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Outgoing tourism director shares thoughts on the city's greatest assets, potential improvements | News, Sports, Jobs - Lawrence Journal-World: news, information, headlines and events in Lawrence, Kansas


photo by: Mike Yoder
Outgoing Explore Lawrence Executive Director Michael Davidson is pictured at the Lawrence Visitors Center, 812 Massachusetts St., on April 29, 2021.
If downtown Lawrence is the city’s crown jewel, then the city’s outgoing tourism director thinks there is more the community can do to make it shine, as well as other community gems that deserve a little more attention.
Michael Davidson, the executive director of local convention and visitors bureau Explore Lawrence, plans to retire this spring after serving in his position since April 2016. Davidson came to Lawrence after working in the tourism industry for 30 years, including leading tourism bureaus in Walla Walla, Wash., and Long Island, N.Y., where he grew up. ....

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As City of Lawrence celebrates 75 years of parks and recreation, community looks back at how it began | News, Sports, Jobs - Lawrence Journal-World: news, information, headlines and events in Lawrence, Kansas


Children play at South Park Wading Pool in this photo from the early 1950s.
Perhaps it is fitting that what led to the creation of a city department whose business includes organizing games, hanging holiday lights and planting flowers was actually the community’s hardship.
In the late 1930s, Lawrence, like the rest of the country, was still in the midst of the Great Depression, and while the adults worked longer hours and dealt with the struggles of the time, the activities that once entertained the children had become scarce.
“All of these organized activities that would have occupied young people, scouting trips, outings and hikes, they weren’t happening as much,” said Watkins Museum of History Curator and Collections manager Brittany Keegan. “So what the city started noticing was groups of kids around without an activity.” ....

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City seeks photos, documents related to Kaw Nation's sacred prayer rock, which was stolen and made into monument in 1929 | News, Sports, Jobs - Lawrence Journal-World: news, information, headlines and events in Lawrence, Kansas


photo by: Kansas State Historical Society | Wichita Eagle
This sacred rock in Lawrence was once located along the banks of the Kaw River at the mouth of Shunganunga Creek. The Kaw people used the 10-foot tall red rock with religious ceremonies. In 1929, the rock was moved to Robinson Park near Lawrence s City Hall to honor the town s founders.
As the City of Lawrence begins work to return a sacred prayer rock stolen from the Kaw Nation’s homelands nearly a century ago, it is asking the community for any historical documents to help understand how the boulder was brought to Lawrence and installed in its current location. ....

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