April First Thursday
This encore showing will remain up until 1 pm on Thursday, April 9.
Riverine Dreams: Away to the Glorious and Forgotten Grassland Rivers of America
Join George Frazier, author of The Last Wild Places of Kansas, discusses his journeys through the Great Plains and Midwest while researching his new book, Riverine Dreams: Away to the Glorious and Forgotten Grassland Rivers of America. Prepare for tales of strange riverine forests left over from the ice age, leviathan fish migrations, modern grizzlies roaming the plains, endangered plants as rare as mastodon ivory, an audacious plan to return 10,000 bison to a Great Plains biosphere reserve, and of course, river otter mayhem. If you thought you knew about the wild lands of Kansas and the surrounding states, get ready for some surprises. Grassland rivers are the most unheralded gems of the entire American backcountry, and Frazier will tell us about the “Grassland River Revival” he discovered while exploring eight of the wildest stretches of rivers that remain.
May First Thursday
May 7, 5:30 pm
Enjoy the presentation at the Museum or from the comfort of your own home via Zoom. If you are unable to watch it live, we will post the video here the next day, as well as on our Facebook page, and have it up for about a week.
Join us as Dr. Kerry Wynn discusses the life of Marcet Haldeman Julius. Born in Girard, Kansas, she went on to become an American feminist, actress, playwright, civil rights advocate, editor, author and bank president. She would travel to the Soviet Union in the 1930s, serve as a delegate at the National Convention of the Socialist Party of America, and her husband ran for a Senate seat for that party. She would later die in Girard before being buried in Illinois.
