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Sunday-Afternoon-at-the-Museum: “The Dockum Drugstore Sit-in,” Dr. Prisca Barnes-Simmons, founder, Storytime Village

Kauffman Museum 27th & Main St., North Newton, KS, United States

Kauffman Museum at Bethel College will host Dr. Prisca Barnes-Simmons for a presentation and discussion of “The Dockum Drugstore Sit-In,” on April 26 at 3 pm in the Kauffman Museum auditorium. Members of the community are invited to attend this free program! Contact director Andi Schmidt Andres at asa@bethelks.edu for more information. Prisca is a […]

Sunday-Afternoon-at-the-Museum – “The Cost of Conscience: One Mennonite Family’s Experience in World War I,” Sara Judge Keckeisen, Kansas State Historical Society (retired)

Kauffman Museum 27th & Main St., North Newton, KS, United States

When the United States entered World War I and instituted a military draft, and federal and state officialdom instituted heavy pressure to support the war effort, the homes, lives, and safety of members of the pacifist Mennonite communities in central Kansas, and of one family in particular, were put in extreme danger. This is the […]