Do you like reading? How about local history? (You probably do if you’re reading this blog!)
(Photos of Lawrencians reading are from the Watkins collections.)
The Watkins will host a free event this Saturday, November 7, 2015, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., titled Kansas History Authors Day. Seven well-known authors and historians from the area will give talks on their new books and have copies available for purchase and signing. This event will be co-hosted by the Watkins and the Raven Bookstore.
Participating authors explore a range of eras and personalities in American history—many of them Kansas-related—through the mediums of fiction and nonfiction. This program will feature the following authors and books: M. Linda Olsen, Prelude, an historical novel set in Bleeding Kansas; Dee Miller, Just Following Orders: Escape from Guerilla Warfare in 1863, a Civil War-themed young-adult novel; Virgil Dean, Lawrence, a new entry in Arcadia’s highly popular Images of America series; Shawn Alexander, W.E.B. Du Bois: An American Intellectual and Activist, a biography of the famous African American intellectual; Thomas Fox Averill, A Carol Dickens Christmas, a touching novel set in Kansas; and William M. Tuttle, Jr., and Kathryn Nemeth Tuttle, Transforming the University of Kansas: A History, 1965-2015, which chronicles the KU story in a rapidly changing world.
What’s more, our first fifty visitors can enter a free drawing to win gift certificates for the KU Bookstore and 23rd Street Brewery!
So join us on November 7 to meet these authors, hear their fascinating insights into the crafts of history and writing, and stock up on gifts for history-loving friends and family. Check out our event listing on the Watkins Facebook page for a schedule and more information.
The Watkins Museum of History 