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Chautauqua Event
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Starting at 1:00 p.m., the afternoon of activities will kick-off with Family History presentations during which local descendants will review the some of the founding families who established Nicodemus in 1877. The local contributions of the Sayers, Napue, Williams, Moore and Jones families will be discussed. At 2:00 p.m., guest musical artist Lem Sheppard will perform musical samples on traditional instruments and review with audience members the under-told story of Kansas African American musicians from 1860-1920. At 3:00 p.m., there will be a viewing of the “Ellis Trail to Nicodemus” documentary recently released by the Nicodemus Historic Society. Descendants of the families portrayed in the documentary will be onsite for discussion after the viewing.
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