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Winter Lecture Series | Farmbook: 19th C. Newspapers as Social Media at Old Cowtown Museum

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January 24, 2026 @ 2:00 pm

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$3

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Winter Lecture Series | Farmbook: 19th C. Newspapers as Social Media at Old Cowtown Museum

January 24, 2026 @ 2:00 pm
Farmbook: 19th Century Newspapers As Social Media
Elizabeth Ernst Miller, OCM Interpreter
January 24, 2026
2- 3 p.m. in the Old Cowtown Museum’s Visitor Center
 
From lengthy screeds by anonymous posters complaining about politics to dubious medical and parenting advice, 19th-century newspapers such as the Kansas Farmer show that there is nothing new under the sun, and yes, we have always been “like this.”
 
Admission for lectures is just $3/person. Old Cowtown members and volunteers get in free! 

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Old Cowtown Museum

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1865 Museum Boulevard
Wichita, KS 67203 United States

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