Over the years, genealogical research has advanced from tracking down records in libraries and government files to dropping in on ancestral homes via Google Earth — and one local couple have kept up with the technology in hopes of helping people find their family roots.
The couple, Richard and Alisa Branham, teach genealogy classes at the Watkins Museum of History, one of which focuses on digital travel and ...
For the past six years, the hands on the centuries-old clock hanging on the wall in the chapel of Warren-McElwain Mortuary haven't moved.
The clock was built in France and predates the American Revolution, said Jim Larkin, who brought it with him from California when he bought the Lawrence mortuary in 2013. But during the cross-country move, it stopped keeping time correctly.
"Something must have happened ...
Story updated at 2:58 p.m. Friday
The Clinton Presbyterian Church in rural Douglas County caught fire and burned down early Friday morning, leaving charred rubble where a century-old community landmark once stood.
Pam Johnston, clerk of session for the church, told the Journal-World that firefighters were called to the church around 4:40 a.m. Friday. The building is located at 588 North 1200 Road, near Clinton ...
Two musicians will be turning trash such as beer bottles and disposable cups into instruments during this month’s installment of the Humanities in the Wild lecture series.
At Friday's free performance, Mike Compitello and Hannah Collins, both faculty members at the University of Kansas School of Music, will perform Christopher Stark’s “The Language of Landscapes," a piece that combines traditional ...
Construction workers encountered bats in the belfry as they began work this week tearing shingles off the bell tower high above Lawrence’s First United Methodist Church.
“They were chasing bats out the first day up there,” said Marc Ridenour, the facilities manager at the church, 946 Vermont St.
The workers are replacing the 129-year-old slate roof on the limestone church’s two towers, using a crane ...
Lawrence’s Heartland Community Health Center was one of 18 federally qualified health centers in Kansas recognized for improvements made throughout the year — in Heartland's case, doubling the number of patients treated at the clinic, among other achievements.
Heartland, at 346 Maine St., was recognized as a Quality Improvement Award winner and granted $112,334, according to a news release from Community ...
