A staple of the Lawrence holiday season, the Festival of Nativities will once again be hosted at Centenary United Methodist Church. Each weekend in December — beginning Dec. 1 — the church, at 245 N. Fourth St. in North Lawrence, will be open from noon to 4 p.m. The event will end after Saturday, Dec. 29. By the time this year’s festival opens, the church will have transformed into a serene, softly lit ...
Researchers at the University of Kansas had a hand in uncovering what might have been about a mile-wide iron asteroid that crashed into Greenland perhaps as recently as 12,000 years ago. Details of the impact crater beneath the Hiawatha Glacier in remote northwest Greenland were published last week in Science Advances, a multidisciplinary journal. The crater — the first of any size found under the Greenland ...
There is a growing sense for those in the Jewish community of not recognizing the country they have known for generations, a rabbi told an audience at the University of Kansas’ law school on Wednesday. “It feels like something is going on in this country. What's happening?" said Rabbi Neal Schuster, a Jewish educator with KU Hillel, a group that connects Jewish students with one another and their ...
A small display of colorful taxidermic birds, looking like stuffed toys, caught the attention of those passing by in the Kansas Memorial Union on Tuesday. “Are these real?” said one passerby who stopped to glance at the hummingbirds, wrens, kingfishers and an exotic bird of paradise — a tiny sampling of the 9 million specimens from the University of Kansas Natural History Museum collection. The birds ...
A walk-in shower was giving Veterans Day new meaning for a Lawrence man Friday afternoon. Dennis Sooby, an Army veteran who served in occupied Japan at the end of World War II, watched as Adam Fearing, a much younger veteran who had served in Iraq, helped make his bathroom handicapped-accessible. “It’s fantastic,” said Sooby, 91, as he watched. After serving in the military, Sooby became a commercial ...
Anne Patterson has been known to walk around town with a reproduction of the Trinity Episcopal Church steeple atop her head. The steeple, which she created and wears for Halloween, is just a fraction of the creativity that exudes from this University of Kansas lecturer of architecture. Patterson was recently honored with the Bob and Kathie Taylor Excellence in Teaching Award, which is one of the first KU ...