Kate Gramlich flipped the switch on the tabletop lamp, and the dreary fall day outside the window seemed to disappear. Gramlich, an information services assistant with the Lawrence Public Library, was demonstrating one of the lamps the library provides for light therapy. The lamp mimics outdoor light and helps lift the mood for those experiencing seasonal affective disorder, or SAD, a depressive disorder that ...
In 1966, Barbara Bosley asked Stan Jones to the Sadie Hawkins dance at Dighton High School. Then, 49 years later, they shared their first kiss. The couple, who recently moved to Lawrence, recalled the dance, popular in the 1960s when girls demurely waited to be asked on a date. A Sadie Hawkins dance was a girl's chance to do the asking. The two had known each other since 1957, when Stan was the new kid ...
Kids can design a Star of David mosaic, make jewelry with jingle bells and do other holiday-themed crafts and activities Saturday at the Watkins Museum of History's "Celebrate the Season" event. Most of Saturday's activities will be geared toward children ages 4 to 10, said Emily Wellborn, a Watkins Museum staff member who helped organize the event. Children will learn more about three winter holidays — ...
Carved deep into sandstone, primitive drawings have survived for centuries in the outcroppings, bluffs and caves of Kansas. Now many of those carvings can be viewed in the book “Petroglyphs of the Kansas Smoky Hills,” by Rex C. Buchanan, Burke W. Griggs and Joshua L. Svaty. Recently published by the University Press of Kansas, the book is filled with color photographs by Griggs and explores many of the ...
It’s time for Douglas County residents to finish the story they're working on or polish up their poems and submit them for the 2020 Langston Hughes Awards. The annual event, jointly sponsored this year by the Lawrence Arts Center and The Raven Book Store, will offer two awards of $500 each, one for fiction and one for poetry. The deadline to submit work is Dec. 20. Guidelines for submissions are available ...
Cynthia Smith just returned from the U.S.-Mexico border, where she handed out winter coats, socks and peanut butter sandwiches to stranded asylum seekers. Smith made the trip to see how she could use her years of experience as an attorney working in government relations to help those seeking asylum in the U.S. The asylum seekers she met from Cuba, Central America and Africa are all stuck in Matamoros, Mexico, ...