Organizers of a literary festival set for next spring are lining up authors for the four-day event in Lawrence. “The Paper Plains Literary Festival,” scheduled for April 23-26, 2020, will be a collaboration of the University of Kansas Hall Center, The Commons, the Raven Book Store and the Lawrence Public Library. Danny Caine, the owner of the Raven Book Store and one of the festival organizers, said the ...
Staff members at the Lawrence-Douglas County Health Department learned Friday they were one of only 16 agencies across the U.S. to receive the Gold Premiere Award of Excellence for breastfeeding support of WIC families. The award was given by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Kansas WIC program as part of National Breastfeeding Month and World Breastfeeding Week. Four years ago, LDCHD received a gold ...
University of Kansas professor Sarah Deer was in the first grade when she learned life wasn’t fair. She was reading an article in a children's magazine about the women’s suffrage movement, and she discovered that women didn't have the right to vote in national elections until 1920. “I was just sure it was a typo (and) they meant 1720 or 1620,” Deer said. She showed what she thought was an error to her ...
Once upon a time, Priscilla Howe quit her job as a children's librarian, became a full-time storyteller and lived happily ever after. That’s the abridged version of Howe's life. The full story includes Howe recently returning home to Lawrence from the National Storytelling Summit in Fremont, Calif., where she was one of two recipients of the National Storytelling Network's International Story Bridge ...
Comedians and a few political candidates will come together for a night of local laughs at this weekend's "Good Night, Lawrence!" show. This is the second "Good Night, Lawrence!" performance that local theater group Card Table Productions has done — the last one was in January of this year. On the schedule this time is a Lawrence-themed quiz show, where two teams of comics and the audience will be answering ...
Valerie Mann is keeping an eye on this weekend’s weather forecast in anticipation of watching the annual Perseid meteor shower on a little patch of prairie in southeast Lawrence. As a naturalist at the Prairie Park Nature Center, 2730 Harper St., Mann will oversee a watch party at the center Saturday night, hosted by the Lawrence Parks and Recreation Department. But stargazers don’t have to wait until the ...