This year s Kansas Book Festival will move from its usual venue at the Kansas Statehouse to Mabee Library at Washburn University.
The festival is scheduled for 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Sept. 18 and will feature free presentations by 40 authors, outdoor performances, a book-art exhibit, food vendors and exhibitor tents with publishers from around Kansas.
The event will kick off 4 p.m. Sept. 17 with a presentation by Hefner Heitz Kansas Book Award winner Rebek Taussig who will speak about her memoir Sitting Pretty: The View from my Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body.
Aimee Nezhukumatahil, author of World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks and Other Astonishments, will headline the festival, according to a news release from Kansas Book Festival executive director Tim Bascom.
Danny Glover, EGOT winner, producer and social activist John Legend and U.S. Capitol Police Officer
Harry Dunn, one of the many officers who defended the Capitol on January 6. Plus, Legend will give a special intimate musical performance.
This historic six-episode series will debut
Tuesday, March 2 (10:00 – 11:00 p.m. EST) on ABC. Episodes can also be viewed the next day on demand and on Hulu.
An extended version of ABC News Chief Justice Correspondent Pierre Thomas’ (left) exclusive one-on-one interview with U.S. Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn (right), who was the first officer to speak out publicly since the attack on the Capitol on January 6, will air in the series premiere of “Soul of a Nation”
02/15/2021
“I’m Robert Jensen. I’ll be your guide into the restless and relentless mind of Wes Jackson. I first bumped into Wes’ work more than three decades ago, and his ideas have had a profound influence on my thinking about society and ecology.”
Robert Jensen was joined by Wes Jackson as Mr. Jackson reflects on his life and career, with his new book
Hogs Are Up: Stories of the Land, with Digressions scheduled to be published in March. Widely recognized as a leader in the sustainable agriculture movement, Mr. Jackson is a biologist and author who co-founded The Land Institute, a Kansas-based research organization dedicated to furthering sustainable agricultural practices. He previously served as a professor at Kansas Wesleyan University and at California State University, Sacramento, where he established the school’s environmental studies program. During the interview, Mr. Jackson chronicles his four decades of work in the sustainable agriculture movement, his own
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