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Bring the family to the Watkins for refreshments, music by Gwyneth Whistlewood (the Feral Flute), and Lawrence Art Guild Association activities celebrating our new exhibit... details>>
Free admission to see over 50 quilts; $6 for quilting speaker Theresa Ward in house at 1:00 on Sat. (includes tour of house if wish); tour of historic home $6 for adults, $3... details>>
Kansas Riverkings Museum exhibition provides guided walking tours. Education director, Barbara Higgins-Dover leads a journey into the past when 19th century rivermen worked... details>>
In celebration of the 200th Anniversary of the birth of James Beatty Mahaffie, Mahaffie Stagecoach Stop & Farm Historic Site and Olathe Civic Theatre Association are cooking... details>>
Watch history go up in smoke: In connection with our landmark exhibit "Free State, Free Spirits: Lawrence's 1960s Counter Culture," the Watkins will show the infamous 1970 60... details>>
6/19/2017 6:30:00 PM | Kansas City, MO
Recaptured Africans (book discussion with author Sharla M. Fett)
In celebration of Juneteenth, commemorating the end of slavery in the U.S., history professor Sharla M. Fett examines the 19th-century march toward abolition. Before the Civil War, as the government worked to suppress the import of slaves (banned by Congress in 1808), the U.S. Navy seized about 2,000 captured Africans from illegal slave ships and took them to temporary camps in Key West and Charleston. Fett looks at the social world of those “recaptives.”...details >>
