The United States World War One Centennial Commission and the Pritzker Military Museum and Library has announced the first 50 recipients of grants for the restoration of World War One Monuments and Memorials, and to announce a second round of applications.  Full details here:  http://www.worldwar1centennial.org/100-cities-100-memorials-home.html

The lone recipient from Kansas is the KU Endowment Association in Lawrence.  The monument for restoration is the Victory Eagle WWI Monument that sits in front of Dyche Hall on the university of Kansas campus.  Information about this monument was posted earlier:  http://www2.ku.edu/~union/hmof/landmarks/eagle.shtml

For more information about the Victory Highway eagles, see:  https://www.kansasww1.org/monuments-and-memorials-the-victory-highway-eagles/

 

Blair Tarr is the Museum Curator of the Kansas State Historical Society. He oversees the three-dimensional collections of the Society, but has special interests in the Civil War, Wichita-made Valentine diners, and Leavenworth's Abernathy Furniture. In the last few years he has also done a lot of cramming on The Great War. He is a past president of the Kansas Museums Association and the Civil War Round Tables of both Kansas City and Eastern Kansas. He is currently a board member of the Heritage League of Greater Kansas City.