Just a few stone walls remain of what was once a stately, three-story stone mansion on the bluffs of the Kansas River near Lecompton. Among the ruins, amateur archeologist Debi Aaron is hunched over a dry-screening tripod carefully sifting the dirt and rock she collected from the site of a ...
Editor’s note: To capture time accurately, language from the past generally is left unchanged. This may result in some antiquated or out-of-use language from time to time. We try to maintain the exact wording when possible, but edits are occasionally made for the sake of brevity or because ...
Re-enactors transformed the grassy area just west of VFW Park into two separate World War II battles Saturday. Participants fired off round after round of empty shells as part of skirmishes between Allied forces (American troops) and Axis soldiers (German troops). Roughly 75 re-enactors ...
Editor’s note: To capture time accurately, language from the past generally is left unchanged. This may result in some antiquated or out-of-use language from time to time. We try to maintain the exact wording when possible, but edits are occasionally made for the sake of brevity or because ...
Editor’s note: To capture time accurately, language from the past generally is left unchanged. This may result in some antiquated or out-of-use language from time to time. We try to maintain the exact wording when possible, but edits are occasionally made for the sake of brevity or because ...
Editor’s note: To capture time accurately, language from the past generally is left unchanged. This may result in some antiquated or out-of-use language from time to time. We try to maintain the exact wording when possible, but edits are occasionally made for the sake of brevity or because ...
The Tonganoxie Community Historical Society will open a new exhibit on Memorial Day that localizes a Kansas focus on service in the Vietnam War. The exhibit is the culmination of a statewide project, Kansas Stories of the Vietnam War, which was sponsored by Humanities Kansas starting in early ...
25 years ago: May 3, 2000 Next week, a cornerstone of the Tonganoxie businesses will be honored for a century of work. Calvin Quisenberry, owner of Quisenberry Funeral Home, will accept the award given by the Kansas Funeral Directors Association in Wichita. “A lot of the time, I spend as ...
25 years ago: April 26, 2000 On May 4, The Mirror will celebrate its 118th birthday, and the newspaper’s staff would like our readers to join us for an afternoon open house. We’d like all of our readers to come over to our offices at 520 E. Fourth and have a piece of cake. Earth Day ...
Tonganoxie Community Historical Society is registering students for its 2025 history camp. This year’s theme is Searching for Freedom in Bleeding Kansas. The camp will be 9 a.m.-noon June 2-6 and is open to youths entering grades 4-6 in August. Up to 20 youths get to attend. To register, ...
