Article Contributed by John Hartford … | Published on Thursday, May 20, 2021
We are excited that the John Hartford Memorial Campout will be our first official event of the year. Keeping the tradition of the John Hartford festival alive, June 2-5 will be in memory of John Hartford and John Hotze. There will be music on the main stage Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
Tickets will not be sold this year. The campout will be open to everyone who has a paid camping reservation. If you are coming for the weekend or overnight and don t have a camper, you will need to make a primitive tent reservation online. Tent camping is $12 per person, per day. If you are planning to come on Thursday, you will need to make tent reservations for 3 days, if you are coming on Friday, tent reservations will be for 2 days, and Saturday, tent reservations for one day. Wristbands will be issued at the gate.
By MIINDY KEPFIELD
Staff writer
Father Emil Kapaun’s extraordinary life will be honored with a funeral Mass at Wichita arena, but his family wanted to return him home first.
His remains will be flown from Honolulu, Hawaii, to Eisenhower Airport, where a procession will escort them to St. John Nepomucene Catholic Church, in Pilsen, where Kapaun grew up.
“When I found out I broke down,” longtime Kapaun Museum volunteer Harriet Bina said. “Right now I am so thrilled. I know that’s what his mother had prayed for…for a long time. And I didn’t think that would happen for a while.”
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Roman Catholic Chaplain Emil J. Kapaun, United States Army recipient of the Medal of Honor. (Wikipedia)
12 Apr 2021 The Wichita Eagle | By Michael Stavola
It s been nearly 70 years since he was killed in a Korean War prison camp and only a month since the announcement that his remains were identified. Now, Father Emil Kapaun s remains will be laid to rest in a place chosen by his family.
Kapaun will be temporarily laid to rest this fall in a crypt inside the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception at the corner of Central and Broadway in Wichita, according to nephew Ray Kapaun, who made the announcement on Saturday.
Kansas Catholics recall priest’s wartime ministry, heroism in POW camp
Father Emil Joseph Kapaun, a Kansas priest and a military chaplain, who died May 23, 1951, in a North Korean prisoner of war camp, is pictured circa 1943. A candidate for sainthood, he died ministering to prisoners of war during the Korean War. (CNS photo/U.S. Army courtesy The Catholic Advance)
By Christopher M. Riggs • Catholic News Service • Posted March 11, 2021
WICHITA, Kan. (CNS) William Hansen kept his silence for over 50 years about being one of the POWs who buried Father Emil Kapaun’s body after the priest died May 23, 1951.
In 2005, Hansen was in his doctor’s office at a VA Hospital in Florida when he read an article about the U.S. Army chaplain who died a hero in a North Korean POW camp in Pyongyang.