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FRIDAY, MAY 3 • BLACK Lawrence Open Mic, 7-9 p.m., 10th & Mass Studios, 1000 Massachusetts St., Studio A. Free admission, all skill level
Lawrence author and musician Melvin Litton walks his German shepherd, Jack, through the Barker neighborhood every evening. He might be shaping sentences in his head or exploring literary ideas as he walks, eager to scrawl them onto his sketch pad once he’s home again.
Before COVID, David Hann, of Lawrence, would occasionally spend hours at the Kansas State Historical Society in Topeka poring over microfiche archives in search