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Freedom's Frontier National Heritage Area leaders to unveil history exhibit at ...

For history lovers, this might even be better than Independence Day fireworks.

Leaders of the Freedom’s Frontier National Heritage Area are planning a July 2 event that will unveil and dedicate a new $200,000 history exhibit in the refurbished Carnegie Library building in downtown.

“It has been a really big project, and we’re thrilled to be at this point,” said Judy Billings, director of the organization that oversees the heritage area.

From 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on July 2, members of the public can be among the first to see a new exhibit that highlights how the region has shaped America’s freedoms. The exhibit includes pieces about the tensions in Missouri and Kansas that led up to the Civil War, about Langston Hughes and other minorities that struggled for civil rights, about the landmark desegregation case Brown vs. the Board of Education and several other events.

“I hope this helps remind people how important this area has been in the development of the country,” Billings said. “And I also hope it makes them want to travel throughout the area.”

The exhibit — along with a smaller one focusing on the Kansas-Nebraska Act — will be open on a regular basis. Plans call for the exhibit space to be open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesdays through Saturdays, and from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. on Sundays. There will be no admission to view the exhibits.

The exhibit has several items directly related to events that happened in or near Lawrence, but the gallery also is meant to serve as an introduction for the entire heritage area — which includes 41 counties in eastern Kansas and western Missouri.

From 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. on July 2, a more formal grand opening event will be held at the Carnegie. Tickets — $30 for one adult or $50 for a couple — are required. The event will include food, drink, readings of Langston Hughes’ work, and an actor portraying Charles Robinson, the first governor of Kansas. Tickets can be purchased at the Lawrence Convention and Visitors Bureau.

The opening marks a milestone for the heritage area. Billings, former U.S. Appeals Court Judge Deanell Tacha and several other area residents began working more than five years ago to get Congress to recognize the region as a national heritage area.

In addition to housing the exhibits, the Carnegie also serves as the headquarters for the heritage area. City commissioners — with help of a federal grant — spent about $1.5 million to add new restrooms, elevators and to refurbish the early 20th Century building. Commissioners also spent $200,000 of guest tax money to pay for the building’s main exhibit.

“Queering” California History Books: The Final “Frontier” | Right ...

There is a new bill, which will be heard Wednesday in Sacramento, which  takes the LGBT agenda into the  “final frontier:”  rewriting history books to include gay and lesbian history and to make “manditory” a curriculum which poses the gay, lesbian, transgender lifestyle in a “favorable light.   In other words, parents will not be able to have their children “opt out” of coursework to which they object, as they can do now.

This is where the “tolerance”" of the gay lifestyle by some conservatives,  like me, ends.  The safety, mental health, happiness and INNOCENCE of children cannot be violated by teachers in classrooms any more.

The time to take a stand for the education and protection  of California children is now.  Contacts are farther down in this post.

I am one of the conservative political writers around the country to support the inclusion of the conservative gay group GOProud at the Conservative Political Action Conference this year. I call upon GOProud to take a stand AGAINST the indoctrination/ oversexualization of children in the public schools.  The gay movement’s attempts to “distance” itself from pedophilia are to be commended.  This is the chance to show true leadership and advocate ONLY for the life-style choices made by consenting adults.  Injecting this re-written history and sex propaganda into elementary classrooms is child abuse, pure and simple.  Parents who subject their children to this kind of bombardment have lost custody in California family law courts.  Take a stand for CHILDREN, GOProud.

Read SB 48  

This bill seeks to inject controversial politics into California’s classrooms, textbooks and instructional material at a time when study after study and statistic after statistic points to a battered and dysfunctional California school system.   Contrary to SB 48′s title, the bill is not fair or inclusive. The bill is not inclusive because its main goal is to single out people whose viewpoints diverge from the homosexual, bisexual or transgender lifestyles. For example, many groups in California object to such a lifestyle for many reasons including but not limited to conviction, principle, religion, or a set of morals. A person’s contribution in social sciences should be judged according to their work not their sexual preference.

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