by Nathan Bartel | Aug 15, 2024
Join us on Sunday, March 30 at 3 pm at the Kauffman Museum auditorium and Michelle Armster, director of MCC Central States, and Heidi Regier Kreider, conference pastor of Western District conference, give a presentation titled “The Impact of Immigration on Mennonite...
by Nathan Bartel | Aug 15, 2024
This program will be available to watch via Zoom. You can join by clicking here. Millions of African Americans walked away from the South after Emancipation looking for freedom. For some it meant a journey to Kansas, believing “free state” meant free of racial...
by Nathan Bartel | Aug 15, 2024
Recently retired historian and former Hesston College professor John E. Sharp will talk about the migration of 100 families from the Russian Empire to Turkistan in Central Asia in the early 1880s. John will show photos and tell stories gathered during years of...
by Nathan Bartel | Aug 14, 2024
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by Nathan Bartel | Aug 14, 2024
Eric P. Anderson holds a doctorate in American History from the University of Kansas, specializing in American Indian cultures and the history of the United States West. He is an enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation and teaches at Haskell Indian Nations...
by Nathan Bartel | Aug 14, 2024
You are cordially invited to support the 38th annual Living Endowment Dinner for Kauffman Museum Friday, October 25, 2024 Kidron Hall, Kidron Bethel Village 3001 Ivy Drive, North Newton, KS
by Nathan Bartel | Aug 14, 2024
A Swiss immigrant, Emil Kym decorated houses. He could hang wallpaper, do wood graining on doors and paint a hallway so the walls looked like marble. But what he did best was paint scenes of his home country in Mennonite farmhouses. Some of those scenes as well as...
by Nathan Bartel | Aug 14, 2024
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by Nathan Bartel | Aug 14, 2024
Organist Roseann Penner Kaufman will perform pieces on the museum’s historic cabinet organ, built in 1750 by German master organ builder Teschemacher. Kaufman will play pieces representing the time periods and locations the organ encountered during its move...
by Nathan Bartel | Aug 5, 2024
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