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Historic cabin's restoration completed at Cowtown

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Published Oct. 9, 2009 at 1:25 p.m.

WICHITA — Wichita Mayor Carl Brewer will be presented a key to one of the oldest buildings in Wichita on Saturday as part of a ceremony at Old Cowtown Museum ... The event marks the completion of five months of restoration work on the museum's 140-year-old Heller Cabin, now the museum's newest store and stagecoach shop ... The cabin now becomes the first building visitors will see as they tour the 1870s-era living-history complex ...

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Fire safety programs begin today in Wichita

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Published Oct. 2, 2009 at 5:24 p.m.

Fire Prevention Week observances in Wichita begin today, with a fire safety education fair at Old Cowtown, 1865 Museum Blvd ... The fair, which begins at 9 a.m., will allow area grade school students to learn about fire safety, watch a rescue demonstration and practice an escape out of a smoke-filled room. Students will also be able to tour the sites of Old Cowtown ... All fifth-grade students throughout the city and county and surrounding areas are invited to attend a fire prevention adventure

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Wichita's Old Cowtown museum a magnet for bus tourists

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Published June 28, 2009 at 3:41 a.m.

Robert and Phyllis Johnson couldn't find their group Saturday at Old Cowtown ... "We were supposed to meet here at noon and be back on the bus, but we don't know where everyone else is," Phyllis Johnson said ... The rest of the group on a motorcoach tour from Louisiana had gotten together and decided they didn't want to leave ... "We wanted to stay longer," said Frances Ross. "This is such an interesting place." ... The group riding the Diamond Tours bus home from Colorado Springs wanted to stay

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Council pulls arts funding for Cowtown

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Published May 19, 2009 at 12:06 p.m.

Wichita City Council members today pulled $267,000 in cultural arts funding from the Old Cowtown Museum, saying that the committee that advises the council on arts funding was pressured into giving the city-owned museum more money to survive ... The cultural arts funding committee will now make a new recommendation on how to split up or spend the $267,000 ... John D'Angelo, director of the city's arts and culture department, took the blame for pressuring the committee. He said since the city

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Old Cowtown finds new links to the past

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Published April 20, 2009 at 7:05 a.m.

Visitors to Old Cowtown Museum this season will get a chance to be more personally linked with early Wichitans, its new director says ... When the museum opens next weekend, visitors will be assigned the names of early Wichitans. As they tour the living history museum, they will learn how those early residents would have lived their lives -- and how they would have been affected by gender, age, race and class ... "We will be comparing people who had money to those who didn't," said David Flask

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