Take a Walk with Birkenstock

On a muggy humid day in August 115 years ago, America's most popular celebrity came to our town. He had just left Osawatomie, KS where he had delivered a 90-minute stem-winder speech. An estimated ...

For nearly a century, a 28-ton Sioux Quartzite boulder stood upright on a pedestal of small rounded glacial rocks cemented together to form a monument. It was perched in a park overlooking the Kans...

It is doubtful that Teddy Roosevelt subscribed to the notion that "total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable." His state of inertia was constant motion, constant projects. His life wa...

Teddy Roosevelt was surrounded by wealth as a child. In 1880 at the young age of 22, he purchased the initial acreage of Sagamore Hill for $30,000 or roughly 1 million dollars in current dollars. O...

Theodore Roosevelt not only officially named the White House, the White House, he was also the first President who escaped Washington's summer heat to a "Summer White House," which for him was Saga...

A traveling Smithsonian exhibit just opened at the Watkins Museum, here in Lawrence. The exhibit was supposed to take place at Haskell Indian Nations University, also in Lawrence, but federal budge...

The Riordan Mansion State Historic Park in Flagstaff, AZ preserves a marvelous example of the Arts and Crafts movement in architecture. That movement was a reaction to the Industrial Revolution, ma...

In 1983 Congress enacted what would become known as the Rails-to-Trails Act. This act made it quicker and easier for concerned citizens to imagine alternate uses to abandoned rail lines, advocate f...

I grew up in Wichita. I couldn't wait to escape to Lawrence to attend KU. That is a typical adolescent's response to their hometown. Over decades my tune changed. I have rediscovered the many good ...