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North Lawrence seeks further theft redress
‘This happened here’
By Ian Cummings icummings@ljworld.com
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LOCAL HISTORIAN KATIE ARMITAGE has been mapping the route by which William Quantrill and his raiders came through Lawrence on Aug. 21, 1863. Based upon historical accounts and information, Armitage believes the first Lawrence resident killed in the attack was the Rev. S.S. Snyder, who was shot in his cow pasture, near where the Haskell Square shopping center exists today. Armitage, pictured Thursday near 19th Street and Haskell Avenue, holds an illustration of the massacre created by Sherman Enderton of Company E, 11th Kansas Infantry, shortly after the attack.
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Quantrill’s Raid historian mapping sites of ‘horrific, historic’ events Lawhorn’s W Lawrence hen you drive by the shopping center at 19th and Haskell in the future, maybe something other than happy feet will cross your mind. Surely you are like me and always notice the sign for Happy Feet Spa at the relatively un-spa-like shopping center. Or maybe you remember the Laughing Dog Saloon, a place where if you didn’t mind your p’s and q’s, you would end up in a pickle that was no laughing matter. This new memory that I’m suggesting isn’t real warm and fuzzy either, but perhaps it is one that will stick around for as long as the shopping center’s miracle has — the eclectic
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Miracle Video, that is. The memory is this: Somewhere near this shopping center, the first Lawrence blood was spilled in Quantrill’s Raid. Longtime local historian Katie Armitage hopes that
thought crosses your mind as you drive by the eastern Lawrence hangout in the future. In fact, she hopes that there are dozens of new places around town that end up reminding you of Lawrence’s darkest day: Aug. 21, 1863, when Missouri ruffian William Quantrill led a raid on the town that left about 180 Lawrence residents dead. Armitage is leading an effort at the Watkins Community Museum of History to document dozens upon dozens of fatalities or great escapes that occurred during the raid, then put those incidents into the geographic context of today’s city. The work will be part of an interactive display included in the new per-
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manent exhibit that will open at Watkins in August. Some of the stories may be well-known. Others, undoubtedly, will not be. Either way, Armitage hopes the act of being able to say “this happened here,” will be powerful. “Many times,” Armitage says, “we’re not aware that we’re living with what has come before us.”
In 1863, there was a cow pasture with a good well near the site that now houses the shopping center. The Rev. S.S. Snyder of the abolitionist-leaning United Brethren Church kept a few cows at the site.
Gay marriage likely an uphill battle in Kansas By Scott Rothschild srothschild@ljworld.com
Don Haider-Markel, chairman of the political science department at Kansas University, said the issue of gay rights and samesex marriage sometimes comes up when interviewing candidates for jobs at KU. He said both gay and straight candidates raise concerns about whether they will feel comfortable in a state that has a statute and constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage. “It is definitely a stumbling block,” said Haider-Markel, whose work has focused on sexual orientation in the political system. Advocates for gay rights say LEGISLATURE those kinds of concerns may be raised even more often after last week’s Supreme Court rulings that favored gay rights. Now there are 13 states and the District of Columbia, making up a third of the country’s population, that allow gay marriage. That number may increase in the next year
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North Lawrence wants answers from the criminal justice system. Police, prosecutors and lawmakers are hearing from residents there who say they are sick and tired of living with people they call career criminals who are responsible for an ongoing problem of thefts in the neighborhood. Local officials have explained that county courts Branson no longer have control over sentencing criminals, and advised the residents to report all thefts to
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