Sunday Afternoon at the Museum (SAM)
Sunday-Afternoon-at-the-Museum: “Re-membering the 1870s Migration,” John Thiesen, Co-director of Libraries / Archivist, Mennonite Library & Archives at Bethel College
Kauffman Museum 27th & Main St., North Newton, KS, United StatesThe popular understanding of the immigration of Mennonites from the Russian Empire to the Plains states in the 1870s has a rather weak relationship to the actual events of the […]
Sunday-Afternoon-at-the-Museum: “Stories of Mexican Migration to Kansas,” Valerie Mendoza, Historian and Lecturer, Kansas City Kansas Community College
Kauffman Museum 27th & Main St., North Newton, KS, United StatesStories of Mexican Migration to Kansas explores how and why immigrants from Mexico came to Kansas. Different waves of immigration to various parts of the state from the early 20th […]
Book Signing: “The Spoils of Victory,” Daniel J. Markowitz
Kauffman Museum 27th & Main St., North Newton, KS, United StatesJoin us as Daniel Markowitz reads from his book The Spoils of Victory, the story of "a battle-hardened German POW and a devout Mennonite woman discover the contours of forgiveness […]
“Deutsche Weihnachtslieder/German Hymn Sing” – Drs. William Eash, Merle Schlabaugh and Karen Schlabaugh, professors emeritus, Bethel College
Kauffman Museum 27th & Main St., North Newton, KS, United StatesJoin us on Sunday, November 30 at 3 PM as we sing traditional Christmas hymns accompanied by the Museum's historic Teschemacher organ and led by former Bethel professors Bill Eash, Merle […]