Ballad Comes to Lawrence as Bleeding Kansas Events Loom
The Ballad of Black Jack board will choose a venue after this year’s performances. The rerun in Lawrence ties to Bleeding Kansas events during the Civil War era on the Western Frontier. Don Mueller, Baldwin writer from 1970, and cast members discuss rehearsal shifts, show revisions, and audience appeal.
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Lawrence
Newton
Black Jack
Don Mueller
Baldwin
Liberty Hall
Mueller
Kassy Fewins
Phil Bradley
Bradley
Staff writer contact details
Staff writer Terry Rombeck can be reached at 832 7145 for comments or inquiries.
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Terry Rombeck
See the Show The Ballad of Black Jack at Lawrence Arts Center
The Ballad of Black Jack runs at 7 30 p m Thursday Friday and Saturday and 2 30 p m Sunday at the Lawrence Arts Center 940 NH Tickets cost 14 for adults 7 for children or students A family rate for two adults and four children is 35 No children under 3 due to battle scene noise
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Black Jack
Lawrence Arts Center
N.H
Different perspectives mark Civil War on Western Frontier schedule
The 11th annual event led by Watkins Community Museum adds lectures on children in the war, black Confederates, and Native Americans displaced to Kansas. Historians James Marten and James Horton join in, with re enactments, films, tours, a concert, story times, and an 1864 Lincoln McClellan debate. The program is funded by a $2000 Kansas Humanities Council grant and aims to broaden Civil War discourse in Douglas County.
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Kansas
James Marten
Marquette University
James O. Horton
George Washington University
Douglas County
Lawrence
United States
Phipps
Abraham Lincoln
George McClellan
Kansas Humanities Council
Lawrence Arts Center event listings weekend schedule
A compact guide to ongoing and upcoming events at Lawrence venues from Aug 13 to Aug 21. Highlights include films at Watkins Museum, historic Lecompton tours, Civil War lectures, family workshops, and a Quantrill’s Raid walking tour with free and paid options across South Park and 1047 Mass.
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Lecompton
Charlene Winter
Paul Bahnmaier
Territorial Capitol Museum
E. Woodson St
Free
Alisha Cole
Watkins Community Museum of History
Mass
Quantrill
Katie Armitage
South Park
Annie
Abolition
Underground Railroad
James O. Horton
George Washington University
Dole Institute of Politics
Kansas University
Lawrence Visitors Center
N. Second St
William Clarke Quantrill
Charles Walthall
Joseph Houts
Tom Goodrich
Mass. Free
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