TOPEKA — Several state historical sites– in addition to the big two-day event at the Kansas State Historical Society’s main site in Topeka — plan free Kansas Day events next week. The Grinter Place and Shawnee Indian Mission sites in the Kansas City area will host events Saturday, Jan. 28. Kansas Day is on Sunday, Jan. 29. Free performances of the Bleeding Kansas melodrama “Badness on the Banks of Brushy Creek”’ – complete with banjo music — will be a highlight at both sites. The performances will be at 11 at Grinter Place and at 3 at the Shawnee Indian Mission. Grinter Pplace will also offer an art contest, kids’ craft projects and cupcakes and corn muffins made in the Grinter woodstove. The Pawnee Indian Museum at Republic will celebrate the Kansas state animal, the buffalo, on Friday, Jan. 27. The highlight of the day will be a drawing for a bison skull painted by a Pawnee elder. Old Fort Hays’ Kansas Day event on Jan. 27 will have a wild West flavor. Presentations include a first-person interpretation about Kansas cowboys by Don Rowlison; and “Flint Knapping and Indian Weapons,” and Old West music.
Thursday, Jan. 19, 10 a.m.
