We mentioned this a month ago, but it’s worth an update–committee member Dennis Cross updated his blog, Centennial Countdown to the Great War,  this past Friday, September 30.  Here’s the link:  http://centennialcountdown.blogspot.com/

 

 

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.