Every year, at the beginning of summer, I check out a stack of craft books. The sun is shining (sometimes, even when it’s raining!), my garden is bursting with life, and I’m inspired to try my hand at creation. Our annual How-To Festival, our all-ages celebration of our community’s creativity and know-how, fits perfectly into…
You Too Can How-To!
I came to Lawrence in the fall of 1995 as a freshman at KU, and fell in love with this town right away: the lovely old neighborhoods, the vibrant downtown, and especially the people: creative, community-minded, and unafraid of being their authentic selves. And so the opportunity every year to pull together the How-To Festival…
How-To in 2022!
Well, folks! Another item to file under “My, how time flies!”: this will be the fifth year for the How-To Festival. Every year has seen a different lineup of presenters (and, due to the circumstances, a variety of formats!), but what has remained continuous is the ample bounty of creativity and resourcefulness our friends and…
The Family History Rabbit Hole
When you boil it down to its essence, it seems to me that the experience of the pandemic has so much been about our families, and our relationships with our families--keeping our families safe, being cooped up with our families, being separated from our families, craving alone time, longing for togetherness, amplifying everything that makes…
How-To Tuesdays!
It’s June again--can you believe it?--which means it’s time for some How-To here at LPL. In years past, this has meant a festival (whether IRL or virtual) packed with local experts sharing their skills and knowledge. This year, we’re savoring small batches of our community’s know-how throughout the month of June. Join us for How-To…
A Life, Secondhand
And now when I go by a secondhand store I imagine all the lives behind every object: it makes my head spin… -Clara Beaudoux This is how big of a nerd I am: when I first heard about Twitter and its 140-character limit, I imagined that it would basically be a haiku-fest: scads of precision-crafted…
75 Years Later: Lawrence Remembers Its World War II Veterans
In 2019, the US Department of Veterans Affairs reported that 389,292 of the 16 million World War II American veterans were still alive. Of those 389,292 veterans, 3,693 lived in Kansas. You might have heard about the alarming rate at which WWII veterans are dying (294 deaths per day in 2019) but might not have…
How-To Festival, Quarantine Edition
After a surreal spring, this summer is shaping up to be Not Your Typical Summer. When everything began to shut down in March, we pondered the fate of this year’s How-To Festival: how do you plan an event meant to bring the community together, when most likely you need to keep everyone apart? We decided…
Techno-Cookery
I don’t mind saying: the Dewey Decimal System has some peculiarities. That’s probably (well, it IS) due to the fact that the system is basically a physical incarnation of Melvil Dewey’s mental map of knowledge. Given that Mr. Dewey, while smart and organized, was a) a Victorian and b) by modern standards, Not A Great…
Swordfighting? Check! Tango? Check! Voting Machines? Check!
At long last, summer is here! More so than at the new year--when I really just want to hibernate--the beginning of summer feels like the turning of a new leaf, a blank slate, a beckoning vista stretching out before me. With my kids out of school, the rhythm of my household changes, and a sense…
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