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Posts Tagged ‘History’

How Midwestern Women Pioneered Feed Sack Fashion

By | March 23, 2021 | 0
A display of feed sack patterns at the Thrift Style exhibit now showing the Johnson County Museum.

The Johnson County Museum is hosting a traveling Thrift Style exhibit featuring dresses made from feed sacks until May 1.

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Meet Two Kansas Women Who Helped Integrate South Park Elementary School

By | March 11, 2021 | 0
South Park Elementary School in Merriam, Kansas.

Recalling a landmark Johnson County school integration case that came before Brown v. Board of Education.

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Tap List | A Very Brief History of Women in Brewing

By | March 9, 2021 | 0
Servaes Brewing Co.

Tap List honors the contributions of women in brewing.

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Recalling ‘Cactus’ Jack Call, the Man Patsy Cline Came to KC to Honor

By | March 4, 2021 | 0
Photo of Patsy Cline

Few people remember the story of “Cactus” Jack Call, the Kansas City disc jockey whose death prompted the tribute show that proved to be Patsy Cline’s last.

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Resurrecting Barbecue’s Forgotten History

By | February 25, 2021 | 0
Black barbecue pit masters in Linn County, Kansas, in 1916.

Adrian Miller, author of “Black Smoke: African Americans and the United States of Barbecue,” contends the history of barbecue is largely one of cultural appropriation.

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