January 24th—Tim Paris -The Garlinghouse Company
January 31st—Thom Rosenblum— Ike Gilberg, Socialism From Behind a Sewing Machine
February 7th—Superbowl Sunday
February 14th—James Woods—Transportation History of Topeka
February 21st—Doug Wallace--Bennie and Estelle Dickson, home grown Bonnie and Clyde
February 28th—Chris Cruz--Fred Harvey, setting the standard for fast, fine food with an envied concept that started in Topeka.
March 7th—Paul Post on the Bates Family, the Bates Banks and Bates Block(this is the Topeka Blueprint Building)
March 14th—Dan Werner—Historic buildings on Kansas Ave.
Buildings may be donated for preservation.
Emergency stablization loans are possible. Read about it on the Kansas Preservation Alliance web site:http://kpalliance.org/Pages/01_programs.html
See also:
Topeka Landmarks Commission
Virtural Library: US Historic Preservation