Kansas Chautauqua

Bleeding Kansas: Where the Civil War Began

• 20,000 visitors attended

• 58 Kansas communities represented in Fort Scott

• 3 countries in attendance in Junction City

• 67 Kansas communities participated in Lawrence activities

• 40 Chautauqua-related activities offered in Colby

Junction City – posing for a "formal" Youth Chautauqua photo.

Colby – listening to local entertainment as the evening begins.

Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas pose for the Chautauqua crowd.

Fort Scott – presenting during Youth Chautauqua

Fort Scott – John Brown visits with the locales

Fort Scott – reacting to the evening's Bleeding Kansas character.

Junction City – exploring heritage and history.

Lawrence – boarding the Underground Railroad with scholar Diane Eickhoff.

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