Re-enactment to focus on Kansas’ fur trade

Lecompton — Mountain men and French pelt traders will be among the characters portrayed this weekend in Lecompton at the first “Bald Eagle Rendezvous,” a historical re-enactment of the days when Kansas was a center for fur trapping and trading.

Starting Friday, authentically attired actors will turn Bald Eagle River View Park, perched on a bluff above the Kansas River, into an early 19th-century trading post for three days. The re-enactment will feature period lodging, as well as demonstrations in campfire cooking, American Indian crafts, gunsmithing and tomahawk-throwing.

The camp will be open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday.

The event is free and open to the public.

Pulitzer winner to be at Editors Day

Associated Press legend Walter Mears will sign his book “Deadlines Past — Forty Years of Presidential Campaigning: A Reporter’s Story” from 11:15 a.m. to 12:15 a.m. Saturday at Oread Books in the Kansas Union.

The event is free and open to the public.

Mears is in Lawrence for the School of Journalism’s Kansas Editors Day, which is expected to bring more than 100 editors, publishers and faculty members to campus.

He will speak about his career at 9 a.m. Saturday in the Big 12 Room of the Kansas Union.

Photojournalist visits ‘River City Weekly’

From the Fab Four to Vietnam, photojournalist Bill Snead has captured it all on film.

Snead, Lawrence Journal-World senior editor, shares highlights from his career on the occasion of his current exhibit “From Kansas to Yonder and Back: 50 Years of Photojournalism” showing now through Oct. 29 at the Image Point Gallery, 1515 Grand, in Kansas City, Mo.

Snead shares some of his stories on “River City Weekly” with host Greg Hurd. The show premieres on Sunflower Broadband Channel 6 at 6:30 p.m. Wednesdays with replays at 9:30 p.m. Wednesdays, 9 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. Thursdays, 9:30 a.m. and 7 p.m. Fridays, 9 a.m. Saturdays, 9:30 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. Mondays, and 10 a.m. and 8:30 p.m. Tuesdays.