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Good evening. Im Steve WiebergPublic Affairs staff at Kansas City Public Library and thank you so much for being here tonight. Its great to have you. Its great to have david mills our speaker. Tonights programs has been a long time coming. He was originally scheduled to be here in february but was granted by bad weather, Winter Weather and we are so happy he hung with us and we are so happy to have him here now. This happens to be kind of a happy confluence of Kansas City Public Library programming. It is the latest in our series with us command and gen. Staff wrecking 75 years since world war ii. It also comes in the middle of the partnership of the library from january through may with ....
Refers to the many different ways that life on this part of the country has been recorded, either through letters or diaries or journals or photographs or objects as well, by the many, many different varieties of ethnic cultures that have lived here. What we wanted to accomplish in emphasizing the materials that you see in this exhibit is that more information can be gathered by just using the records that we have on the second floor, our research core, the archives themselves, and then also a Research Library of 40,000 volumes on the American West. Human habitation in the plains would date from certainly in this part of the country, from well before the current era. Most an throw pothropologists n American Indians as far back as 10,000 to 12,000 years ago, plains culture. What you will see in this exhibit here is muc ....
Hollywood images of the american cowboy. Good evening. It is great to have everybody here tonight. It is a great crowd and it feels like just kind of a festive, light atmosphere. Im glad. We have a great presentation for you tonight. My name is Steve Wieberg and i work here at the museum. It will be my honor to introduce i have gotten to know and i admire during the last few months working with him. Some of you may have been through our new exhibit that opened under two weeks ago on the second floor in the mountain gallery, titled cowboys and culture. If you havent, i would strongly urge you to. It is just a fascinating collection, and im talking about a large collection of artifacts, art and other objects that illuminate the connection i wasnt aware of down through history, going back to the cattle days between the city of kansas city and amarillo, texas. It is so big, in fact, part of it spilled out into kirk hall down on the fir ....
KU’s Jeff Long and MU’s Jim Sterk were the athletic directors of the rival schools who orchestrated the return of regular-season Border War games in basketball and football. ....