[image: KU Jayhawk, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS: Used with permission.]

[drawing: burning of the Free State (Eldridge) Hotel, Lawrence, KS]

[photograph: Masonic Temple, 10th and Mass. St., Lawrence, KS: courtesy KanColl]

City of Lawrence, Douglas County, Kansas

Naked Lunch At 50, The Bourgeois Pig - Sue Ashline and Dalton Howard provide music; Phil Heying, Jim McCrary, and Karl Gridley; James Grauerholz; and Wayne Propst.

Reconstruction, Unraveling Lawrence’s most explosive underground newspaper, 40 years later: Issue No. 1, Feb. 10-24, 1969, by Frank Tankard, lawrence.com

19th Century Kansas Traveling Shows
& Cowboy Blues: Early Black Music In The West, by P.J. O'Connor

[photo: Beat Generation writer Charles Plymell in Moody's Skidrow Beanery shirt, Cherry Valley, NY, 2002. Copyright 2002, Pat O'Connor.]

"Nobody Rides For Free"by Grant Hart (formerly in Husker Du), music video by Laki Vazakas

Charley Plymell notes: "I first met Grant at B's [William Burroughs] funeral. Charles Henri Ford has a cameo in this and Ray Bremser kissing the bird."

Charles Plymell section at Beats In Kansas

Charles Plymell, from Kansa, Land of the Wind People [Autobiographical sketch] 12/02, Beats In Kansas
Charles Plymell The Last of the Moccasins, 1996 ('Vortex' excerpt) Beats in Kansas

Artist S. Clay Wilson: The Underground Genius Surfaces, by Charley Plymell, Beats In Kansas,

S. Clay Wilson's medical crisis -- hard to explain that without his art, the total visual palette used today would be different.

Donations address: S. Clay Wilson Special Needs Trust, PO Box 14854, San Francisco CA 94114

[Courtesy, Jim McCrary, used with permission. All rights reserved.]

William Burroughs, Jim McCrary, S. Clay Wilson -- on William's porch.

National Register of Historic Places Nomination: Oread Historic District - Located directly west of the downtown commercial area and east of the University of Kansas campus, the majority of the Oread Historic District falls within the “Original” town plat, and thus represents one of Lawrence’s oldest residential neighborhoods.

Lawrence KS Web Sites

Art, Music and Theater

Ad Astra Poetry Project, Denise Low | Kansas Poet Laureate, 2007-2009
- Jim McCrary: Ad Astra Poetry Project #24
- Poet Charles Plymell Ad Astra Poetry Project #33
- Victor Contoski: Ad Astra Poetry Project #37
- Denise Lea (Dotson) Low , Ad Astra Poetry Project #36
Artists In Kansas Kansas Art Centers, Kansas Art Galleries, Kansas Art Museums
Artstew Magazine, Lawrence art scene
Annual Art in the Park Lawrence Art Guide
Beats In Kansas The Beat Generation in the Heartland, including John E. Fowler, Charles Plymell, William S. Burroughs, Jim McCrary, Wayne Propst and James Grauerholz

[photo image: Beat writer William S. Burroughs photographed at home with cat Ginger, April 1997, Lawrence, KS. Copyright 1997, G. Laughead]

William Burroughs Photo Gallery (Feb. 5, 1914 - Aug. 2, 1997) Beats In Kansas Original
William S. Burroughs, Photographs by Jon Blumb, Lawrence; Beach Museum of Art, Manhattan
Malcolm McNeill Interview on William Burroughs, Ah Puch Is Here, Emmy award winning artist McNeill worked with Burroughs in London during early 1970s, by George Laughead
Ah Pook Is Here Malcolm McNeill & William Burroughs, art work for unpublished image novel by McNeill and William Burroughs
The Lost Art of Ah Pook is Here, Malcolm McNeill & William S. Burroughs Word/Image Novel

"Observed While Falling: Bill Burroughs, Ah Pook and Me," by Malcolm McNeill [Excerpts]

Barry Miles, William Burroughs' Biographer, March 2010
Hikuta! Tom Peschio on William Burroughs and His Guns, [T.P. was close friend and helper of W.S.B.], realitystudio.org
A Blackout Tavern: Study in 1960s Folklore, by Pat O'Connor, Wichita; Beats In Kansas
Birth of The Beats is Born, 64 years later, interview with editor James Grauerholz about And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks, Nov. 17, 2008
Back Beat: At last, Kerouac and Burroughs's co-authored noir novel, And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks, resurfaces, by George Kimball, Boston Phoenix, Oct. 24, 2008
- George Kimball in Lawrence
"The Cosmology of Finding Your Spot" Poem by Ed Dorn, 1969, Lawrence
[Ed Dorn on beer with Wayne Propst, George Kimball and The Great White Dog of the Rock Chalk Bar.]
James Mechem, Writer and Publisher; by Denise Low, Beats In Kansas
Naked Lunch At 50, Lawrence Celebration, The Bourgeois Pig, August 2009, Phil Heying photographer; flickr photo stream
"Remembering William Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg," by Jim McCrary, Beats In Kansas
William S. Burroughs Memorial Service: Remarks on Behalf of the Community, by Professor Tim Miller, KU Religious Studies Dean, 6 August 1997
"Shooting Joan Burroughs," Beat writer William Burroughs at home, with James Grauerholz, discusses death of Joan Vollmer Burroughs; photographs of Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg,
The New Battleground in the Heartland: The Cancer of Sprawl by Denise Low
The Committee on Imagination & Place
Cooking In Kansas KS Recipes, Cookbooks, Pioneer, Cowboy Cooking,
Hamburgers, Frank and Jayni Naas Carey
Pat Elliott, Beat
Fresh Produce Art Collective, Lawrence
Stan Herd, Lawrence
"Langston Hughes in Lawrence: Photographs and Biographical Resources"
By Denise Low & T.F. Pecore Weso Kansas History Web Sites
Langston Hughes biography, Lawrence

Langston Hughes: National Poetry Project , KUCE
I Dream a World, Langston Hughes poem, Kansas Humanities Council

Compassionate Care Coalition for Medical Marijuana
Kansas Medical Cannabis Network
The Kansas Guidebook for explorers, by Marci Penner. A tour of every organized city in the state. 432-page book with 400+ color photos and 3,597 entries.
Lawrence Arts Center
Lawrence Art Guild
Lawrence ArtWalk
Lawrence Events, Lawrence CVB
Lawrence Percolator, Lawrence
Lawrence Photo Alliance
The Lied Center of Kansas, KU
Raven Book Store, independent, Lawrence
River City Reading Festival, Oct. 9, 2010
Spencer Museum of Art, Current Exhibits, University of Kansas

Spencer Museum of Art Myspace

Kansas Musical Artist KS Rock music history: Mike Finnigan and the Serfs; Rich Mullins; Kansas; Fabulous Flippers; The Blue Things; Midas
daybydesign web site design; Steffani Day and Micheal Day, ASAI, (360 Architecture, KC MO) Lawrence
Das Furbender Band Myspace, Lawrence
Dave Gunn, Lawrence & Chicago [archive.org copy]
Judi Geer Kellas, Lawrence
Jouvelt, (Joel Feldt), Phoenix, AZ, & Lawrence
Brendan Merrick, singer/songwriter, Lawrence
The Outhouse Punk music in Lawrence
Punk rock flyers, Mike Blur Archive, Lawrence
PictureLawrence.com Thousands of Lawrence photographs
Wayne Propst: Wayne's World, Nick Vaccaro photographs, Lawrence Journal-World, Nov. 18, 2007
Road to Ruin: South Lawrence Trafficway, by Frank Tankard, lawrence.com
Scott Stewart, Lawrence
Yuri Zupancic Lawrence
Doug L. Miller Music, humor, software, eulogies

Eulogy for Doug Miller, 1948-2007, Lawrence, George Laughead
Douglas Luther Miller Eulogy, Brendan Lynch, Lawrence

Events and Festivals

[painting: Kaw Near Lindwood by Lisa Grossman; copyright 2008. Used with permission, Strecker-Nelson Gallery, Manhattan, KS: All rights reserved.]

Kansas Art Events
Spectacular Uncertainty: An Exhibit of Images from Tim Forcade’s book Spectacular Uncertainty; Artist Reception, Friday, Jan. 15, 5:00 – 8:00 p.m., Gallery talk & book signing — Sunday, Feb. 7, 2:00 p.m.; Exhibit from Jan. 15 - Feb. 27; Strecker-Nelson Gallery , 406½ Poyntz, Manhattan