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TOPEKA (KSNT) – A local library is showing off some rare items from its collection related to the Menninger family. KSNT 27 News spoke with staff at the Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library about the new display set up in the Topeka room on the library’s second floor. The small exhibit features items from […]
Like other places during the late 1800s and early 1900s, Topeka was a hot-bed for spiritualism and seances. Commentator Katie Keckeisen tells us about a fraudster who scammed people in Topeka and Spring Hill, Kansas. Katie will also give a talk about spiritualism on Friday, the 13th of October, at the Topeka Shawnee County Public Library.
A downtown Topeka street construction project has uncovered a piece of Kansas history. In September, crews working along Jackson Street came across buried railing from the Capital City's long-retired streetcar system. Schuetz Construction foreman Scott Schuetz said workers found the rails as they replaced the existing street. There's a set of trolley tracks we were told down Jackson Street that we dug across several times connecting the services to the buildings, and then there's a set of tracks that we dug across in 10th Street as well as in Eighth Street." Katie Keckeisen is a local history librarian at the Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library.
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