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City of Lawrence, Douglas County, Kansas
Featured Lawrence Music
Bad Alaskan, Alex Kimball Williams
Wild Eye Live @ KJHK 2017 (Ross Williams)
Wild Eye Part 2 Live @ KJHK 2017
Joe Schoonover-Guitar; Sam Goodell-Keys; Lucas Parker-Bass; Taylor Babb-Drums
Joe Schoonover-Guitar; Joel Stratton-Bass; Matt Leifer-Drums
Joe Schoonover Flor de Lis by Djavan. Standing Room Only, 2015.
The heartland has known the Beat writers from cradle to grave -- Michael McClure and Charles Plymell were born in Kansas, and William S. Burroughs spent his last years and died in Lawrence. In between, Allen Ginsberg and Gary Snyder made significant trips to the state. Other Kansas figures include Bruce Connor, Dennis Hopper, James Mechem, Roxie Powell, Jim McCrary, Wayne Propst, Glenn Todd, Alan Russo, John Fowler, Justin Hein, Bob Branaman, Ronald Johnson, and Burroughs\' heir James Grauerholz, to name a few. The karmic connection between Beat figures and Kansas influences the literary communities to this day. George Laughead\'s website Beats In Kansas was launched in 2002. Sponsored by Humanities Kansas.
Kerry Wynn, Washburn University Map of Kansas Literature Project Director, will spend some time introducing the new map of Kansas authors;
Denise Low, former Poet Laureate Kansas, will talk about Beats in Kansas: The Lawrence-Wichita Magnetic Pole
George Laughead, founder Beats in Kansas website, will give Beat Memoir with Artifacts, Beat life from 1963-2019
LoudLight, Progressive pro-voting and student voter registration group based in Topeka. Davis Hammet, director
Reconstruction, Unraveling Lawrence\'s most explosive underground newspaper, 40 years later: Issue No. 1, Feb. 10-24, 1969, by Frank Tankard, lawrence.com
![[photo: Beat Generation writer Charles Plymell in Moody\'s Skidrow Beanery shirt, Cherry Valley, NY, 2002. Copyright 2002, Pat O\'Connor.]](http://www.vlib.us/beats/plymell.jpg)
Charley Plymell notes: "I first met Grant at B\'s [William Burroughs] funeral. Charles Henri Ford has a cameo in this and Ray Bremser kissing the bird."
The late artist S. Clay Wilson\'s medical crisis -- hard to explain that without his art, the total visual palette used today would be different.
Donations address: S. Clay Wilson Special Needs Trust, PO Box 14854, San Francisco CA 94114
![[Courtesy, Jim McCrary, used with permission. All rights reserved.]](http://www.kansashistory.us/artists/mccrarywilsonwsb.jpg)
William Burroughs, Jim McCrary, S. Clay Wilson -- on William\'s porch.
National Register of Historic Places Nomination: Oread Historic District - Located directly west of the downtown commercial area and east of the University of Kansas campus, the majority of the Oread Historic District falls within the Original town plat, and thus represents one of Lawrence\'s oldest residential neighborhoods.
Lawrence KS Web Sites
Art, Music and Theater
- Ad Astra Poetry Project, Denise Low | Kansas Poet Laureate, 2007-2009
- Barry Miles, William Burroughs\' Biographer, March 2010
- Hikuta! Tom Peschio on William Burroughs and His Guns, [T.P. was close friend and helper of W.S.B.], realitystudio.org
- A Blackout Tavern: Study in 1960s Folklore, by Pat O\'Connor, Wichita; Beats In Kansas
- Birth of The Beats is Born, 64 years later, interview with editor James Grauerholz about And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks, Nov. 17, 2008
- "The Cosmology of Finding Your Spot" Poem by Ed Dorn, 1969, Lawrence
[Ed Dorn on beer with Wayne Propst, George Kimball and The Great White Dog of the Rock Chalk Bar.]
- James Mechem, Writer and Publisher; by Denise Low, Beats In Kansas
- Naked Lunch At 50, Lawrence Celebration, The Bourgeois Pig, August 2009, Phil Heying photographer; flickr photo stream
- "Remembering William Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg," by Jim McCrary, Beats In Kansas
- William S. Burroughs Memorial Service: Remarks on Behalf of the Community, by Professor Tim Miller, KU Religious Studies Dean, 6 August 1997
- "Shooting Joan Burroughs," Beat writer William Burroughs at home, with James Grauerholz, discusses death of Joan Vollmer Burroughs; photographs of Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg,
- The New Battleground in the Heartland: The Cancer of Sprawl by Denise Low
- The Committee on Imagination & Place
- Cooking In Kansas KS Recipes, Cookbooks, Pioneer, Cowboy Cooking,
Hamburgers, Frank and Jayni Naas Carey
- Pat Elliott, Beat
- Stan Herd, Lawrence
- "Langston Hughes in Lawrence: Photographs and Biographical Resources"
By Denise Low & T.F. Pecore Weso Kansas History Web Sites
- Langston Hughes biography, Lawrence
- Lawrence Arts Center
- Lawrence Art Guild
- Lawrence Photo Alliance
- The Lied Center of Kansas, KU
- Raven Book Store, independent, Lawrence
- Spencer Museum of Art, Current Exhibits, University of Kansas
- Micheal Day, ASAI, (HOK Architecture, KC MO) Kansas City
- Das Furbender Band Myspace, Lawrence
- Dave Gunn, Lawrence & Chicago [archive.org copy]
- Judi Geer Kellas, Lawrence
- The Outhouse Punk music in Lawrence
- PictureLawrence.com Thousands of Lawrence photographs
- Wayne Propst: Wayne\'s World, Nick Vaccaro photographs, Lawrence Journal-World, Nov. 18, 2007
- Road to Ruin: South Lawrence Trafficway, by Frank Tankard, lawrence.com
- Yuri Zupancic Lawrence
- Doug L. Miller Music, humor, software, eulogies
Events and Festivals
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General Sites
- Douglas County Pollution (Lawrence)
- Ancient Grains Bakery, Lawrence
- Ballard Center, Lawrence [affordable early education program]
- Central Soyfoods Organic, Lawrence
- Downtown Lawrence CVB
- Equality Kansas
- Kaw Valley Mycological Society, Lawrence
- Lawrence Chamber of Commerce
- Lawrence Farmers Market, from April to November, Lawrence
- Save The Wetlands, Haskell-Baker Wetlands
- Social Service League, Lawrence [Douglas County groups can help Douglas County people], FaceBook
- Waxman Candles, Lawrence
- The World\'s Healthiest Foods, The George Mateljan Foundation, not-for-profit, no commercial interests
History Groups
History Web Directories
Humanities
Libraries
Magazines
Museums
Newspapers
- WWW-VL: W3 Search Engines Internet search engines worldwide,
search engine tips, website tools, virus and spyware protection.
Government
Lawrence Visitors and Tour Groups
Schools and Universities
Other
Graphics
Maps
Native Prairie and Flowers
Genealogy
Local History
- Territorial Kansas History Online, KS Heritage Group
- The Lawrence Massacre [August 21, 1863], History by Rev. Richard Cordley, 1865, KanColl
- The Lawrence Massacre By A Band Of Missouri Ruffians Under Quantrell August 21, 1863
- In Memory of Kansas Kansas Heritage Group Photographs
- KU History Galleries
- The First Kansas Band [Lawrence, KS 1855] , by Edward Bumgardner, Kansas Historical Quarterly, 1936
- John Brown\'s Final Address to the Court, November 2, 1859
- An Old Play About John Brown, from "The Kansas Historical Quarterly"
- What John Brown Did In Kansas, Representative Andrew Johnson, Tennessee, December 12, 1859; AmDocs
- The Emigrant Aid Company in the Kansas Conflict by Samuel A. Johnson, 1937, from "The Kansas Historical Quarterly"
- Lawrence Community Connections, Lawrence West Jr. High School
- WWW-VL: The Coming of the Civil War
- Pioneer Trails from U.S. Land Surveys Kansas Heritage Group
- Historic Eldridge Hotel, Lawrence
- Virtual Old West Lawrence
- Wonderful Old Lawrence, by Elfriede Rowe
- History of Basketball, Dr. James Naismith, Inventor of Basketball (with photograph)
- The Mythical Jayhawk by Kirke Mechem, Kansas Historical Quarterly, February 1944
- Kansas Breweries, by Cindy Higgins, Kansas History, Spring 1993
- "1970: The Year That Rocked River City" by Clark Coan, 1970s Lawrence history [archive.org copy]
- A Kansan in South Chicago, Stories by Lynn H. Nelson
- Remembering Leo Beuerman, LJWorld.com, March 27, 2004
- Oliver A. Hanscom homestead to be destroyed, LJWorld.com, May 23, 2005
- Racing In Kansas KS Racers, Race Clubs, Race Tracks
- Evolution In Kansas Intelligent Design, Creationism, Evolution Theory
- Charles Plymell: The Benzedrine Highway Interview - by Paul Hawkins, Jack Magazine, photographs
- Former KU Chancellor E. Laurence Chalmers Dies, Nov. 24, 2009, Durango, CO
Old West Kansas
Books and Articles
Northeast Kansas Towns
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