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Leave it to Lawrence Magazine music correspondent Nick Spacek to gather a group of rock musicians for an interview at the Replay Lounge and get straight to the heart of the matter—an ancient metaphysical paradox. Granted, Nick didn’t name the metaphysics directly in his article, but over the sound of the music and the taste of the drinks, he and members of Shoebox were discussing Plutarch’s Ship of Theseus. If it’s been a while since you’ve hung out in a Lawrence bar in the early evening, here’s the summary. Commonly attributed to the Greek writer-philosopher Plutarch, the Ship of Theseus is a thought experiment about a boat whose parts are gradually replaced one by one until, at some point, there is nothing left of the boat that was part of the original boat. So, Plutarch asks: Is this the same boat? Variations of this theme have played out in many other stories. After all, the concept gets to the core of identity over time and, in this case, the identity of a Lawrence band whose members have been switching out one by one over the years. If you want to pour another drink and stay at the Replay Lounge a bit longer, you could ask how this concept might apply to an entire city. How does Lawrence change year after year, block by block until very little is left of what it was a few decades ago (to say nothing of what it was originally), yet retain its identity and spirit of Lawrence? Come to think of it, that isn’t a question left only in bars—it’s an issue our community has addressed very recently with a spirited discussion of what type of buildings should be part of our downtown, and it’s a question Lawrencians have visited often in the past and will certainly revisit in the near future. And it’s a question we examine in a multiple of ways in this issue with stories about a film that looks at what it means to be a Kansan, a young chef who returns to her city with a different outlook on life, an artist who reconnects with his father and reconciles his memory of his dad with the daily truths of a living man. Of course, we wouldn’t subject you to metaphysics without offering drinks, so we have two perfect summer cocktail recipes as well as an entire range of stories about films, books, homes, office pets, the blood-sucking beasts of “Dad” Perry Park and more. After all, it’s a new issue with entirely fresh stories, themes, photos, artwork and yet … we’re still the same old Lawrence Magazine. Surely Plutarch would drink to that.
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LORRAINE CANNISTRA / HOMETOWN HEROES Lorraine Cannistra is an author, blogger, advocate and wheelchair ballroom dancer. She earned a bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Emporia State University and has just released her most recent book about disabilities and open communication, More the Same than Different.
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16 | Bookmarks MYSTERIES OF FOSSILS AND PAPER New works by Lawrence authors
20 | Flavor CHLOE’S NEW PIE TRADITION An innovative baker brings dyes, mandalas and family memories into her creations
24 | Drinks SUMMER DRINKS Two long-time Lawrence bartenders share recipes for a simple, go-to summer refreshment
28 | Gallery MCCAFFREY’S HOMECOMING Returning home allows a Lawrence painter a personal exploration of the giant questions of truth and perception
32 | Screen KANSAS MIGRATION A short film explores the remarkable multicultural normality of Garden City
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38 | People ‘JUST HOW I ENVISIONED IT’ Laura Moriarty talks about the process behind—and her reaction to—the film adaptation of The Chaperone
ON THE COVER Pumpkin the French bulldog graces the interior of J.Lynn Bridal in downtown Lawrence. Photograph by Nick Krug.
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SOUND And the (old but new) bands play on Story by Nick Spacek
Shoebox’s ‘Great Little Group’ Sitting on the back patio of the Replay Lounge, huddled under a heater and trying to stay out of the rain, three-quarters of indie rock band Shoebox Money is explaining the various twists and turns of the group’s short history. “The band formed in 2015,” starts off bassist, comanager and only remaining founding member Patrick Spanier. He played with the original group for a few shows, then went off to Asia for nine months. Shortly after he returned, the group’s singer left to play more emo music and the drummer left for another band. So Spanier and guitarist Ben Wallwood recruited Ben Schenberg to do more guitars and vocals, and Schenberg brought in drummer Dylan McCune. That was the lineup for about a year or so as the band set its sights on winning the annual KJHK battle of the bands, Farmer’s Ball. “We did that, and we were kind of in a flux of, ‘OK, what now?’” Spanier recollects. They cut a record, Reason & Rhyme, which they released in two parts in the fall of 2018, and then the band changed yet again. Schenberg and McCune left as Nico Williams took up the drums and Hannah Norris became rhythm guitarist and lead singer. “It was a lot to take on,” Norris says of joining the band. “I’m very grateful to Ben Schenberg. He was very flexible. He actually sat down with me, and worked with
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me, like, ‘Here’s all the guitar chords,’ so I’m very thankful that he helped me with the transition.” However, Norris says, it was somewhat odd coming into a space where the lead vocalist had previously been a guy. The band had to change song keys to accommodate her voice, and fans had to accept new interpretations. “I think people are really open to this sort of change,” Norris says. “Here, I’ve got help and a lot of direction, especially from these two,” she continues with a laugh and a smile as she points at Williams and Spanier. “It’s really a great little group.” The new lineup can be felt in the group’s latest releases, both in themes and tones, but it continues the band’s approach of providing original tunes describing real-life bumps and bruises. “Westport,” the song Shoebox Money had released on Bandcamp earlier on the day we were speaking, deals with people coming and going from someone’s life, and it seems appropriate for the discussion we’re having. Lyrics like “but your heart is in Westport / and I tripped and fell for you” ache with the sense of missing someone. “I think it’s pretty interesting, too,” Spanier notes. “In a lot of our music, we want to be more genuine and sincere, and that’s something that’s stayed with every iteration of the band. The only goal is that we don’t want to write novelty music—we want to write songs that are reflections of our lives.”
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Mom’s Metallica-taught chill Eric Davis’ instrumental and keyboard-heavy electronic music project, Pala Zolo, is set to release its first EP via Kansas City label The Record Machine this summer. It’s an exciting chance for a larger audience to discover what might be some of the most chill and relaxing music going on in Lawrence right now. But when we meet to discuss this summer release, Davis spends the first five minutes of our chat at east side coffee shop Decade talking about Metallica, the legendary thrash metal band. “Metallica was the first band that I ever loved when I was a kid,” Davis says. “That was the band that made me fall in love with music.” Before Metallica miraculously appeared in his life, Davis had been a reluctant 11- or 12-year-old piano student. “I would beg my mom every day to just let me quit because I was just like, ‘What am I going to do with this stuff?’” Davis remembers. “I just had no interest. I just wasn’t very musical—I was all about sports when I was a kid.” But everything changed when his mother—whom he credits as one of his biggest musical influences—livened up a family road trip by putting on Metallica’s S&M album, which the band recorded with the San Francisco Symphony. “I was just in love with the music,” he explains. “I would just listen to it over and over, and just wanted to know how these songs were made.” Shortly thereafter, Davis realized that his best friend played drums and his older brother played guitar, so, naturally, he thought “If I play bass, then we can start a band.”
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That first basement band taught him discipline and drive and set him up for his next musical epiphany at a show by electronic-indie-dance band The Faint. “I didn’t know you could make sounds like that,” recalls Davis, the amazement still evident in his voice. “I was just in love with synthesizers after I saw The Faint play. My mom bought me a synthesizer the next day.” After hearing The Faint, Davis discovered Kraftwerk, Depeche Mode, Wendy Carlos’ score for A Clockwork Orange, and any number of video game soundtracks. The nascent electronic musician would then find himself (somewhat ironically back in front of keyboards) playing for local bands like Quiet Corral and Middle Twin before joining Hembree. “I just realized that, with synthesizers, I could do so much,” Davis explains. “I could cover so many textures and sounds and just contribute so much more than I could just on a guitar or a bass.” The music Davis makes as Pala Zolo is very much born from a rock world, rather than a DJ mindset, which explains why Pala Zolo sounds not like background music, but rather live foreground music with an astonishing amount of verve. “The songs have this pop structure—verse, chorus, bridge—as opposed to just taking textures and evolving,” continues Davis. “My core is that I’m a band person, a rock person. I’m just trying to make all those things work together in a unique way, but I’m really trying not to think about it too much.”
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10 Years Around Town Hugo Vera, the executive director of the Lawrence Opera Theatre, bets that most Lawrencians know more opera than they realize. “Most of the time, we’ll do pieces that the audience is like, ‘Oh, wait, I know that! It was that car commercial,’” Vera says. And that experience is something he thinks even more people will enjoy when his company presents its 10th anniversary concert season this August at venues across the city. The fact that the troupe has made it to ten years owes a lot to Vera, one of the two co-founders. “One year, in the summer, there were 12 of us that had nothing to do and we just decided, ‘Let’s put something together,’” Vera recalls. Vera, whose background includes a master’s degree in music and a doctorate in musical arts from the University of Kansas, helped organize the first summer series on the KU campus, where many of the other performers were students. As the group began graduating, they moved the concerts to the Lawrence Arts Center for years two and three, keeping with a program of mostly short songs and an unofficial motto of “You never see the same thing twice,” meaning they did over 30 scenes from 25 different operas. When their contract with the Arts Center expired after that third year, it looked like a fourth was in jeopardy, but Vera decided that he wanted to continue the project even though he had since moved to New York, and the Jewish Community Center came through to provide a temporary venue.
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For the fifth year, the group made two key changes that continue to this day: formally adopting the name of Lawrence Opera Theatre and holding concerts at Theatre Lawrence. The group also presented its first full production, a modern reinterpretation of Mozart’s Don Giovanni, with the titular Don played as a lothario in Queens, New York. It wouldn’t be the last conceptual take LOT would do. “Our saying for the company is that we make old opera new again,” Vera explains. “We get very creative—some people don’t quite understand it—but I think, in order for opera to grow, we have to make it topical to what’s going on now. Last year, we took a big step, and instead of having Verdi’s La Traviata having a tenor lead, we had a genderqueer lead, and created that kind of dynamic.” This year is a big one not just because it’s their 10th anniversary but also because LOT is starting a high school program, called The Red Bench, which is a way to give back to the community of Lawrence and to sow the seeds for the future of opera. “It’s very important—for the survival of the genre— that you have to go out and show people that they actually can relate to what they’re seeing,” Vera says. This summer’s performances at locations throughout town, such as at the Watkins Museum, aren’t tied so much to conceptual productions as they are to the idea of opera leaving the theater and going out to the people to share a celebration. The events run August 3–18. Details and tickets for all the events can be found at lawrenceopera.org.
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MYSTERIES OF FOSSILS AND PAPER Story by Mary R. Gage
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Merry Menagerie: Animal Antics from A to Z Angie Pickman Angie Pickman’s Merry Menagerie: Animal Antics from A to Z (Ascend Books, 2018) is a whimsical trip through the alphabet. Original cut-paper images of animals paired with like-lettered objects are designed to tease smiles out of readers young and old. “I’ve always wanted to do a book,” Pickman says. And the right elements fell into place for her when she was invited to do a solo exhibit at the Omaha Public Library in 2014. While preparing for that exhibit, Pickman says she “decided to do some kind of a series that was going to draw the kids in and almost read like a book on a wall, and so I thought of doing an ABC series. I didn’t have a lot of time to get it together, and I didn’t have the words on the images. When I hung it up, there was a group of adults in there and they were guessing what the letters were. It was fun to watch them, and they were having fun going through it. I thought, ‘Hey, this is my chance to do that book idea I’ve always had and maybe run with it.’” A native Kansan, Pickman completed a master’s
degree in interactive telecommunications at NYU. She developed a love of papercut art through her discovery of stop-motion silhouette. “It’s so time consuming, but so much fun to do,” she says of silhouette animation. “It’s like making art, but bringing it to life.” Pickman lived in New York City for several years, starting a restaurant business and later a bakery, while making art on the side. She dubbed her art business Rural Pearl, a nod to her Kansas roots and her love of nature. After moving back to Kansas in 2009, her cut paper cards, posters and artwork had begun selling so well, art became her full-time business, and she opened a studio on East Ninth Street. Pickman originally self-published Merry Menagerie as an e-book but is pleased it has been picked up and released in print. “I like to have an actual book in my hands,” she says, “especially kids’ books because you can hold it and read it to them. There’s just something about having it in your hands that’s super special. I just want people to enjoy it and smile.”
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Birds, Bones, and Beetles: The Improbable Career and Remarkable Legacy of University of Kansas Naturalist Charles D. Bunker Charles Warner writes about the life of his grandfather, Charles “Bunk” Bunker, an early curator at KU’s Natural History Museum, who in 1911 discovered Kansas’ state marine fossil, Tylosaurus, and helped construct the museum’s Panorama of North American Mammals. (University of Kansas Press, 2019)
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The News as Usual Jon Kelly Yenser’s new volume of poetry is woven with threads of Kansas landscapes, highways, rivers and bugs. In lyrical language he examines the seasons of the calendar and of life. (University of New Mexico Press, 2019)
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Summer Reading The Lawrence Public Library’s Summer Reading Program for children, teens and adults kicks off June 1 with a movie on the lawn, Spider-man: Into the Spider-verse. Programming runs through August 17.
OPPOSITE Angie Pickman stands beside a display of her children’s art book, Merry Menagerie: Animal Antics from A to Z. THIS PAGE RIGHT TO LEFT Courtesy University of Kansas Press, Courtesy New Mexico University Press, Courtesy Lawrence Public Library Summer Reading program
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The Bone Field Leonard Krishtalka Paleontologists usually solve mysteries –Leonard Krishtalka of an ancient kind. Fossil are the clues they work with; fantastic dinosaurs and ancient worlds are the mysteries revealed. So, it’s not a stretch that paleontologist and director of the Natural History Museum at the University of Kansas, Leonard Krishtalka, is an enthusiast of mysteries of another kind—the fictional and murderous variety. He’s always loved reading them, and now he’s writing them. Krishtalka’s first book in his planned Iron City mystery series is The Bone Field (Gatekeeper Press, 2018), a story he describes as “paleontological intrigue” that introduces private detective Harry Przewalski, who, after a tragic life event, drops out of paleontological research and trades digging up fossils for digging up bad guys. But Przewalski’s search for a missing scientist leads him back to a fossil dig in the badlands of Wyoming, just the type of exacting, unforgiving landscape he’d hoped to leave forever Before coming to KU in 1995, Krishtalka was a research fellow and in the past. assistant director at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, “What I like to do is first tell a where his fictional detective lives. Krishtalka started writing The Bone Field story,” says Krishtalka, “but inside the shortly after he left Pittsburgh, finding the time to write on long plane rides story, and wrapped around the story, is crisscrossing the globe to work in fossil fields in Patagonia, Africa, China, a scientific core. In The Bone Field, the Montana and Wyoming. scientific core is about dinosaurs and “I love to write on airplanes,” he says, “you have eight solid hours why they became extinct and how they without a telephone or internet.” evolved, and how that geology was laid The Bone Field is Krishtalka’s first work of fiction. Three more books, down and how we find them in the including the next two installments in the Iron City series, as well as a badlands of Wyoming and Montana. murder mystery set in Lawrence in the late 1800s, are set for release in the The science core is surrounded by a near future. narrative, by a mystery story.” Leonard Krishtalka, known in Lawrence for his work as director of the University of Kansas Natural History Museum and Biodiversity Institute, has started a series of science-related mystery novels.
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awrence has always meant home for Chloe Sheridan. Now, she is here creating art, making artistic food, nurturing and organizing new endeavors. Before that, Lawrence was the home she returned to during the seven years she traveled the country, working in temporary jobs and selling her jewelry. And before that, Lawrence was her childhood. During those first years here, family surrounded Chloe. Her mother and aunts were the greatest influences for her life and for the dishes she would learn to prepare. “Every night we would gather and share meals together; food has been such a huge part of my life,” Chloe says. Her mother, Rachael Sheridan, was particularly known among family and friends for making and gifting food. “That was my mom’s language of love—giving,” Chloe says. “My mother was such an amazing cook. She cooked Southern comfort food: fried chicken, mashed potatoes, pork chops.” And these recipes evolved, Chloe recalls. “More organic foods, more healthy—less Crisco, more greens, more salad, more baked chicken than fried chicken.” Her mother also experimented with Indian foods. “I love that she was really diving into interesting food.” One of those new dishes, red spicy curry, was the last meal Chloe’s mother made for her, and she remembers
Photography by Doug Stremel it well. That was in 2014, just before Rachael died from complications of the H1N1 virus at the age of 39. “She’s the reason I am who I am,” Chloe says. During that period and for a few years after, Chloe traveled, selling her own art and helping other artists sell their goods online. She began baking in earnest only recently, once she returned to Lawrence. “I finally settled down for the first time in my life. Winter came and I needed a project, and I just began diving into baking and started experimenting. It evolved into this unique art form, an eye-catcher for everybody to enjoy. It has become an art form for me. And it’s therapeutic. I can just roll out my pie crust and kind of get lost and create those pretty designs.” One of her design ideas came when she thought of blueberries as natural dyes, and how they might be used as paint for a pie’s decorative leaves (see recipe in this story). She also began using flowers in many different dishes. “I constantly had pansies, lavender, marigolds and would incorporate those in all of my foods, even if I was just cutting up fruit. I will take a watermelon and use a cookie cutter to make heart shaped watermelon pieces and throw edible flowers on them. It’s so simple but just a little touch that makes it so pretty. I was doing a lot of edible flowers on cakes. I love working with flowers. I’d OPPOSITE Back in her hometown of Lawrence, Chloe Sheridan is creating traditional pies with artistic twists.
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Grandma Rainbow’s Pie Crust Ingredients • 3 cups flour • 1 1/4 cups Crisco • 1 teaspoon salt • 1 beaten egg • 1 teaspoon vinegar (Note: The vinegar increases the pie’s flakiness, but Chloe does not add vinegar when doing her intricate-design crusts.) • 5 tablespoons COLD water Instructions • Mix water, vinegar, and egg. • Mix flour and salt. • Cut shortening into flour/salt mixture. (You can do this with a pastry blender, forks or your fingers. You want to be sure not to overmix! Overmixing this pie dough makes it tough.) • Set aside to chill/refrigerate for one hour.
Chloe’s Blueberry Pie Filling Ingredients • 4 cups fresh blueberries • 1/4 cup coconut sugar • 1/2 tablespoon white sugar (optional, use for extra sweetening) • 1 1/2 tablespoon cornstarch • 1/4 cup water Instructions • Combine above ingredients. For Assembly • Divide dough in two parts • Roll first dough part out into circle, about 1/4-inch thick • Place dough in pie pan • Place pie filling into crust • Cut 1 1/2 tablespoons cold butter into pieces and scatter on top of the pie filling. • Roll out second part of dough • Get creative! Use a sharp knife or Xacto knife to cut patterns in the dough. Chloe favors a mandala and uses the pieces she cuts out for leaves that she applies to the top dough. (She usually uses the knife to etch a pattern of veins in each leaf.) • Place top dough piece on pie; crimp edges in desired pattern. • Paint top pie crust with blue accents (recipe for paint below) Baking • Bake pie at 375 degrees about 45–50 minutes. (Hint: Placing a strip of aluminum foil around the pie edges will keep the edges from burning before the center of the pie is done. Look for the filling bubbling through the top cut-outs and for a golden-brown hue on top.)
Pretty Pie Paint Ingredients • 1/2 cup blueberries • 1 tablespoon water Instructions • Simmer blueberries and water for about 5 minutes. Your blueberry paint does not need to be strained, just dip a brush into it and paint your dough leaves.
like to eventually incorporate that into a crust. I found a new method where you can roll the edible flowers into pie crust, and then you bake it and it adds that color—a pretty flower pie crust.” Even beyond flowers, Chloe seeks to blend tones and design. “I love color. I want a vibrant spread that’s delicious. So I tend to migrate towards a lot of fruits and vegetables. Something that just looks like a pretty spread,” she says. “I love the concept of mandalas; my pies are kind of mandalas. Food is so beautiful in the first place.” As she experiments with new baked creations, Sheridan is creating her new life at home. Having worked as a caregiver over the years, she is now concentrating on helping people make their lives and surroundings more orderly and peaceful—a role she describes as a “transformation strategist,” in which she helps others downsize, reduce clutter and reimagine how to live in a space. “I think that a lot of my clients are seeking my help because they are at a place where they emotionally can’t handle that task. So they call on me,” says Chloe “I’m not there to judge but to help you feel good about yourself. We have busy lives, and it’s easy for your space to get out of hand. There’s no reason to feel bad about it.” For now at least, Sheridan has found her space. “After years of traveling and being away, now I know completely that this is where I belong,” she says. “I find a lot of inspiration in this community. That is what I was lacking when I wasn’t living here. I will still travel, but Lawrence will always be my home base because all of my amazing friends and family—all the love—is here.”
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SUMMER DRINKS Two long-time Lawrence bartenders share recipes for a simple, go-to summer refreshment Story by Cathy Hamilton
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up on the family farm and attended Hillcrest, India, Kaw Valley and Broken Arrow elementary schools, South Junior High, and Lawrence High. After a year at the University of Kansas, Phil transferred to K-State and finished his education in Manhattan before taking off for California and a career in business consulting. He returned to Lawrence to take care of his father, veterinarian and civic leader William F. Bradley. Phil Bradley / The Sandbar “I had forgotten how much I loved Phil Bradley has been slinging Lawrence, ” Bradley says in describing drinks on Friday nights at the Sandbar THE DRINK his return. “for the last 27 years or so, except A six-year year stint as when I’m traveling or teaching. It helps Douglas County commissioner me keep my hand in the dishwater,” • 1 part – Pimm’s No. 1 Cup followed, as did the job of he says. • 3 parts – ginger ale (or lemonade representing the newly-formed The “dishwater,” in this case, is or lemon-lime soda) KLBA, thanks to the persuasion of the hospitality industry. Traveling and Sandbar owner Peach Madl. teaching are also part of his job as Garnish with lemon or cucumber Bradley still lives on the same an advocate for the Kansas License slices. Optional: orange slice, fresh Bradley farm that he knew as a child Beverage Association; in this role, he borage and/or mint leaves, apple and enjoys happy hour specials represents anyone who serves a drink slices, strawberry) around town with his girlfriend, Kay inside Kansas. Tibbs, and impersonating a certain “Seeing what the customer is jolly old elf during the holidays via his asking for, hearing their complaints side gig, St. Nick Services, which is growing faster than and their ordering keeps me in touch,” Bradley says. “So, his full white beard. when I do the other side of it—the sleazy lobbying—I This year, he has his first appearance in early make sure the laws are the best they can be for our November, so he’ll start growing his beard in August. Until employees and businesses.” then, the fresh-cheeked lad is available to pour you this Born and reared in Lawrence (“because Mom always summer drink. said ‘you rear humans and raise animals,’”) Bradley grew he arrival of summer seems especially sweet this year, following a brutally icy winter and then a spring that couldn’t seem to make up her mind. As we sink bare feet into the zoysia, ignoring the inevitable heat wave to come, let’s raise a glass to shade trees, northerly breezes, and two seasoned bartenders proffering cool libations in downtown Lawrence.
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expanded into photography, leading to the opening of Trina Baker / The Red Lyon Trina Baker Photography. Trina Baker didn’t know a bicycle kick from a chip “I started shooting portraits in 2006 when I got my first pass before stepping behind the bar at the Red Lyon, digital camera, a Nikon D80. Friends asked Lawrence’s soccer-central sports bar. me to take photos of their kids and I really “Now, I’m a huge soccer fan,” she enjoyed it. In 2008, I started charging people says. “The first year I worked there, THE DRINK and opened my studio in 2012.” South Korea hosted the World Cup. Her schedule as bar manager Games started at 1 a.m. so I would allows her a manageable, if sometimes record them at home and we’d watch hectic, work balance. the tapes at the bar as if it were live. • 1 1/4 shot Lemon Sorento Vodka On the rare day off, Trina and In 2013 after [KC] Sporting won the • Ginger beer longtime boyfriend, Steve McArthur [MSL] Cup, they brought the cup • Splash of sour (whom she met at the Lyon), love to to the bar. It was Santa Con that meander downtown, then hit the bike day, so we were wearing Christmas Shaken and served over ice trails near their Prairie Park home. After gear, drinking Bud Light out of this in a tall rocks glass. a summer ride on the Burroughs Trail, if $100,000 cup.” she doesn’t have to head into work to Trina grew up in Topeka and pour a Guinness or some whiskey, then she might enjoy attended University of Kansas where she graduated a vodka ginger lemonade. with a BFA in painting. Her creative interests
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McCAFFREY’S HOMECOMING Returning home allows a Lawrence painter a personal exploration of the giant questions of truth and perception Story by Darin M. White
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n life, we all have truths. We have our Truth with a capital “T” that guides our lives and we have lesser, more numerous truths that we infer and fill in from our positions in life. In a sense, the same happens in visual arts such as painting—there is a Truth to an image, the idea and spirit behind it, and then the myriad other truths that change depending on our angle of perception (both figuratively and literally). Painter Michael McCaffrey plays with this dynamic in his work, pushing boundaries that allow his viewers to make the connections between what is seen, unseen and inferred. His ability to push these boundaries is, in part, a result of his experiences beyond the canvas. Growing up in Lawrence, Michael McCaffrey had a particular interest in drawing, especially cartoons and spaceships. He took an art class in high school, drawing classes at Johnson County Community College and later drawing and media classes at the University of Kansas, but it took an art history class taught by a talented teacher to open his eyes to painting. For McCaffrey, those initial creations were as much about the ideas behind them as they were about the final product. “The brush, the pallet knife—pushing it around—in concert with the material you are working with, takes on the illusion of what you are perceiving in the world,” he explains. After KU, McCaffrey left Lawrence, went to graduate school and pursued a career in painting. For nearly a decade, he lived in Indiana, then Italy and then in Minnesota before returning to Lawrence and the University of Kansas—arriving with new eyes to see his hometown and the people in his life. With this perspective, he began an ongoing, personal series of drawings and paintings about his dad, OPPOSITE (clockwise from upper left) Dad Reclining , Dad@100, Happy Dad and Last of the Big Singles (all works oil on canvas by and courtesy Michael McCaffrey).
as well as about memory and the loss of his mother. In this body of work, he began diverging from his habit of having his subject pose in a particular way and allowed his dad to choose his position, from the theatrical to the mundane. McCaffrey also began to capture these moments on camera—allowing his dad’s chosen movements and the chance poses he documented to break down and reorder the “truth” he had in his mind about his dad’s persona, physiognomy, and identity. In writing about this approach to this project and the body of work it created, McCaffrey states that visually he is trying “to create a layered accumulation of paint and memories, a woven tapestry that captures a deeper and holistic view of my subjects. My hope is to explore the transformation between invention and perception.” To capture this idea in his paintings in particular, McCaffrey assembles patches of light and dark peaches, hued reddish browns here, a thick brush of blue there, yellow orange streaks, mauves and other colors. All these come together in a series of images, some very abstract, some more realistic, but all creating an impression of what is seen. McCaffrey describes a process where he manipulates the work further than he had previously been comfortable doing as a painter, “editing, destroying other elements and moving forward. Discovering new things everywhere.” And one of the most novel of these discoveries is the perception of something that has been with McCaffrey all his life—his father. Which is exactly McCaffrey’s goal with the project. “I hope to capture the truth of my father as he is now,” says McCaffrey, “because, as my father is fond of saying, ‘The truth, is the Truth changes.’”
“I hope to capture the truth of my father as he is now, because, as my father is fond of saying, ‘The truth, is the Truth changes.’”–Michael McCaffrey
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LAWRENCIUM
The science of distilling one Lawrence theme into essential information ... Compiled by Amber Fraley
Water Towers! Lawrence has five water towers (and four tanks). The towers are … - On 6th Street next to Fire Station No. 3 - In Water Tower Park at Stratford & Sunset -At 1820 Kasold Dr. - At 2100 Harper Dr. - At 555 Stoneridge Dr.
SKYBOXES
The University of Kansas Memorial Stadium holds 36 skyboxes (they call them “scholarship suites”).
County data shows 64 total water towers and cell towers, with heights ranging from 42 ft. to 1,034 ft.
TALL COCKTAILS
The highest place in town to be served a drink is the Nest on Ninth, the rooftop terrace bar of the Oread Hotel at 1200 Oread Ave.
– Sandra Day, City of Lawrence
How high is ... THE KU CAMPANILE?
Constructed in 1950 and dedicated in 1951, the campanile stands 120 ft. tall at an elevation of 993 ft.
THE TALLEST STRUCTURE IN DOWNTOWN LAWRENCE?
Built in 1979 and 157 feet tall, the AT&T communication tower between 6th and 7th streets on Vermont is the tallest structure in Downtown Lawrence. Originally built as a microwave tower, it now handles cell phone traffic.
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The mean elevation of Lawrence is 866 feet, with Mt. Oread, on the University of Kansas campus, the highest elevation at 1,020 ft.
Information courtesy eXplore Lawrence, Nick Hoyt, Micah Seybold and Sandra Day with the City of Lawrence, KU Info, KU Athletics, Lawrence Journal-World Religious Directory, Janice Hetrick and FAA.
Approximate number of places of worship in Lawrence
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Nick Hoyt, project engineer with the City of Lawrence, suspects the tower in Water Tower Park may have the highest elevation of all the towers in Lawrence. “You can see all the way to Baldwin from up there,” he says.
“Most modern towers (built in the last decade) tend to be less than two hundred feet tall to avoid mandatory FAA lighting and be more ‘neighbor friendly.’”
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TALL TREES KU grads will remember KU Info, the pre-Alexa and pre-Google information referral service. The current version of KU Info still has the answer to the eternal question “How many trees are on campus?” Answer: 29,525 (which coincides closely with the number of students)
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Up in the Air
Lawrence Municipal Airport average takeoffs and landings per day
63 Total number of takeoffs and landings from the LMA in 2018
23,000 Officially, the largest aircraft to land at the Lawrence Airport is a Gulfstream 4. “They are almost the size of a 737,” says Janice Hetrick of Hetrick Air Services. She explains that limits for large aircraft are mostly due to a wheel base that’s too wide for the runways or the planes being too heavy for the ramps. Perhaps the largest aircraft to come and go from the Lawrence Municipal Airport regularly is the twin-turboprop Dornier 228 utility aircraft that shuttles the KU Men’s basketball team to and from out-oftown games.
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SCREEN A short film explores the remarkable multicultural normality of Garden City Story by Eric Melin
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teve Lerner, a film director and Lawrence-based psychologist, and Reuben Aaronson, who is based out of Los Angeles, were in Copeland, Kansas, filming their documentary about water in rural Kansas, When the Well Runs Dry, when they first learned about an unlikely crossroads of culture. “I began to hear stories from people about Garden City that suggested they were doing something different
Illustrations by Lana Grove there, and had been for years,” Lerner says, “in terms of embracing immigration and diversity.” By the time that Lerner and Aaronson were able to arrive in Garden City with a camera and a project in mind, that notion of diversity was being challenged. This was 2017, as national headlines were dominated by President Donald Trump’s recent “Muslim ban,” and only a few months after law enforcement had arrested three
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white nationalists in Garden City for plotting to bomb apartments where Somali Muslim immigrants lived. But the filmmakers soon began to witness how deep Garden City’s cultural diversity extended into its identity. For over 40 years in the 1800s, the Arkansas River just south of Garden City was the southern border between Mexico and the U.S. But it transformed into an ethnically minority-majority city in 1980 when the world’s largest beef-packing plant opened nearby and thousands of labor migrants and refugees arrived. Considering how seemingly unlikely and, most importantly, timely this subject would be for a film, Lerner and Aaronson moved fast. The duo applied for and received a grant from Humanities Kansas, a Topeka-based independent nonprofit that encourages storytelling that sparks conversation and strengthens communities. They then rounded out their team with Jim Jewell from KU Media Productions, another veteran cinematographer, and Greg Allen, also of Lawrence, who did the sound design and composed original music. Shooting took place during four separate weeks, spread out over a year and a half, with lots of help from the town. A conference room in the local historical society served as a hub for interviews. The residents sat down and told stories from multiple decades: A woman escaping war in Uganda, a man who fled the civil war in Sudan, a man who escaped forced labor in Myanmar. “The stories blew my mind,” Lerner says. “They were so intense that sometimes I had to go take a walk around the block afterwards just to decompress.” The filmmakers’ strategy was to find the shape and connective thread of the film as they went along, and to make sure that the movie would be filled with the voices of those residents. Although there are plenty of inspiring stories from first-generation immigrants who were granted asylum, Strangers in Town focuses particular attention on the kids who have grown up in Garden City’s racial and cultural diversity, as well as their counterparts whose families are native to Kansas. Maybe because Lerner is a psychologist and is used to getting people to open up to him, the kids in the film exude a refreshing frankness and sophistication. One thing Aaronson knows for sure is that there are no hard, fast rules for capturing moments like these. “Every situation and individual is negotiable depending on the situation of the moment. Making the kids feel safe around us is the beginning,” Aaronson says. “In the ‘old’ days, some filmmakers were known to live in a community for amazing periods of time before even
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taking out a camera ... to get people comfortable.” It’s all the more shocking then to contemplate the kids’ continued resolve when the film brings up the foiled terror plot from three Kansas militia members who were planning to blow up a local mosque and Somali apartment complex the day after the 2016 presidential election. Garden City was no doubt shaken by the news, but Strangers in Town also shows the residents coming together to support their neighbors and making signs about how proud they are to have Somali Muslims in their community. Because of the timeliness of the film, the filmmakers decided to forgo usual long-tail distribution methods and get Strangers in Town to as many eyeballs as possible as soon as possible. In addition to its premiere in Garden City, the film has already been shown in cities all over Kansas and Missouri and is available for free viewing at the website strangersintownthefilm.com. Putting the entire 33-minute short film online breaks the rules that most film festivals have in place to keep their featured films unavailable elsewhere, but Lerner believes there are reasons to make exceptions. “Here’s a conservative Republican southwest Kansas town that is extremely progressive on immigration and the embrace of –Steve Lerner cultural diversity,” he says. “They’re ahead of the curve. Maybe Garden City has something to add to the national debate by putting a human face on the immigrant.”
“Maybe Garden City has something to add to the national debate by putting a human face on the immigrant.”
OPPOSITE Illustration of Eric Melin (left) with Steve Lerner
Avengers: Endgame The overwhelming feeling I had coming out of the three-hour Avengers: Endgame—besides my bladder being about to burst—was a kind of epic satisfaction. It’s an affirmation of Marvel Studios’ storytelling strategy of connecting its films in a shared universe, but maybe more significantly, it’s proof that the franchise’s consistent release schedule gives the viewer better short-term recall and deeper emotional investment. Remember when Peter Jackson’s final chapter of The Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Return of the King, came out, and the talk was about how it had multiple endings that seemed to go on forever? That’s because after 560 minutes (and that was just the total for the shorter theatrical versions), there’s a lot of character wrap-up that needs to happen. And on an epic journey like the first 21 movies of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), for the story to be done correctly, the final chapter needs a requisite amount of time to offer closure.
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The miraculous thing about Avengers: Endgame is that not only does it manage Re to deliver on closing character arcs (and pay off foreshadowing) from 11 years of films, but its directors, Joe and Anthony Russo, also took the proper amount of screen time at the outset of the movie to make its viewers feel the weight of Thanos’ “Snap Heard ’Round the Universe” from 2018’s Avengers: Infinity War. For everything you read about the new movie’s gigantic climactic action sequence (which itself feels like a bold undertaking), understand that the bolder decision was to make loss and disappointment the emotional center of the film, and to ground everything in that feeling. Avengers: Endgame begins with Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) isolated in space, reckoning with his failure to prevent Thanos from killing half the universe and recognizing his own imminent death as his ship slowly loses oxygen. And it gets worse for Tony from there. Downey has been building toward this performance since 2008’s Iron Man, and it’s a testament not only to the writers for tracking his development throughout multiple films but especially to Downey for being the emotional through-line that propels each film forward. Chris Evans serves a similar function as Steve Rogers— though in a more stoic sense—and both characters get ample opportunity to be challenged along the lines of their core beliefs and traits. As Thor, Chris Hemsworth is handed a more overtly comic situation, even as he deals with his own personal failure, and the result is spotty. Because of the episodic nature of the Marvel franchise, Avengers: Endgame feels more like the final installment of a TV series than a movie. That’s not to say it isn’t epic in scope and onscreen composition, it’s just that there are so many carefully planned story arcs (as well as references and callbacks) that were started in earlier MCU films that one can’t help but feel the weight of stories that have so consistently spanned this much time. To have those storylines come to dramatically satisfying conclusions is nothing short of remarkable.
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ground. He eventually began filming his off-kilter pseudoadaptation of Cervantes’ Don Quixote in 2000, with stars Johnny Depp and Jean Rochefort, but extreme weather and an injury to Rochefort stopped filming. It took 15 more years to re-start a legit production. Now, almost three decades in the making, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote has finally released with a re-worked script and Adam Driver and Jonathan Pryce in the lead roles. Pryce is perfect—a mix of vulnerable, heartbreaking and hilarious. His slapstick moments work within the madness, but the scenes with his character’s boss’ sexcrazed wife (Olga Kurylenko) are woefully miscalculated. In general, the female characters, painfully onedimensional, are reduced to virgin/slut clichés. Driver has a tougher road with his character, and the script hasn’t calibrated his trajectory correctly, but he plays it well and carries the audience through the rougher patches. But the largest presence is Gilliam, and watching the movie, one can’t help but see it through the lens of Gilliam’s personal obsession, viewing it as a sort of autobiographical, self-fulfilling prophecy. Behind the camera, Gilliam uses his signature Dutch angles and wide-angle lenses strategically, in a way that seems to comment on the characters, or even on his own films. Surprisingly, the most surreal qualities of the movie are functions of the script more than the camera. Key aspects of the storyline become so increasingly hard to buy that it makes the whole film seem hallucinatory even without the crazy angles—and maybe that’s the point. The Man Who Killed Don Quixote begs us to let go. And if you do, you realize that Gilliam’s vision coalesces more as the movie progresses. Filmmakers are dreamers, after all, and reality sucks, so who wouldn’t want to be caught up in delusions of grandeur every now and then to make life more bearable?
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HOMETOWN HEROES The housing-program volunteer “with a heart of grace, compassion and love” Story by Lorraine Cannistra
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any memories stand out for Mary Kaczor from her 11 years as a volunteer at Lawrence Family Promise, but one in particular brings a smile to her face. On that day, Kaczor was helping a homeless family move into a church where they would be staying overnight and was holding the hand of the family’s four-year-old girl as they walked into the building. Upon seeing her new surroundings, the girl looked up at Kaczor and asked, “Is this where God lives?” Kaczor almost said “no,” but decided instead to reply, “God lives where people help each other.” Family Promise is a nonprofit organization offering temporary housing, including in area churches, to families with children as it helps them secure permanent housing solutions. Kaczor started volunteering with the Lawrence affiliate, which works with up to 26 families at a time, after she saw a couple in a parking lot who were holding a sign that said they were homeless and needed food. When the organization contacted her church a few weeks later, she knew she wanted to help. She currently serves on the nonprofit’s board, is the board liaison to the staff, coordinates when her church is a host church and teaches parenting classes on Thursday nights. And, according to executive director Dana Ortiz, “Mary does it all with a heart of grace, compassion and love.” Kaczor, in turn, honors the people she works with. “The families that I see in Family Promise are just like you and me. They are going through a crisis and they
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need a step up. It takes time to build relationships and for them to find people they can trust and reach out to, but I learn from these families every week.” According to data from the Lawrence group, 86 percent of families who graduate from their program continue to have a home two years later. That number increases to 98 percent for those who went through an additional temporary housing program with additional courses that last from two weeks to a year. One of the biggest successes is when program graduates come back and support people who are currently going through the program. At any time in the program, approximately four families are staying at one church for a week, where volunteers provide meals and host families the same way guests would be hosted in a home. In the mornings, a bus takes the kids to school as the parents go to work, look for a job or go to the day house. Each Sunday, the families rotate to a different host church. There are 15 host churches in Lawrence and Douglas County, with about 35 more support churches, faith communities and businesses that contribute volunteers and other program needs “And we have a place for anyone who wants to volunteer,” Kaczor says, “We need a man and a woman to volunteer at our host church every night, and many volunteers to build relationships with our guests, but we also need carpenters and businesses to partner with. We can always use more volunteers. This program just would not work without all the volunteers we have.”
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‘JUST HOW I ENVISIONED IT’ Laura Moriarty talks about the process behind— and her reaction to—the film adaptation of The Chaperone Story by Kim Gronniger
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aura Moriarty, Lawrence-based author and director of the graduate creative writing program at the University of Kansas, was not particularly excited when she learned that her 2012 New York Times bestselling-novel, The Chaperone, had been optioned for screen rights. After all, this had happened with one of her earlier works, While I’m Falling, and that 2009 novel was never made into a movie. But this time was different; for one, the buyer of Moriarty’s story about a staid Wichita housewife accompanying wild-child and future cinema legend Louise Brooks to New York City in 1922 was herself a screen legend—Elizabeth McGovern, star of the long-running ITV/PBS drama Downton Abbey. McGovern obtained the production rights to The Chaperone after narrating Penguin Audio’s unabridged version and brought her influence and contacts into the process. Soon, The Chaperone movie project reunited key Downton Abbey colleagues, such as Oscar-winning writer-producer Julian Fellowes and director Michael Engler. At this point, when everyone was on set and filming actually began, Moriarty became excited. The Chaperone premiered in March as the first theater-release in the history of PBS’s Masterpiece Films, and it is set to show throughout the nation on PBS-affiliate stations. For Moriarty, the film version is the culmination of one project and the chance to continue her already remarkable writing career from her home in Kansas. Lawrence Magazine (LM): You have an undergraduate degree from KU in social work and worked in that field for some time. How has this background influenced your writing?
Photography by Ann Dean Laura Moriarty (M): It taught me a lot about other people’s perspectives and circumstances. Empathy is an important trait for social workers and writers both. I won a short story contest as an undergraduate, and it excited me, but I didn’t think then I could pursue writing as a career. After graduation, I was working in Kansas City and felt feckless as a social worker. I started to feel the most comfortable being at the keyboard at night writing stories. I submitted my work for a fellowship at Phillips Exeter Academy and was first runner up. At that point, I decided to go to grad school and eventually I got that fellowship and finished The Center of Everything. LM: What was it like to sell your first novel? M: I worked on the book for eight years, and selling it was a rush beyond my wildest dreams. I was working with pregnant teens at a counseling center. When my agent called me, I told her it was a busy time and I needed to get back to work. She said, “Oh, no you don’t!” and gave me the news. But I did go back to work because I didn’t want to just abandon the girls I was working with until we had a replacement for me. The publisher sent me on a national book tour, and it was both exhilarating and exhausting meeting so many people. When you sell a book and you don’t yet have a following, you never know what to expect. The audience could be two people there to eat the free grapes and ask you how to get an agent or 150 people who came because they care about the characters you created. I’ve had some really meaningful conversations with readers through the years, but I still remember one lady who yelled at me because she didn’t like the way the second novel ended. She actually got up and
OPPOSITE Laura Moriarty continues to teach and work from her home of Lawrence.
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The Orphan Trains The orphan trains that ran from the East Coast to the Midwest from the late-1800s to the early-1900s play a central role in the background and character development of Cora Carlisle, the chaperone character of Laura Moriarty’s The Chaperone. The Kansas Historical Society estimates that some 5,000 orphans from these trains were placed into Kansas homes and farms before the trains stopped running in 1930. Some of the orphans found loving, caring homes. Some were forcibly separated from siblings. Some were adopted and exploited for labor. Their journeys are told and preserved in many ways: historical accounts such as Christina Baker Kline’s Orphan Train, documentaries such as PBS’s The Orphan Trains and online histories such as the Kansas Collection’s kancoll.org/articles/orphans and the National Orphan Train Complex in Concordia, Kansas. Below, Moriarty describes how this event that affected so many lives in Kansas also influenced her book. I was at the library with my daughter years ago, and there was a display on orphan trains. I filed that away and used it to help shape Cora’s story. I was just stunned that this happened to over 200,000 kids in our country. I was also moved by the lottery aspect with some survivors being adopted and having happy stories and others experiencing horrible tales of abuse, near starvation, and isolation. It all just depended on who happened to walk up to you at a particular train stop. When I give readings for the book in Kansas, almost always someone in the audience is descended from or at least remembers someone who came in on the trains. ABOVE Siblings Howard, Clara and James Reed rode the orphan trains from New York to Kansas. (Photograph courtesy Kansas State Historical Society)
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stormed out. But that was definitely an isolated incident. I end up meeting really interesting people when I go on tour for a book. I’m mostly talking to dedicated readers, people who love stories and language. LM: What was the catalyst for The Chaperone? M: I was browsing in a bookstore in April 2010 and found Flapper by Joshua Zeitz. In Louise’s chapter, he described her as rebellious, smart, cultured, talented, self-destructive, funny and not always very nice. And an alcoholic. She was all of these things at 15 when she left Kansas with a chaperone to join a New York City dance company. I started wondering about this chaperone and thought it would be a good entry point for a novel using Louise’s story as the scaffolding. I felt like I’d been hit by a lightning bolt, like I’d been given a gift. I wanted to write this story before someone else did.
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over the downfall of someone so beautiful and arrogant. But Louise’s suffering is real to Cora because she got to know Louise as a human being. Louise read Arthur Schopenhauer throughout her life, and reading him myself, I was impressed with his idea, or the way he expressed it, that compassion is the basis for morality. By the end of the book, Cora has very different ideas about morality than she does at the beginning of the book. LM: When did you first see the final movie version of The Chaperone? M: New Year’s Day in a small conference room in the English department. My husband and I brought snacks and watched it on a computer link that I had strict orders not to share. I loved it! It was just a wonderful feeling to watch really great actors say the lines I’d written. The movie follows the book pretty closely so there were a lot of “Oh, my God, this is just how I envisioned it” moments throughout. Seeing it all come to life was amazing.
LM: How long did it take you to research and write The Chaperone? LM: You were invited to attend M: I had the fall semester off to write, the New York City premiere and so I had a first draft done in a year. I participate on a panel with Elizabeth inhaled everything about the 1920s. LAURA MORIARTY’S McGovern, Julian Fellowes and others Books took over my house—books on at The New York Public Library. What Louise, the 1920s, orphan trains and was that experience like for you? early cars. I watched silent movies • The Center of Everything, 2003 M: Honestly, the whole trip was and studied an old New York tourist • The Rest of Her Life, 2007 fantastic. It was a trip to stand there guide and clothing catalogs. I also • While I’m Falling, 2009 talking with these people I’ve long drove to Wichita to walk around • The Chaperone, 2012 admired. But my favorite part was Union Station, where Louise and her • American Heart, 2018 watching the film for the first time chaperone waited for their train to with an audience. I sat between my New York in 1922. agent and my husband, and we were right behind Haley Lu Richardson, who plays Louise so beautifully. LM: What was your process in writing one character I was watching the movie, really enjoying it, but every based on facts and another based on your imagination? now and then I would stop and think about where I M: Everything I wrote about Louise was true and taken was and what was happening, and how I’d written this from her memoir or biographies. The only thing Louise story on my living room couch. And now I could hear wrote about Alice Mills, her chaperone, was that she people laughing at lines I’d written, perfectly delivered tolerated Mills’ provincialism because they both loved by an actress. That was pretty neat. theater. I didn’t go looking for more information about Mills because I wanted my fictional character to be LM: How does living in Lawrence influence your the actual heroine. I also didn’t want this story to be writing and your lifestyle? as simple as “young girl teaches old fuddy-duddy new M: I have the best of both worlds. Lawrence has strong ways.” I wanted it to be a story about two very different writers, filmmakers, poets and playwrights. We have women in a new environment at a really interesting the Lied Center and Liberty Hall, a low cost of living moment in history. and the ability to easily enjoy activities that often require a lengthy commute in cities. When I sold The LM: In your book, the Alice Mills character, Cora Center of Everything, I was living in Portland, Maine, Carlisle, came to defend Louise’s reputation even during and I could have stayed there or moved anywhere to Louise’s downfall. Why was that important to you? establish a writing career. But I always knew I would M: Louise and her mother were considered snobby, so come back to Lawrence, and I did. it’s hard not to imagine any community not gossiping
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OPPOSITE TOP Actor Elizabeth McGovern bought the screen rights to Laura Moriarty’s The Chaperone, and turned the book into the Public Broadcasting Corporation’s first theater-premiere film. OPPOSITE MIDDLE The promotional movie poster for The Chaperone features McGovern and co-star Haley Lu Richardson. OPPOSITE BOTTOM Richardson portrayed silent-film star and flapper legend Louise Brooks for the film version of Moriarty’s book. (All images courtesy Masterpiece Films.)
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THE TICK-BORNE SUPREMACY Ingenious predators and master ambushers, Lawrence ticks got their taste of Gregory Burg as he examined their blood-hungry lives Story by Katherine Dinsdale
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t’s feast or famine for Amblyomma americanum and Dermacentor variablilis. These two locally common hard-bodied ticks, commonly known as the “lone star” and “dog” tick, respectively, live most of their lives hopelessly hungry, trying only to survive winter or drought or whatever human behavior might thwart those tiny young arachnids who suck for a living. Their glory days, when ticks actually get to eat, total fewer than three weeks and are scattered early in their twoyear lifespan. Meal timing is critical, however; ticks need to find a host and consume blood at each life stage if they hope to live to mature to the next stage. For 25 years, this sort of tick drama, tick phenology, distribution and ecology, was the daily grind for Gregory Burg. The Lawrence resident began his research in entomology and went on to study chickens for a time. He then finished his PhD at Penn State and completed a post-doc in Kentucky, studying thoroughbred horses. But, Burg says, the study of chickens and horses eventually bored him. “I kept coming back to entomology,” he says. “I was simply more interested in arthropods than mammals. I dabbled in studies of other insects, but in the end I glommed onto ticks. I was intrigued at all the effort required to find a host and feed, and the fact that ticks have to repeat that process at each phase of maturation. I was also interested to learn that adult ticks can go a year or more without feeding, although female ticks do need to feed once during egg development. Other than that, adult ticks are basically done eating. When you consider all that, it’s really quite an amazing feat for a male and female tick to mate on the same dog.” Burg and his wife, Mary Burg, moved to Kansas in the summer of 1996. Greg was hired as an assistant director of undergraduate biology at KU and later became director of that department. Mary began a long university career, as well. She served 22 years as executive assistant to the chancellor. Greg retained his curiosity about ticks and began doing some sampling.
Illustration by Torren Thomas He got himself a tick drag, a square yard of white corduroy canvas, and began dragging it around Dad Perry Park, an area then known to be heavily infested with ticks. He kept sampling on selected weekends for 25 years. The tick population in Dad Perry Park dramatically decreased over that time, he says. Maybe it was the decrease in the number of deer, which can sometimes be correlated with the incidence of ticks. Or maybe, he says, he just collected them all; he was definitely not a catch-and-release tick-taker. His goal some summers was to collect 100 ticks a weekend. Burg explains that when ticks actively seek a host they are said to be “questing.” A questing tick ascends vegetation and sits, waiting. The tick may sense that a potential host is nearby through minute changes in carbon dioxide levels—the tick picks up on mammal breath—or there may be a body odor, body heat or body moisture sensed. There may be a vibration felt or even the perception of a shadow cast. Any of these clues can tip off a tick that supper is on the way. Sensing motion, a tick will extend and wave its first pair of legs. If a potential host brushes those waving legs, the tick hitches a ride. The next trick for the tick is, perhaps, depending on the host, to crawl up a shoe or sock, under and up a pair of pants, and find a nice warm spot for a feeding frenzy. Burg understands people’s aversion to such a plotline. “The idea of having a creature embedded in one’s own skin, sucking blood, is just not a pleasant thing for folks to think about. But there’s really no reason to be afraid,” he says. “I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve had ticks embed in me. If you are careful, there’s really no reason for it to happen.” Being careful, Burg says, means dressing like a dork. Wear long pants tucked into knee-high tube socks and slather on the DEET for a walk in a tick-infested area. Know that ticks live in clusters; lone star ticks like heavily shaded woods; dog ticks like the boundaries
OPPOSITE Illustration of Professor Gregory Burg and the types of ticks he studied in Lawrence’s Dad Perry Park (ticks not to scale).
between woods and fields. They prefer well-used paths and do their questing from the tips of grasses or shrubs. Light-colored clothing helps one spot a tick onboard. Long sleeves, however, aren’t important. Ticks don’t climb trees or fall on you from above, although they may climb a person’s torso or higher once they hitch a ride on your shoes or socks or pants. Finding a tick on your body is no reason to panic, Burg says. “The truth is, even if a tick embeds your skin, if you are vigilant and remove the tick within a day or so, the chances of any kind of pathogen being passed to you are very low. And furthermore, not every tick contains a pathogen. Less than 1 percent of ticks carry Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever and it takes 24 hours of feeding for a tick to pass on a pathogen and infect a human. For Lyme disease, half the ticks carry the pathogen; but it takes 48 hours to pass Lyme disease onto a host.” If you do find a tick has embedded in your skin, use only tweezers to remove it. “Put the tweezers as close to your body as possible and pull very slowly and gently. You don’t need to twist.” In retirement Burg says he’s enjoying not having to think about ticks although he retired with some questions remaining. For example, he says, he is still unsure about the effects of the weather on tick populations. “People tell me, ‘It’s been a mild winter. We’re going to have a ton of ticks,’ but scientists really have no idea of the impact of climate variations on tick populations.” Burg is content for now to focus his brain power on remodeling his turn-of-the-century painted lady on Mass. St. However, when Mary spent an afternoon raking leaves and contracted 300 painful oak leaf mite bites a couple of years ago, he wondered if he ought to study those pests. “I wouldn’t even have to leave my property,” he says. “Japanese beetles are another insect people want me to study, but I wouldn’t touch them with a ten-foot pole. There’s already been so many research hours and money devoted to them.” How about mosquitos? “Well, I’m curious to know how far and high they fly. I have the perfect house to host a lab, with gutters 20 to 30 feet above ground. I would like to know their population dynamics in an urban environment. But I don’t stay up thinking about that. I do wonder about controlling mosquito larvae, about different ways of spraying, about some kind of community effort …” His voice trails off and he smiles as he seems to enter the world of ticks, of research. “It’s nice to have some different kinds of things to think about, a mindset that allows me to maybe make a difference in the world. Research scientists lock themselves in their world and focus on those things. They don’t think about politics. They don’t spend time on social media. A person can get immersed in research projects—such as studying ticks—and spend a lifetime.”
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DIFERENTES EXPERIENCIAS DE LOS CABOS Travel writer Susan Kraus took the package resort trip, then did her own thing
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he posters for the annual festival of Dia de los Muertos boasted that the best mariachi band in all of Mexico would be playing in the village square of Todos Santos at 7 p.m. So we arrive a bit early to the small town on the western coastline of Los Cabos to find the food vendors just setting up and the crowds yet to arrive. I’d forgotten to figure in the local approach to starting times. At least we got a good parking spot. Two hours later, the festival is in full swing. No mariachi band yet, but the square is packed. We’re surrounded by people in phantasmagorical costumes that mirror bizarre, half-woken dreams. Reserved seating is up close to the stage, and the sides and back of the square are lined with picnic tables and food booths. Children climb the trees around the square for a better view. On stage we enjoy a costume contest, talent show, doggie-in-costume contest, an ex-pat trumpist and children’s group performances. All of Todos Santos seems to know everyone else on the stage. We sit at a picnic table with a protective father and his three adolescent girls, and I ask them questions in my broken Spanish. We take turns wandering the crowded path around the square, getting more delicious food, more drinks. The mariachi band, Mariachi Nueve Jaliciense, arrives about 11 p.m. A mosh pit forms around the stage where the dozen musicians in light blue tuxes play—and they’re pretty great. People dance next to their picnic tables, in the paths, on their picnic tables. We are dancing under the trees, the string-lights swaying, the ground itself almost vibrating. I look over at my often dancing-challenged husband who is moving arms and legs and even a bit of stiff torso with abandon. He is grinning. I grin back. This was not the part of our vacation we expected to remember the most. At the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula, Los Cabos offers a landscape of
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mountains, sea and desert that attracts tourists who fly in every day and immediately go to resorts that line the Sea of Cortez. Many guests spend their entire vacations at these resorts. When we planned our trip, we thought a timeshare week at Pueblo Bonito Sunset Beach, a luxury resort perched in the hills outside Cabo San Lucas, would be our highlight. Our “room” there was an expansive suite, a huge terrace with a hot tub, padded lounges and panoramic views of the Pacific. Champagne and chocolate dipped strawberries greeted us. The resort was lushly landscaped, with multiple pools. There were diverse dining choices: casual buffets, a sports bar with U.S. teams playing on big screens, high-end specialty restaurants with views and attentive waiters. The resort was so large that a week passed and I never did find the sushi restaurant that was on it. We felt like we’d been dropped into an episode of Vacations of the Rich and Famous. Compared to the resort, our next stop only 30 miles up the road should have been a real letdown. Our airbnb casita was two cement-block rooms with a tiny covered patio. It was part of a group of casitas that faced each other along a twisting path, the cars parked in a lot at the entrance. The separate casistas shared wi-fi, as well as a secluded, tiled pool under a broad palapa. An open-air café (the only restaurant for miles) was run by a local couple, and they opened it each afternoon to serve drinks and fish caught that morning. Not little filets, but whole snapper, broiled to a dark crisp in the wood-burning oven. This area—in addition to allowing us to enjoy and dance at the local Day of the Dead celebration—was just a short walk on a sandy path from Playa Los Cerritos, one of the few swimmable Pacific beaches in southern Baja. It’s a broad circle of compact sand, ideal for long beach walks. Families spread out with picnics and dogs ran loose and played. We found a tent facing the ocean with massages for $25 an hour. We felt our blood pressure dropping, a quiet peace as our minds stopped racing. For travelers, serendipity is when chance encounters in ordinary circumstances of another culture or location bring us unexpected happiness. We’d expected that the luxury resort (and it was pretty wonderful in many ways) would be the ticket to vacation bliss. But for us, it is the funky, budget “add-on” that we remember. That’s where we want to return. It reinforced what we tend to forget: spending more money does not mean creating better memories. Go serendipity.
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Getting There Fares for KC–San Jose del Cabo for June and October 2019 are in the $450–$515 range. If you put yourself on an alert, flash sales will pop up. We flew out of KC early morning, were in Mexico by noon, and paid under $380 per round-trip ticket.
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a country dream After asking “Why not?� a couple fulfill a childhood wish and revitalize a rural Linwood home rich in history and charm Story by Katherine Dinsdale
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f these walls could talk, they might say how glad they are to be home to Traci and Lindsay Hoopingarner. On the National Register of Historic Places, the 15room Hoopingarner home sits on 20 acres of rolling green, nine miles north of Lawrence near Linwood. It was built in 1884 by U.S. Senator William A. Harris, a shorthorn cattleman and land buyer for the Union Pacific Railroad. The Hoopingarners presume it was the senator who, in the tradition of the times, used a diamond to carve his and his wife’s names in a window of the library of their newly completed home alongside the year, 1884. There were several other owners after the Harrises. One of them likely knew a story that may never be fully told. Traci Hoopingarner became aware of it when a cable man, who’d come early in their renovation process to install a new cable line, casually asked her, “You know you have a body buried in your basement?” There might or might not be a body, but there was a small headstone visible in a pile of rocks at the top of a grave-sized plot in the dirt-floored, hewn-stone basement. “Herein lies [illegible] RIP,” it read. Traci says she isn’t sure if the existence of the grave had anything to do with the way the wind periodically swept through the house, opening closed doors, or the time, on their daughter Paige’s wedding day, that several guests mentioned seeing and hearing songs from a small dark-haired girl. The Hoopingarners knew of no such child among the invited guests.
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Surely the house would have stories to tell about the couple who bought it in 2009 and went to work painting almost every surface an ethereal white. Rory Alec and Wendy Stephen, co-founders of the international Christian television network known as GOD TV, did not neglect to paint white the 100-year-old leather wallpaper in the wide entryway. They didn’t miss the woodwork or the molding or any of the three fireplaces. Even the balusters and rail of the walnut staircase were painted white. In all the house, the Stephens left only one small room on the main floor with some color. The rest of the house was white, white and more white. The home’s current color scheme and furnishings are considerably more varied. Lindsay, an MRI tech at Overland Park Regional Hospital, and Traci, vice president and chief nursing officer at LMH, seem to have unlimited loving energy to put toward their house’s latest chapter. The two bought the home in 2012, making an offer on the house after only having seen a picture on the real estate website Zillow. “Why not?” Traci says they asked one another. When the sale went through, the Hoopingarners, assisted periodically by their five grown children and Lindsay’s five siblings, began a complete redecorating spree. Copious cans of color were applied to cheer the previously bleached-out palette. They added flowers all around in the landscape and bright, late nineteenth-century printed fabrics throughout the home. 1843 Village West Parkway, Kansas City, KS 66111 913.788.3700 | LegendsShopping.com
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Gorgeous dark wood molding throughout the house includes corner flower tiles that match those in Lawrence’s Watkins Museum. Hinges and doorknob plates throughout the house are original to the house. High transom windows in the downstairs rooms provided cross-breezes to visitors who called a century before the house was air conditioned. Some of the restoration work was guided by historic documents and images. The Linwood Library has a whole cabinet of information on the house, including photos of the home with a tile roof, which the Hoopingarners were able to restore after finding similar tile recovered from an old church in Kansas City. A greenhouse on the property is constructed of old windows salvaged from Kansas City’s West Bottoms. The greenhouse door is one Traci saved since childhood from a house that belonged to her grandparents near Burdett and burned when Traci’s dad was a small boy. Traci remembers that even as a little girl she thought she’d like to re-use that door one day. She remembers, too, telling her dad she wanted to be a country girl. Maybe Traci can check those dreams off her list. The Hoopingarners’ big old house with a storied past seems a perfect fulfillment of a country girl’s dreams.
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hey come to work with enthusiasm. They establish immediate rapport with clients and customers. They are driven by results rather than blind ambition. They never send personal texts during working hours and you won’t catch them mansplaining a colleague. They are team players with total dedication. With all this to consider, why wouldn’t you have an office animal? In Lawrence, there are at least 40 professional office or shop pets (not counting service and working animals), and probably more. It’s difficult to know the exact number since these hard workers do not sign contracts or pay taxes. Some of the animals are known around town as stars, such as Dinah the Dusty Bookshelf cat and Goliath the Pet World python, but many others loyally toil away without public fanfare. Regardless of where they stand on the promotional ladder, or whether they’d rather be leashed in than LinkedIn, these colleagues make the working days infinitely better, each in their own way. PUMPKIN, THE GRANDE DAME OF J.LYNN BRIDAL At 12 years of age, Pumpkin, a white and tan French bulldog, has been holding court inside J.Lynn Bridal since Jena Dick opened the boutique in 2013. In those days, Pumpkin was the welcoming committee for many a customer. Now, Dick says, Pumpkin prefers to “sleep like a cat,” though she likes to be around for the buzz of bridal appointments. “Sometimes people say that she helps choose the dress,” Dick says, “because she’ll come over and lie down beside one.” And like the perfect host, Pumpkin looks out for all of her guests. “She loves children, the younger the better. I’ve caught children dragging her by the jowls and she looks happy as could be,” Dick says, adding that Pumpkin has patience for even the most difficult category of guests. “When men get dragged in here, I tell them, ‘Relax! We have pretty things, champagne and Pumpkin.’ She is a sweetheart, really. She has a very chill, calming demeanor.” When she has had her fill of adoration and socialization, Pumpkin usually retires to her bed for a royal nap. In true regal form, Pumpkin is a registered French bulldog with the queenly name of Gold Crest Pumpkin Pied Porcelain. But, Dick says that fancy name belies a humble beginning. “I rescued her from a puppy mill,” she explains. “She was skin and bones, and so dirty she was brown. There were sores on her joints. She was about two-and-a-half, and she had just had puppies.” With love and purpose, Pumpkin blossomed. She can be seen around the world on the J.Lynn Bridal website, wearing pearls, no less. Dick, who grew up in Lawrence and Baldwin, brings Pumpkin with her to the boutique on weekdays (Saturdays can be a bit too hectic for her majesty). “People will stop by to see how she is doing. Clients are glad to have Pumpkin here. It brings a little extra,” Dick says. “Everyone wants to take her home.”
DAISY, ROSIE, SPARROW AND WENDELLS AT BLUE COLLAR PRESS The canine crew at Blue Collar Press comes in various shapes, sizes, ages and breeds, with direct human counterpart connections that range from the executive suite to the plant floor. Daisy, a big, easy-going, tan Lab-boxer-pointer mix, claims a couch at the office on the East Lawrence plant’s top floor. She graciously shares her office space (and sometimes the couch) with Jim David, one of the company’s three owners. David adopted Daisy from the Lawrence Humane Society in 2016, but he didn’t intend for her to be an office pet. “I just kind of started bringing her to work and people would tell me, ‘I love it when you bring your dog,’” he explains. As hard as Daisy works, she takes off weekends, Tuesdays and Thursdays, when David runs errands. And because David’s wife is a teacher, Daisy stays home with her and David’s two daughters during the summer. Those long vacations aren’t for Rosie, however. This charming brindle terrier-mix can be found at Blue Collar Press most workdays, staying close to floor manager Crystal Hammerschmidt on the plant floor. Hammerschmidt adopted Rosie about eight months ago, sort of by accident, while helping her mom pick a dog at the Salina Animal Shelter. “Rosie just jumped in my lap,” Hammerschmidt says. “It was like that thing you’re not expecting just walks into your life.” Rosie listens to this story as she sits quietly between her owner’s feet and seems to grin as Hammerschmidt adds, “I’d be lying if I didn’t say almost every photo on my phone is of her. I’m really glad this dog found me.” As much as Hammerschmidt fell in love with Rosie, she didn’t initially plan to bring the two-year-old dog into work. “I brought her in at first to get acclimated to me,” Hammerschmidt says. But Rosie got acclimated to the plant and the people who work there as well. Soon, she was coming in every day to toodle around, check on her colleagues and allow customers to dote on her. “Now, when she’s not here, there is a gap; something is missing,” Hammerschmidt says. Two other dogs at Blue Collar Press have a bit more onthe-job-training before they will be considered for payroll. But that doesn’t mean they aren’t burning with enthusiasm for their work. The youngest of these two is Wendells—a five-month-old mini golden doodle who comes into work with the company’s co-owner, Burton Parker. For now, the exuberant and loving pup is observing work from behind a baby gate in Parker’s office. That routine is familiar to his colleague, Sparrow, a ninemonth-old Australian cattle dog brought in by the company’s third co-owner, Sean Ingram. For now, Sparrow is still learning the ropes from behind a baby gate in Ingram’s office as he outgrows a little more of his puppiness and can better control his instinct to herd everything in sight. But Ingram believes his “almost too smart” pup is eager to take on new responsibilities. “He likes having jobs to do,” Ingram notes. “He will give me a look that says, ‘What are we doing, boss?’”
A DOG AT THE OFFICE MAY NOT BE EVERY PERSON’S BEST FRIEND Even if a cat on your desk or a dog underneath it sounds appealing, remember there are many considerations to take into account before bringing a pet into work or establishing a pet-friendly office. Meghan Scheibe, interim director of the Lawrence Humane Society, and other office pet experts we met helped us compile this advice. Make sure a pet in the workplace is allowed. If you are an employee, check in with your boss. If you are the boss, your word might not be all it takes. Jena Dick, owner of J.Lynn Bridal, says she had to add her dog, Pumpkin, on the building lease before bringing him to work regularly. Be considerate of your co-workers. Check beforehand and keep boundaries in place. Someone may have allergies, a phobia or religious objections that would prohibit them from being around a particular type of pet. MaryJo Anemaat surveyed the DARcorporation employees before she officially quit looking for a home for a stray cat and decided he already had one right there in the office. Jena Dick makes sure J.Lynn Bridal customers know that if the bride-to-be is not a dog-lover, Pumpkin does not mind keeping out of sight during a bridal session. Sean Ingram and Burton Parker use baby gates to contain their hyper-loveable puppies, Sparrow and Wendells, from wandering off to distract others at Blue Collar Press. Have a clear understanding of everyone’s roles and responsibilities. Just like at home, the duties of pet ownership in an office should be defined, especially if no specific person owns the pet. Clearly spell out who is responsible for the potty walks or litter box, grooming, feeding, care and love. What about afterhours or weekend care? If the cat or dog lives in the workplace, who is responsible after 5 p.m. or over the weekend? Make sure it is someone’s job and that they know it. Who is responsible for long-term care? One person primarily needs to be in charge of scheduled vet check-ups, to be the contact on the microchip, to make sure the animal stays healthy and happy through its entire career. Stay up-to-date on vaccinations. In a workspace where employees are allowed to bring their pets, ensure that each one has the proper shots. Puppies and kittens should wait until they receive all their boosters and vaccines before joining the office team. Of course, be sure to spay or neuter working pets.
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SEEING IT THROUGH THE ANIMAL’S EYES Before you decide your dog is right for the office or you want to adopt a cat for the store, make sure the setting is a good fit for the pet. Matthew Coles, DVM, of Animal Hospital of Lawrence, says there are key things to bear in mind when making this decision. Temperament—What you expect of your pet and what the pet can perform may not be the same. Make sure you are realistic and your pet has the right personality or temperament for the job you are asking them to do.
DARTH VADER, CORPORATE CAT AT DARCORPORATION At DARcorporation, the aircraft design, analysis and research engineering firm in southeast Lawrence, senior staff member DARth Vader performs vital tasks. “He’s our ambassador, our DAR mascot,” explains MaryJo Anemaat, vice president. “You know how people swap baby pictures? Our engineers swap cat pictures with engineers in China, Japan, Turkey and the U.K.” Regal, with green eyes, glistening fur and a sporty Star Wars scarf, DARth (or “DV” to his friends) greets everyone at the door and throughout the office. Socialization—If it is more than just you at the “He spends his day making the rounds,” Anemaat says. “He invites himself to office, then look carefully at how good the animal is staff meetings, employee interviews and client visits. He will barge right into the with other people and in social situations. Some pets conference room and our clients love that. They call and ask, ‘How is DARth?’” may not be suited for a busy workplace environment. As a modern professional, DARth has his curriculum vitae on the company website. And, of course, he has his own Facebook account. Before he mastered Health issues—Make sure your pet is not carrying fleas or ticks and is up-to-date on vaccinations. It will the internet, global diplomacy and strategy meetings, however, DARth lived protect their health and protect you against liability. rough. Anemaat discovered him two years ago, hiding under a bush. “He was so beaten up. He had half a tail, bite marks on his face, and was very hungry.” Anemaat, who had already adopted five cats, had no intention of keeping another one, but she did take the injured animal home for some medical care. Veterinarians removed three teeth from the stray cat and amputated a few infected inches from his already shortened tail. While Anemaat searched for the cat’s owner, the stray recovered at her office, walking the tops of cubicle walls, napping on desks, convincing engineers to stop working just long enough to throw toys or brush him and doing 60 everything to circumvent the firm’s normal rigorous hiring process. “Someone asked, ‘Why don’t we keep him?’ We adopted him,” Anemaat says, “but he also adopted us.” These days, DARth Vader spends working days and weeknights in the office but commutes home on weekends where he spends time with Anemaat, her husband, Willem Anemaat (the DARcorportion president) and their other cats. But come Monday, DARth returns early to the office, meowing greetings to each engineer as they arrive. Brandon Basgall, one of the firm’s aerospace engineers, describes DARth as an office stress-reliever. “It’s really nice to take a break, pet him and hold him, which is funny because we’re pretty sure he was feral.” “Even if you don’t realize you need a break, DARth will come by and let you know,” adds Dennis van Dommelen, also an aerospace engineer at the company. “He will lay down on the keyboard to get your attention. A two-minute break from work to play with him is a nice distraction. When you’re stuck, you play with the cat, and then you come back to the problem with a new perspective.” “Aerospace engineering is serious stuff,” Anemaat says. “DV is the best distraction for our engineers. Spend any time with him, you know he’s the perfect office cat. We got lucky.” Pet anxiety—Your pet may be fine at home or on a walk, but an office with phones ringing, people moving around and strangers coming and going might be bad for their mental health. Pets can get anxious and uncomfortable. Watch for signs that the animal is under stress, such as becoming a little nippy or suffering from diarrhea.
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Mamma Mia! June 7–23 (various dates) Waiting theatrelawrence.com on this from In a world before definitive home-ancestry Nathan kits, children once confirmed paternity by inviting potential father-figures to a Greek island and holding a singing and dancing competition set to tunes from a Eurovision-winning Swedish band. A tough way to find your daddy, but a nice musical it makes. Ain’t no big decision. You know what to do. Voulez-vous?
Art, Prairie Park Nature Center, the Jayhawk Audubon Society and Friends of the Kaw, the free event also marks the opening of Flooding in Lawrence, a Watkins Museum exhibit focusing on major floods in recorded Lawrence history.
Prairie Walk June 22 klt.org Reconnect with the native plants and blooms as the Kansas Land Trust sponsors a walking tour of the Akins Prairie led by ecologist and senior scientist of the Kansas Biological Survey, Kelly Kindscher.
Final Fridays June 28 unmistakablylawrence.com This Friday (and the last Friday of each month from April–November), Lawrence galleries, studios and businesses open their doors for an evening of new art showings and artist-hosted events throughout the city’s Downtown and central Arts District.
Summer Crush Best of Lawrence Winners Bash June 13 bestoflawrence.com Drinks, shout-outs and recognition of all those who won the community-wide online voting in over 200 categories to celebrate the businesses, people, groups and events that define Lawrence.
Our Fragile World June 15 watkinsmuseum.org The Watkins Museum of History hosts an afternoon of kid-friendly activities exploring the effects of climate change in our local community and what can be done in response. Co-hosted by Lawrence Public Library, KU Natural History Museum, Spencer Museum of Betty and Carol, New Hampshire, 1950; pencil, ink, and oil on primed wood panel; courtesy Rachel Trusty
June 28–July 20 lawrenceartscenter.org Artist Rachel Trusty opens her mixed-media exhibition focusing on femininity, female friendships, female love and exploration of traditional women’s crafts such as knitting and needlework. Trusty will present her gallery talk at the Lawrence Arts Center on July 1.
International Piano Competition Semi-Final and Final July 14–15 iiym.com Enjoy the semifinal and final round competition concerts at the International Institute for Young Musicians annual academy. These are some of the nation’s best emerging pianists, and the competition concerts are free to the public.
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Apollo 11 July 20 lplks.org Lawrence Public Library hosts a free afternoon showing and post-movie discussion of Apollo 11 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of humankind’s first landing on the moon.
11th Annual Mario Chalmers Golf Tournament July 29 mariovchalmersfoundation.org One of the city’s most beloved superstars— Mario Chalmers—returns to Lawrence for a day of golfing and charity fundraising to benefit the Boys & Girls Club Teen Center.
Douglas County Fair July 29–August 3 dgcountyfair.com Come during the day for animal showings, pie contests and more or come during the evening for concerts, carnival rides and demolition derby. A county tradition for all ages.
Lawrence Opera Theatre August 2–11 (various dates) August 16–19 lawrenceopera.org The Lawrence Opera Theatre presents its summer concert season with performances at various venues across town from August 2–11 and then four nights of performances at Theatre Lawrence from August 16–19.
Bruce Hornsby & The Noisemakers August 13 lied.ku.edu Once, he was a rock ’n’ roll and roots legend. Now, in Lawrence, he is heretofore known as the musician behind the soundtrack of Kevin Willmott’s BlackKklansman. But regardless of his title, Hornsby appears for a one-night concert to open the Lied Center’s remarkable 2019–2020 season.
Civil War on the Western Frontier Llama Show July 31 Wake up early and come to the 8:30 am ringside competition or follow LM writer Amber Fraley’s live Twitter updates at twitter. com/lawrencemag as we cheer on the 4-H students and their charming companions.
August 16–18 watkinsmuseum.org The Watkins Museum of History hosts its annual series of lectures, tours and other events to commemorate the 1863 attack on Lawrence by Confederate guerrilla forces and the legacy of the Civil War conflict on the
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Movie on the Plaza August 17 lplks.org Downtown Lawrence Inc. and Lawrence Public Library host a family-friendly showing of Lego 2: The Movie on the library lawn plaza. Food vendors, free popcorn and giveaways begin at 7:30 pm with a pre-film concert by Lawrence legends Billy and the Beer Bellies before the 9 pm movie showing.
Mavis Staples August 21 lplks.org Grammy-winning singer and Rock ’n’ Roll Hall of Fame inductee Mavis Staples discusses her life work. The appearance is part of the Lawrence Public Library’s 780 Lecture Series and is free and open to the public. No advance reservations are required, but organizers recommend arriving to the venue (Liberty Hall) no later than 30 minutes before the event.
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