Kansas Day and the One Book Project

Kansas Day

Kansas Day, a "birthday" celebration held the date Kansas became a state, will take place on January 29, 2007. Here are a few links to Web pages with additional Kansas Day information and activities:

Kansas Day Links from the Kansas State Library

Kansas Day at the Museum and Kansas Day at the Capitol

Events Highlight State's Birth (registration at cjonline.com required)

Kansas State Symbols and Facts

Here at Washburn, British journalist Paul Harris will discuss "What's the Matter with Everyone Else?": A Foreign Perspective on Kansas" at 3:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 26, in Henderson Living Resources Center Room 208. Read the press release HERE.

Kansas Center for the Book's One Book Project

Also on Kansas Day, the first One Book project from the State Library's Kansas Center for the Book will begin and continue through April 30. The inaugural One Book is The Learning Tree by Gordon Parks.

Items Available at Mabee Library

The Learning Tree
PS3566.A73 L4

The Learning Tree [videorecording]
PS3566.A73 L42 1987

Browse through other Gordon Parks-related materials HERE.