp5P 0 0 0

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http://t.co/w1qsMs7sOB On this day in 1896 the Salvation Army opened a 923 12/22/2013 "shelter depot" at Kansas City 0 0 0 http://t.co/V0a3kM8JZ1 Happy birthday to college and professional 924 12/21/2013 basketball player Jackie Stiles, born in Kansas City 3 0 3 http://t.co/dfCoMGG6Hg On this day in 1915 Omar Knedlik was born near 925 12/21/2013 Barnes, he invented ICEE frozen drinks 0 0 0 http://t.co/fgS7RBxv1R On this day in 1846 Lorenzo Lewelling, 12th 926 12/21/2013 governor of Kansas, was born, he served 1893-1895 0 0 0 http://t.co/KHqDm7cumL On this day in 1945 They Were Expendable was 927 12/21/2013 released based on William Lindsay White's book 1 0 1 starring John Wayne http://t.co/lGRqbjlNmc On this day in 1928 Jack Christiansen was born in 928 12/20/2013 Sublette, he became head coach for the San 0 0 0 Francisco 49ers http://t.co/dfCoMGG6Hg Currently accepting applications for Policy & 929 12/20/2013 Program Analyst at Topeka facility 1 2 3 http://t.co/ohwrfs0Dwx On this day in 1936 Dodge City Trail was released, 930 12/13/2013 1 0 1 starring Charles Starrett http://t.co/3GeAEtmJPX Happy Birthday to Shuttle Astronaut Steve Hawley 931 12/12/2013 2 0 2 born in Ottawa! http://t.co/DHCGQ4lGDv Kansas State Capitol dome tour: 932 12/12/2013 6 0 6 http://t.co/awIFHSefY8 via @YouTube Artist and sculptor Lumen Martin Winter was born 933 12/12/2013 on this day in 1908 and grew up in Larned 0 0 0 http://t.co/6MDOvvmynx In 1921 the Amazon Army of several thousand 934 12/12/2013 women closed 60 mines in southeast Kansas and 2 0 2 captured national attention http://t.co/xlaTtvpLbo Computer scientist Charles Bachman was born on 935 12/11/2013 this day in 1924 in Manhattan 0 0 0 http://t.co/thyhGwfLZg On this day in 1879 Decatur County was organized 936 12/11/2013 2 0 2 http://t.co/l1oG4Wsyf8 Philippine-American War Medal of Honor recipient 937 12/11/2013 Arthur Ferguson was born on this day in 1877 in 1 0 1 Coffey County http://t.co/cZUIwhnPHR 938 12/10/2013 Official Kansas 2013 ornament with the buffalo, the 1 0 1

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Kansas State Symbol http://t.co/uWfNEhgKR8 On this day in 1971 Burlingame native Earl Wilbur 939 12/10/2013 Sutherland was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2 0 2 Physiology or Medicine http://t.co/h6QyGrIocT On this day in 1898 circus performer Emmett Kelly 940 12/9/2013 2 2 4 was born in Sedan http://t.co/se22Kf5Pux Horse-drawn sleigh, Lake Quivira, between 1935 941 12/9/2013 1 1 2 and 1940 http://t.co/lYb43EW1nQ The first World War II Medal of Honor recipient, 942 12/8/2013 Donald K. Ross, was born this day in 1910 in 3 0 3 Beverly http://t.co/OouKwgRV7G On this day in 1984 City Heat was released, set in 943 12/7/2013 Kansas City, starring Clint Eastwood 2 1 3 and Burt Reynolds http://t.co/9PCNTRF96y We remember the attack on Pearl Harbor today. 944 12/7/2013 These 17 photographs from that day can be found in 2 0 2 Kansas Memory http://t.co/EgKcyIIZds On this day in 1972 Apollo 17 launched with Ron 945 12/7/2013 Evans of Topeka as command module pilot 1 2 3 http://t.co/5KAvC46Wpx Singer/songwriter Ron Kenoly was born in 946 12/6/2013 Coffeyville on this day in 1944 1 1 2 http://t.co/Cl4aKu7SZj President Barack Obama delivered a speech in 947 12/6/2013 2 0 2 Osawatomie, Kansas, on this day in 2011. World War II Medal of Honor recipient Richard 948 12/5/2013 Cowan was born on this day in 1922, and grew up in 0 0 0 Wichita http://t.co/A94pJhWwIR Marijana Grisnik of Kansas City created this 949 12/5/2013 painting of winter on Strawberry Hill showing 1 0 1 holiday t http://t.co/pPjSnIVJu8 950 12/5/2013 Making Swedish Ljuskrona http://t.co/BK7ZuuHBg7 0 0 0 951 12/5/2013 Christmas cartoon, 1890s http://t.co/a4ll0rUg4r 1 1 2 Christmas tree candle holders 952 12/5/2013 0 0 0 http://t.co/FSFBWS7XSd 953 12/5/2013 Aluminum Christmas Trees http://t.co/HIgcMRqOJ4 0 0 0 Nancy Landon Kassebaum with a Christmas tree, 954 12/5/2013 0 0 0 1988 http://t.co/XX92ol69js Christmas lights, Lawrence, 1930s 955 12/5/2013 3 2 5 http://t.co/VcfxZwnlO4 Former Governor and Assistant Secretary of the 956 12/5/2013 0 0 0 Interior Mike Hayden with First Lady Barbara Bush,

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19 http://t.co/MrsjPW2imN Christmas program near Sharon Springs, between 957 12/5/2013 0 0 0 1927 and 1928 http://t.co/AD5KJ376xh Christmas in Silkville, 1889 958 12/5/2013 0 0 0 http://t.co/u6Wbtm2B9O 959 12/5/2013 Baby Santa Claus outfit http://t.co/UXuOsmAC1m 0 0 0 A Farnsworth Thanksgiving - Here is another 960 12/5/2013 glimpse into the life of Martha Farnsworth, through 0 0 0 her diary... http://t.co/zpNNyteVty Speaking of Quilts: Voices from the Collection and 961 12/5/2013 the Community, January 17 through August 31, 2014 0 0 0 http://t.co/ohYcsgGkCW On this day in 1874 Rush County was organized 962 12/5/2013 0 0 0 http://t.co/iyDcOa6Qq8 On this day in 1879 aviator Clyde Cessna was born, 963 12/5/2013 grew up in Kingman County and designed and 2 0 2 manufactured aircraft http://t.co/PeUudEgH0A The Historic Sites Board of Review meeting is done. 964 11/16/2013 We look forward to sharing more with you in 0 0 0 February 2014! The Parker House Hotel in Minneapolis has been 965 11/16/2013 demolished and removed from the Register today. :( 1 0 1 http://t.co/CvRswwS2pH The Doney-Clark House in Kingman as it looked 966 11/16/2013 historically. The house no longer exists. 1 0 1 http://t.co/USwpMODqZF When historic places are lost to demolition they are 967 11/16/2013 removed from the Register. The Doney-Clark House 0 0 0 in Kingman. http://t.co/hvHINxsY4P The Lake of the Forest golf course is listed as a 968 11/16/2013 pasture course - sand greens and mown fairways; 0 0 0 nothing formal. http://t.co/mG1v6dJtRZ The Lake of the Forest Historic District is now a 969 11/16/2013 little bigger. The 1920s golf course has been added 0 0 0 to the district boundaries. Railroad workers in Kansas City, KS needed a place 970 11/16/2013 to stay in the 1930s. The Argentine ATSF Railroad 1 3 4 YMCA served. http://t.co/AsQzCbMR7i Wakarusa, Shawnee County now has two Register 971 11/16/2013 properties. The Wakarusa Presbyterian Church was 2 1 3 just approved. http://t.co/ovNm58j08R The history of Gaiser Carriage Works on St.Francis 972 11/16/2013 1 0 1 in Wichita reflects a change from carriages to autos.

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Approved! http://t.co/X35FOWzo4w The Historic Sites Board of Review moves on to 973 11/16/2013 reviewing nominations to the Register of Historic 1 0 1 Kansas Places (aka State Register). Bluemont Youth Cabin in Goodnow Park is another 974 11/16/2013 new historic site in Manhattan. NYA built 1938. 1 0 1 @meetnmanhattan http://t.co/zaqN0HISuZ The Board approves listing the Pacha Ruts to the 975 11/16/2013 Nat'l Register. They're hard to see in photos, but 0 1 1 they're there! http://t.co/Q1vdrg6f5r The Pacha Ruts near Bremen, KS are a remainder of 976 11/16/2013 1 0 1 the Oregon Trail Near Lawrence there is a crossing of the Oregon 977 11/16/2013 Trail on the Upper Wakarusa River. The Board 3 2 5 approves listing! http://t.co/ANiWGZ1ONX The Board is considering nominations for Oregon 978 11/16/2013 Trail ruts and features in Douglas and Marshall 0 1 1 Counties. KCK has a new historic place. The Simmons Funeral 979 11/16/2013 Home on 37th Street retains a great deal of its 0 1 1 historic detail. http://t.co/2lW6S98zsK The Jesse Ingraham House in Manhattan is just one 980 11/16/2013 of many stone houses in the area. @meetnmanhattan 0 1 1 http://t.co/ajVSamlKCX The Board is moving quickly through nominations 981 11/16/2013 this morning. The Jesse Ingraham House in 0 0 0 Manhattan has just been approved for NR listing. The Clearfield School is a sweet little school house 982 11/16/2013 in Douglas County. The owners are pursuing 2 1 3 rehabilitation. http://t.co/uCWDjXOhge Cedar Manor Farm in Montgomery Co. is a historic 983 11/16/2013 jewel! The Board approved listing it to the National 0 3 3 Register. http://t.co/PuOdWAN40U The Geo & Virginia Trout House in Wamego 984 11/16/2013 still has its original door bell system. It's now listed 0 1 1 on the state register. Watkins House is now part of the KU East Historic 985 11/16/2013 0 0 0 District. @KUhistorytoday https://t.co/TsrOtgeIuh The University of Kansas has their second historic 986 11/16/2013 district! Welcome KU East Historic District. 2 1 3 @kuhistorytoday #preservation We are getting ready for the last quarterly meeting of 987 11/16/2013 the Historic Sites Board of Review in 2013. Join us 0 2 2 in person, Twitter, or Facebook!

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Happy Birthday to former Congressman Dennis 988 11/8/2013 0 1 1 Moore, born in Anthony http://t.co/E6JE73OS70 Happy Birthday to actor Bill Allen, born in Wichita. 989 11/7/2013 He is best know for his lead role in RAD 0 0 0 http://t.co/SFSiIaoaZC On this day in 1858, the 18th governor of Kansas, 990 11/7/2013 0 0 0 Walter R. Stubbs, was born. http://t.co/wLkdAEl7X4 1880s steam locomotive, Cyrus K. Holliday 991 11/6/2013 1 0 1 http://t.co/XLk0EFSANz Online tour of the Kansas State Capitol 992 11/6/2013 1 0 1 http://t.co/4bUGFB9IGR 993 11/6/2013 Amelia Earhart, 1932 http://t.co/QaOAKxmd7x 0 0 0 994 11/6/2013 Nicodemus, 1885 http://t.co/u128nGQiJ3 1 0 1 995 11/6/2013 Carry Nation, 1901 http://t.co/3CidecvnVG 0 0 0 James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok, 1871 996 11/6/2013 1 0 1 http://t.co/S46kSUWlqB Kansas legislative war, sergeants-at-arms, in 997 11/6/2013 2 0 2 Representative Hall, 1893 http://t.co/fcaTvQBs5Z Buffalo hides, Dodge City, 1874 998 11/5/2013 1 1 2 http://t.co/D7dtBL5tYv Photograph of portrait of John Brown, 1859 999 11/5/2013 1 1 2 http://t.co/Vg8FSVAaKK Dodge City front street, firearms prohibited, between 1000 11/5/2013 0 0 0 1880 and 1885 http://t.co/xLckWeT9T4 Tragic Prelude by John Steuart Curry 1001 11/5/2013 0 0 0 http://t.co/q5XXczDTgF Home Candy Making: Ice Cream Candy and 1002 11/5/2013 Chocolate Caramels, Wichita Daily Eagle, January 2, 0 0 0 1891 http://t.co/N7sKgBEPjT Home Candy Making: Ice Cream Candy and 1003 11/5/2013 Chocolate Caramels, Wichita Daily Eagle, January 2, 0 0 0 1891 http://t.co/mAQcTZXilt Six Minute Pudding, Hays Free Press, December 22, 1004 11/5/2013 0 0 0 1917 http://t.co/OTzUdtR9lf Stick Candy, Wichita Daily Eagle, April 6, 1890 1005 11/5/2013 0 0 0 http://t.co/JTDpn6zD7M Freemen's Champion, September 10, 1857 1006 11/5/2013 1 0 1 http://t.co/w6K2SvkeUn Freemen's Champion, September 10, 1857 1007 11/5/2013 0 0 0 http://t.co/nAciKTQpCK Herald of Freedom, Wakarusa, May 15, 1858 1008 11/5/2013 0 0 0 http://t.co/jRKAzxbida

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Lawrence in Ashes!, Emporia News, August 29, 1031 10/31/2013 2 1 3 1863 http://t.co/jpMFB05Gbm Lawrence Burnt, The Independent, Oskaloosa, 1032 10/31/2013 1 0 1 August 22, 1863 http://t.co/rVRicXajM0 Women dressed for a tea party, 1935 1033 10/31/2013 1 0 1 http://t.co/HZFb1iYKZ6 Sheridan County men dressed is cowboy attire, 1034 10/31/2013 0 0 0 between 1890 and 1925 http://t.co/M8h2Z5JVM7 Mennonite couple dressed in traditional clothes, 1035 10/31/2013 1 0 1 1870s or 1880s http://t.co/uVUU2Ow3wk Alma clothing store, between 1900 and 1920 1036 10/31/2013 0 0 0 http://t.co/598ZUrirUD Women's fashions, Wichita Daily Eagle, October 31, 1037 10/31/2013 0 0 0 1894 http://t.co/SsE0dLqAbI Farm Alliance songs, between 1890 and 1897 1038 10/31/2013 0 0 0 http://t.co/ch0ktmdqyK William Peffer scrapbooks of political cartoons, 1039 10/31/2013 0 0 0 1891-1897 http://t.co/wtyJ7ruCWD 1040 10/31/2013 Anti-Populist ribbon, 1894 http://t.co/RDdWpAXkzt 0 0 0 The Advocate and Topeka Tribune, August 3, 1892 1041 10/31/2013 0 0 0 http://t.co/8rhhTZalkm The Advocate and News, Topeka, May 26, 1898, in 1042 10/31/2013 0 0 0 the Interests of the Home. http://t.co/2bvKTXD4Df An ounce of prevention, Barton County Democrat, 1043 10/31/2013 0 0 0 Halloween 1913 http://t.co/gYkxYaTVrN Decorating for Halloween in the Hays Free Press. 1044 10/31/2013 0 0 0 http://t.co/83FhRcDQP1 1045 10/31/2013 A night of fun and frolic! http://t.co/bZWyHBbbeV 0 0 0 1046 10/31/2013 To-Night is Halloween. http://t.co/6WDPCgzHPS 0 0 0 Night for Boys, Wichita Daily Eagle, October 30, 1047 10/31/2013 0 0 0 1897 http://t.co/Ht5wo2BNXh Join us for a baseball and softball photograph 1048 10/15/2013 collecting event, October 29, 2013, Kansas 0 0 0 Historical http://t.co/NosR6DsUHj Baseball game in Tribune, Greeley County, 1908 1049 10/14/2013 1 1 2 http://t.co/jn3NK3Rdss Baseball game, Kansas State Normal School, now 1050 10/14/2013 Emporia State University, between 1905 and 1915 0 0 0 http://t.co/yNsS7G79XO Baseball field in Lucerne, Sheridan County, between 1051 10/14/2013 0 0 0 1910 and 1915 http://t.co/EXq23tJmEy

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1052 10/14/2013 Baseball card game, 1910 http://t.co/R94T0nc4Cz 0 0 0 Ball park in Topeka, between 1904 and 1911 1053 10/14/2013 0 1 1 http://t.co/kvsfTtfAzJ Hiawatha Academy baseball team, between 1905 1054 10/14/2013 0 0 0 and 1915 http://t.co/Y0zD7zPeoT Fall Festival, today, Shawnee Indian Mission, 1055 10/13/2013 3 1 4 Fairway http://t.co/ZDUBmfBotC Fall Festival, today and tomorrow, Shawnee Indian 1056 10/12/2013 0 2 2 Mission, Fairway http://t.co/iiLI8rDy4j Fall Festival, October 12-13, Shawnee Indian 1057 10/11/2013 1 0 1 Mission, Fairway http://t.co/c6IdFtyVe6 On this day in 1850 Edward McCabe was born, who 1058 10/11/2013 served as state auditor from Graham County 0 0 0 http://t.co/llXxHsViyz On this day in 1855 Shawnee County was formed 1059 10/10/2013 1 0 1 http://t.co/VBg1B53VyJ On this day in 1890 President Benjamin Harrison 1060 10/10/2013 3 0 3 delivered a speech in Topeka Today is Electronic Records Day. Find out more: 1061 10/10/2013 4 0 4 http://t.co/piyMm5HoS5 Happy Birthday to actor Scott Bakula, who attended 1062 10/9/2013 0 3 3 the University of Kansas http://t.co/9TGFbeKZFo On this day in 1925 the 38th Governor of Kansas 1063 10/9/2013 Robert Docking was born in Kansas City 0 0 0 http://t.co/2pcZ9EIvlq On this day in 1884 adventurer Martin Johnson was 1064 10/9/2013 1 1 2 born in Lincoln http://t.co/3TA5hZONHH Author Jerilynn Henrikson presents stories from her 1065 10/6/2013 children's fiction book about the White family dog 0 0 0 Teddy, today at 2 at Red Rocks,... Author Patrick Jennings will sign copies of his book 1066 10/4/2013 1 0 1 today at 5 p.m. at Red Rocks in Emporia Happy Birthday to NASCAR driver Chase Austin, 1067 10/4/2013 born in Eudora! 1 0 1 http://t.co/r0se75qjwy On this day in 1935 William Duke was born, a 1068 10/3/2013 pioneer in research food allergies at University of 0 0 0 Kansas Medical Center On this day in 1902 Waldo McBurney was born in 1069 10/3/2013 Quinter, the beekeeper was the oldest worker in the 2 0 2 U.S., when he died at 106 The 28th governor of Kansas, Payne Ratner, was 1070 10/3/2013 0 0 0 born on this day in 1896 http://t.co/dLd1p2y4la

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space is limited. kshs.org/18670 Kansas Memory Item of the Week: postcard showing President Theodore Roosevelt addressing a crowd from a train car at the 4 9/30/2014 1 126 0 13 140 John Brown monument dedication in Osawatomie. Date: August 30, 1910. kansasmemory.org/item/676 Completed AT-17 Bobcats lined up at the Cessna Aircraft Company in Wichita. Date: 5 9/29/2014 1 59 0 13 73 September 29, 1944. kansasmemory.org/item/221967 The fondue is hot and so is the music at A 6 9/26/2014 Night on Madison Avenue at the Kansas 1 18 0 0 19 Museum of History! #MAHkshs Kansas Historical Society shared Kansas 7 9/25/2014 1 8 0 0 9 Museum of History's photo. September 24, 1864: Wilson County was organized. kshs.org/kansapedia/wilson- county-kansas/15357 Here a crew stands 8 9/25/2014 before the St Louis-San Francisco steam 0 42 0 9 51 locomotive #582 on a turntable in Neodesha, Wilson County. Date: October 10, 1910. kansasmemory.org/item/214379 I challenge anyone to guess all of these 1960s advertising slogans correctly. You can only play if you come to Museum After 9 9/24/2014 Hours: A Night on Madison Avenue, this 3 18 0 6 27 Friday night, 7 to 9:30. Must be 21. Call for tickets 785-272-8681, ext 415 or buy them at the door. $15 September 24, 1855: Jackson County was organized. kshs.org/kansapedia/jackson- county-kansas/15298 Campbell College was built in 1880 in Holton, Jackson County. By 10 9/24/2014 1910, 500 students were enrolled. The 2 76 0 9 87 university closed in 1933 due to financial issues. Holton High School now stands in its place. Photo date: circa 1885. kansasmemory.org/item/222063 Kansas Historical Society shared Kansas 11 9/23/2014 0 10 0 0 10 Museum of History's photo. Patrick Zollner, director of Cultural Resources, leads a group into the First 12 9/23/2014 0 25 0 4 29 Presbyterian Church in Girard during “A Taste of Southeast Kansas” bus tour. The

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church was completed in 1887, and beautiful stained glass windows were added in 1914. See more photos from the tour flickr.com/photos/kansashistoricalsociety/set s/72157647529129750/ The family of track star Glenn Cunningham recently donated photos, letters, scrapbooks, and newspaper clippings to the Kansas Historical Society. The Olympic athlete was 13 9/23/2014 born in Atlanta, KS, and ran on the 1 39 0 2 42 University of Kansas track team. kshs.org/kansapedia/glenn- cunningham/12027. Two of Cunningham’s daughters are pictured here. Flashback to NYC 1960s where martinis and cigs can get in the way of your typewriter cartridge return! Five days until 14 9/22/2014 14 24 0 6 44 event. Buy tickets online at kshs.org/museum_after_hours, call Joy at 272-8681, ext. 415 or buy at the door. John Anderson, Jr., served two terms as governor of Kansas from 1961 to 1965. Anderson passed away Sept. 15 at age 97. He’s pictured here as governor. Read about Anderson kshs.org/kansapedia/john- 15 9/22/2014 0 16 0 1 17 anderson-jr/17123; kshs.org/p/kansashistory-winter-2007-2008/12435; and see an interview with Washburn University political scientist Bob Beatty kansasmemory.org/item/211220. 16 9/20/2014 Going to lunch at Josie's in Scammon. 0 7 0 0 7 Randy Roberts from 17 9/20/2014 0 3 0 0 3 #PittsburgStateUniversity. 18 9/20/2014 #PatrickZollner 0 3 0 0 3 19 9/20/2014 Patrick telling us about the building. 1 10 0 0 11 20 9/20/2014 Arriving at the Hotel Stilwell in Pittsburg. 2 13 0 0 15 21 9/20/2014 At Pallucca's Meat & Deli, Frontenac. 0 17 0 0 17 22 9/20/2014 Making sausage at Pallucca's. 0 14 0 0 14 23 9/20/2014 The Frontenac Bakery oven circa 1900. 3 30 0 0 33 24 9/20/2014 Frontenac Bakery tour. 0 9 0 0 9 25 9/20/2014 Headed to Frontenac Bakery. 0 9 0 0 9 26 9/20/2014 We're headed to Frontenac for cinnamon 0 19 0 0 19

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indoors this evening. There will be tons of things to do before the film starts. Admission to the museum gallery will be FREE after 5 p.m. We found out this morning that there will be a LAMBORGHINI among the classic cars in the parking lot. There will also be a Ferris Bueller quiz and activities in the lobby, as well as some righteous 1980s tunes. If you follow us on Twitter, watch for movie trivia throughout the evening and post your own comments, too. Popcorn and other snacks will be available for purchase. We'll have a great time in spite of the weather! September 13, 1917: at the Kansas Free Fair in Topeka, Lindsborg artist Sven Birger Sandzen won grand prize for best group of five oil paintings. He’s pictured here in his 47 9/12/2014 15 76 0 15 106 studio in the 1940s. kansasmemory.org/item/681 Read about Sandzen: kshs.org/kansapedia/sven-birger- sandzen/12193 Have you tried accessing Kansas newspapers for free through newspapers.com? We'd love to hear your 48 9/11/2014 comments about this great resource. What 22 50 0 25 97 have you found? http://www.kshs.org/p/kansas-digital- newspaper-program/16126 September 12, 1871: Osborne County was organized. kshs.org/kansapedia/osborne- county-kansas/15326 Here three men and a 49 9/11/2014 33 248 0 37 318 dog pose in front of a dugout in Osborne County. Date: between 1870s and 1880s. kansasmemory.org/item/303678 Clarence A. Wortham displays confiscated stills at his “World’s Best” show at the 1925 50 9/10/2014 23 123 0 23 169 Kansas Free Fair in Topeka. kansasmemory.org/item/305256 At the 1925 Allen County fair, several radios were featured at the Krannich Battery 51 9/9/2014 1 44 0 7 52 Service booth. kansasmemory.org/item/226860 September 7, 1860: Republic County was 52 9/8/2014 organized. kshs.org/15334 Photo shows 9 80 0 13 102 remains of Fort Lookout, Republic County,

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circa 1905. Fort was situated on high bluff overlooking Republican River valley and guarded the military road between Fort Riley, KS and Fort Kearny, NE. Regular army occupied it until 1868. kansasmemory.org/item/228816 We are rescheduling our Lecompton 53 9/5/2014 Window Bootcamp for April 6-10, 2015. 0 2 0 0 2 We hope you can join us then! Kansas Memory Item of the Week: photo showing men cleaning or painting the interior of the F. W. Woolworth Co. five- 54 9/4/2014 and-dime store located at 627 Kansas 5 46 0 0 51 Avenue, Topeka. Photo by Harold B. Wolfe. Date: 1930s. kansasmemory.org/item/308174 Kansas Historical Society shared Kansas 55 9/4/2014 0 23 0 0 23 Museum of History's post. September 3, 1971: Kansas State Capitol was placed in the National Register of Historic Places. Read the nomination kshs.org/natreg/natreg_listings/search/page: 56 9/3/2014 7/county:SN and the Kansapedia article 1 87 0 17 105 kshs.org/kansapedia/kansas-state- capitol/12121. Photo date: 1890s, soon after exterior construction was completed. kansasmemory.org/item/209621 September 2, 1886: Gove County was organized. http://kshs.org/kansapedia/gove- county-kansas/15287 Castle Bluffs is located in Gove County. Edwin Boyer and 57 9/2/2014 6 64 0 14 84 his Buick are on the far right; two men are standing on the bluffs. Photo date: circa 1909. http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/227059 Kansas Historical Society shared Kansas 58 8/29/2014 0 26 0 0 26 Museum of History's photo. 59 8/29/2014 Happy Birthday, Kansas! 0 0 1 0 1 60 8/29/2014 Kansas Cooking: Making Mole 0 0 1 0 1 61 8/29/2014 Museum After Hours 0 0 1 0 1 62 8/29/2014 Museum After Hours 0 0 1 0 1 August 29, 1920: Jazz artist, saxophonist, 63 8/29/2014 and composer Charlie “Bird” Parker was 1 37 0 11 49 born in Kansas City. Parker helped create

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the “bebop” sound in jazz. Read about his career kshs.org/kansapedia/charlie- parker/12163 Kansas Historical Society shared Kansas 64 8/28/2014 0 11 0 0 11 Museum of History's photo. Students study agricultural implements in a class at Kansas State Agricultural College 65 8/28/2014 1 74 0 16 91 (Kansas State University), Manhattan. Date: circa 1910. kansasmemory.org/item/620 August 26, 1878: Harper County was organized. kshs.org/15294 Here is the tennis club in Runnymede, Harper County. In late 1880s British gentlemen established Runnymede as a training school where their 66 8/27/2014 5 69 0 14 88 sons could learn farming. The young men, however, were not interested in farming— they preferred horse racing, parties, and tennis. Photo date: 1891 kansasmemory.org/item/223778 August 25, 1855: Marshall County was organized. kshs.org/15313 Here boys are competing in a pie eating contest at the Marysville Country Club, in Marshall 67 8/26/2014 0 37 0 9 46 County. The competition was part of a back- to-school party at the end of summer. Date: circa 1923. Photo from Omar Hawkins collection. kansasmemory.org/item/210926 August 25, 1939: The "Wizard of Oz" was released. The movie won Oscars for Best Music Score and Song, and a special juvenile Oscar to Judy Garland. For a 68 8/25/2014 variety of fun "Wizard of Oz" memorabilia, 11 103 0 31 145 visit the Museum Store at the Kansas Museum of History, the Capitol Store at the Kansas State Capitol, or shop online at store.kshs.org. Kansas Historical Society shared Kansas 69 8/22/2014 2 22 0 0 24 Museum of History's post. August 22, 1872: Norton County was organized. kshs.org/15324 Photo shows corn 70 8/22/2014 cribs filled with corn raised by G. W. Chase 8 131 0 24 163 of Norton, in Norton County. Date: circa 1895. kansasmemory.org/item/306093 Kansas Historical Society shared Mary W. 71 8/21/2014 0 4 0 2 6 Madden's photo.

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Early in the morning of August 21, 1863, Confederate guerrilla forces led by William Quantrill attacked Lawrence, killing nearly 200 people and burning most of the town. 72 8/21/2014 3 45 0 19 67 Quantrill is pictured here between 1861 and 1865. kshs.org/kansapedia/william-clarke- quantrill/12178; kansasmemory.org/item/502 The City of Topeka detected sewage in the creek on the nature trail at the Kansas Museum of History. The sections near the 73 8/20/2014 1 1 0 1 3 creek are closed until further notice; the west and south trails remain open. We apologize for any inconvenience. August 21, 1936: basketball great Wilt Chamberlain was born in Philadelphia. He played at University of Kansas, averaging 74 8/20/2014 30 points per game. After college he toured 16 188 0 38 242 with Harlem Globetrotters one year then turned pro. During his 14-year NBA career, he never fouled out. kshs.org/12007 August 18, 1871: Rice County was organized. kshs.org/15335 Photo of Kroger grocery store in Lyons, Rice County. Herb 75 8/19/2014 5 93 0 26 124 Redhage, who worked for Kroger until he retired, is standing on the far right. Date: circa 1933. kansasmemory.org/item/225863 August 18, 1774: Meriwether Lewis was born in Virginia. Lewis and William Clark led an expedition searching for a water route 76 8/18/2014 from St. Louis to the Pacific Ocean, 1804- 5 50 0 13 68 1806. Read about the expedition in Kansas. kshs.org/12129 Painting of Lewis by artist C. W. Peale. kansasmemory.org/item/552 77 8/15/2014 A Taste of Southeast Kansas 0 0 1 0 1 Many of us have memories of lunch in the school cafeteria. These kids are in Garland, 78 8/15/2014 circa 1940. The Garland lunch program was 22 78 0 12 112 part of the Works Progress Administration. kansasmemory.org/item/209088 Kansas Historical Society shared Kansas 79 8/14/2014 0 35 0 1 36 Museum of History's photo. Buses wait by school buildings in 80 8/14/2014 Protection. Date: 1925 45 246 0 36 327 kansasmemory.org/item/209666

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Students and teachers in front of the first African American school in Kansas, located 81 8/13/2014 in Grasshopper Falls, which is present day 26 195 0 37 258 Valley Falls. Photo date: circa 1930. kansasmemory.org/item/305088 Sundown Film Festival: Ferris Bueller's Day 82 8/12/2014 0 2 0 0 2 Off Bell Grade School #59, Lancaster Township, Atchison County. Front row: Jocy Buckles, Susie Hegland, Anna Hegland, Julie Gigstad, Annie Gigstad, 83 8/12/2014 Louis Buttron. Back row: Harry Gigstad, 4 74 0 10 88 Lee Rule, Guy Rule, Jim Flatter, Jess Trion, Will ____, teacher George Reinhardt. Date: 1895 or 1896 kansasmemory.org/item/226676 First school bus purchased by Alden School (Rice County), Consolidated School District 84 8/11/2014 33 267 0 64 364 No. 9, in 1920. kansasmemory.org/item/215326 August 7, 1855: Linn County was organized. kshs.org/15309 Charles Hadsall built this house in the mid-1800s near the 85 8/8/2014 10 83 0 13 106 Marais des Cygnes Massacre site in Linn County. kansasmemory.org/item/228899 Read about the massacre kshs.org/11870 August 6, 1969: “The Learning Tree” was released in theaters, with Fort Scott native Gordon Parks directing. Parks wrote the autobiographical novel from which the film 86 8/7/2014 2 41 0 10 53 was adapted. Here he’s directing a scene from the movie in 1968. kansasmemory.org/item/803 Read about Parks kshs.org/12164 August 6, 1921: Albin Longren took his fold-wing biplane on a trial test flight over northeast Topeka. Longren designed the plane so the wings folded back and it could 87 8/6/2014 4 76 0 18 98 be stored in a Model T Ford garage. Here the plane is parked in front of a garage. kansasmemory.org/item/220939 Read about Longren Airplane Company kshs.org/15156 August 3, 1885: Stevens County was organized. kshs.org/15349 Postcard shows 88 8/5/2014 21 198 0 59 278 dust drifts around a farm near Hugoton, Stevens County, after a dust storm in 1935.

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kansasmemory.org/item/211240 August 3, 1866: Cherokee County was organized. kshs.org/15267 Photo of Spencer Chemical Company’s Jayhawk Works 89 8/4/2014 4 35 0 11 50 facility in Cherokee County. Date: between 1940 and 1970. kansasmemory.org/item/220688 August 1, 1874: Edwards County was organized. kshs.org/kansapedia/edwards- county-kansas/15279 A highway marker on KS U.S. 50 near Kinsley in Edwards County 90 8/1/2014 58 636 0 140 834 shows the estimated traveling distance to New York, San Francisco, and Kinsley. Date: circa 1945 kansasmemory.org/item/216606 Kansas Historical Society shared Kansas 91 7/31/2014 0 29 0 0 29 Museum of History's photo. 1870s Topeka: a feud developed between J. Clarke Swayze, editor of the “Topeka Blade” and John W. Wilson, former editor of the “Topeka Times.” In March 1877 the feud turned deadly when Wilson murdered Swayze...The National Digital Newspaper 92 7/31/2014 Program has digitized several newspapers 1 23 0 4 28 with accounts of the feud and murder. neh.gov/divisions/preservation/featured- project/chronicling-america-dispatches- topeka-blood-in-the-newspaper Read more about the perils of early Kansas journalists - kshs.org/12966 This article from the July 29, 1944 “Wichita Eagle” covers Boeing’s delivery of the 10,000 Boeing/Stearman Kaydet training airplane and the B-29 "X" airplane. 93 7/30/2014 1 36 0 4 41 kansasmemory.org/item/213705 Planes pictured here are similar to those mentioned in the article. kansasmemory.org/item/213620 Kansas Historical Foundation job announcement: part-time Capitol Store Sales Associate at Capitol Store in Kansas State 94 7/29/2014 2 7 0 5 14 Capitol. $9.00/hour. 25 hours a week. 12:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday – Friday. Open until filled. kshs.org/11403 Join us September 19-20 for “A Taste of 95 7/29/2014 6 17 0 3 26 Southeast Kansas,” a two-day bus trip that

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upcoming Historical Society events commemorating Día de los Muertos and Mexican American heritage. For information about events visit kshs.org/18568 July 19, 1951: cleaning up a residence after the 1951 flood in Topeka. 102 7/18/2014 kansasmemory.org/item/211610 Read about 6 36 0 3 45 the flood. kshs.org/kansapedia/flood-of- 1951/17163 Job Announcement: two part-time temporary custodial specialist positions 103 7/17/2014 0 5 0 3 8 (#178068) at Kansas Historical Society, Topeka. Open until filled. Kansas Memory Item of the Week: postcard showing a cattle drive cook and a chuck 104 7/17/2014 wagon. Photo probably taken in vicinity of 16 185 0 43 244 Liberal, circa 1908. kansasmemory.org/item/25137 July 14, 1870: Jewel County was organized. kshs.org/kansapedia/jewell-county- kansas/15300 Pictured: Myerly Cabin Camp, Mankato, Jewell County. A gas 105 7/16/2014 1 48 0 8 57 station is to the left and a sign on the roof of a building advertises cold showers for travelers. Date: between 1920s and 1930s. kansasmemory.org/item/212456 July 14, 1865: Arthur Capper was born in Garnett. Capper was a politician, newspaperman, children's advocate, and the 20th governor of Kansas, 1915-1919. 106 7/15/2014 kshs.org/kansapedia/arthur-capper/12001 1 37 0 6 44 U.S. Senator Capper is pictured here broadcasting on WMAL radio in Washington, D.C., 1930. kansasmemory.org/item/208992 Kansas Historical Society shared Kansas 107 7/14/2014 0 3 0 0 3 Museum of History's post. July 10, Kansas Museum of History, Topeka: the “Real People. Real Stories.” gallery opened, featuring these notable Kansans: George Washington Carver, John 108 7/11/2014 1 40 0 8 49 Steuart Curry, Amelia Earhart, Dwight Eisenhower, Carry Nation, Satanta, and William Allen White. Visit the Museum 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. Tuesday – Saturday, 1 – 5 p.m.

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Sunday. kshs.org/museum Kansas Historical Society shared Kansas 109 7/11/2014 0 3 0 1 4 Museum of History's photo. Gallery and Museum Store opening today, 3 – 8 pm, at Kansas Museum of History, Topeka. See the new “Real People. Real Stories.” gallery, the interior of the 110 7/10/2014 Cheyenne tipi, and behind-the-scenes at the 6 33 0 10 49 Museum and State Archives. Shop at the new store. Celebrate 30 years in west Topeka with free admission. Ribbon cutting ceremony at 3:30 pm. kshs.org/18629 Join us 3 – 8 pm Thursday July 10 for the opening of the “Real People. Real Stories.” gallery and the new store at the Kansas Museum of History. Celebrate 30 years in 111 7/9/2014 2 52 0 7 61 west Topeka with free admission, an exploration of the Cheyenne tipi, and behind-the-scenes tours. Ribbon cutting ceremony at 3:30 pm. kshs.org/18629 July is National Park and Recreation Month. Celebrate by playing at a Kansas State Park. These travelers were photographed by 112 7/8/2014 Alexander Gardner at Mushroom Rock State 18 209 0 46 273 Park, Ellsworth County, in 1867. kansasmemory.org/item/132; kdwpt.state.ks.us/State-Parks/Locations July 1958: Jack Kilby invented the first working integrated circuit, or microchip, at Texas Instruments. Kilby grew up in Great Bend where he was interested in amateur 113 7/7/2014 0 88 0 21 109 radio and built a transmitter. He went on to study electrical engineering in college. kshs.org/kansapedia/jack-st-clair- kilby/12125 Children dressed in patriotic clothes pose on a float in the Alma 4th of July parade. Date: 114 7/3/2014 1894. See more photos from the Alma 4th of 4 86 0 18 108 July parade. kansasmemory.org/item/306400 Kansas Historical Society shared Kansas 115 7/2/2014 0 28 0 0 28 Museum of History's photo. July 2, 1879: Stafford County was organized. kshs.org/kansapedia/stafford- 116 7/2/2014 8 67 0 13 88 county-kansas/15347 This Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company depot was in

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Kansas Memory Item of the Week: photo of Pete Shirley, age 7, asleep alongside his dog. The back of the photo identifies him as 124 6/25/2014 8 144 0 27 179 a member of the Snake Indian tribe. By photographer A. P. Trott of Junction City. Date: 1868 kansasmemory.org/item/229247 From the Historical Society’s collections: Ola Brinkman wore this cream-colored satin gown at her wedding to G. Lorenzo 125 6/24/2014 Chapman in 1895, in Great Bend. See more 3 51 0 8 62 wedding dresses in the online exhibit “Dressed in White: Wedding Gowns” from the All That Glitters series. kshs.org/10678 June 23, 1923: President Warren G. Harding visited Hutchinson to talk to farmers about 126 6/23/2014 the legislative measures taken by the 0 62 0 13 75 government to assist American farmers. kansasmemory.org/item/221621 Kansas Memory Item of the Week: image of Pawnee Rock, along the Santa Fe Trail in Barton County, circa 1875. Plains tribes used it as an observation point to hunt buffalo. For travelers, it was the half-way point of their journey. The rock had been 127 6/19/2014 14 185 0 34 233 larger but settlers used the stone for buildings. Site is now administered by the Historical Society as Pawnee Rock State Historic Site. kansasmemory.org/item/211555; kshs.org/pawnee_rock On June 18 - 19, 1928, Amelia Earhart was a passenger on the trans-Atlantic flight of the “Fokker Friendship” and became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean. 128 6/18/2014 In 1932 Earhart flew solo across the 4 111 0 20 135 Atlantic. Here she is in Newfoundland preparing for the 1932 flight. kansasmemory.org/item/7958; kshs.org/kansapedia/amelia-earhart/12041 June 17, 1887: Stanton County was organized. kshs.org/kansapedia/stanton- county-kansas/15348 George Henry and his 129 6/17/2014 10 48 0 13 71 family slice into watermelons on their farm in Stanton County. Date: 1919. kansasmemory.org/item/225273 130 6/16/2014 Sundown Film Festival: Apollo 13 0 2 0 0 2

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June 17, 1886: Seward County was organized. kshs.org/kansapedia/seward- county-kansas/15342 Here cowboys eat at 131 6/16/2014 4 165 0 25 194 an unidentified location in Seward County. From the F. M. Steele collection. Date: circa 1900. kansasmemory.org/item/12070 Dr. Burkman fishes with his father at a favorite fishing hole on Baldwin Creek shortly before the tributary became part of 132 6/13/2014 1 48 0 11 60 Tuttle Creek Reservoir. – Blue River Valley, Riley County, 1956. kansasmemory.org/item/228468 Kansas Historical Society - Sundown Film 133 6/12/2014 Festival: "Grease" - Events - Kansas 2 2 0 1 5 Historical Society Kansas Memory Item of the Week: photo of Coronado Heights, Saline County, circa mid-1930s. Coronado Heights is alleged to be near the place where Francisco Vasquez de Coronado gave up his search for the 134 6/12/2014 13 109 0 30 152 seven cities of gold and returned to Mexico. See more photos at kansasmemory.org/item/219828; kansapedia/francisco-vasquez-de- coronado/17160 A farmer cultivates trees planted for a 135 6/11/2014 shelterbelt in Pratt County, June 1936. 6 121 0 20 147 kansasmemory.org/item/221545 Governor Brownback signed a proclamation declaring June as Kansas Dairy Month. Here dairy cows stand near the barn on the 136 6/10/2014 Adolph Duever farm near Bremen. Note the 0 75 0 16 91 milking machine at far left, beside the barn wall. From the Omar Hawkins collection. Date: 1929 kansasmemory.org/item/210941 June 9, 1888: Grant County was organized. kansapedia/15289 This farmstead was 137 6/9/2014 5 103 0 14 122 located near Ulysses, Grant County. Date: circa 1908. kansasmemory.org/item/221889 Kansas Historical Society shared Kansas 138 6/6/2014 0 2 0 0 2 Museum of History's photo. Kansas Memory Item of the Week: photo of a wedding party of Volland area residents. 139 6/6/2014 Left to right: Alice Fix, M. Meseke, Ida 5 31 0 6 42 Arndt, Katie Johnson, Ida Johnson, Herman Arndt, Wolgast, Louie Johnson, C.

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Schwanke, Charlie Weber. Location of photo is not known. Date: 1885-1890. kansasmemory.org/item/307075 Kansas Historical Society shared Kansas 140 6/4/2014 0 8 0 0 8 Museum of History's photo. June 2, 1880: Sheridan County was organized. Kansapedia tells the story kshs.org/15344. Beers General Store was 141 6/4/2014 located on Main Street in Hoxie, Sheridan 7 80 0 12 99 County. “The busiest store in the county” is printed on the building. Date: circa 1910. kansasmemory.org/item/218688 June 1, 1875: Chautauqua County was organized. Read about it in Kansapedia kshs.org/15266. Photo shows the H. H. 142 6/3/2014 14 224 0 33 271 Lindell Hotel in Sedan, Chautauqua County. Date: between 1890 and 1910. kansasmemory.org/item/209819 Kansas Historical Society shared Kansas 143 6/2/2014 0 2 0 0 2 Museum of History's photo. The Kansas Archeology Training Program (KATP) field school will be held 7 a.m. – 5 p.m. May 30 – June 14 at the original site of the Samuel and Florella Adair cabin, 1926 Parker Avenue, Osawatomie. Visitors are 144 6/2/2014 welcome to observe the archeologists at 0 49 0 10 59 work. Photo shows site with the cabin in 1894. Cabin was moved in 1912 to John Brown Memorial Park in Osawatomie and is now John Brown State Historic Site. kansasmemory.org/item/211052 Kansas Historical Society shared Kansas 145 5/30/2014 0 4 0 0 4 Museum of History's photo. A farmer and horses plow a field, possibly in Seward County. From the F. M. Steele 146 5/30/2014 9 109 0 19 137 collection. Date: between 1900 and 1910. kansasmemory.org/item/228017 From our clothing collection: bathing suit dated 1900 to 1920. The cotton dress and bloomers were worn by Ivison Scott Hanna of Howard. The suit also includes a 147 5/29/2014 18 67 0 31 116 matching wool cape (not pictured) to conceal the outfit after a swim. Read more kshs.org/kansapedia/cool-things-bathing- suit/10297

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Preserve Topeka Workshop Series - Loving 148 5/28/2014 Your Stuff: Furniture Edition - Events - 0 4 0 1 5 Kansas... May 27, 1837: James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok was born in Troy Grove, Illinois. Hickok began his career as a Kansas 149 5/28/2014 lawman in 1858 and later served as marshal 15 127 0 33 175 in Hays and Abilene. Read about Hickok kshs.org/kansapedia/james-b-wild-bill- hickok/16518 Kansas Historical Society shared Kansas 150 5/27/2014 0 15 0 0 15 Museum of History's post. Kansas Memory Item of the Week: postcard 151 5/27/2014 showing the 1919 Memorial Day parade in 6 114 0 18 138 Fowler. kansasmemory.org/item/225462 The Kansas Historical Foundation is seeking substitute and seasonal employees to work in the Capitol and Museum Store, give tours of the Capitol and dome, and serve as a gallery monitor at the Kansas Museum of History. We are looking for customer- service oriented, responsible workers. Training will be provided. You will be part of a team of substitute and seasonal employees. Sometimes your schedule will 152 5/23/2014 9 19 0 8 36 be set two or more weeks in advance. At other times it will be short notice as needed (like a substitute teacher). Pay is $9/hr. Positions are open until filled. Please send letter of interest, resume, and references to Terry Marmet, director of operations, [email protected]; or mail to Kansas Historical Foundation, 6425 SW 6th Avenue, Topeka KS, 66615-1099. http://kshs.org/p/jobs/11403 Baker's Medicine, Extracts, and Spices sales truck in Greenwood County. Boxes on the 153 5/23/2014 truck are labeled "Baker's Condition 6 94 0 14 114 Powder." Date: circa 1920s. kansasmemory.org/item/213879 Civilian Conservation Corps Company 1709 at Pittsburg. They worked on mined land reclamation in Crawford County and lake 154 5/22/2014 1 56 0 11 68 construction in Woodson County. The camp chefs are on each end of the front row. Date: 1933

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http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/224946 Job Announcement: Senior administrative assistant at Kansas Historical Foundation, 155 5/20/2014 8 27 0 19 54 Topeka. Application deadline 5 p.m. June 6, 2014. http://kshs.org/p/jobs/11403 John Christoph owned a photography gallery in the Ellinwood and Barton County vicinity 1891 through 1919. His album is in the collections of the Kansas Historical 156 5/20/2014 Society. Pictured is T. Auchstetter’s dugout 23 195 0 41 259 on Little Cheyenne Creek north of Ellinwood. See this photo and more from Christoph’s album. kansasmemory.org/item/212062 Kansas Memory Item of the Week: photo of children from Harbaugh School, District 44, at the Marshall County Fair. The children 157 5/16/2014 0 44 0 10 54 are holding field crops and vegetables. From the Omar Hawkins collection. Date: 1931. kansasmemory.org/item/210866 158 5/12/2014 Anti-war Rally in Topeka 0 0 0 0 0 159 5/12/2014 Anti-war Rally in Topeka 0 0 0 0 0 160 5/12/2014 Anti-war Rally in Topeka 0 0 0 0 0 A tornado approaches a town in Kiowa County in 1915. The town is either 161 5/9/2014 60 452 0 88 600 Mullinville or Greensburg. kansasmemory.org/item/216386 Mr. Carol Johnson painted this scene of the interior of Wolgast Hardware, his family's hardware store in Alta Vista. Johnson was a commercial illustrator who lived on the East 162 5/8/2014 coast for many decades but always claimed 20 148 0 15 183 to be a Midwesterner at heart. This 1955 painting is oil on cardboard. kshs.org/kansapedia/cool-things-hardware- store-painting/10328 Kansas Memory Item of the Week: photo of Mrs. George Jenkins with her daughters, 163 5/7/2014 Ethel Brown and Myrtle Brown, on their 7 186 0 21 214 farm in Clark County. Date: between 1895 and 1900. kansasmemory.org/item/216531 May 6, 1888: Russell Stover was born near Alton. Stover was a candy maker selling 164 5/6/2014 63 267 0 71 401 Eskimo Pies before he established Russell Stover Candies. When he died in 1954

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Russell Stover Candies was selling about 5,500 tons of candy a year. Stover is pictured here with his wife Clara. http://kshs.org/kansapedia/russell- stover/18166 May 5, 1885: Clark County was organized. Read about it in Kansapedia kshs.org/15269 Pictured is B. R. Grime's ranch headquarters 165 5/5/2014 3 82 0 15 100 camp, Clark County. Date: September 1899. From the F. M. Steele collection. kansasmemory.org/item/215928 The 32nd annual Kansas Law Enforcement Memorial Ceremony will be held at noon today, at the Kansas State Capitol, Topeka. The ceremony honors the memory of all Kansas law enforcement officers who lost 166 5/2/2014 2 43 0 6 51 their lives in the line of duty and service to their communities. The public is welcome to attend. Pictured is the Law Enforcement Memorial on the Capitol grounds. kshs.org/16569 In 1914, Topeka’s city prison was located at 167 5/1/2014 the northwest corner of 5th and Jackson 13 126 0 31 170 streets. kansasmemory.org/item/219128 Kansas Memory Item of the Week: photo of gardeners in front of the vegetable storage cave at Women’s Industrial Farm, Lansing. 168 4/30/2014 Facility was established in 1916 to house 8 77 0 21 106 women who had committed crimes against the state. Photo date: 1936. kansasmemory.org/item/229177 April 28, 1983: Cottonwood Ranch State Historic Site was listed in National Register of Historic Places. Built by Abraham Pratt and his sons Fenton and Tom, the sheep ranch is located near Studley, Sheridan 169 4/29/2014 12 111 0 16 139 County. (Kansapedia - kshs.org/11767) Photo from 1891 shows the stone ranch house and a sod stable. Small wood-framed structure is bathhouse and toilet. kansasmemory.org/item/226230 April 27, 1870: Sedgwick County organized. http://kshs.org/kansapedia/sedgwick-county- 170 4/28/2014 kansas/15341 Photo shows several 4 135 0 35 174 businesses on Douglas Avenue in Wichita, Sedgwick County. The business three doors

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from left is Fritz Schnitzler's Saloon with a portrait of him above the porch. Date: 1878 http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/208136 April 25, 1898: United States declared war on Spain. http://kshs.org/kansapedia/spanish- american-war/12211 Pictured is the 20th Kansas Volunteer Infantry regimental flag. 171 4/25/2014 The regiment served in Spanish-American 0 46 0 10 56 War 1898 to 1899 and saw service in the Philippines in combat and as an occupation force after the war. Frederick Funston served as commander. http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/224830 The annual History & Environmental Fair was held today at the Kansas Historical Society, Topeka. 1,500 students in grades 4, 5, and 6 learned how Kansans have been 172 4/24/2014 "living green" for generations. 0 12 0 2 14 http://kshs.org/p/history-and-environmental- fair/14803 Here students learn how every part of the buffalo was utilized by the American Indians. At the History & Environmental Fair today, Governor Brownback launched the Happy Birthday, Kansas! student photo contest, open to all Kansas students grades one 173 4/24/2014 through 12 in the 2014-15 school year. Here 0 0 0 0 0 the Governor speaks to fourth graders from Jefferson North Elementary and shows them a photo on his cell phone. Read about the contest http://kshs.org/happy_birthday_ks Kansas Memory Item of the Week: photo of rain-covered streets and the welcome arch at the Union Pacific depot in Salina. The 174 4/23/2014 14 81 0 17 112 lighted sign was located at Bishop and 12th Street. Date: 1938. http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/229154 April 22, 1811: Congregational missionary and abolitionist Samuel Lyle Adair was born in Ohio. In 1841 Adair married Florella Brown, half-sister of John Brown. Years 175 4/22/2014 later Adair moved his family to Osawatomie 1 36 0 7 44 and organized the Osawatomie Congregational Church. Adair’s Osawatomie home is now the focus of John Brown Museum State Historic Site.

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movie in 1951. http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/224186 Kansas Memory Item of the Week: photo of people planting fruit trees at Agricultural Experiment Station at Fort Hays. In 1900 Kansas acquired the abandoned Fort Hays Military Reservation from U.S. government 188 4/7/2014 with condition an experimental station 14 121 0 28 163 would be established for Kansas Agricultural College to study soils, crops, livestock, horticulture, and forestry. Photo date: 1910 http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/221555 April 15, 2014: application deadlines for John Ripley Internship, full-time position, 40 hours per week, for eight weeks during summer http://www.kshs.org/p/john-ripley- internships/11406 AND academic and non- 189 4/4/2014 0 0 0 0 0 academic research grants, which help defray expenses while conducting research at Historical Society in Topeka. http://kshs.org/event/research-grant- application-deadline/17640 Kansas Memory Item of the Week: photo of the Piratas, a Mexican-American baseball team, circa 1933. The team played at City and Ripley Parks in Topeka. First row (l to r): Jerome Serna, Roy Tinoco, Cruz Duran, Louis Alejos, John Gomez, Manuel Cruz; 190 4/4/2014 second row: Antonio Gutierrez Tinoco, 1 23 0 8 32 Perfecto Torrez, Espiridion Ramirez, John Perez, John Torrez, Pilar Soza; third row: Felimon Gutierrez (Tinoco), Lawrence Serna, Hilario Hernandez, Sebastian Adams, Frank Munoz, and Jesus Rodriguez. http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/305703 Job Announcement: Temporary part-time administrative assistant (#177121) at Kansas 191 4/3/2014 1 2 0 1 4 Historical Society, Topeka. Application deadline April 8, 2014. Baseball game between the Army and Navy at Kensington Park, Kansas City. The game was part of a program supported by the 192 4/3/2014 1 25 0 9 35 Works Progress Administration. Photo date: between 1935 and 1943 http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/209546

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hanger in Girard, 1908. http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/213329 March 25, 1859: Wabaunsee County was organized, one of the original 33 counties created by the Territorial Legislature. http://kshs.org/kansapedia/wabaunsee- county-kansas/15353 Pictured is the 199 3/25/2014 Beecher Bible and Rifle Church, Wabaunsee 20 138 0 28 186 County. Stone was hauled from nearby quarries and women helped mix mortar by hand. Built in 1862, the building still stands today. http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/221051 March 24, 1971: Kaw Mission State Historic Site was listed in National Register of 200 3/24/2014 Historic Places. Read about Kaw Mission in 1 54 0 6 61 Kansapedia. http://kshs.org/kansapedia/kaw- mission/11858 It has been a very busy Spring Break week at the museum. A record number of people voted for Best of Show in the quilt exhibit. And lots of people adding a block to our community quilt. Is yours there? The 201 3/21/2014 0 32 0 7 39 winners this week are: First Place Iris Garland; tied for Second Place The Garden and Grandma's Kitchen, and Third Place Potwin Story Sampler. Thanks to all who voted. As you know, your vote counts. Progress is coming along at the new Museum Store at the Kansas Museum of 202 3/20/2014 History, Topeka. The store is scheduled to 3 62 0 5 70 open this spring and will feature several items from Kansas artisans. March 20, 1873: Cheyenne County was organized. http://kshs.org/kansapedia/cheyenne-county- 203 3/20/2014 kansas/15268 Here trucks wait to unload 0 47 0 8 55 grain at the elevator in St. Francis, Cheyenne County. Date: circa 1925. http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/305149 March 21, 1927: Kansas state flag was officially adopted. The basic elements were a blue field with the state seal in the center. 204 3/19/2014 8 87 0 25 120 Above this was the state crest. The word “Kansas” was not added until 1961. Read about the state flag in Kansapedia.

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http://kshs.org/kansapedia/kansas-state- flag/14498 Kansas Memory Item of the Week: 1871 pamphlet written by Irish Catholic priest Thomas Ambrose Butler. He described his experience in Kansas as a pastor at the 205 3/17/2014 Catholic cathedral in Leavenworth and 13 153 0 39 205 provides advice to people in Ireland who were thinking of immigrating to the United States. http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/220006 This isn't your grandmother's quilting. Kansas Capitol Quilters Guild members are at the museum today sharing their talents and they are amazing. They are here until 2 206 3/15/2014 0 24 0 3 27 p.m. And if you love quilts but don't quilt, you can purchase a raffle ticket for the beautiful red and white Hawaiian quilt on display. Do something different over Spring Break-- visit the museum! You'll love the quilt exhibit among the other fun things like the Discovery Place, the main gallery, and the nature trail. Week 8 for Best of Show are 207 3/15/2014 0 23 0 11 34 The Garden, first and a favorite every week, Potwin Sample, second place, and Spirit of St. Louis, third place two weeks in a row. If you like quilts be sure to check out the KSHS.org/pinterest site for more ideas. March 14, 1862: Greenwood County was organized. http://kshs.org/kansapedia/greenwood- 208 3/14/2014 county-kansas/15292 This stone arch bridge 6 99 0 23 128 was in Eureka, Greenwood County. Date: circa 1907 http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/228878 Kansas Memory Item of the Week: poster issued by the Kansas State Board of Health 209 3/13/2014 outlining good infant care. Date: between 41 147 0 78 266 1900 and 1920. http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/221831 In their journals, travelers on the Santa Fe Trail and early settlers often mentioned 210 3/12/2014 practical uses for the abundant sunflowers 26 432 0 107 565 found in Kansas. Soon after statehood, Kansans began to suggest the state officially

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adopt the flower. On March 12, 1903, the Kansas legislature made the sunflower the official state flower. http://kshs.org/kansapedia/sunflower/16899 March 10, 1867: Labette County was organized. http://kshs.org/kansapedia/labette-county- kansas/15305 Here the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Company stage coach waits in front of the Oswego House, at the 211 3/11/2014 5 125 0 30 160 northwest corner of Merchant and Fourth Streets, Oswego, Labette County. The coach provided service from Oswego to Independence, and later to Coffeyville. Date: 1870 http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/225515 212 3/10/2014 Gems in the Attic 0 3 0 0 3 Kansas Historical Society shared Kansas 213 3/10/2014 0 31 0 0 31 Museum of History's photo. March 10, 1839: John A. Martin was born in Pennsylvania. As a young man he moved to Atchison and founded a free-state newspaper. During the Civil War he was an officer in the 8th Kansas Infantry. He was 214 3/10/2014 governor of Kansas 1885-1889. Photo 8 69 0 23 100 shows Martin (in middle) with a few officers from the 8th Kansas, August 1863. http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/227414 http://kshs.org/kansapedia/john-alexander- martin/17631 Kansas Memory Item of the Week: photograph of Lucy Urban wearing a Red Cross Reserve Nurse's uniform. Urban was 215 3/6/2014 from Newton. During World War I she was 3 96 0 33 132 stationed at Fort Riley and overseas. Date: 1919 http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/221199 March 5, 1862: Kansas Legislature formed the Kansas State Agricultural Society. The Society collected farming information from all counties and shared it statewide. Also 216 3/5/2014 provided funds to explore new crops to grow 7 125 0 41 173 in Kansas, including wheat. Here horses pull a wheat binder in Russell County, July 1912. http://kshs.org/kansapedia/kansas- department-of-agriculture/12113

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http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/208229 Thinking about what to wear tomorrow night? Hear is a great looking couple. Find 217 3/5/2014 more ideas on our Pinterest page 11 37 0 5 53 http://www.pinterest.com/kansashistory/roar ing-20s-in-kansas/ March 4, 1929: inauguration of President Herbert Hoover and Vice President Charles Curtis. Curtis was born in Topeka in 1860. As a young boy he lived a few years with his maternal grandmother on the Kaw Reservation near Council Grove. He 218 3/4/2014 6 70 0 27 103 returned to Topeka and later studied law before going into politics. http://kshs.org/kansapedia/charles- curtis/12029 Photo shows Hoover (left) and Curtis between 1929-1933. http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/217269 March 3, 1938: Track star Glenn Cunningham set a world record for the indoor mile run at 4.04:40. Cunningham was 219 3/3/2014 born in Atlanta, Kansas. He ran in the 1932 24 196 0 57 277 and 1936 summer Olympics. http://kshs.org/kansapedia/glenn- cunningham/12027 February 28, 1870: Cowley County was organized. http://kshs.org/kansapedia/cowley-county- kansas/15273 Arkansas City in Cowley County was the transportation hub for many 220 2/28/2014 settlers in the Oklahoma Land Run of 1889. 7 80 0 29 116 Here a crowd waits for the run to begin at AT&SF depot. Ark City is four miles north of the central Oklahoma region opened for settlement April 22, 1889. http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/218397 Job Announcement: Sales Associate with the Kansas Historical Foundation. Part-time 221 2/27/2014 exempt position. Applications due by 5 p.m. 2 9 0 12 23 Friday, March 14, 2014. http://kshs.org/p/jobs/11403 February 27, 1885: Comanche County was organized. 222 2/27/2014 http://kshs.org/kansapedia/comanche- 3 100 0 23 126 county-kansas/15272 Here cattle are grazing and people are fishing on a ranch in

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Comanche County. From the collection of photographer F. M. Steele. Date: circa 1900. http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/21031 Getting ready for the big night out on Thursday, March 6. "Museum After Hours: 223 2/26/2014 A Night at Gatsby's." Experience the Kansas 1 26 0 6 33 Museum of History like never before. Tickets still available, kshs.org. February 27, 1874: Kingman County was organized. http://kshs.org/kansapedia/kingman-county- 224 2/26/2014 kansas/15303 This image is a tintype of the 2 110 0 21 133 Kingman Mercury newspaper office in Kingman. Date: August 1880. http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/223408 Kansas Memory Item of the Week: illustration published in Harper’s Weekly showing a family of Exodusters en route for Kansas as they flee from a yellow fever outbreak. Drawn by Sol Eytinge, Jr., based 225 2/25/2014 1 46 0 15 62 on a sketch by H. J. Lewis. Date: August 16, 1879. http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/228708 Read about Exodusters in Kansas http://kshs.org/kansapedia/exodusters/17162 February 24, 1971: Goodnow House State Historic Site, Manhattan, was listed in National Register of Historic Places. In 1855 Isaac Goodnow came to Kansas Territory to found a free-state town. He was co-founder 226 2/24/2014 of Bluemont College, later Kansas State 2 105 0 28 135 University. Goodnow and wife Ellen built house in 1861. Photo circa 1880s. http://kshs.org/kansapedia/goodnow- house/11812 http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/228653 Kansas Historical Society shared Kansas 227 2/21/2014 0 18 0 0 18 Museum of History's photo. February 21, 1997: Space Shuttle Discovery STS-82 landed after servicing the Hubble Space Telescope. Steve Hawley served as mission specialist. Born in Ottawa in 1951, 228 2/21/2014 0 35 0 12 47 Hawley grew up in Salina and graduated from Salina HS and KU. He joined NASA's astronaut program in 1978. Pictured here: Steve Hawley (left) and Gregory Harbaugh

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at a training session in 1996. http://kshs.org/kansapedia/steven-a- hawley/12084 February 20, 1857: Dickinson County was organized. http://kshs.org/kansapedia/dickinson- county-kansas/15276 DS&O Rural Electric Cooperative's office is in Solomon, Dickinson County. Established during Great 229 2/20/2014 Depression as part of the federal recovery 2 42 0 12 56 effort to bring electricity to rural Kansas, this photo shows employees at warehouse in Solomon, 1947. L to R: Roy Duck, Jake Elmore, Walt Moyer, Marv Eisenhauer, Andy Anderson. http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/226971 February 1975: President Gerald Ford spoke from the south steps of the Kansas State Capitol. He was in Topeka to meet with 10 Midwest governors and discuss proposals 230 2/19/2014 2 43 0 9 54 for strengthening the nation's economy and reducing America's dependency on Middle- East oil. http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/303093 February 18, 1930, Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, AZ: 24-year-old Kansan Clyde Tombaugh discovered Planet X, later named Pluto. As a teenager Tombaugh lived with his family on a farm near Burdett. He was a 231 2/18/2014 self-taught amateur astronomer who made 27 203 0 61 291 his own telescopes from hand ground mirrors and parts of farm equipment. He later graduated from the University of Kansas. http://kshs.org/kansapedia/clyde- tombaugh/12222 February 17, 1857: Coffey County was organized. http://kshs.org/kansapedia/coffey-county- kansas/15271 Photo shows the Pioneer 232 2/17/2014 3 129 0 28 160 Hardware & Implement Store and the A. J. Eastman Drug Store in Burlington, Coffey County. Date: 1897. http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/213862 Kansas Historical Society shared Kansas 233 2/14/2014 1 21 0 0 22 Museum of History's photo. 234 2/14/2014 Sequel to yesterday’s post--another 3 37 0 14 54

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valentine from Private Joseph Forrest to his fiancé Elizabeth Ehrhart, sent during the Civil War. This verse is printed on the card: MY LOVE. ‘Mid bugle’s blast and cannon’s roar, And ‘mid the battles angry flame; ‘Mid clashing sabres red with gore, I fondly breathe thy much-loved name. I feel thee near at dead of night, When I my vigil lone am keeping— Thy image guards me, angel bright, In dreams when wearied I am sleeping, Each northward wind wafts on its breath, To thee a yearning kiss of mine— On glory’s field or bed of death, I live or die thy Valentine. http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/219755 Job Announcement: Accounting Specialist with the Kansas Historical Foundation. A 60 to 70 percent part-time position, averaging 235 2/13/2014 0 5 0 6 11 24-28 hours a week and exempt under FLSA. Applications due by 5 p.m. Monday, March 3, 2014. http://kshs.org/p/jobs/11403 Joseph Forrest sent valentines to Elizabeth Ehrhart during the Civil War. They were residents of Macon County, IL, and became engaged in 1858. Joseph enlisted in 1861 and fought as a private with the 8th Illinois Volunteer Infantry. The couple married in 236 2/13/2014 1863 and moved to Jewell County, KS, in 9 85 0 16 110 1872. The verse reads: Fondly I gaze in Thy sweet face, And clasp thy little Hand in mine, Love swiftly speeds Us to the place Where I shall claim My Valentine. Date: between 1861 and 1865. http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/215143 Job Announcement: Part-time retrieval desk assistant. Non-benefits eligible, 237 2/12/2014 administrative assistant position, at the State 0 19 0 2 21 Archives, Kansas Historical Society, Topeka. Open until filled. An interactive map of the Kansas State Capitol complex is available online. The map is optimized for mobile devices and allows visitors to plan a tour of the complex. 238 2/12/2014 0 5 0 0 5 Featured landmarks include the memorials to veterans and law enforcement agents, the Abraham Lincoln statue, and the Kansas Walk of Honor. Find it at

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http://kshs.org/capitol “Interactive Capitol complex map.” Thank you, Kansas Senators, for recognizing the Kansas Historical Society’s efforts at the Kansas State Capitol Visitor 239 2/11/2014 Center. The Visitor Center and Capitol Store 0 57 0 4 61 opened January 2 and was dedicated by Governor Brownback on Kansas Day, January 29. http://www.kshs.org/capitol Join us 7 pm Thursday March 6 for fun, games, music, and dancing that Daisy and Nick would enjoy. Learn the Charleston and Lindy Hop dances to the tunes of a live jazz band. Play Yahtzee, group crossword 240 2/11/2014 puzzles, and yoyos, all popularized in the 35 61 0 19 115 1920s. See a display of party gowns from the era. A bar will be onsite; must be 21 years or older. Kansas Museum of History, Topeka. Visit http://kshs.org/after_hours for tickets. 241 2/11/2014 Museum After Hours: A Night at Gatsby's 0 0 10 0 10 February 11, 1859: the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway was chartered by the Kansas Territorial Legislature. Cities and towns were built along its path as new 242 2/11/2014 19 160 0 37 216 settlers moved into the state. This circular promotes land sales and settlement in southwest Kansas. Date: circa 1870s. http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/11829 February 10, 1868: journalist and author William Allen White was born in Emporia. White, the influential owner and editor of the “Emporia Gazette,” befriended several presidents, including Theodore Roosevelt, 243 2/10/2014 pictured here circa 1911 at Red Rocks, 4 99 0 36 139 White’s home in Emporia. Red Rocks is now a state historic site. http://kshs.org/kansapedia/william-allen- white/16139 http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/226034 February 7, 1867: Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of the “Little House” children’s book series, was born in Pepin, Wisconsin. Her 244 2/7/2014 69 613 0 150 832 book “Little House on the Prairie” chronicles her family’s experience living near Independence, Kansas, 1869 - 1870.

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http://kshs.org/kansapedia/laura-ingalls- wilder/15563 A familiar scene to many Kansans this week! This photo was taken in Gray County, 245 2/6/2014 49 350 0 78 477 1939. http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/217532 Kansas Memory Item of the Week: photograph of J. R. Fisher's residence in Cimarron. Looks like Jack Frost had fun 246 2/3/2014 18 181 0 41 240 with the yard—ice and snow coat the trees and bushes. Date: between 1910 and 1915. http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/217417 It's that time of the week again. Our weekly Best of Show winners are: First Place--The Garden (for the second week in a row), Second Place--Potwin Story Sampler, and Third Place--Grandma's Kitchen. As honorable mention in Fourth Place--The 247 1/31/2014 1 30 0 7 38 Wonder of Looking. Thanks to the 100s of people who have already voted. Follow the weekly standings on the kshs.org website. And with the approaching snow storm this evening, tonight would be a good time to get out your own quilt and bundle up! mm Artist Marijana Grisnick paints scenes from her childhood in the Croatian/American community of Strawberry Hill, located on the bluffs overlooking the Kansas and Missouri Rivers. Forty paintings are in the 248 1/31/2014 Historical Society collection, including 7 68 0 17 92 “Winter Evening.” http://kshs.org/p/online- exhibits-marijana-seasons-and-holidays-on- the-hill/16500 Read about Marijana http://kshs.org/kansapedia/marijana- grisnik/12074 Almost 2,000 students visited the Historical Society on Kansas Day. Here students enjoy 249 1/29/2014 0 0 0 0 0 hands-on activities and demonstrations of historic crafts. January 29, 1861: Kansas entered the Union as the 34th state. This photo celebrates Kansas with our state flower, the sunflower, 250 1/29/2014 and the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe 0 0 0 0 0 Railway, founded in Kansas. Photo date: Sept. 7, 1963. http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/50057

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Read about Kansas Day http://kshs.org/kansapedia/kansas-day/16773 Kansas Memory Item of the Week: photograph of women gathered for a quilting bee in commemoration of the 251 1/28/2014 61 449 0 99 609 centennial anniversary of Kansas statehood, 1861-1961. Date: 1961 http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/303284 Georgia Neese Clark Gray was born January 27, 1898, in Richland. She attended school in Topeka and graduated from Washburn College. Gray was the first woman to serve 252 1/27/2014 as Treasurer of the United States, from June 3 65 0 11 79 1949 until January 1953. Interesting fact: Gray’s first career choice was acting. http://kshs.org/kansapedia/georgia-neese- clark-gray/12071 Kansas Historical Society shared Kansas 253 1/24/2014 5 76 0 19 100 Museum of History's photo. Forrest “Phog” Allen played basketball at KU 1904-1907. During his senior year, the coach, James Naismith, left KU and Allen was appointed coach. In 1909 Allen left KU to study osteopathic medicine. He later 254 1/24/2014 returned and coached several sports, using 1 25 0 2 28 his knowledge as an osteopathic doctor to treat athletic injuries. http://kshs.org/p/forrest-allen/16303 http://kshs.org/kansapedia/forrest-phog- allen/16417 January 23, 1862: the Kansas Legislature accepts a donation of 20 acres of land, from Topeka Town Association, as the site for the Kansas State Capitol. The donated land was located between 8th and 10th Avenues, and 255 1/23/2014 Jackson and Harrison Streets. This 1867 39 133 0 48 220 photo by Alexander Gardner was taken on or near the 20 acres, looking northeast. Stones used to build the Capitol are in the foreground. http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/83 Harvey House lunch counter in Topeka, 256 1/22/2014 circa 1925. 25 112 0 34 171 http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/215627 Harvey House dining room in Topeka, circa 257 1/22/2014 0 3 0 2 5 1925.

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http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/215628 This brass gong called diners to the table in Topeka's Harvey House. 258 1/22/2014 0 5 0 4 9 http://kshs.org/kansapedia/cool-things- harvey-house-gong/10213 Explorer John C. Fremont was born January 21, 1813, in Savannah, GA. Called “The Pathfinder,” Fremont led many expeditions into the American West and crossed Kansas 259 1/21/2014 four times. He was one of the first explorers 0 3 0 1 4 to report Kansas was not the Great American Desert. http://kshs.org/p/online- exhibits-beyond-lewis-and-clark-john- fremont/10566 “Speaking of Quilts: Voices from the Collection and the Community” opens today in the special exhibit gallery at the Kansas Museum of History, Topeka. The exhibit features timeless beauties and contemporary 260 1/17/2014 10 126 0 35 171 art quilts from the Historical Society collection and local quilters. Exhibit runs through August 31. http://www.kshs.org/p/speaking-of- quilts/18465 This glass plate negative features Lizzie surrounded by quilts, possibly in 261 1/16/2014 Washington County. Lizzie’s last name was 0 0 0 0 0 not provided. Date: circa 1914. http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/303270 This photograph of the Denison Women’s Missionary Society quilters is on display in 262 1/15/2014 the Kansas State Capitol Visitor Center. It’s 20 119 0 24 163 part of the Heritage Events collection located in the auditorium. Date: 1991. Job Announcements: part-time temporary Educational/Info Rep at Mine Creek Battlefield and Marais des Cygnes Massacre State Historic Sites, Pleasanton. Open until 263 1/14/2014 8 70 0 14 92 filled. Part-time temporary Alternate Site Administrator at Red Rocks State Historic Site, home of the William Allen White family, Emporia. Open until filled. Kansas Memory Item of the Week: photo of ladies quilting at an unidentified location in 264 1/14/2014 2 15 0 10 27 Kansas, circa 1930. http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/211985

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Phil Thielen standing on a small platform at the front of a horse-drawn wooden snow 265 1/10/2014 plow in Dorrance, Russell County. February 25 156 0 39 220 13, 1912. From the L. W. Halbe collection. http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/1608 January 09, 1945: members of the 137th Infantry Regiment, 35th Division, lay down a harassing fire to give cover to advancing infantry in Sainlez, Belgium. Private Ken 266 1/9/2014 18 137 0 46 201 McKeever of Holton is on the left. The 137th was created with Kansas National Guardsmen. http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/228147 A large cottonwood tree once graced the south lawn of the Capitol. Years of illness and wind took its toll, and the tree was removed in 1984. A large chunk of the tree was fashioned into this chair, and the 267 1/8/2014 4 61 0 19 84 carving was done with a chain saw. The chair is in the Historical Society collections. Read about it. http://kshs.org/kansapedia/cool-things- chainsaw-chair/10110 268 1/6/2014 Kansas Museum of History survey 0 77 0 19 96 In six months, the weather will be warm and we can enjoy a slice of watermelon like 269 1/6/2014 these twin girls in Wichita. For today, keep 0 0 0 0 0 warm and think summer! Photo circa 1950s. http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/223680 South portico of the Kansas State Capitol. 270 1/3/2014 Date: 1947. 1 102 0 19 122 http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/214151 Winter at the Capitol in Topeka, 1956. 271 1/2/2014 0 52 0 5 57 http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/215322 Kansas Memory Item of the Week: aerial photograph of Capitol Square in Topeka. 272 12/30/2013 1 87 0 15 103 Date: December 31, 1935. http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/214135 December 27, 1944: troops from the 137th Infantry Regiment, 35th Division occupied Tintange, Belgium. The 35th Division was involved in the fighting around Tintange and 273 12/27/2013 4 99 0 25 128 when this photo was taken, parts of town were still smoking from fires started by artillery shelling. The 137th was created with Kansas National Guardsmen.

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http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/228186 The 1966 Christmas card for Governor William Avery. Avery is pictured with his 274 12/26/2013 family in front of Cedar Crest, the 2 53 0 18 73 Governor’s mansion. http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/212135 The view looking south in the 700 block of Massachusetts Street in Lawrence, 275 12/20/2013 Christmas 1939. From the Alfred Lawrence 0 34 0 1 35 collection. http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/218649 Job Announcement: Policy & Program Analyst at Kansas Historical Society, 276 12/20/2013 57 478 0 97 632 Topeka. Applications accepted through January 3, 2014. Christmas at a Topeka home in 1904. Photograph was made from a glass plate 277 12/19/2013 7 10 0 9 26 negative. http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/304289 Santa Claus visits Grinter Place in Kansas City, 1950. At the time, the residence was home to a restaurant featuring chicken 278 12/18/2013 dinners. The State of Kansas acquired the 11 128 0 27 166 site in 1971 and now administers it as Grinter Place State Historic Site. http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/215763 Kansas Memory Item of the Week: photograph of a snow covered road west of 279 12/17/2013 Hoxie in Sheridan County. Date: 1931 2 60 0 13 75 (Yikes! That’s a lot of snow!) http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/218321 Job Announcement: part-time temporary custodial specialist at the Kansas Historical 280 12/17/2013 199 687 0 245 1131 Society, Topeka. For details, visit http://kshs.org/p/jobs/11403 Troops from the 137th Infantry Regiment, 35th Division move across a snow covered field near the Belgium-Luxemborg border in 281 12/16/2013 0 6 0 2 8 December 1944. The 137th was created with Kansas National Guardsmen. http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/228155 Kansas Memory Item of the Week: photograph of people on a horse-drawn sled 282 12/12/2013 5 88 0 27 120 at Lake Quivira. Date between 1935 and 1940.

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http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/228055 December 11, 1972: Ron Evans piloted the Apollo 17 command module that orbited the moon while crew members landed on its surface. Evans was born in St. Francis, 283 12/11/2013 graduated from Highland Park High School, 22 231 0 61 314 Topeka, and received a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Kansas. http://kshs.org/kansapedia/ronald-e- evans/16434 December 10, 1971: Burlingame native and Washburn University grad Earl Wilbur Sutherland was awarded the Nobel Prize in physiology and medicine for his hormone research. He isolated the chemical cyclic 284 12/10/2013 AMP and proved that hormones do not send 1 86 0 32 119 messages directly to the target organs, but instead activate the cyclic AMP, which tells the organs what to do. http://kshs.org/kansapedia/earl- sutherland/12218 Professional clown Emmett Kelly was born December 9, 1898, in Sedan. He worked with several different circuses before landing a spot with Ringling Brothers 285 12/9/2013 Barnum and Bailey in 1942. His showbiz 0 25 0 5 30 career included movies, television, and the nightclub circuit. http://kshs.org/kansapedia/emmett- kelly/12123 Commercial Street, Emporia’s “shopping mall” in the late 1940s. This view looks 286 12/6/2013 38 169 0 47 254 north. http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/213888 Congratulations to the Historical Society’s KEEP team! They successfully completed the first live demonstration of the Kansas Enterprise Electronic Preservation system, the digital archives software that will 287 12/5/2013 3 69 0 23 95 preserve and provide public access to the state’s permanent electronic government records. Pictured left to right: Matt Powell, Matt Veatch, Jennie Chinn, Christine Desmuke, and Pat Michaelis. Artist George M. Stone was born December 288 12/5/2013 1 44 0 3 48 5, 1858, on a farm near Topeka. He grew up

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in Topeka and studied art in Paris and New York City as a young man. Upon his return home, he opened an art school that later became Washburn University’s art department. His painting “Spirit of Kansas” hangs in the Governor’s conference room at the Kansas State Capitol. http://kshs.org/kansapedia/george-m- stone/15549 Rush County was organized December 5, 1874. Read about Rush County http://kshs.org/kansapedia/rush-county- 289 12/4/2013 kansas/15337. This photo of Main Street in 8 102 0 23 133 La Crosse, Rush County, is looking north from 6th Street. http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/213771 From Cool Things: Pinocchio wood figurine, hand-carved by Gust Sands. Sands was born in Sweden in 1877 and immigrated to the United States as a child. As an adult he moved to Topeka where he worked at 290 12/3/2013 2 46 0 14 62 Lundgren Construction for more than 40 years. He was also a cabinetmaker and woodcarver. http://kshs.org/kansapedia/cool-things-folk- art-toys/10126 Kansas Memory Item of the Week: 1907 Smith Automobile Company catalog. The automobiles were manufactured in Topeka. 291 12/2/2013 http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/221754 6 37 0 7 50 Read about Smith Automobile Company http://kshs.org/kansapedia/smith- automobile-company/15498 Kansas Memory Item of the Week: photo of a cooking class at the Topeka Provident Association, 335 Jackson Street, Topeka. The charitable organization was established in 1904. Services provided by the 292 11/27/2013 1 40 0 14 55 association included cooking and sewing classes for girls, a boy's club, a library, a day care center, and a men's dorm. Photo date between 1904 and 1920. http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/212246 The 1910 Chase County High School football team from Cottonwood Falls. Front 293 11/7/2013 0 62 0 20 82 row: Carl White, Bill Stewart, Kirk Hilton. Second row: Geo. Holmes, Claude Yeager,

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http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/225497 Kansas Memory Item of the Week: embossed Halloween postcard delivered to Philip Hambleton of Topeka. Date: 1914. 301 10/29/2013 1 75 0 19 95 Elaborate color postcards were popular during the early 20th century. http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/225496 10 am – 7 pm Tuesday, October 29: the Historical Society and Shawnee County Baseball Hall of Fame are hosting a collecting event to encourage donations or loans of baseball and softball photos. For 302 10/28/2013 details visit http://kshs.org/event/kansas- 10 66 0 19 95 historical-society-baseball-photograph- collecting-event/18434. Here is the 1909 Rossville baseball team. For player names, visit http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/99862. October 25, 1864: Battle of Mine Creek near Pleasanton. 2,500 Union cavalrymen defeated 7,000 Confederates from Major General Sterling Price’s cavalry. Topekan Samuel Reader was there and described it in his diary, now in the Historical Society 303 10/25/2013 6 45 0 13 64 collection. Drawing from Reader’s diary. http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/206900 /page/319 Read about the battle http://kshs.org/kansapedia/battle-of-mine- creek-october-25-1864/18168 Mine Creek Battlefield State Historic Site 304 10/24/2013 Gus Bellport's saddle. 11 89 0 29 129 305 10/24/2013 Gus Bellport. 0 0 0 0 0 Gus Bellport on his wedding day, June 27, 306 10/24/2013 0 0 0 0 0 1877. Job Announcement: full-time position for Procurement Officer I at the Kansas 307 10/23/2013 0 0 0 0 0 Historical Society, Topeka. Closes October 25, 2013. http://kshs.org/p/jobs/11403 Soda fountain counter at A & B Drug Company, 905 Broadway Street, Marysville. Date of photo is October 23, 1931. From the 308 10/23/2013 Omar Hawkins collection. 9 22 0 9 40 http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/210938 See more photos of A & B Drug Company http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/214030

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Lawmen with confiscated alcohol in Prohibition era Cottonwood Falls. Date: between 1920 and 1929. View this photo and more. http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/226331 309 10/22/2013 24 109 0 20 153 and http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/229073 Read about early efforts at prohibition in Kansas. http://kshs.org/kansapedia/prohibition/14523 October 20, 1956: Kansas Turnpike opened at 6 a.m. with free travel on the first day. Here is a view of the turnpike in the Flint Hills area, between 1960 and 1969. 310 10/21/2013 57 218 0 73 348 http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/219104 Read more about Kansas Turnpike http://kshs.org/kansapedia/kansas- turnpike/12122 Nursing students at Christ’s Hospital Nursing School in Topeka. Edith Naomi Wheeler is seated in the second row in the middle position. Date: 1907. 311 10/18/2013 http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/304776 50 199 0 49 298 Christ’s Hospital later merged with the Jane C. Stormont Hospital and Training School for Nurses and became a part of Stormont- Vail Hospital. Kansas Memory Item of the Week: photo of the Windsor Hotel in Springfield shortly 312 10/17/2013 after it was built. Date: between 1890 and 0 45 0 11 56 1899. http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/222191 More than 100 photographs and four manuscript collections were recently added to our American Indian collection on Kansas Memory, including this photo from a Cheyenne camp located on the Washita 313 10/16/2013 0 170 0 17 187 River, Indian Territory. Date: 1869. http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/304822 For more information, visit http://www.kansasmemory.org/blog/post/10 8319298 314 10/15/2013 Baseball Collecting Event 26 283 0 62 371 October 14, 1890: Dwight Eisenhower born 315 10/14/2013 in Texas. He grew up in Abilene. During 0 0 11 0 11 WWII he served as Supreme Commander of

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the Allied Forces in Europe. Ike was elected 34th president of the United States in 1952 and served two terms. Here he is at a parade in Kansas City, MO, June 1945. http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/215384 Read about Ike http://kshs.org/kansapedia/dwight-d- eisenhower/12043 From the “Wichita Daily Eagle” Tuesday morning, January 2, 1900. Ad for Annual Remnant Sale at Boston Store, located on 316 10/11/2013 12 109 0 29 150 Douglas Avenue in Wichita. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn820 14635/1900-01-02/ed-1/ From “The Leavenworth Weekly Times” July 21, 1870. Ad for Brady’s Family Bitters, the “greatest remedy of the age” and 317 10/10/2013 a “sure cure for dyspepsia,” which is called 2 36 0 10 48 “indigestion” today. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn840 27691/1870-07-21/ed-1/ October 10, 2013, is Electronic Records Day! The Council of State Archivists has declared this day to raise awareness about 318 10/10/2013 0 34 0 10 44 the challenge of preserving electronic government records. Learn more at http://www.kshs.org/erecsday In honor of National Newspaper Week, the masthead and two ads from the March 19, 1885, issue of “Thomas County Cat” (Colby). The ads promote land for sale: the one line ad for Reynolds & Vancleve and 319 10/9/2013 0 16 0 2 18 the larger ad for land agent E.E. Stewart. Read the Stewart ad left to right, across all six columns. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn850 32814/1885-03-19/ed-1/seq-1/ From the October 13, 1911 issue of "The Liberal Democrat" : advertisement for Big 320 10/8/2013 Piano Contest at Taylor’s Drug Store. 3 23 0 17 43 http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn850 29856/1911-10-13/ed-1/ This week is National Newspaper Week, which observes the importance of 321 10/7/2013 3 51 0 9 63 newspapers to communities large and small. Here delivery boys from the Lawrence

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Journal-World pose in front of the newspaper office in Lawrence. Date: circa 1940s. http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/218885 Payne Ratner, the 28th Governor of Kansas, was born October 3, 1896. He served as 322 10/3/2013 Governor 1939 – 1943. 0 8 0 1 9 http://kshs.org/kansapedia/payne- ratner/17118 Children play with the new covered wagon 323 10/2/2013 in the Discovery Place at the Kansas 0 1 0 0 1 Museum of History, Topeka. Children can visit the store and pack the 324 10/2/2013 wagon with supplies needed for the long 0 1 0 0 1 journey west. The wagon was built by volunteers David 325 10/2/2013 Wiksten and Mike Peters, pictured, and 0 2 0 0 2 Norman Davis. Kansas Memory Item of the Week: photograph of students with their teacher at 326 10/1/2013 Fairview School, located two miles north of 8 51 0 14 73 Nicodemus. Date: 1915. http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/224753

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Clicks/ ID Date Text Comments Likes Other Shares Post 1 10/1/2014 A lovely Wabaunsee County barn. 0 0 0 0 0 Who likes Brutalist architecture!? The 2 9/30/2014 Kansas Judicial Center is a splendid 3 14 0 1 18 example. KSHPO - Kansas State Historic 3 9/26/2014 Preservation Office shared Bankers Loan 1 10 0 0 11 and Trust Company Building's photo. SHPO staff have been in Emporia a lot lately, but yesterday called for one more 4 9/26/2014 trip. Katrina toured the Cross House at 6th 10 50 0 4 64 and Union and it is coming right along. We can't wait to see it finished! Our own National Register coordinator, 5 9/25/2014 0 17 0 1 18 Sarah Martin, will be attending the Kansas

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Barn Alliance Barn Fest tomorrow near Abilene! In honor of the annual event, here is the Harry Keith Barn in Graham County. It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places - NPS in 2013. More photos/info here: http://khri.kansasgis.org/index.cfm?in=065- 199 #KSbarns #tbt I know we have some great ones here in 6 9/24/2014 KS! Share and document the ones in your 0 4 0 0 4 community! Mark and Jason Liebman are inspecting the Old City Hall in Wichita today with the help of staff from Vertigo High Access Services, a rigging company from Seattle. That's 7 9/24/2014 Jason dangling from the clock tower! The 3 25 0 1 29 City of Wichita received a grant from us this year to do an assessment and preservation plan for this grand old building. Looks like work is underway! Happy #TaxCreditTuesday ! Katrina and Sarah are looking around the H.D. Lee Building in Salina. The building has already undergone one tax credit project for repairs, 8 9/23/2014 1 11 0 0 12 and the city is looking at how it can undertake another successful project. This building was owned by H.D. Lee, who produced Lee Jeans. Sarah and Katrina are in Salina today 9 9/23/2014 checking out the H.D. Lee Building. What a 4 23 0 1 28 great safe! From our counterpart in Arkansas, "A stark example of the quality of the old-growth wood used in historic windows as opposed to newer wood. The top board is current lumber sold at a major home improvement 10 9/23/2014 0 21 0 2 23 supplier with 6 growth rings per inch. The second board is 175 years old with 10 growth rings per inch. The bottom board is in the ballpark of 300 years old with up to 30 growth rings per inch." Have an idea to strengthen your community 11 9/22/2014 through art & culture? There's a grant for 0 1 0 0 1 that! Lots of excitement this past week about 815 12 9/22/2014 6 41 0 4 51 N. Main in Newton, KS. There are potential

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plans to demolish the 1890 Italianate building with the beautiful oriel window, but many locals are hoping to see it saved. We hope it has a long life ahead! Patrick is acting as tour guide in SE Kansas 13 9/19/2014 2 16 0 0 18 today. Cawker City has one less historic building 14 9/19/2014 70 21 0 9 100 today. RIP Edward Kennedy House (1879). Here's a beauty for Throwback Thursday. This photograph was taken in July 1970, during the initial reconnaissance surveys of 15 9/18/2014 16 10 0 0 26 Kansas. Any guesses where this is located? Hint: it doesn't look like this today. #tbt #surveyingKS Fun event by our division neighbors the museum! If you love the 60s, you should 16 9/17/2014 1 6 0 0 7 check out this Museum After Hours Event. #MAHkshs It's #TaxCreditTuesday And have we got a dramatic transformation for you. We present 421 Commercial St. in Emporia, KS. What a difference a rehab makes. The property owners report that they have a better office environment, except for one older lady that 17 9/16/2014 3 35 0 1 39 argues with them that they moved their offices to a new building! Federal and State Historic Tax Credits help offset the costs of restoring the storefront. Emporia Main Street Fan Page Heritage & Historic Preservation - NPS Kansas Preservation Conference participants learned last week about an initiative of the Chapman Center for Rural 18 9/15/2014 16 84 0 31 131 Studies at KSU to document lost and disappearing Kansas communities: http://lostkscommunities.omeka.net/ Have you tried accessing Kansas newspapers for free through newspapers.com? We'd love to hear your 19 9/15/2014 comments about this great resource. What 1 9 0 1 11 have you found? http://www.kshs.org/p/kansas-digital- newspaper-program/16126 Casey Woods explains the how-tos of 20 9/12/2014 economic development, using Emporia as 0 9 0 1 10 an example. #KPAconf

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21 9/12/2014 Good morning from the Granada! #kpaconf 5 31 0 2 38 John Brown is enjoying our Keynote 22 9/11/2014 Speaker, Daniel Ronan, is talking about 1 25 0 1 27 Preservation and Millennials. Touring the William Allen White house. 23 9/11/2014 2 34 0 1 37 #kpaconf William Allen White wanted a selfie with us 24 9/11/2014 2 33 0 0 35 ladies, so we obliged. #kpaconf SHPO staff are heading down to Emporia 25 9/11/2014 for Kansas Preservation Alliance's state 3 16 0 0 19 conference! Where should we eat for lunch? Happy #TaxCreditTuesday! We are pretty excited about this new project we just completed our review for in Alma. The Limerick Block, built in 1888, is getting 26 9/9/2014 2 25 0 1 28 ready to under go a Window Restoration project. They have read NPS Preservation Brief #9 and are ready to get to work restoring those original windows! Kim and Kristen are sharing the excitement and the specifics of what we do at the 27 9/9/2014 2 16 0 0 18 Preservation Office with students at KSU this morning. Promising news from Marysville! Posted on the Marysville U.P. Depot Preservation Facebook group this morning: "Thank you so much to everyone that called or wrote to council members and helped spread the word. Also thanks to all that came to the 28 9/9/2014 0 13 0 2 15 council meeting tonight. We filled the room with supporters (about 50) who cheered when the city voted 5-2 to enter into the contract with UP. This was a great night for Marysville! Thank you all again for your support!" Sundown Film Festival: Ferris Bueller's Day 29 9/9/2014 0 1 0 0 1 Off The Union Pacific Depot in Marysville is a beautiful example of Spanish Eclectic architecture with its clay tile roof and terra cotta ornamentation. The Marysville City 30 9/8/2014 3 35 0 3 41 Council meets tonight to decide this building's fate. Check out Marysville U.P. Depot Preservation on Facebook to learn more about the preservation efforts and the

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following link to find out more about the building's history. http://khri.kansasgis.org/index.cfm?in=117- 3560-00014 Unfortunately the Window Repair Bootcamp in Lecompton is being postponed until April 6-10, 2015 to give more people a chance to register. If you are interested in learning more about how to repair wood 31 9/5/2014 0 17 0 3 20 windows consider other upcoming workshops listed at http://www.kshs.org/14644 or give us a call to get your name on the list for next spring in Lecompton. One week from today is the Kansas Preservation Alliance's annual conference held this year in Emporia. Did you know 32 9/4/2014 0 0 0 0 0 that Emporia has a nice selection of mid- century modern buildings? Here are just a few! Emporia Main Street Fan Page The Cider Building in Lawrence is one of 33 9/2/2014 their good examples! Happy Tax Credit 0 6 0 0 6 Tuesday! #taxcredittuesday This week has marked the 98th Birthday of the National Parks and the 30th Anniversary of Heritage Areas. We here at our office wanted to share, what we think is one of the most successful historic preservation endeavors here in Kansas, the Leavenworth 34 8/29/2014 VA. This large campus is a National 1 68 0 9 78 Historic Landmark, and has recently seen the rehabilitation of several of it's buildings. And there are many other beautiful buildings located around the campus. We hope the preservation and love for history there continues! #KSHistory Happy Birthday to our Survey Coordinator Amanda Loughlin, Fitting for our office, we 35 8/28/2014 celebrated with Ice Cream! We encourage 5 47 0 0 52 all of you to survey a building and then enjoy some Ice Cream in honor of Amanda! The Rookery at Fort Leavenworth may be the oldest building in Kansas, built in 1834. 36 8/28/2014 The first governor of Kansas Territory, 3 22 0 2 27 Andrew Reeder, lived here in 1854. This building was documented for the Historic

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American Buildings Survey in 1958 (http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/ks0019/) and is considered a contributing resource to the Fort Leavenworth National Historic District (listed in 1960). #HeritageArea30 This week is the 30th anniversary of National Heritage Areas! Take some time soon to visit the sites in eastern Kansas and western Missouri that make up the Freedom's Frontier National Heritage Area. 37 8/27/2014 0 15 0 4 19 In fact, some of those sites are also Kansas State Historic Sites such as Mine Creek Battlefield near Pleasanton, KS, which is celebrating its own anniversary later this year. #HeritageArea30 Two Kansas grantees are seeking qualified preservation consultants for survey projects. Both Douglas County and the City of Humboldt received Historic Preservation 38 8/25/2014 Fund grants in 2014 to conduct surveys of 0 5 0 1 6 particulars areas within their jurisdiction. Interested in applying? See our webpage for more information: http://www.kshs.org/16496. The 2014 Kansas Preservation Conference is less than a month away! Visit our website to hear about the exciting tours, speakers 39 8/25/2014 0 0 0 1 1 and CLG Training and to register! http://kpalliance.org/annualpreservationconf erence.html Do you love all things Mod? Does Modern Architecture get your heart thumping like it does ours? Don't miss out on Museum After 40 8/22/2014 2 13 0 7 22 Hours: Night on Madison Avenue, where you can live, breathe, dance and drink in all things Mod! #MAHkshs Crunching some numbers today related to buildings constructed in Kansas Territory, 1854 to 1860 (because really, we don't expect anything was built in January 1861...but of course, we never know). One 41 8/21/2014 of the most common building forms is the 7 29 0 2 38 simple gable-front stone building, like the Judge Hanway House in Franklin County. Anyone want to guess how many confirmed (not estimated) territorial buildings we have found in the state?

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KSHPO - Kansas State Historic 42 8/20/2014 Preservation Office shared Johnson County 1 14 0 0 15 Museum's photo. KSHPO - Kansas State Historic 43 8/19/2014 Preservation Office shared Ellis County 0 7 0 0 7 Historical Society's photo. The Smoky Valley Historical Association was awarded an HTF grant this year to help fund repairs to the Castle observation deck at Coronado Heights near Lindsborg. Work is scheduled to begin on that portion of the 44 8/19/2014 1 19 0 2 22 site next spring, but efforts are still underway to raise additional funding for other needs inside the park. Cornado Heights was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 2010. The Girl Scout Little House in Ashland (Clark County) was built in 1937 as a 45 8/18/2014 Works Progress Administration project. Do 6 20 0 3 29 you know of any other historic Girl Scout Little Houses in Kansas? Did someone say school's back in session already? Well, here's a pretty school in Arvonia (Osage County) to make you happy. It was listed in the National Register 46 8/14/2014 21 22 0 3 46 of Historic Places - NPS in 2012. For more info: http://khri.kansasgis.org/index.cfm?in=139- 0000-00001 KSHPO - Kansas State Historic 47 8/13/2014 Preservation Office shared Kansas 0 5 0 0 5 Preservation Alliance's post. Do you know about Mesker facades? Did you know that there are over 100 of them in 48 8/12/2014 Kansas? 11 74 0 15 100 http://meskerbrothers.wordpress.com/2013/ 10/11/100-plus-recorded-in-kansas/ Kansas Preservation Alliance is seeking nominations for their Awards for Excellence 49 8/10/2014 0 4 0 2 6 program. See their website for more information. So many great properties on today's agenda. 50 8/9/2014 Don't forget we are live tweeting 2 32 0 2 36 @KansasHistory The Soule Canal is the first on our agenda 51 8/9/2014 0 28 0 6 34 today. We are presenting a historic context

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and two segments for listing. The Canal was named for Investor Asa Soule from Rochester, NY who financed this irrigation venture into SW Kansas. The canal held water when it rained, but was not successful otherwise! Pretty sure this is the prettiest Review Board 52 8/9/2014 0 11 0 0 11 Meeting we have ever had! We are getting ready for the August meeting of the Historic Sites Board of Review at the 53 8/9/2014 0 5 0 0 5 Kansas State Capitol. Join us starting at 9am! In honor of #PhotoFriday, this historic image along the Soule Canal should get you excited for the Historic Sites Board of Review meeting tomorrow. Two segments 54 8/8/2014 of the Soule Canal are going to be 0 20 0 6 26 nominated for the National Register tomorrow. The meeting will be at the Old Supreme Court Room 346-S in the Capitol building. Limited space is available for a 5-day window repair boot camp this September 15-19! Come work with Bob Yapp at the 55 8/6/2014 Constitution Hall State Historic Site in 1 15 0 6 22 Lecompton and learn to repair wooden window sashes. Registration includes lunch each day. MJ Morgan, professor at K-State, will be speaking at the 2014 Kansas Preservation Conference in Emporia on September 12th. She was featured this morning on Kansas 56 8/5/2014 Public Radio discussing her research into 44 47 0 11 102 lost communities in Kansas. http://www.kansaspublicradio.org/news/910 9-ksu-professor-researches-lost-ks- communities Kristen's back today! And she brought us a 57 8/4/2014 6 117 0 0 123 new Tax Credit Reviewer, her son Gabe! Abilene got some love from the National Register of Historic Places - NPS Facebook page yesterday! "John W. Birchmore House, 58 8/4/2014 in Abilene, Kansas. Completed in 1878, the 0 13 0 2 15 residence is a good example of the Second Empire style executed on a single-family residence in Abilene. The Second Empire

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style was popular in residential architecture in the United States from 1855 to 1885, though less popular in Kansas than its contemporary, the ltalianate style. http://www.nps.gov/nr/feature/places/14000 116.htm " Three masonry-arch bridges in Mitchell County were listed in the National Register 59 8/1/2014 13 89 0 7 109 of Historic Places - NPS on July 25! #ksbridges Registration for the 2014 Kansas Preservation Conference is now open at 60 7/31/2014 0 1 0 0 1 http://kpalliance.org/annualpreservationconf erence.html. You guys! It's the last day of National Ice Cream Month! Where will you go today to celebrate? Here's a 1950s photo of Fairmont's Ice Cream in Iola. Is this 61 7/31/2014 15 39 0 4 58 building still standing? (Photo from Kansas Memory, http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/216502 ) Did you know that the NPS's Preservation 62 7/30/2014 0 4 0 0 4 Briefs are online? KSHPO - Kansas State Historic 63 7/30/2014 Preservation Office shared Kansas 0 1 0 1 2 Historical Society's photo. The National Register-listed Coal Creek 64 7/28/2014 Library in Vinland is maintained and run by 0 16 0 1 17 dedicated volunteers. This is great to see! Two historic buildings in Kansas are award winners this year for the use of copper in their restoration. Both the Kansas State 65 7/25/2014 Capitol in Topeka and Building 52 at Fort 0 12 0 0 12 Leavenworth used copper in beautiful ways. http://www.copper.org/applications/architec ture/awards/winners.html 66 7/25/2014 Save the date! 0 6 0 0 6 The Kansas Historic Sites Board of Review will consider a nomination to the National Register of Historic Places for the Handel T. 67 7/24/2014 1 5 0 0 6 Martin house (in Lawrence) on August 9. Check our Facebook page or follow @kansashistory on August 9 for results. 68 7/24/2014 Here are some photos of what we lost 0 23 0 0 23

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yesterday in Abilene. To read more about the significance of this building, see the National Register nomination: http://www.kshs.org/resource/national_regis ter/nominationsNRDB/Dickinson_FirstPres byterianChurchofAbileneNR.pdf Fire claimed another historic building Wednesday evening in Abilene. The 1881 First Presbyterian Church had been 69 7/23/2014 4 6 0 7 17 converted to the Great Plains Theatre. It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. http://tinyurl.com/owpyyxn Want to know more about the Rehabilitation 70 7/23/2014 Tax Credit program? Sign up for this free 0 7 0 0 7 webinar from the NPS! Amanda and Sarah are sorting through original plans for the Meade Fish Hatchery. The plans were saved from the trash by our 71 7/22/2014 friend Larry Lemaster. Now, SHPO staff are 1 21 0 0 22 scanning select pages and will return the originals back to Meade county for local archiving. This is a mystery house! Located near Silver Lake in Shawnee County, the house is along US-24 Hwy and near the old Ft. Leavenworth-Ft. Riley Military Road. Earliest estimates date this house to 1827, saying that it was built as an agency house. But we're skeptical (though we'd believe 72 7/17/2014 1850s-1860s). Help us solve this mystery! 1 22 0 1 24 On a fun note, it was documented by the Historic American Buildings Survey in 1958. [Helpful links: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/ks0038/ & http://khri.kansasgis.org/index.cfm?in=177- 0000-00002] @Heritage Documentation Programs, NPS Katrina spent Wednesday afternoon learning 73 7/16/2014 valuable new ways to provide preservation 1 6 0 0 7 training at NAPC Forum in Philadelphia. Serious preservation love to our neighbor 74 7/15/2014 Colorado. Click the link to see what this 0 26 0 0 26 house looks like today! Way to go! KSHPO - Kansas State Historic 75 7/15/2014 Preservation Office shared Kansas 0 2 0 0 2 Preservation Alliance's post.

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More photos from our morning at the 76 7/14/2014 0 14 0 1 15 Capitol! It's beautiful! You should visit! 77 7/14/2014 KSHS staff are touring the Capitol today! 0 25 0 0 25 Kansas Museum of History opens new 'Real 78 7/11/2014 0 7 0 1 8 People' gallery 79 7/11/2014 Some Friday humor for you. 1 22 0 4 27 KSHPO - Kansas State Historic 80 7/10/2014 Preservation Office shared Kansas 0 5 0 0 5 Historical Society's photo. "The cities and the projects vary widely, but the results are the same—when the private sector rehabilitates a building utilizing the historic tax credit there are positive benefits that ripple throughout the community." A 81 7/9/2014 0 7 0 1 8 recent report by the National Trust for Historic Preservation investigates how individual #historictaxcredits projects impact the surrounding neighborhood. Read the full report: http://bit.ly/VVe2FM KSHPO - Kansas State Historic 82 7/8/2014 Preservation Office shared Kansas 0 4 0 1 5 Historical Society - Teachers's photo. Did you know that back issues of the 83 7/8/2014 Kansas Preservation newsletter are available 0 10 0 4 14 online at kshs.org/15064? Check them out! History And Future of Kansas City Scottish 84 7/8/2014 0 2 0 0 2 Rite Temple Here's another gorgeous stone house, surveyed by our friend Lori Halfhide at the Cloud County Museum. A little digging showed us this house, built in 1877 near Randall in Jewell County, belonged to the Pelster family until at least 1921. The Pelsters, originally from Prussia, settled in 85 7/2/2014 21 109 0 9 139 Jewell County in the 1870s. Sadly, it seems Mr. William Pelster, Sr., died soon after the house was built, as the land patent, dated 1879, was to Minnie Pelster, widow of William. #KSvernacular (KHRI info: http://khri.kansasgis.org/index.cfm?in=089- 130). The last grant workshop of the summer is coming up! On Tuesday, July 8th staff from 86 7/1/2014 0 12 0 6 18 both the Kansas Humanities Council and the Kansas SHPO will present information on

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grant programs for humanities projects and historic preservation. Join us in the classrooms of the Kansas Historical Society at 6425 SW 6th in Topeka from 1 - 5 pm. KSHPO - Kansas State Historic 87 6/30/2014 Preservation Office shared Leavenworth 0 6 0 0 6 County Historical Society's photo. Kim is having way too much fun at the steel window repair workshop in Wichita this week. Katrina stopped by yesterday to see 88 6/27/2014 0 17 0 0 17 how things were going. Jim Turner was teaching the class how to cut laminated glass. HINT: It involves fire! A new video about vacant (not blighted) buildings in Detroit has something to offer for all communities. Once a building is 89 6/27/2014 1 4 0 1 6 demolished, the opportunities for revitalization are lost too. http://vimeo.com/96926735 Just so you know, our archeologists are superstars. They rarely pass up the opportunity to survey buildings when they're out looking at dirt. State Archeologist, Bob Hoard, found this lil beauty up in Cloud County. Interestingly, J.R. Bray carved his name and the date 1877 into one of the lintels. Using that info, we spent a few minutes looking at the BLM patent records and county atlases to get a better idea of this house. Bray received the 90 6/26/2014 18 98 0 10 126 patent in 1882 in accordance with the 1862 Homestead Act, so this may very well have been a claim house if the 1877 date is believable. He owned the property at least through 1885 (by 1901, the First Nat'l Bank of Concordia owned the property). See? Survey is fun! Here's the link to the BLM site: http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/search/defa ult.aspx#searchTabIndex=0&searchByType Index=0 (Cloud County Museum) Kim is in Wichita this week learning all 91 6/25/2014 about steel window repair. Check out what 3 23 0 1 27 she has done already! Another pretty barn in Kansas. This one was 92 6/24/2014 1 16 0 1 18 listed in the National Register of Historic

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Places - NPS in January 2000. None are in Kansas, but there are some 93 6/24/2014 0 1 0 1 2 interesting ones on here. 94 6/23/2014 One of the 20 is in the US! 0 5 0 0 5 We sure do love our Kansas barns. This one 95 6/19/2014 is near Towanda. Kansas Barn Alliance 16 81 0 7 104 #ksbarns Even if you haven't signed up, we would still love to see you at the grant workshop in Hays this coming Monday, June 23rd. Both 96 6/18/2014 the Kansas Humanities Council and SHPO 0 3 0 1 4 staff will present information on grant programs. Can't make it to Hays? We'll have another workshop on July 8th in Topeka. Hoch Auditorium (Budig Hall) is a 97 6/16/2014 contributing resource in the University of 0 5 0 0 5 Kansas Historic District. SHPO staff led a survey class this morning 98 6/13/2014 in Osawatomie, where we surveyed Rock 1 14 0 0 15 Haven. Sarah is sharing information about the National Register of Historic Places at the 99 6/12/2014 Our Town workshop in Osawatomie today. 0 9 0 0 9 Staff will be here all day today and tomorrow. Join us if you can! We received this inquiry today, "Are there any currently active hardware stores in 100 6/12/2014 11 0 0 1 12 Kansas with wood floors?" Post your answers here, and share photos if you want! Join us 6:30 p.m. tonight, June 10 for Repair Not Replace: How to Care for Your House and Neighborhood here at the Kansas Historical Society. KSHS staff members will provide tips on maintaining and repairing an old house and share checklists 101 6/10/2014 1 10 0 2 13 for seasonal and routine maintenance. Focus will be given to the importance of proper maintenance and basic historic preservation techniques. Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library staff members will highlight home repair titles in the library collections. KSHPO - Kansas State Historic 102 6/9/2014 Preservation Office shared National 0 11 0 0 11 Register of Historic Places - NPS's post.

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On this anniversary of D-Day, take some time to read about the WWII airbases in Kansas at http://www.kshs.org/resource/survey/ww2ai 103 6/6/2014 0 20 0 3 23 rbasessurveyreport.pdf (2008). "Eighteen Kansas airfields contributed to the World War II fight, 16 Army airfields (AAF) and two Naval air stations (NAS)." Did you know that the 1877 Soldiers' Monument in Osawatomie is listed in the National Register of Historic Places - NPS? This monument marks the location of and is 104 6/5/2014 a memorial to those men who were killed 0 8 0 0 8 defending the city in the second Battle of Osawatomie, 08/30/1856. For more info: http://khri.kansasgis.org/index.cfm?in=121- 342 Applications for the 2015 Heritage Trust Fund grant round are now available online at http://www.kshs.org/p/heritage-trust- 105 6/3/2014 fund/14617. Join us June 23rd in Hays or 0 12 0 1 13 July 8th in Topeka for grant workshops including grant information from the Kansas Humanities Council. And SHPO staff will be there June 12-13, presenting hands-on activities focused on surveying cultural resources and assessing 106 6/2/2014 maintenance needs during this two-day 0 2 0 0 2 class. For more info, see http://www.kshs.org/preserve/pdfs/Our%20 Town_Osawatomie_flyer.pdf Less than two weeks until the SHPO staff will be in Osawatomie! Will we see you there? We'll have information on how to research your historic building and how to 107 5/30/2014 inventory the historic properties in your 0 3 0 0 3 community. We'll present details on funding sources for historic preservation and give you advice on property maintenance. Come ask your hardest questions! Survey Lesson of the Day: Buildings aren't always what they seem. Take this building (yes, it's the same building) at 700 N Main 108 5/29/2014 St in Newton, for example. Based on 1 18 0 1 20 previous surveys and the NR nomination, it was assumed the current iteration was mostly done in the 1930s. Thanks to Billi

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Wilson & the Harvey County Historical Society in Newton, we discovered this week that the facade was significantly altered in 1961 (date of first image). Conclusion? Historic images are vital, so be sure to consult your local historical society when conducting research on a building. For more information, see KHRI: http://khri.kansasgis.org/index.cfm?in=079- 977 The latest issue of Kansas Preservation newsletter is now available online. Read all about early Kansas dugouts and the Dalton 109 5/29/2014 0 15 0 5 20 Gang's hideout in Meade. http://www.kshs.org/p/kansas-preservation- volume-36-number-1/18641 Join us 6:30 p.m. Thursday, June 5 for Loving Your Stuff: Furniture Edition at Marvin Auditorium, 101C, at the Topeka & 110 5/28/2014 Shawnee County Public Library. Learn how 0 2 0 0 2 to clean, display, and care for heirloom and antique furniture. Also learn when to call a professional conservator. Admission is free. The 2014 Sundown Film Festival starts June 111 5/28/2014 13 right here at the Kansas Historical 0 5 0 0 5 Society in Topeka. Just a reminder that the City of Wichita's 112 5/27/2014 steel window repair workshop is just around 0 0 0 0 0 the corner. Are you going? Sarah surveyed these beauties near Towanda in Butler County yesterday. The 113 5/23/2014 5 51 0 1 57 new owners are hard at work restoring the house and hope to save the barn, too! What was that? You want to see some pretty 114 5/22/2014 pictures of Spring Hill Ranch's Main 1 29 0 2 32 House? Okay. Here you go. #presmonth Sarah & Amanda got outside yesterday to survey the Lantry Farmstead (aka Deer Park Place) in Strong City. One of the resources we were just so delighted by was this early 20th century hollow-clay tile barn. The 115 5/21/2014 2 28 0 1 31 builders made sure to put small details into the design, including turning the tiles on end to create quoins at the corners. And we're wondering if the cupola and sliding doors were re-purposed from an older barn.

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Anyway, here's your barn-fix for the day. #presmonth #KSbarns Kansas Barn Alliance KSHPO - Kansas State Historic 116 5/21/2014 Preservation Office shared Kansas 0 0 0 0 0 Historical Society's photo. What a difference an awning can make! The Shay Building in Sterling, KS has been undergoing rehabilitation work in recent years and looks great, but the addition of 117 5/20/2014 these pretty awnings is like icing on the 1 12 0 1 14 cake. Find out more about the Shay Building at http://khri.kansasgis.org/index.cfm?in=159- 5225-00012. 118 5/19/2014 Grants Workshop - Hays 0 0 1 0 1 119 5/19/2014 Grants Workshop - Topeka 0 0 1 0 1 KSHPO - Kansas State Historic 120 5/16/2014 Preservation Office shared National Trust 0 3 0 0 3 for Historic Preservation's photo. KSHPO - Kansas State Historic 121 5/16/2014 Preservation Office shared Ronald Raymer's 0 17 0 0 17 photo. Do You Know: the Heritage Trust Fund (HTF) is a state program that provides matching funds for the preservation of properties listed in the National Register of Historic Places - NPS and/or the Register of 122 5/15/2014 0 5 0 0 5 Historic Kansas Places. Hutchinson's Sylvan Grove Park Pavilion was rehabilitated through an HTF grant in 2013. More info on HTF: http://www.kshs.org/p/heritage-trust- fund/14617 #presmonth KSHPO - Kansas State Historic 123 5/15/2014 Preservation Office shared US National 1 9 0 0 10 Archives's photo. Will we see you in Osawatomie? SHPO staff will be in Osawatomie, KS this June presenting a two-day class on the basics of 124 5/14/2014 1 0 0 0 1 preservation. The class is free and open to the public. Just give us a call to reserve your seat! KSHPO - Kansas State Historic 125 5/14/2014 Preservation Office shared KCMODERN's 0 2 0 0 2 photo.

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KSHPO - Kansas State Historic 126 5/13/2014 Preservation Office shared Historic Kansas 0 7 0 0 7 City's post. Kansans have been great about using the Tax Credit Programs to restore their historic 127 5/13/2014 0 7 0 0 7 barns! But we can always do a better job spreading the work! Our Twitter feed isn't just for our Quarterly Review Board meetings. You can keep up with the latest on the Historic Preservation Office, Kansas Archaeology, our Historic 128 5/12/2014 0 1 0 0 1 Sites and more @KansasHistory. Doing something fun and interesting that we might like to see? use the #KSHistory to share on Twitter or Facebook! Seven years ago this week (May 4), the city of Greensburg was devastated by an EF5 tornado. The only surviving building in the 129 5/9/2014 downtown was this 1915 Robinett Building. 7 70 0 4 81 Through historic preservation tax credits, the Robinette Building was restored as part of the rebuilding effort. #presmonth This is a handy tool for writing those 130 5/7/2014 0 0 0 1 1 architectural descriptions. Classic Kansas scene; A stormy sky is the 131 5/7/2014 backdrop for lush green wheat and a most 23 89 0 7 119 beautiful historic farmhouse. Will you be in the Topeka area this weekend? Come see us at the Topeka & Shawnee County Library on Saturday, May 10 from 10 am - 3 pm for the Topeka Neighborhood Fair. Kansas Historical 132 5/6/2014 0 4 0 0 4 Society staff members will be on hand to answer questions about the National Register of Historic Places and financial incentives available for historic preservation projects. KSHPO - Kansas State Historic 133 5/5/2014 Preservation Office shared Ronald Raymer's 0 17 0 0 17 photo. We are moving through our Historic Sites Board of Review meeting this morning. Currently we are reviewing "Lawrence 134 5/3/2014 1 27 0 3 31 Modern 1945-1975" an architectural history document that provides the history of Modern Architecture in Lawrence, KS

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Lawrence Modern The board voted on the Historic Preservation Fund Grant awards this 135 5/3/2014 0 2 0 0 2 morning. Congrats to those awarded grants! Lets get busy preserving! Moving quickly through the National 136 5/3/2014 National Register of Historic Places - NPS 0 0 0 0 0 nominations this morning. Happy Review Board Day! Follow us on 137 5/3/2014 Twitter @KansasHistory for the up to date 1 6 0 0 7 happenings Check out this house in Newton! Current owner discovered it is actually two old boxcars, which were then covered with siding and a gable roof. Here's to Kansas 138 5/2/2014 29 57 0 15 101 ingenuity. So cool. First photo is from 08/2012 Google Streetview; second photo is the uncovered house. #presmonth #KSvernacular Oh boy! A whole month dedicated to 139 5/1/2014 0 8 0 0 8 Historic Preservation! #presmonth We have a lot of neat resources to admire in Kansas. This album celebrates success 140 5/1/2014 stories and shows losses of some of our 0 4 0 0 4 historic buildings, landscapes, etc. #presmonth 141 5/1/2014 Happy Preservation Month!!!!! 0 8 0 1 9 A great anecdote from the Goodnow House State Historic Site in Manhattan. Buildings 142 4/29/2014 1 15 0 0 16 tell us lots of stories. What's your favorite quirky building story? THIS SATURDAY is the quarterly Historic Sites Board of Review meeting where applications are considered for nominations to the National Register of Historic Places - NPS and the Register of Historic Kansas 143 4/28/2014 Places. The public is welcome to attend this 1 6 0 0 7 meeting, which will be held here in Topeka at the Kansas Historical Society. To view the agenda and draft nominations, go here: http://www.kshs.org/p/pending-nationalregister-nominations/14633 Ok, for Find It Friday, anyone know where 144 4/25/2014 4 5 0 0 9 in Kansas this restored beauty is?

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THROWBACK THURSDAY! Did you know that the National Register-listed 1849 Pottawatomie (Potawatomi) Baptist Mission building, located here at the Kansas 145 4/24/2014 0 25 0 2 27 Historical Society, was converted to a barn for race horses in the late 1800s? The building was returned to its earlier form in the 1990s. #TBT We're hoping a little research on this log house in Wabaunsee County will point to 146 4/23/2014 4 37 0 1 42 territorial origins. Whatever the case, we were delighted to come upon it. Got rusty metal windows? The City of Wichita will host a week-long workshop in June featuring window restoration expert, Jim Turner. See the attached flyer for more 147 4/22/2014 details. This workshop is partially funded by 0 4 0 1 5 a Historic Preservation Fund Grant from Kansas State Historic Preservation Office. The workshop is also sponsored by AIA Wichita and the City of Wichita. The "Doughboy" statue is commonly found throughout the state. This one is in 148 4/18/2014 Leavenworth, but others are in Parsons, 0 2 0 0 2 Wilson, Olathe, Onaga, and Oakley. (Photo from Kansas Memory) Both The University of Kansas (Lawrence) & Kansas State University (Manhattan) 149 4/18/2014 0 4 0 0 4 have a memorial stadium dedicated to their students who served in the war. These two memorial arches were erected in the early 1920s to commemorate those who served and died in World War I. On the left is the Rosedale Arch (Kansas City, KS); it was listed in the National Register of 150 4/18/2014 0 1 0 0 1 Historic Places - NPS in 1977. The right photo is the arch at the University of St. Marys in Pottawatomie County. Over 750 students from the college served; 24 men were killed. The c.1920 Memorial Hall in Osawatomie's 151 4/18/2014 John Brown Memorial Park was built to 0 2 0 0 2 honor those who served in World War I. Here are two Victory Eagles that were 152 4/18/2014 originally located along US-40 Hwy, which 0 3 0 1 4 was known as the Victory Highway, in

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honor of those who served in WWI. The left is now on the KU campus; the right is in Topeka's Gage Park. The eagle, created under the direction of ornithologists Drs. Thomas F. Roberts & Otto Widman, is meant to symbolize the protection the USA gives its people. Not a memorial or monument, but this handsome soldier is our SHPO archeologist, Tim Weston's, grandfather, Walter 153 4/18/2014 0 4 0 0 4 Lawrence Weston. The photo was taken during World War I. Cpt. Weston was stationed in France. This photo was submitted by Keith Sprunger. Located on the Harvey County Courthouse lawn, this bench in Newton reads, "In memory of those who died -- in 154 4/18/2014 0 4 0 0 4 honor of those who served in the World War. Erected by the Order of the Gold Star for the Boys of Harvey County. #ICOMOS2014 SHPO staff will be in Osawatomie, KS this June presenting a two-day class on the 155 4/15/2014 basics of preservation. The class is free and 0 4 0 2 6 open to the public. Just give us a call to reserve your seat! 156 4/15/2014 Our Town: Osawatomie 0 0 2 0 2 Do you have a Garlinghouse Company catalog house? This Topeka-based company was a major publisher of house plan catalogs. This website includes 94 digitized 157 4/14/2014 0 5 0 0 5 Garlinghouse catalogs (just enter the search term "Garlinghouse": https://archive.org/details/buildingtechnolog yheritagelibrary Kansas has some incredible buildings. One of the things Amanda loves most about surveying is the chance to see such a diversity of resources. As this is National 158 4/11/2014 4 35 0 4 43 Architecture Week she's been thinking about what her favorite building in Kansas is, but she can't pick just one. Here are three neat ones! #ArchWeek14 The Kansas Historical Society, in 159 4/10/2014 partnership with the Topeka & Shawnee 1 7 0 3 11 County Public Library and the Topeka

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Landmarks Commission, is hosting an appraisal fair on Saturday, April 19. See this link for details: http://kshs.org/event/kansas- historical-society-preserve-topeka- workshop-series-loving-your-stuff-gems-in- the-attic/18524 This fantastic stone storm water drainage 160 4/10/2014 tunnel in East Lawrence dates to the late 11 34 0 7 52 19th century. Ken and Katrina braved wind and miles of highway construction yesterday to visit the 1916 Kirwin City Hall in Phillips County. 161 4/9/2014 Have you ever been to Kirwin? If you get 0 12 0 1 13 the chance, visit the library now housed in the building and tell everyone we said "hello". Second floor of library housed in the 162 4/8/2014 0 0 0 0 0 historic Kirwin City Hall. It's National Architecture Week. Here's a fun contest sponsored by The American 163 4/7/2014 0 4 0 0 4 Institute of Architects; what's your favorite Kansas building? #archweek14 KSHPO documented the Rush County Line Bridge for its latest Historic American Engineering Record project. The WPA- 164 4/4/2014 4 20 0 2 26 built, triple span stone arch bridge is slated for demolition, but the Library of Congress- archived visual record lives on! The Kansas Preservation Alliance is seeking help from supporters this evening, concerning the Docking State Office Building: "Fellow supporters we need your help. The Kansas Dept. of Administration is looking to demolish their Docking State Office Building which is one of the only examples of groundbreaking modern office high-rise architecture and construction in 165 4/3/2014 0 6 0 1 7 the Midwest. In order to stop or postpone this Senate Bill 423 (which is getting the funding in order to demolish the Docking building) we need supporters in the room at 5:00 pm this evening! It is very important to get as many advocates as possible into Statehouse Room 112 North to attend this legislative discussion (park in north basement garage). Supporters may not be

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asked to speak, but they can show support by attending. Visits with legislative committee members before and during breaks is encouraged." Read more about the issue here, http://kpalliance.org/images/sb423.pdf On this day (April 3) last year, French Frank's Santa Fe Trail Segment was listed in the National Register of Historic Places. During work on the nomination, Frank (real 166 4/3/2014 0 28 0 2 30 name, Francis Laloge) became an unofficial mascot of the SHPO. In honor of Mr. Laloge, today we celebrated the first annual French Frank Day with games and food. Registration is extended to April 4th. Don't miss out on this opportunity to hear from great preservation experts! The City of Hutchinson is hosting a full-day workshop on maintaining your historic property featuring masonry and timber expert, Mark 167 4/2/2014 Liebman and nationally-recognized historic 0 2 0 0 2 preservation expert, Bob Yapp. Cost for this full-day workshop is $20, which includes a buffet lunch, drinks and snacks. Funding for this event is partially provided by a Historic Preservation Fund grant from the Kansas SHPO. Did we get you yesterday? Well, Amanda & Sarah really did see Benedict while out on a 168 4/2/2014 site visit yesterday: it's a tiny town in 0 19 0 0 19 Wilson County. Here's a great Craftsman house down there: Amanda & Sarah saw Benedict while out on 169 4/1/2014 11 16 0 2 29 a site visit today! Whoa! We are hearing some great case studies about copper, slate and clay tile roofing. 170 3/28/2014 Including a discussion about the Statehouse 0 4 0 0 4 Dome! Thanks Julia Manglitz of Treanor Architects We're at the APT symposium learning about 171 3/28/2014 2 2 0 0 4 the history of architectural copper! KSHPO - Kansas State Historic 172 3/28/2014 Preservation Office shared Kristen Lonard- 0 3 0 0 3 Johnston's photo. We know there are some great Kansas 173 3/27/2014 1 4 0 0 5 landscapes out there (especially historic

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ones)! Snap away everyone! KSHS archeologist, Gina Powell, was recently surveying along US-400 in Butler County when she spied this awesome 174 3/27/2014 concrete abutment for the old St. Louis-San 1 39 0 4 44 Francisco Railroad. (KHRI: http://khri.kansasgis.org/index.cfm?in=015- 794) #kansasbridges A current view of the Beecher Bible and Rifle Church in Wabaunsee County, KS. The building was listed to the National 175 3/25/2014 Register of Historic Places in 1971. The 0 20 0 4 24 stone church was constructed in 1862. Read more about the building's history at http://tinyurl.com/oo2tb2x. KSHS posted this historic photo today of the Beecher Bible & Rifle Church in Wabaunsee County from the Kansas Memory collection. Check it out and see the 176 3/25/2014 2 17 0 0 19 documentation done by the Library of Congress through the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) program at http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/ks0039/. Is your rural Kansas community looking for some ways to redevelop your historic downtown and engage people in growing 177 3/24/2014 local business? Take a look at this 0 5 0 2 7 opportunity from the Citizens' Institute on Rural Design. The last of these projects in Kansas was in 2004. It's time for another! Here's a helpful link outlining all the national, state, and local levels of 178 3/24/2014 0 2 0 0 2 designation for historic properties. Check it out! How about this nice looking Squires Barn out in Mitchell County for your Friday? This is the only barn we know of in Kansas 179 3/21/2014 2 32 0 3 37 with this sassy roof. Share others in the comments! #kansasbarns Kansas Barn Alliance A resurvey of this Anderson County dwelling revealed a surprisingly intact and potentially highly significant resource. More 180 3/19/2014 26 117 0 17 160 research is needed, but the building was likely built ca. 1858 - during the territorial era! (More photos here:

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http://khri.kansasgis.org/index.cfm?in=003- 0000-00007) KSHPO - Kansas State Historic 181 3/18/2014 Preservation Office shared Heritage 0 4 0 0 4 Documentation Programs, NPS's photo. Check out these great properties in Leoti, Wichita County that our staff recently visited! That's the newly restored 182 3/17/2014 Washington House, the New Deal-era City 2 27 0 2 31 Hall, and the Wichita County Courthouse. (And, we learned it's pronounced Lee-oh- tuh.) Today is March 14th, or 3/14, or national Pi day 3.1459... In the spirit of combining circles and historic structures, we would like 183 3/14/2014 to share this Round Barn with you today: 9 49 0 10 68 The Thompson-Wohlschlegel Round Barn in Harper County. Pretty sure they used their geometry to build this one! An example of why reconnaissance survey 184 3/13/2014 0 2 0 0 2 is so important...and so easy to do. 185 3/12/2014 Too cool not to share! 0 9 0 0 9 The City of Topeka is implementing a "10 most endangered" program to bring attention to historic resources around town 186 3/12/2014 that need help. Has your community done 0 5 0 0 5 something similar? What else are communities doing to protect historic resources in your area? March 8th is International Women's Day! To celebrate we want to highlight a great historic property and a great story. Susanna Madora Salter was elected mayor of Argonia, KS in 1887 becoming the first 187 3/7/2014 1 17 0 2 20 female mayor in the United States. The house where she and her family resided in Argonia was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1971. Read more about Susanna at http://www.kshs.org/13106. To celebrate the International Day for Monuments and Sites on April 18, 2014, we are soliciting photographs of monuments, 188 3/6/2014 memorials, landscapes, etc. in Kansas that 0 11 0 4 15 commemorate World War I. These photographs will expand our knowledge of commemorative sites in the state dedicated

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to this world event and will provide places and objects for future survey. Photographs can be submitted via the Kansas SHPO Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/KSHPO) or via an email to [email protected]. Photographs will be posted to our Facebook page throughout the day on April 18. Select photographs may also be featured in an upcoming issue of Kansas Preservation (digital version of this newsletter available at http://www.kshs.org/p/kansas- preservation/15064). For more information on the International Day for Monuments and Sites, see http://icomos.org/en/what-we- do/focus/18-april-international-day-for- monuments-and-sites #ICOMOS Don't forget maintenance! The City of Hutchinson is hosting a full-day workshop on maintaining your historic property featuring masonry and timber expert, Mark Liebman and nationally-recognized historic preservation expert, Bob Yapp. Cost for this 189 3/6/2014 0 6 0 1 7 full-day workshop is $20, which includes a buffet lunch, drinks and snacks. Sign up early, as space is limited. Funding for this event is partially provided by a Historic Preservation Fund grant from the Kansas SHPO. KSHPO - Kansas State Historic 190 3/6/2014 Preservation Office shared Heritage & 0 2 0 0 2 Historic Preservation - NPS's photo. Bluemont Youth Cabin was featured on Saturday (http://khri.kansasgis.org/index.cfm?in=161 191 3/4/2014 0 3 0 1 4 -2727)! National Register of Historic Places - NPS Manhattan/Riley County Preservation Alliance Are you an architecture/engineering/landscape 192 3/4/2014 architecture student interested in historic 2 4 0 0 6 preservation? Consider this summer job, then! Ooo! Look who's featured on the National Register of Historic Places - NPS Facebook 193 3/4/2014 0 8 0 0 8 page today! (More info on this school here: http://khri.kansasgis.org/index.cfm?in=045-

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0000-00313) The Queen-Anne style home of Governor Alfred Landon was built in 1901 in Independence, KS. It was moved in 2005 to save it from demolition and has been 194 3/4/2014 undergoing rehabilitation by the 3 32 0 5 40 Independence Historical Museum. They recently completed a Heritage Trust Fund grant project on home's first floor, restoring many of its original features. Sarah visited these two Congregational churches last week - one in Independence 195 3/3/2014 (left) and the other in Anthony (right). We're 0 22 0 0 22 working these buildings through the National Register process! Sarah & Amanda also visited Troy on Thursday and slammed on their brakes to 196 2/28/2014 1 31 0 0 32 look at this brick beauty (who was being watched over by a cute kitty)! Sarah & Amanda visited Lincoln School in 197 2/27/2014 0 33 0 4 37 Elwood (Doniphan Co.). Tim Weston and Kim Gant visited three 198 2/26/2014 1 16 0 1 18 states yesterday all at one time! The National Park Service just launched a newly updated website featuring the Certified Local Government program! It's 199 2/25/2014 now easier to find a CLG near you - like the 0 3 0 0 3 17 here in Kansas. Check it out at http://www.nps.gov/history/hpg/local/clg.ht ml. A lot of our staff is out traveling on Site Visits today. So don't be surprised if you suddenly see a state car pull over and 200 2/25/2014 4 19 0 4 27 someone with a camera jump out to take a picture of a building, or a bridge or anything else really cool in our state! The integration of relief sculpture and modern architecture is relatively rare. For the Docking Building(see yesterday's post), Bernard Frazier, a regionally famous 201 2/21/2014 sculptor, created low and high relief 7 25 0 3 35 sculptures depicting events in Kansas history. These works off art add yet another layer of significance to the Docking Building.

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Did you know that the 1957 Kansas State Office Building (aka the Docking Building) was one of the first (if not the first) public buildings in Kansas to successfully apply the principles of the Modern Movement? This building is an integral piece to the architectural history surrounding the newly restored Kansas State Capitol. This unique collection of architecture encompasses over 202 2/20/2014 100 years of design, including 19 25 0 7 51 Neoclassicism, Brutalism, Modernism, and Postmodernism. To read more about the Docking Building, check out the article in Kansas Preservation: http://khri.kansasgis.org/index.cfm?in=177- 3153. (The image below was taken in 1957 and is from Kansas Memory: http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/216475 ) Maintenance may seem scary, but stay calm because help is on the way! The City of Hutchinson is hosting a full-day workshop on maintaining your historic property featuring masonry and timber expert, Mark Liebman and nationally-recognized historic 203 2/18/2014 preservation expert, Bob Yapp. Cost for this 0 10 0 0 10 full-day workshop is $20, which includes a buffet lunch, drinks and snacks. Sign up early, as space is limited. Funding for this event is partially provided by a Historic Preservation Fund grant from the Kansas SHPO. For our architecture-buff friends within the KTWU public television viewing area, don't miss tonight's 8 PM showing of the documentary on Filippo Brunelleschi and 204 2/17/2014 1 5 0 0 6 the construction of Florence's Il Duomo. (Channel 11.3 Enhance) http://www.pbs.org/empires/medici/renaissa nce/brunelleschi.html And last but not least, Kristen who has been posting these all day long is happy to share her favorite building. While Kristen does 205 2/14/2014 love KS buildings, especially Topeka High 0 34 0 1 35 School, her true love of buildings is St. Basil's in Moscow. My Dad taught Russian at Topeka High School for 30 years, so I

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grew up learning about Russia. I first saw this building, in person, at age 9 from a tour bus window (that's a fun story) and then saw it several times since then. This building is amazes everyone and scares a few architects. But it's the first building I ever had an emotional reaction too! I never get tired of seeing this building, I love this one! I know you all have been waiting patiently to see what building Patrick loves--The Oakley RR Depot! She does have a great personality (even if she needs a little TLC)! 206 2/14/2014 4 29 0 1 34 This is the only Streamlined Moderne RR depot in Kansas that we know of. And because it's one of a kind, it's Patrick's Valentine. The KS Historic Sites Supervisor, Lisa wanted to make sure we shared hers too. She just couldn't pick one KS Historic Site above the others (she loves them all 207 2/14/2014 0 6 0 0 6 equally), so she picked the Alhambra in Spain. She spent time there studying abroad in college. And who couldn't love this building! Want to know what building Matthew loves? Well, since it's Matthew, it's not just the building, but also the photograph that he hearts! As he says: "gotta go 208 2/14/2014 1 11 0 0 12 modern...Marcel Breuer designed cabin in beautiful western Massachussetts. I heart the photograph (Ezra Stoller) and building and location." Rick, our Oregon Trail researcher, Historian has two great loves. So here are his Kansas 209 2/14/2014 2 9 0 0 11 Valentines! Alcove Springs, and the Texaco in Wetmore! Next up to share her love for a building is Kim. The Miles Brewton House (c.1765) is one of the finest Georgian town houses in Charleston, SC and if I have to pick one 210 2/14/2014 favorite building it is this. I got to go inside 0 8 0 0 8 during grad school and it is just as stunning inside as it is outside. Unfortunately, Mr. Brewton did not live there long. He and his wife and children were lost at sea in 1775. 211 2/14/2014 Amanda, just couldn't pick (a problem for 5 15 0 1 21

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lots of our staff), so picking from one of her many options, here is her favorite Kansas site: Peabody Horse Racetrack is one of my favorite Kansas landscapes. We went down to visit the octagonal pavilion in the park and were blown away by the various resources still extant in the city park. This track is well-maintained; it has never been paved, and horses are still allowed on it. The continued use of this track is so darn satisfying. But because I'm generous, I'll include one of her non-KS favorite places too! The building Sarah loves (at least for today) is Monkey Island in the Independence, KS 212 2/14/2014 City Zoo! "I mean no monkey business, but 6 58 0 3 67 what's better than visiting old places and furry friends?!" Tim loves Coronado Heights! In his words: I've always been impressed with Coronado Heights, partly because it's such a unique collection of stone structures in a dramatic 213 2/14/2014 setting, but also because my grandfather 5 32 0 3 40 worked with the WPA crew on the access road. As you can see from the attached photo taken in 2007, Coronado Heights is still very much in use today. Today is Valentine's Day and we at the SHPO office all "love" historic buildings and sites. So throughout the day we will be sharing with you the Buildings We Love and why! Starting us off is Katrina, She 214 2/14/2014 0 24 0 0 24 loves the 1894 Alley Mill on the Jacks Fork River near Eminence, MO! She lived near the mill during the summer of 1997 when she was a student intern with the Ozark National Scenic Riverways." KSHPO - Kansas State Historic 215 2/14/2014 Preservation Office shared Kansas 0 0 0 0 0 Historical Society's photo. Congratulations to the City of Topeka on their new local landmark website! Users can 216 2/13/2014 now find local historic landmarks on an 0 8 0 0 8 interactive map. See http://www.topeka.org/locallandmarks/ 217 2/12/2014 Qualified Expenses—Technical 0 2 0 1 3

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Preservation Services, National Park Service KSHPO - Kansas State Historic 218 2/12/2014 Preservation Office shared Kansas 0 3 0 0 3 Historical Society's photo. Kansas State Capitol Complex Interactive Map Available Online (kshs.org/capitol_grounds) ------The Kansas Historical Society announced that an interactive map of the Kansas State Capitol complex is now available online. The map is optimized for mobile devices and allows visitors to plan a tour of the Capitol complex, including the state office buildings around Capitol Square. Featured landmarks include the memorials to veterans and law 219 2/11/2014 enforcement agents, the Abraham Lincoln 2 12 0 2 16 statue, and the Kansas Walk of Honor. The map is a collaboration among the Kansas Historical Society, the Office of Information Technology Services (OITS), and the Data Access and Support Center (DASC). The Historical Society contributed photographs and descriptions, and OITS and DASC provided the geographic information system software and technical infrastructure. The map can be accessed at kshs.org/capitol_grounds. KSHPO - Kansas State Historic 220 2/11/2014 Preservation Office shared National 0 5 0 0 5 Register of Historic Places - NPS's post. Lone Elm Campgroud Swale in Johnson Co was part of the Oregon, Santa Fe Santa Fe National Historic Trail, and the California 221 2/8/2014 Trail. This significant site and the DAR 4 24 0 3 31 marker nearby have been approved this morning for NR Listing. Oregon-California Trails Association. I'm sure you are holding your breath wanting to know about the HTF Grant 222 2/8/2014 awards, here's a photo showing the grant 0 11 0 7 18 awardees for 2014 (pending legislation). A formal list is on our website. Working our way through the HSBR 223 2/8/2014 meeting, the Truitt House was just 0 14 0 0 14 recommended for listing on the National

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Register of Historic Places - NPS. It's Review Board Day! Look here for periodic updates about the Grant Awards 224 2/8/2014 and the Nominations. Want info 0 2 0 0 2 immediately? Follow us on Twitter at KansasHistory. It's a packed house this morning for the Heritage Trust Fund Grant public meeting! Applicants from all over the state have filled this room to discuss their grant applications. 225 2/7/2014 0 5 0 1 6 The grant awards will be announced tomorrow at the Historic Sites Board of review (which will be live tweeted!). So stay tuned!! The latest issue of Kansas Preservation is 226 2/6/2014 3 10 0 2 15 now available! A study in Virginia found that preservation contributes $3.9 billion to that state's 227 2/6/2014 0 11 0 1 12 economy. Another great reason to preserve our history - it's good business! State offices in Topeka are closed again 228 2/4/2014 Wednesday February 5th. Stay warm out 0 1 0 0 1 there! This may be how it looks here in Topeka tomorrow - COLD and SNOWY! The 229 2/3/2014 Governor has announce that all State offices 0 12 0 0 12 in Shawnee County will be closed tomorrow. Stay warm! SHPO staff are getting ready for the first meeting in 2014 of the Kansas Historic Sites Board of Review. The Board will meet this Saturday at 9am here at the Kansas 230 2/3/2014 0 3 0 0 3 Historical Society in Topeka. Links to the properties that are up for nomination can be found at http://www.kshs.org/p/pending- national-register-nominations/14633. What time is it? If you are in Marion Co. Kansas, it's easy to find out because the historic clock in the courthouse clock tower 231 1/31/2014 recently completed some repairs. The 2 24 0 1 27 county utilized the State Tax Credits to help with the cost of keeping this historic gem ticking along Ever get confused about what all the 232 1/30/2014 0 4 0 0 4 different preservation organizations do?

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Here's a quick explanation. SHPO staff are trying to recruit future 233 1/29/2014 0 18 0 0 18 preservationists! Happy Birthday Kansas! The Senate Assessment and Taxation Committee has scheduled hearings on SB 298. This bill proposes eliminating the Kansas mortgage registration fee, which is also the sole source of funding for the Heritage Trust Fund program. Proponents of the bill may give testimony on Wednesday, January 29 at 9:30 AM. Opponents may 234 1/28/2014 1 2 0 3 6 give testimony on Thursday, January 30 at 9:30 AM. Both hearings will be in 548-S. To testify, contact the Committee Assistant, Judy Seitz, 785-296-2713 to be put on the agenda. Members of the Senate Committee are listed at the following link: http://www.kslegislature.org/li/b2013_14/co mmittees/ctte_s_assess_tax_1/ Helpful reminder from the NPS, "Tax Credit Tuesday: Here's an application tip. When putting your photograph package together, 235 1/28/2014 be sure to include a photo key. Simply make 1 1 0 0 2 an extra copy of your existing floor plans and note the location and direction of each numbered photo." This bridge in Rush County is among several properties the Kansas Historic Sites Board of Review will consider for listing in the national and state registers on Saturday, 236 1/27/2014 6 44 0 3 53 February 8 at KSHS. To view the nominations, see this link: http://kshs.org/p/pending-national-register- nominations/14633 YAY!!! 7 years ago, this house in Atchison was about to fall down the hill. But someone bought it and rehabilitated it and it's now a Preservation Success Story! (sorry 237 1/24/2014 4 48 0 1 53 I don't have before photos yet, but hopefully soon we can post those so you can see what a fantastic job these homeowners did!!) Enjoy a Friday Success Story! Throwback Thursday already? Yes, the week is almost over, but we can't let it go 238 1/23/2014 3 10 0 3 16 without sharing this photo from May 18, 1990. Governor Hayden signed the bill

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creating the Heritage Trust Fund grant program. To date, the HTF grant has assisted 350 projects with over $20 million in awards. See anyone you recognize? Kristen and Sarah are doing site visits in Butler County today. Here's a church from 239 1/21/2014 1 15 0 2 18 the now extinct town of DeGraff. (The church still has a thriving congregation) The National Alliance of Preservation Commissions provides training workshops such as this one in Nashville for local preservation commissions all across the 240 1/21/2014 0 1 0 0 1 country. Let us know if you would be interested in having NAPC come to Kansas. We'd love to host if there are enough communities interested. One of our Tax Credit Reviewers is currently looking over rehabilitation plans for a 1918 High School with this lovely 1939 New Deal Era gymnasium that's 241 1/17/2014 3 15 0 1 19 attached! Anyone want to venture a guess where it is? (No cheating Rosin Preservation) Even if you don't know, hope you enjoy this lovely, historic gym! --KJ KSHPO - Kansas State Historic 242 1/17/2014 Preservation Office shared Historic Kansas 0 0 0 0 0 City's post. Here's some architectural eye candy for your Thursday afternoon. This is the Miller House, a contributing resource to the Westheight Manor Historic District in 243 1/16/2014 4 11 0 0 15 Kansas City (KS). Can you guess its architect? (Hint, have a look here: http://khri.kansasgis.org/index.cfm?in=209- 2820-01564) YAY! 400 likes! Thank you so much! We 244 1/16/2014 love getting to share our history and our 0 9 0 1 10 State with everyone! 245 1/16/2014 Grants | Kansas Humanities Council 0 0 0 0 0 The SHPO recently photographed a World War II Army Airfield B29 Hangar for the Historic American Engineering Record. 246 1/15/2014 Because Airfield-related resources in 1 34 0 0 35 Kansas were often built as temporary structures, preservation options can be limited. Archival documentation is key.

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This Hangar in Great Bend was designed with a Closed Howe Truss. Cold, very cold in there...but super neato. " National Center for Preservation Technology and Training (NCPTT), an office of the National Park Service, is accepting applications for its 2014 summer internships. NCPTT internships provide students and recent graduates an opportunity 247 1/15/2014 1 3 0 0 4 to undertake laboratory or field research in landscape architecture, architecture, archeology, and materials conservation. Deadline to apply is February 16. Go to http://ncptt.nps.gov/about-us/intern/ for more information." Job Announcements: Part-time temporary Educational/Info Rep at Mine Creek Battlefield and Marais des Cygnes Massacre State Historic Sites, Pleasanton. Open until 248 1/14/2014 0 0 0 0 0 filled. Part-time temporary Alternate Site Administrator at Red Rocks State Historic Site, home of the William Allen White family, Emporia. Open until filled. Any preservation-minded artists out there? Check out the See America Project - http://seeamericaproject.com/. There is only 249 1/14/2014 1 18 0 4 23 one Kansas poster so far. We need more to showcase our great historic sites and beautiful landscapes! historic preservation, Kansas Preservation 250 1/14/2014 0 0 0 0 0 Alliance Awards for Excellence Guess where Sarah and Amanda are today!? 251 1/13/2014 1 29 0 0 30 PS: We are enthralled! 252 1/9/2014 What do you think? 0 0 0 0 0 KSHPO - Kansas State Historic 253 1/9/2014 Preservation Office shared National 0 16 0 0 16 Register of Historic Places - NPS's photo. **NEW KHRI feature introduced today! You can now search for properties by Section, Township, Range on the search 254 1/8/2014 page (you can also search by STR on the 3 7 0 1 11 map portion). Yea! www.kshs.org/khri [Disclaimer: Don't forget that KHRI is still a work in progress!] 255 1/7/2014 Before the Polar Vortex hit us all, 0 11 0 1 12

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contractors were able to finish up installation of shiny new gutters and downspouts at the historic Chanute Carnegie Library (now used by the District Court). This work is partially supported by a grant from the Heritage Trust Fund. Look for applications for the 2015 round of HTF grants to be available in late April. Contact us if you would like to be added to our grant notification list. Our New Year's Resolutions here at the SHPO: To keep exploring and documenting more of the details in our State's history. And to help preserve those details that make 256 1/3/2014 our State's history so rich. Hope you all 2 53 0 5 60 discover more amazing old stories/buildings/features of Kansas in 2014! (and share them with us) We also resolve to eat more ice cream in 2014!! Historic Rehab Industry Sails Into Tax 257 1/3/2014 0 2 0 0 2 Credit Safe Harbor SHPO staff mingling with a few of the architects who worked on the Capitol 258 1/2/2014 2 62 0 6 70 building restoration at the ribbon cutting ceremony. It's officially open for tours! Who's heading to the VFW tonight for dinner and dancing? The Earl H. Ellis VFW Post #1362 in Pratt has probably seen a lot 259 12/31/2013 1 13 0 0 14 of New Year's Eve celebrations since it was built in 1939. Do your plans for tonight include a historic building? The SHPO's gift to itself this holiday season was the new edition of McAlester's "A Field Guide to American Houses". We LOVE all 260 12/30/2013 1 5 0 1 7 the illustrations! This book will help immensely as we survey properties across Kansas during the coming year. 'Tis the season for church architecture, like this lovely Gothic Revival example. This is 261 12/24/2013 St. Mary's in Nemaha County. Happy 0 13 0 5 18 Holidays from the KSHPO - Kansas State Historic Preservation Office Thanks for sharing, Rosin Preservation! 262 12/20/2013 0 0 0 1 1 This is pretty fascinating. 263 12/20/2013 Jobs - Kansas Historical Society 0 0 0 0 0

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KSHPO - Kansas State Historic 264 12/20/2013 Preservation Office shared Heritage & 0 0 0 0 0 Historic Preservation - NPS's photo. We need your help! Yesterday, some of our staff visited Sunflower Village (aka Clearview City) out near DeSoto. The village was built during World War II to house workers at the Sunflower Ordnance Works. After the war, the village served as much-needed housing for military families, some of whom commuted to Leavenworth! 265 12/18/2013 15 14 0 7 36 The village has changed over the past 70 years, and we're curious about when some of the changes occurred. Did you or someone you know live here during the war or after? We'd love to hear from you either in our comments below or by contacting our office. [785-262-8681 x240 or [email protected]] Last month the World Monuments Fund organized a gathering in California for preservationists and businesses to discuss the future of historic Route 66. Good news - the national resource once listed as an 266 12/17/2013 2 24 0 4 30 endangered site by the organization has a bright future! Here's a holiday-inspired image of one of our favorite sites on the Kansas section of the Mother Road - the Williams (Eisler) Store in Riverton. KSHPO - Kansas State Historic 267 12/16/2013 Preservation Office shared Heritage 2 7 0 0 9 Documentation Programs, NPS's photo. Tomorrow is Kristen's Birthday!! (She's one of our Tax Credit Reviewers.) So here is Kristen's favorite Historic Building. Topeka High School is an iconic building in Topeka 268 12/13/2013 and was where Kristen went to high school! 6 35 0 3 44 Her father taught Russian language and History classes there for 30 years. From an early age she got to spend a lot of time exploring and enjoying this lovely building! Do you think a building is too young to 269 12/13/2013 0 2 0 0 2 save? Patrick and Amanda near some Santa Fe 270 12/11/2013 Trail swales on Museum Hill. Santa Fe Trail 2 13 0 0 15 Association Santa Fe National Historic Trail

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Patrick and Amanda met with Mike Taylor this morning, and we got a tour of the 271 12/11/2013 0 10 0 0 10 fabulous NPS headquarters. Santa Fe National Historic Trail Patrick and Amanda are in Santa Fe, NM this week. Part of the reason for the trip is to wrap up work on the Historic Resources of the Santa Fe Trail multiple property document amendment. Kansas sites like Boyd's Ranch Site and the Pawnee Fork 272 12/10/2013 Crossing (Dry Route) in Pawnee County 1 24 0 4 29 have recently been listed to the National Register of Historic Places under that document. Here's a view of the creek crossing during the 1880s (photo from kansasmemory.org). Santa Fe National Historic Trail Amanda on the Santa Fe Trail in Santa Fe! 273 12/9/2013 2 27 0 1 30 She made it! Patrick and Amanda finally made it to Santa 274 12/9/2013 1 14 0 0 15 Fe for the NCSHPO conference! The Cimarron Hotel in Gray County, KS is for sale. Check out more about the hotel at 275 12/9/2013 0 3 0 0 3 http://khri.kansasgis.org/index.cfm?in=069- 0950-00004 . Yesterday marked the 80th Anniversary of the end of Prohibition. We know someone who would not have been too excited about that, Carry Nation. Her 1882 house in 276 12/6/2013 Medicine Lodge is a National Historic 1 15 0 1 17 Landmark. She moved into this house in 1889 and soon began organizing a local branch of the Women's Christian Temperance Movement. As today is the last day of Hanukkah, we thought we would highlight an NR-listed property associated with Jewish-Americans in Kansas. Established in 1869 (possibly earlier), the Beni Israel cemetery is historically significant as the principal site 277 12/5/2013 0 16 0 0 16 representing the collective history of Jewish-Americans in Douglas County during the late 19th - early 20th centuries. The cemetery derives its primary significance from its association with the lives and careers of Jewish-Americans who

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made a distinctive contribution to the community development of Eudora and Lawrence. This contribution has been relatively undocumented and interpreted in local and state history. The cemetery is the only surviving property associated with the Jewish community in Eudora, which flourished briefly (1857-c1867) then moved to Lawrence. This cemetery was listed in the National Register of Historic Places - NPS in January 2013. Here are some pretty pictures to start your 278 12/5/2013 0 2 0 0 2 day! Several projects supported by the Heritage Trust Fund grant program are finishing up work for the winter. Foundation work at the 279 12/3/2013 1922 Darrah Barn near McPherson is 0 23 0 2 25 complete and restoration of the barn's windows and interior will continue in the spring. Looking for somewhere to direct your #GivingTuesday donations? How about an organization that supports historic preservation such as the Kansas 280 12/3/2013 Preservation Alliance, the National Trust for 1 5 0 0 6 Historic Preservation, or your local preservation alliance? Tell us what your favorite organization is doing to help historic places. Another Kansas Santa Fe Trail site is featured on the National Register of Historic 281 11/27/2013 Places - NPS Facebook page! Santa Fe Trail 0 8 0 1 9 Association, Santa Fe National Historic Trail In honor of Thanksgiving, here's a photo from 1936, showing a parade in Cimarron, Kansas. In the background is the old Cimarron High School. We hope everyone 282 11/27/2013 0 15 0 0 15 has a safe and happy holiday! [This image is from Kansas Memory, http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/217588 /page/1] KSHPO - Kansas State Historic 283 11/26/2013 Preservation Office shared The Palmetto 0 8 0 1 9 Trust for Historic Preservation's photo. 284 11/26/2013 "Meeting the Standards: Did you know that 0 3 0 0 3

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when NPS reviews projects we are evaluating everything in the context of the specific project? That is why we don't recommend taking cues or guidance from work completed or approved in other projects. Every rehabilitation project is different. The cumulative effect of relatively minor alterations can have as much of an impact as a single major change." SHPO staff strive for the same thing when reviewing projects per the Standards. Here's why: Our staff recently visited the Dalton Gang Hideout in Meade, Kansas. It’s a great example of New Deal-era tourism, complete with an underground tunnel reconstructed 285 11/25/2013 by the National Youth Association. Go to 12 91 0 16 119 this link to see more photos, and please share any photos you may have of the site! http://khri.kansasgis.org/index.cfm?in=119- 41 With Thanksgiving just a few days away, we want to share how Thankful we for the Historic Buildings that have shaped the 286 11/22/2013 4 45 0 4 53 history of our State and for those who work tirelessly to save and preserve those buildings. THANK YOU! 287 11/21/2013 Hometown Team: Partner Grants - $1,500 2 3 0 0 5 The Old Dutch Mill at Marysville as it looked in 1928. This photo is in the collections of the State Archives and can be accessed online through kansasmemory.org. 288 11/20/2013 3 12 0 0 15 The Dutch Mill was subsequently dismantled and moved east on highway 36 to Seneca, Kansas. Does anyone know if it still exists? KSHS archeologists Tim, Virginia, Gina, & Bob (taking the photo) were out looking at potential 2014 KATP sites yesterday. Don't 289 11/20/2013 3 21 0 0 24 they look happy to be out of the office? KATP - Kansas Archeology Training Program On November 19, 1863 people were gathered on the battlefield at Gettysburg, 290 11/19/2013 8 33 0 2 43 PA to dedicate a cemetery and hear President Lincoln's address. Upon this 150th

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anniversary of that event, we reflect on the influence of that speech and Lincoln himself here in Kansas. The Lincoln School in Independence, KS is just one of many buildings, towns, and places across the state named for the President. What's the Lincoln connection in your community? 291 11/18/2013 Yea, Kansas! 0 13 0 2 15 Call for Papers: Missouri Conference on 292 11/18/2013 0 1 0 0 1 History – Nov. 30! http://bit.ly/1dAnG3n Properties are removed from the Register when they are demolished. The Board removed two properties today. The Parker 293 11/16/2013 House Hotel in Minneapolis and the Doney- 2 4 0 0 6 Clark House in Kingman. The Board will meet again in February 2014 and we'll share more great photos! Lake of the Forest Historic District is being amended to increase the district boundaries. 294 11/16/2013 The new boundaries include the 1920s golf 0 3 0 0 3 course. It's a "pasture course" with sand greens; nothing too formal. The Argentine neighborhood of Kansas City, KS has a great history. Railroad workers in the 1930s utilized the services of 295 11/16/2013 the YMCA in this building. Later 0 7 0 0 7 community services utilized the building and soon it will be rehabbed as housing. Historic Kansas City Wakarusa Presbyterian Church in Shawnee County in now the second property in 296 11/16/2013 0 7 0 0 7 Wakarusa to be listed to the Register. Congratulations! During the early 20th century businesses that serviced horse-drawn vehicles had to make changes to start serving autos. The 297 11/16/2013 0 7 0 0 7 Gaiser Carriage Works reflects that part of Wichita's history. It is now listed to the Register of Historic Kansas Places. The Bluemont Youth Cabin in Goodnow Park in Manhattan was built in 1938 by the National Youth Administration as part of 298 11/16/2013 0 18 0 1 19 the New Deal-era programs. It is now a register-listed site! Manhattan/Riley County Preservation Alliance

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More Oregon Trail! The Pacha Ruts near Bremen in Marshall County are approved 299 11/16/2013 0 10 0 1 11 for listing. Can you see them in this photo? Oregon-California Trails Association The Upper Wakarusa River crossing of the Oregon Trail in Douglas County is now a 300 11/16/2013 0 14 0 1 15 register-listed site. Oregon-California Trails Association Simmons Funeral Home in KCK has been 301 11/16/2013 approved by the Board. The owner plans to 0 5 0 0 5 rehab the building for housing. The City Park Bandstand in Humboldt has been approved by the Board this morning. 302 11/16/2013 0 5 0 0 5 The concrete structure and roof has recently been restored by the City. #preservation The Jesse Ingraham House in Manhattan was originally built in 1885, but was enlarged through the early 20th century. The 303 11/16/2013 additions reflect the history of the house 0 24 0 1 25 over time. The Board has approved listing to the Nat'l Register. Manhattan/Riley County Preservation Alliance The Board has approved listing the 304 11/16/2013 Clearfield School in Douglas County to the 0 15 0 0 15 Nat'l Register. Virginia & George Trout's House in Wamego has been approved by Board for 305 11/16/2013 listing in the National Register. The house 0 14 0 0 14 has exceptional integrity including the original door bell system. The University of Kansas now has a second historic district. The KU East Historic 306 11/16/2013 1 21 0 3 25 District includes Danforth Chapel and several scholarship halls. It's almost time for the final meeting of the Historic Sites Board of Review in 2013. We 307 11/16/2013 look forward to sharing photos of properties 0 4 0 0 4 today as they are nominated to the state and National Registers. Did you know you can download USGS 7.5 Minute Quadrangle Maps from data.gov? Topo maps in GeoPDF form are available 308 11/15/2013 1 6 0 1 8 for download for free: http://catalog.data.gov/dataset/usgs-us-topo- map-collection

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309 11/14/2013 Can you spot Matthew? 0 4 0 0 4 Whoa! Check out the damage wind can do to an aluminum historical marker set within 310 11/13/2013 limestone. This is one of our state historical 6 12 0 4 22 markers, located in Saline County (Photo by KDOT). We missed posting yesterday while state offices were closed in observance of Veteran's Day, but we saw this post from 311 11/12/2013 the National Trust for Historic Preservation 0 6 0 0 6 that reminds us how many veterans and soldiers there are right here in Kansas deserving a big "Thank you"! Have you hugged a bridge this month? You should because apparently, November is "Historic Bridge Awareness Month." In honor of this, we present to you this lovely 312 11/7/2013 9 45 0 5 59 stone arch culvert in Gove County. It was listed in the state register in August, and its listing in the National Register of Historic Places is pending. #historicbridges KSHPO - Kansas State Historic 313 11/7/2013 Preservation Office shared Home on the 0 3 0 1 4 Range Cabin's photo. Photographer Terry Evans has produced many fine aerials of historic Kansas 314 11/6/2013 0 21 0 0 21 buildings and landscapes. This farmstead image was shot over Saline County. KSHPO - Kansas State Historic 315 11/6/2013 Preservation Office shared Manhattan/Riley 0 2 0 0 2 County Preservation Alliance's photo. The Heritage Trust Fund grant applications for 2014 are stacking up in our office. There are so many good projects! We wish they could all be funded. Here's a look at just one 316 11/5/2013 1 20 0 0 21 - the Dorrance State Bank in Russell County. The owner is seeking a grant to restore the missing cornice and repair the awning. Check out our friends' online survey/National Register mapping system! 317 11/5/2013 0 3 0 0 3 Way to go South Dakota State Historic Preservation Office! Lastly, this photo shows the earthen humps 318 11/4/2013 0 18 0 1 19 of the Soule Canal in the distance, as seen

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from Highway 50 west of Dodge City. Tim wonders if this is the water source for 319 11/4/2013 1 11 0 0 12 the Soule Canal! The Soule Canal, a 19th century engineering failure, was a 96-mile earthen ditch designed to divert water from the Arkansas River to farmland in Gray and Ford counties, but it never lived up to 320 11/4/2013 8 18 0 3 29 expectations. A few SHPO staffers visited Gray County last week to document what remains of the Soule Canal between Ingalls and Cimarron. In this photo, Tim and Sarah overlook a portion of the canal. Check out the National Register-listed Pettit 321 11/1/2013 Cleaners building in Winfield - past and 3 28 0 0 31 present! Thanks for sharing Brandi. Happy Halloween! School children in the 322 10/31/2013 1920s were ready to trick-or-treat at Prescott 0 14 0 2 16 School in Linn County. "On Oct. 30, 1912, the Lawrence Journal- World reported "Kansas formally took possession of the largest fish hatchery in the world at 10 o'clock this morning when a stream of water released by Chancellor Frank Strong leaped into a breeding pond at 323 10/30/2013 0 7 0 0 7 Pratt." The hatchery was devised by Lewis Lindsay Dyche, professor at KU and State Fish and Game Warden." For some current photos, see: http://khri.kansasgis.org/index.cfm?in=151- 130 St. Louis is proposing a fee increase on some permits to help fund temporary 324 10/30/2013 preservation, or mothballing, of vacant 2 8 0 2 12 buildings. Do you think this would work in smaller communities in Kansas too? Did you know that the Kansas Historic Resources Inventory (KHRI, kshs.org/khri) has a GIS map associated with it? The red dots indicate surveyed properties that have been demolished; the blue dots are surveyed 325 10/29/2013 0 6 0 2 8 properties that have not been demolished. Thanks to Lori at the Cloud County Museum, the KHRI now has several updated survey records, showing building that have been demolished and replaced. For

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instance, check out the two courthouses represented here: Why do you love Modern? The Recent Past 326 10/29/2013 0 3 0 0 3 Preservation Network wants to know. We just purchased a copy of this book for the office - what a great source! It's full of 327 10/28/2013 excellent photographs, provides helpful 6 32 0 3 41 typologies related to building form and style. Kristen and Sarah recently did a walk- through of a building in North Topeka (NOTO). This area is experiencing a resurgence of interest and growth, and it 328 10/25/2013 looking into using the Historic Tax Credits 1 13 0 0 14 to help save some of the buildings. This building here, lost part of the back of the building, and still, property owners are looking into how to bring it back to usable! Surveying your historic resources is not a one-time event. Incorporating resurvey into a preservation plan helps the community dwellers and leaders understand the state of the historic resources. Here are two examples of what resurveying can reveal. The top two photos are the Brookville Hotel (Brookville, KS). The left photo shows the state of the building in 2009. The right photo shows the loss of historic integrity in 2012. (This building was removed from the 329 10/24/2013 11 13 0 5 29 National Register due to its loss of historic integrity.) The bottom two photos show a commercial building in downtown Salina, KS. The photo on the left shows the building as it looked in 1984 with its faux- Tudor facade. That facade has since been removed, as is shown in the photo on the right from 2013. Survey is a way to document the changes of buildings over the years. Do you have any "before/after" photos to share? 330 10/23/2013 Jobs - Kansas Historical Society 1 0 0 2 3 Today, we cashed in our free ice cream 331 10/22/2013 5 25 0 0 30 from the state archivist, Matt Veatch! I'm not sure about the fox, but Fox Theaters 332 10/22/2013 in Kansas comes in all shapes and sizes and 1 17 0 3 21 we say, "Wow"!

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A little architectural history for your 333 10/21/2013 0 3 0 2 5 Monday morning. Historic Rehabilitation Tax Credit Projects in Kansas have been booming! During the three month period between July through September the SHPO office approved 18 334 10/18/2013 rehabilitation projects for Tax Credits. 0 23 0 2 25 Those 18 projects created 580 new jobs in Kansas! And they also injected $24 Million into the local economies! Way to go Kansas! You may be familiar with George Barber plan book houses, but apparently, now you can build a Richard Neutra house from plans. 335 10/17/2013 http://www.theagencyre.com/brochures/Ric 0 7 0 3 10 hard-Neutra-Brochure.pdf (Thanks to KCMODERN for the link.) What do you think of building any new house using historic plans? 336 10/17/2013 Timeline Photos 0 2 0 2 4 This is a photograph showing people posed at the Windsor Hotel shortly after it was 337 10/16/2013 0 13 0 2 15 built in Springfield, Kansas. Any knowledge of this building out there? The Oswego Public Library is utilizing a Heritage Trust Fund grant from the Kansas Historical Society to repair the building's 338 10/15/2013 0 1 0 0 1 wooden windows. Local contractor, Boyce Boulware, is using an epoxy system to patch deteriorated areas. See how he does it! What do you think? "Old buildings attract people, maybe not you, but they attract people." 339 10/15/2013 1 47 0 17 65 http://www.metropulse.com/news/2013/jan/ 16/whats-historicand-who-says-nine- practical-reasons/ The answer to yesterday's question is: 340 10/15/2013 Emporia! This beautiful high-style Prairie 0 20 0 1 21 house is located in Emporia, KS. The house in this image is from a Garlinghouse pattern book and was actually 341 10/14/2013 1 10 0 0 11 built in Kansas. does anybody know where? The answer tomorrow... 342 10/11/2013 Autumn makes us think of the country, 5 28 0 1 34

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which makes us think of barns, like this lovely... Did YOU know that today (10.10) is National Electronic Records Day? To celebrate, our state archivist, Matt Veatch, has agreed to buy the SHPO staff ice cream for each "like" we get on this post. Don't 343 10/10/2013 you want to help us have a very vanilla day? 10 84 0 5 99 Also, for more reading about SERI, the State Electronic Records Initiative, visit their site: http://www.statearchivists.org/seri/Electroni cRecordsDay.htm The main span of the National Register- eligible Amelia Earhart Bridge in Atchison, KS came down today. SHPO staff worked with transportation officials through the Section 106 process to look at ways to save 344 10/9/2013 the bridge, but the process ended with no 0 4 0 0 4 viable options. A mitigation fund was established in 2009 to assist preservation efforts elsewhere in Atchison and has funded over $350,000 in rehabilitation work to date. 2014 Watch: A Closer Look | World 345 10/8/2013 0 0 0 0 0 Monuments Fund 346 10/8/2013 What do you think? 3 1 0 1 5 347 10/7/2013 If you like Sanborn maps, you'll love this. 0 4 0 3 7 One of our staff members came across this photo. And sadly we have no notes about where this barn is. So we are asking for your 348 10/4/2013 help. If you recognize this, comment here 2 8 0 0 10 and let us know where this lovely barn is! (If you don't know, just enjoy the picture, it's a good one). Have you ever stopped to really appreciate Sanborn Fire Insurance maps? We find them to be invaluable primary historic resources when studying city buildings. Take this 1912 snapshot of the building at 300 S 349 10/3/2013 Summit as an example of what we can 0 15 0 1 16 learn! Sanborns are available on-line through many public libraries (accessible with a library card), and several, like this image, have been digitized by the University of Kansas and are free to access

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here: http://cds.lib.ku.edu/sanborn-maps/ The newest issue of Kansas Preservation is available at http://kshs.org/18437. Read about the properties that have been approved for nomination to the National 350 10/3/2013 0 2 0 0 2 Register this quarter, how the state capitol restoration is addressing ADA concerns, and a recap of the 2013 KATP Field School. Enjoy! 351 10/2/2013 2013 KMA Annual Conference 0 0 0 0 0 An old newspaper image of the original 352 10/2/2013 facade of the Colonial Fox Theatre in 0 9 0 1 10 Pittsburg, KS The Colonial Fox Theatre has been undergoing some dramatic changes in the past few months. The original open-air 353 10/2/2013 atrium was enclosed in the mid-20th 0 4 0 0 4 century, but the feel of that open space is now restored with a full-height glass wall. Colonial Fox Theatre Foundation

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kshs.org/18670 Did the Aztecs serve molé to Cortez? Did San Pascual Balión (Patron Saint of Cooks & Kitchens) invent the molé sauce? Do you want to learn to make molé from scratch no 2 9/30/2014 0 2 0 0 2 matter who made it first? Then hold the date, October 19 from 2:00 – 4:00 at the Kansas Museum of History. Register early, space is limited. kshs.org/18670 Learning to rhumba at A Night on Madison 3 9/29/2014 1 8 0 2 11 Avenue! Did someone say 1960s? New exhibits just for A Night on Madison Avenue. Sorry, these are only for "looking" not for trying on. 4 9/25/2014 Kansas Museum of History, 7 to 9:30 p.m., 6 15 0 3 24 $15 at the door includes a classy cocktail, canapes, games, music and dancing. You won't want to miss it! Put on your apron, grab a skillet, and learn to make molé from an expert. What a great way to begin preparing for Día de los Muertos! Join us at the Kansas Museum of History on October 19 as Pepe and Chela’s chef, 5 9/25/2014 0 9 0 2 11 Gonzalo Sánchez, teaches us how to make molé from scratch and shares the rich heritage of this famous Mexican sauce. Advance registration is required. kshs.org/18670 Kansas Museum of History shared Kansas 6 9/24/2014 0 6 0 2 8 Historical Society's photo. What a decision? Which hat should I wear to A Night on Madison Avenue? Come dressed in your vintage/retro 1960s clothes or use our props. Pop bead necklaces for all ladies and 7 9/23/2014 1 17 0 5 23 bow ties for the men provided as price of admission. Friday, September 26, 7 to 9:30 at the Kansas Museum of History. kshs.org/museum_after_hours. "Grand skeleton molé. Here is the tasty molé, a very well cooked molé; everyone dig in" They must be talking about our Oct. 19th 8 9/23/2014 molé cooking class! Don't miss the 0 5 0 1 6 opportunity to make your very own tasty, well cooked molé. Register early, space is limited. http://Kshs.org/18670 9 9/22/2014 Kansas Museum of History shared Kansas 1 8 0 2 11

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Historical Society's photo. Molé is a traditional sauce that is most popular in central and southern Mexico. You don't have to go that far though. Spend a 10 9/19/2014 Sunday afternoon with us and experience the 0 9 0 6 15 fun of making a traditional molé yourself. Kansas Cooking: Making Molé. kshs.org/18670 So you think you can dance? No prizes but you can have a great time dancing to the music of the 1960s from the Cha-cha to the Twist. Museum After Hours: A Night on 11 9/18/2014 2 28 0 5 35 Madison Avenue at the Kansas Museum of History, September 26, 7 to 9:30. Only $15 for food, games, and music. kshs.org/museum_after_hours Are you as obsessed with Ken Burns' "The Roosevelts" as we are? To feed our hunger for all things Roosevelt, we've searched our 12 9/17/2014 collections for artifacts related to this famous 2 8 0 2 12 American family. Here are a few of our favorites. Watch for more in the coming days! Mexican immigrants brought more traditions to Kansas related to food than to bullfighting. Although,we're sure these men liked 13 9/17/2014 homemade molé. You can learn the secrets of 0 9 0 2 11 making molé from scratch on October 19 at our next Kansas Cooking class. Registration is limited so sign up now. kshs.org/18670 Well intern Chelsea has been a big help with our upcoming Night on Madison Avenue event! She wears 1960s fashion well, doesn't she? This is our backdrop for your own photo ops next Friday night. Tickets are $15 online, 14 9/17/2014 by phone, or at the door! Cocktails, fondue, 7 48 0 6 61 and retro games as well as live music by Washburn University's Jazz Combo! Who wants to Cha Cha? Dance instructors will be on hand too! Call 272-8681 ext. 415 for more information and tickets. In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month and the upcoming Dia de los Muertos celebration, 15 9/16/2014 two exhibits are featured in the State 3 8 0 2 13 Archives Gallery adjacent to the Kansas Museum of History. If you have a few

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minutes stop by to see them. The gallery is free and open to the public Tuesdays - Saturdays 9:00 - 4:30. Thanks to everyone who came out this summer for the Sundown Film Festival! We had a great time and hope you did, too. If you 16 9/15/2014 0 1 0 0 1 have any comments or suggestions, please share them with us. We'd love to know what movies you'd like to see in the future. Wow, it really feels like fall today, doesn't it? Since the weather is so cool and wet, we'll be moving the Sundown Film Festival indoors this evening. There will be tons of things to do before the film starts. Admission to the museum gallery will be FREE after 5 p.m. We found out this morning that there will be a LAMBORGHINI among the classic cars in 17 9/12/2014 0 5 0 5 10 the parking lot. There will also be a Ferris Bueller quiz and activities in the lobby, as well as some righteous 1980s tunes. If you follow us on Twitter, watch for movie trivia throughout the evening and post your own comments, too. Popcorn and other snacks will be available for purchase. We'll have a great time in spite of the weather! Take an evening off and watch "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" with us tomorrow night at 9 p.m. at the Museum. Come early to see classic cars and compete in a movie quiz. 18 9/11/2014 One of our staff members has an awesome 0 5 0 0 5 connection to the movie, but you'll have to be here to find out what it is and see the (potentially embarrassing) photographic evidence! Bueller...Bueller...Bueller? We're wrapping up the Sundown Film Festival this Friday night with "Ferris Bueller's Day Off!" Since the sun is setting a little earlier these days, be sure to come early and check out some classic 19 9/8/2014 0 5 0 1 6 cars in our parking lot. Don't let that chilly, maybe rainy weather forecast keep you away! Would Ferris let the weather ruin his fun? No way! If Mother Nature won't cooperate, we'll watch the movie in the cozy museum lobby. The results are in and should not a big 20 9/4/2014 surprise to anyone following us on Facebook. 3 40 0 1 44 Eight months of voting by thousands of

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visitors and the exhibit's top winners are: First Place: The Garden by Josephine Craig, 1933, Emporia; Second Place: Iris Garland by Hannah Haynes Headlee, 1935-40, Emporia; and Third Place: Grandma's Kitchen by Judy Beaman, 2011, Topeka. These quilts earned the most votes but this activity showed that all the quilts in the show were favorites with someone! Next up: The Great Soldier State: The Civil War in Kansas. Two days left to see this unique quilt map made by Harriet Deuel from Wyandotte County in 1887. It features county borders outlined with embroidery resembling barbed wire and other stitches that chart the state's 21 8/29/2014 main rivers and railroads. "Speaking of 9 61 0 14 84 Quilts: Voices from the Collection and the Community" closes Sunday, August 31. The final tally for Best of Show will be posted next week. Thanks to all who came and voted. What do you think about celebrating the return of the school year with everyone's favorite truant? "Ferris Bueller's Day Off," the final installment of this year's Sundown Film Festival, is coming up on September 12! Remember the red Ferrari that Ferris, 22 8/29/2014 0 6 0 0 6 Cameron, and Sloane...um..."borrowed" for their adventure? We'll honor it's roll in the film with a classic car display before the movie. If you have a classic car of your own, we invite you to show it off in our parking lot, too. See you at the museum! TBT. Governor Avery dancing at his 1965 inauguration. He would have fit right in at 23 8/28/2014 Museum After Hours: A Night on Madison 0 14 0 2 16 Avenue, September 26. Buy your tickets today at kshs.org/museum_after_hours What are you doing on October 19? Why not grab a friend and cook up a traditional molé sauce? We've got the perfect teacher, Chef Gonzalo Sánchez from Pepe and Chela's 24 8/25/2014 0 7 0 3 10 Mexican Restaurant. Enjoy our 2 for 1 special and bring a friend with you at no extra charge. Space is limited so register early. Reservations required. kshs.org/18670 25 8/25/2014 Kansas Museum of History shared Kansas 0 6 0 0 6

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Historical Society's photo. What? The quilt exhibit is closing on August 31?! It's true. This week visitors voted Best of Show to: First Place--Grandma's Kitchen; 26 8/22/2014 3 29 0 8 40 Second Place--The Garden, and Third Place-- Iris Garland. Come see these beauties and 22 others before it is too late. Kansas Museum of History shared Mary W. 27 8/21/2014 0 6 0 1 7 Madden's photo. Throwback Thursday! In honor of all the students headed back to school this week and next, here is a real throwback. This photo is 28 8/14/2014 4 71 0 19 94 of the first school bus purchased by Alden School in Rice County, consolidated school district #9 in 1920. What style! Don't miss this Topeka cooking class. Make molé in the traditional way. Eat it served over chicken. Take home a doggie bag plus everything you need to know to make more at 29 8/12/2014 0 7 0 1 8 home! (Reservations required. Space is limited.) http://kshs.org/event/kansas- historical-society-kansas-cooking-making- mole/18670 Sundown Film Festival: Ferris Bueller's Day 30 8/12/2014 0 0 1 0 1 Off Aloha! "Blue Hawaii" is happening tonight! Get your Hawaiian shirt on and bring your friends out for music, the hula, and a fun movie. We'll also be tweeting "Blue Hawaii" trivia all evening. Follow us on Twitter @KansasHistory and #SundownFilmFest. 31 8/8/2014 0 6 0 2 8 Use the hashtag to post your photos and thoughts this evening, too! Think Elvis has funny hair? Wish you could hang out at the beach and surf all day? Tweet it! It will be our own version of "Mystery Science Theater 3000." Aloha! "Blue Hawaii" is happening tonight! Get your Hawaiian shirt on and bring your friends out for music, the hula, and a fun movie. We'll also be tweeting "Blue Hawaii" 32 8/8/2014 trivia all evening. Follow us on Twitter 0 0 0 0 0 @KansasHistory and #SundownFilmFest. Use the hashtag to post your photos and thoughts this evening, too! Think Elvis has funny hair? Wish you could hang out at the

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beach and surf all day? Tweet it! It will be our own version of "Mystery Science Theater 3000." 33 8/7/2014 Sundown Film Festival: Blue Hawaii 0 5 0 0 5 We're getting so excited to watch "Blue Hawaii" with you on Friday night! There will be live ukulele music, hula dancing, and a hula hoop contest before the movie. I've even 34 8/6/2014 1 9 0 3 13 heard that if it's a hot night, we'll let you run through our sprinklers to cool off. Be sure to bring a beach towel! Here's a little something to get you in the spirit. Rock-A-Hula! No need to travel to Mexico for the inside track on making molé from scratch. There are 35 8/4/2014 3 7 0 3 13 a few openings left for this opportunity to learn from an expert. http://kshs.org/18670 "Speaking of Quilts" exhibit ends this month. We want to thank all our visitors for voting on Best of Show each week and for adding to 36 8/1/2014 the exhibit with their own quilt blocks. The 4 19 0 7 30 Best of Show this week are: First Place, The Garden; Second Place, Iris Garland; and Third Place, Spirit of St. Louis. Our showing of "Blue Hawaii" is just one 37 8/1/2014 week away! Dust off your Hawaiian shirt; 0 4 0 1 5 you won't want to miss this! Throw-back Thursday! I wanted to find something that screamed SUMMER. How's this one? The Kansas Short Grass Motorcycle Club was founded in Rexford in the summer of 1910. It achieved national attention due to 38 7/31/2014 4 97 0 28 129 its motorcycle tours into Colorado and Wyoming. During its heyday, the club described itself as "the most famous motorcycle club in the world." This image can be found on KansasMemory.org. Who loves Mad Men? Our next Museum After Hours will have a Mad Men 1960s 39 7/29/2014 theme. Do you know any local bands that 7 4 0 1 12 would fit the bill for this event? We'd love to hear from you. Kansas may be just about as far from an ocean as you can get, but that doesn't mean 40 7/28/2014 we can't dream of a day at the beach! Join us 5 17 0 6 28 on August 8 at the Sundown Film Festival for a little summer escapism. We'll be showing

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"Blue Hawaii", starring the one and only Elvis Presley. As always, the movie starts at 9 p.m. Get here early to enjoy live ukulele music by the Ukulele Players of Lawrence, learn a hula dance, and compete in a hula hoop contest. It'll be the best beach party you can have without a beach! The end of another successful stagecoach ride 41 7/26/2014 0 3 0 0 3 through the Kansas prairie. 42 7/26/2014 He roped the steer. 0 0 0 0 0 Yeehaw! West Fest has begun! Come on out 43 7/26/2014 to the Kansas Museum of History today for a 9 61 0 4 74 rip roaring good time! Yeehaw! West Fest has begun! Come on out 44 7/26/2014 to the Kansas Museum of History today for a 0 2 0 0 2 rip roaring good time! Yeehaw! West Fest has begun! Come on out 45 7/26/2014 to the Kansas Museum of History today for a 3 62 0 7 72 rip roaring good time! One more day to WEST FEST! Hours are 10am to 4pm. Look what we found in our collections. This 1954 coloring book features Roy Rogers and Dale Evans. The Roy Rogers Show started in 1942 on radio before moving to television in 1951. The tv show featured 46 7/25/2014 "King of the Cowboys" Roy Rogers and his 2 6 0 2 10 wife "Queen of the West" Dale Evans, as well his horse Trigger and dog Bullet. The show's theme song "Happy Trails" was written by Evans. Well Trigger won't be here, but we've got horses and donkeys and burros, oh my! Join us tomorrow! As we prepare for Saturday's WEST FEST: National Day of the Cowboy, our thoughts are focused on Kansas cowboys. Meet Chalkey McCarty Beeson. He came to Dodge City from Colorado in 1875. During his life, 47 7/24/2014 5 20 0 4 29 he owned the Long Branch Saloon and a cattle ranch, organized the Cowboy Band, served as sheriff and was a state legislator. Cowboy up, Chalkey! Come join us Saturday from 10am to 4pm! We are sad to report we must cancel Museum After Hours: A Night of Country for this 48 7/23/2014 8 5 0 3 16 Saturday night, July 26, due to low ticket sales. (Those who purchased tickets will

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receive refunds.) The West Fest continues though! Hours for this fun family event are 10am to 4pm this Saturday. Come join us! Museum After Hours: A Night of Country is THIS SATURDAY! Here's the deal...... we may have to cancel if we don't sell tickets TODAY. Please call 272-8681 x415 or go to 49 7/22/2014 our website at KSHS.org to order tickets. I've 2 5 0 3 10 posted photos from our last Museum After Hours event: A Night at Gatsby's. It was loads of fun! Please consider buying tickets today! West Fest: National Day of the Cowboy at the Museum this Saturday, 10am to 4pm! This is last year's fun West Fest! Kyler sings 50 7/22/2014 3 13 0 6 22 at 1pm inside. We have added stagecoach rides and min donkey cart rides this year! Come on out with the family! NEXT Saturday is our second Museum After Hours event, A Night of Country! Grab your boots,and holler at your friends to get their tickets! The $20 ticket gets you a drink, live 51 7/18/2014 music, and dance instructors on hand in case 1 16 0 8 25 you need a refresher course on the two-step or swing. Go to our website (KSHS.org) or visit the Museum Store, or call 272-8681 x415 for tickets. 52 7/14/2014 Sundown Film Festival: Blue Hawaii 0 0 2 0 2 Kansas City's best western swing band, Phantoms of the Opry, is performing Saturday, July 26, at the Kansas Museum of 53 7/14/2014 6 29 0 14 49 History. Buy your tickets today at KSHS.org for "Museum After Hours: A Night of Country." Iris Garland (left) first place winner last week in the museum's quilt exhibit Best of Show contest. This week top prize goes to The 54 7/11/2014 0 2 0 0 2 Garden. Our visitor's have good taste. These two quilts were voted two of the top 100 quilts of the 20th century. Tonight only! Watch the stars under the stars. Movie begins at sundown--9 p.m.--right after 55 7/11/2014 the Second Friday events close. Channel your 0 3 0 3 6 inner astronaut. Come in costume and get a free bag of popcorn 56 7/10/2014 The time has arrived. The celebrations of the 0 8 0 0 8

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30th anniversary of the "new" museum and opening of the new museum store and exhibit starts at 3 p.m. today. It will be Real People. Real Stories. Real Fun. The Sundown Film Festival continues with the movie "Apollo 13" this Friday at 9 p.m. Did you know that Kansas has produced 57 7/7/2014 several astronauts? It's true! Maybe they were 0 8 0 4 12 inspired by our state's beautiful, star-filled night skies. Raise your hand if being an astronaut was your childhood dream! Of course a history museum would use a horse and plow at their ground breaking ceremony, August 29, 1981. Only nine days 58 7/2/2014 0 45 0 11 56 until the 30th anniversary celebration. July 10, 3 to 8 p.m. Did I mention there will be cookies? What's missing in this picture? Answer: The Kansas Museum of History. Ten days until 59 7/1/2014 the 30th anniversary celebration of the "new" 0 29 0 6 35 museum. Hope to see you there--July 10 from 3 to 8 p.m. Congratulations to Potwin. Your quilt came in second place for the week of June 23-27. First place was The Garden and third place 60 6/30/2014 1 22 0 2 25 was Iris Garland. These two are always crowd favorites. The exhibit continues through August 31. The museum gallery is changing. Come to the dedication of the new exhibit on July 10 61 6/30/2014 0 28 0 4 32 from 3 to 8 p. Also celebrating our 30th anniversary! Here is a sneak peak. Well, it's cleaning day here at the museum. 62 6/30/2014 1 14 0 0 15 We are sprucing up the place for you! Thirty years ago today the new Kansas 63 6/24/2014 Museum of History was dedicated! Wish the 6 190 0 9 205 museum a happy birthday by hitting "like." Another fun evening at the Sundown Film Festival is right around the corner! We're showing Apollo 13 on July 11 at 9 p.m. That's right, a movie about space shown 64 6/24/2014 outdoors, under the stars! What could be 0 7 0 3 10 better? Plus, the Northeast Kansas Amateur Astronomers will be here with their telescopes to give you a closeup of the moon and Saturn. You won't want to miss it!

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One way to avoid the heat this weekend--visit the Kansas Museum of History's quilt exhibit. This week's Best of Show vote tally is: Iris 65 6/20/2014 Garland in first place, The Garden in second 2 5 0 3 10 place, and Grandma's Kitchen in third place. The inner quilter in you really wants to come see these gems in person! 66 6/16/2014 Sundown Film Festival: Apollo 13 0 0 3 0 3 We are happy to report the return of Sundown Film Festival was a success!! Over 300 enjoyed the movie Grease on the lawn! Those arriving early visited the museum, played 67 6/16/2014 some lawn games, and then learned to hand 3 21 0 2 26 jive! And we hear the popcorn was awesome too! Mark your calendars for the second Friday in July for our next movie, Apollo 13! Thanks to all who came! Tonight is the night and Grease is the word! 68 6/13/2014 0 3 0 1 4 Are you coming? Kansas Historical Society - Sundown Film 69 6/12/2014 Festival: "Grease" - Events - Kansas 0 0 0 0 0 Historical Society Have you seen the weather forecast for tomorrow? Sunny and 78 degrees, with a 70 6/12/2014 5 11 0 6 22 100% chance of an awesome time at the Sundown Film Festival. Sounds perfect to us! We are kicking off the 2014 Sundown Film Festival with a showing of Grease - be here 71 6/11/2014 this Friday the 13th starting at 9 pm! Bring 0 8 0 0 8 your friends, neighbors, family for some Summer Nights under the stars! Can't make it to the museum before 5 p.m. to see the quilt exhibit? Come to A Night of Country, 7 to 9:30 p.m. on July 26 and enjoy 72 6/6/2014 a great Western "swang" band and this 1 12 0 6 19 exhibit. And the Best of Show weekly winners are (drum role) The Garden, Death Becomes Her, and Postage Stamp! The Sundown Film Festival starts next week! Tell your friends! Tell your neighbors! 73 6/6/2014 13 34 0 19 66 (We're so excited about it, we can't stop using exclamation points!) Here is your official invitation to attend the 74 6/4/2014 30th anniversary celebration for the Kansas 0 13 0 10 23 Museum of History on Thursday, July 10. It

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is will be a great time to see old, or rather, former coworkers! Construction photo of the "new" museum plaza, May 1983. To see more of these gems 75 6/3/2014 0 7 0 1 8 visit Kansas Memory, http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/224944 Do you remember the dedication of the "new" museum in 1984? Join us for the 30th 76 6/2/2014 2 9 0 1 12 anniversary celebration on July 10, 3 to 8 p.m. Have you made your quilt block yet? You can be part of our quilt exhibit but you have to come to the Museum to get in the act. This week the Best of Show winners are Iris 77 5/30/2014 0 11 0 3 14 Garland, The Garden, and Grandma's Kitchen in first, second, and third place respectively. The show is only up through August so be sure to come soon and vote often! Does the thought of cleaning your antique or heirloom furniture strike fear in your heart? Well, fear no more! Put down that can of Pledge and join experts from the Kansas Historical Society and the Topeka and 78 5/28/2014 Shawnee County Public Library for a 0 8 0 3 11 workshop on how to care for everything from your great-grandfather's rocking chair to that awesome armoire you found at an antique store. We'll be at TSCPL on June 5 at 6:30 p.m. Click the link for more details! Our tour guides love receiving thank yous from Kansas school children. Docent Forrest Thurber recently gave a Westward Ho! tour and received these kudos: Samantha says, "My favorite part of the Kansas museum was the IKE jacket." Emily wrote, "It was so fun. 79 5/28/2014 0 6 0 0 6 I thought the train was amazing. It looked so real. I hope I can come back soon!" And Brandon stated," It was fun watching the sparks light. You were very good at teaching us about the Oregon trail. You let us guess what answers are and that was fun." Those of you returning to see the Speaking of Quilts exhibit are in for a change. The 80 5/27/2014 Community Quilts were removed from the 1 22 0 10 33 entrance wall and are now in the middle of the exhibit. The wall is being transformed

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into a 36 foot mural to be unveiled on July 10. Watch for updates. The winners for last week's Best of Show contest are The Garden, Iris Garland, and Postage Stamp in that order. 81 5/23/2014 Sundown Film Festival: Grease 0 0 1 0 1 What better reason to host a party then to celebrate our longest-running volunteer's retirement? Ruth Lawson served as docent, mission volunteer, and information greeter, 82 5/22/2014 over a span of 39 years! She also just turned 7 48 0 2 57 89 years young! A huge THANK YOU to Ruth for sharing your love of Kansas history with thousands of visitors on behalf of the Kansas Museum of History! And the winner is...... Iris Garland.....again! Second place goes to The Garden, again! 83 5/16/2014 Third place is the Spirit of St. Louis. We have 0 0 0 0 0 some popular quilts on the winners' list this week. Thanks for voting. I'm sure you've all been patiently waiting for the quilt winners this week! If you guessed Kaw Valley Album Sampler, you'd be right. Second place goes to the Potwin Story Sampler, and third place to Primrose Path. 84 5/9/2014 The winning quilt this week was made by the 0 1 0 0 1 Kaw Valley Quilt Guild members in celebration of their 30th anniversary. Guess who else will be celebrating 30 years?--The Kansas Museum of History! Look for more details of our birthday party soon! The Sundown Film Festival is back and better than ever! We're kicking things off with "Grease" on June 13. As always, the movie will be shown outdoors at sundown and it is 85 5/6/2014 FREE! Bring your blankets, lawn chairs, and 13 22 0 9 44 bug spray. Free popcorn to anyone who dresses like a T-Bird, Pink Lady, or beauty school dropout! Tell us, how good is your hand jive? This week's quilt winners are as follows: 1st place: Iris Garland 2nd place: The Garden 3rd place: Spirit of St. Louis Sound familiar? 86 5/2/2014 Yes, these quilts are pretty much favored by 0 0 0 0 0 many of our visitors. In a few days we will be moving the four quilts you see as you enter the museum gallery. Those quilts we call

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"community" quilts will move just around the corner to the middle of the exhibit, and will be folded in cases. We are gearing up for a brand new exciting entry to our gallery! That's all I'm going to say! It must have been the spring weather but for the first time in voting The Sunflower quilt was in the rankings. It came in second this 87 4/25/2014 0 0 0 0 0 week to....wait, you guessed it, The Garden. Third place was a tie between the regulars Iris Garland and Grandma's Kitchen. It's been said that when Kansans hear a tornado siren, they head to the yard instead of the basement. Photos in the collection of the Kansas Historical Society prove that this 88 4/25/2014 reaction isn't a recent phenomenon. The 0 5 0 2 7 forecast is calling for storms this weekend, and while these photos are very cool, we don't encourage people to try this at home. Stay safe, fellow Kansans! Got questions? We have answers for you today at the museum. Teams of experts are waiting to help you learn more about your 89 4/19/2014 0 8 0 1 9 stuff (aka your valuable antiques). Tickets for personal appraisals still available. Here until 3 p.m. This state of Kansas quilt from 1887 is always a winner in my book and is on display until August 31. Our visitors, however, chose 90 4/18/2014 the following quilts for Best of Show this 0 7 0 2 9 week: First Place--The Garden; Second Place--Iris Garland; Third Place--Grandma's Kitchen. Gems in the Attic is tomorrow! Appraisals aren't the only thing going on. We'll have workshops on preserving textiles and paper, researching your collectibles, and donating things to a museum. Staff from the Kansas Historical Society and the Topeka & 91 4/18/2014 Shawnee County Public Library will be in the 0 1 0 0 1 museum lobby from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. to answer your research, preservation, and donation questions. If you have a burning desire to know more about your stuff or just want to see what a curator looks like, come see us!

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Gems in the Attic is this Saturday! Tickets 92 4/14/2014 are still available. What are you planning to 0 6 0 3 9 bring? It's Friday and the weather is beautiful! Sounds like the perfect combination for a walk on our nature trails or a picnic on the lawn, doesn't it? But if the thought of being 93 4/11/2014 0 0 0 0 0 outside sends your allergies into overdrive, you can always visit the garden of quilts in our special exhibit gallery. Plenty of flowers and none of the sneezing! I see a pattern developing. These three quilts keep trading rankings in the Best of Show competition. This week Iris Garland is first, The Garden is second, and Grandma's 94 4/4/2014 Kitchen is third. Just the reverse of last week! 0 4 0 1 5 I think one reason for their success, besides being beautiful, is the craftsmanship is out of this world! Come see for yourself and count the stitches! Gems in the Attic is right around the corner! On April 19th, we'll have two appraisers from Madison Group Fine Art Appraisals at the museum to evaluate your antiques. They specialize in the decorative arts, furniture, silver, crystal, and 19th and 20th century European and American works of art. We'll 95 4/2/2014 0 2 0 1 3 also have workshops on how to research the history of your collectibles, how to go about donating them to a museum, preserving textiles, and preserving paper items. Tickets are required for the appraisals, but all of the workshops are free. Check out the link below for more information. Only 73 days until the first movie at the 96 4/1/2014 Sundown Film Festival. Hint: Danny and 0 1 0 2 3 Sandy will be there too. Congratulations to Judy Beaman. Grandma's Kitchen was voted number one in Best of 97 4/1/2014 0 6 0 0 6 Show for the week of March 24. And this is not an April Fools joke. In the museum world we often look at an object and say "if only it could talk." This 98 3/27/2014 Japanese navigational device is one of those 0 3 0 1 4 objects. It came to the Kansas Museum of History through a collection of materials

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owned by Kansan Harry Colmery, credited with writing the G. I. Bill of Rights. He is no longer with us so we can't ask. Still a cool piece of history. Kansas Museum of History shared Kansas 99 3/21/2014 0 3 0 0 3 Historical Society's photo. Gems in the Attic is only one month away! 100 3/19/2014 1 13 0 9 23 Do you have your tickets? Kansas Museum of History shared Kansas 101 3/15/2014 0 2 0 1 3 Historical Society's post. Kansas Museum of History shared Kansas 102 3/15/2014 0 1 0 1 2 Historical Society's post. Want to learn how to quilt? The Kansas Capitol Quilters Guild will be demonstrating 103 3/10/2014 quilting at the Kansas Museum of History on 10 49 0 12 71 Saturday, March 15 from 10 to 2 in recognition of National Quilting Day! 104 3/10/2014 Gems in the Attic 0 0 0 0 0 Kansas Museum of History shared your 105 3/7/2014 0 2 0 1 3 photo. That Jay Gatsby really knows how to throw a party. It was the bee's knees! Here are a few photos we took to remember the evening. If 106 3/7/2014 5 9 0 0 14 you were at the party, we'd love to see your photos, too. Look for more events like this one in the future! Kansas Museum of History shared Kansas 107 3/5/2014 0 2 0 1 3 Historical Society's photo. Death Becomes Her makes the ratings board. Week 6 for Best of Show contest at the museum. There were ties for first, second and third place. Iris Garland and The Garden tied 108 2/28/2014 for first place. Tied for second are the Potwin 0 6 0 1 7 Story quilt and the Postage Stamp. A three- way tie for third place included Map of Kansas, Crazy quilt, and Death Becomes Her, show here. Kansas Museum of History shared Kansas 109 2/26/2014 0 5 0 1 6 Historical Society's photo. Our weekly Best of Show winners: First Place—Iris Garland. Second Place—The Garden. Third Place—Log Cabin, making its 110 2/21/2014 2 24 0 10 36 first appearance in the Best of Show weekly winners circle. Follow the weekly standings http://kshs.org/p/speaking-of-quilts/18465

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Our weekly Best of Show winners: First Place—Grandma’s Kitchen. Second Place— Iris Garland. Third Place—Postage Stamp, 111 2/14/2014 making its first appearance in the Best of 3 27 0 4 34 Show weekly winners circle. Follow the weekly standings http://kshs.org/p/speaking- of-quilts/18465 Better late than never. The Best of Show for the third week of the quilt exhibit is "Iris Garland." The snow kept many people away from the museum last week but those that did 112 2/10/2014 make it really liked this beautiful quilt. It may 6 26 0 4 36 have reminded them that spring will come one of these days. Second place went to The Garden, and third place was earned by the Potwin Story quilt. mm Kansas Museum of History shared Kansas 113 1/31/2014 0 0 0 0 0 Historical Society's post. Kansas Museum of History shared their 114 1/24/2014 0 2 0 3 5 photo. Speaking of Quilts Vote Tally We are asking visitors to our new quilt exhibit to vote for “Best of Show” and we will post the results every Friday afternoon. The votes have been counted for the first week and the winners are (drum roll please) in First Place-The Garden http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/209281, Second Place-Iris Garland 115 1/24/2014 http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/209280, 15 43 0 11 69 and Third Place-the Crazy quilt. There was a three-way tie for Fourth Place among Grandma’s Kitchen, the Postage Stamp, and the Log Cabin quilts. The weekly stats will be posted for the run of the exhibit on our website kshs.org. Come be part of the fun. See the show and cast your vote for “Best of Show.” 116 1/17/2014 Kansas Museum of History shared an album. 0 7 0 2 9 117 1/6/2014 Kansas Museum of History survey 0 0 0 0 0

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