Tom Parkinson

Author Stephen Wade has spent more than 30 years researching the Library of Congress collection of field recordings of traditional American music.

Kelley Hunt's benefit concert for Just Food, the local food pantry, is set for Saturday night at Lawrence's Liberty Hall.

The Texas Rangers were a very successful and well-known group specializing in "Cowboy" or "Western" music in the 1930s and the group lasted, in various incarnations, for nearly a quarter century. They starred in their own radio show and appeared in films with cowboy stars like Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette and Johnny Mack Brown. But the group got its start as staff musicians at KMBC in Kansas City.

The new federal report found that nearly 63 million American adults volunteered last year through a nonprofit, civic or faith-based organization. Utah, Idaho, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Kansas are ranked as the states with the most volunteers.

The museum opens at 9 a.m. The Veterans Day public ceremony will begin at 10 a.m., featuring Congressman Emanuel Cleaver II, Mayor Sly James and other state and local officials. The event, and admission to the museum, is free to the public.

The National Interagency Fire Center in Boise, Idaho, has mobilized active duty soldiers to assist with fighting wildfires in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, California and several other western states.

The National Weather Service predicts river and stream flooding throughout the region.

The 2015 Lawrence Busker Festival has moved from August to May and will coincide this year with the Art Tougeau Wheeled Art Parade. It's all happening this weekend in downtown Lawrence.

Kansas University professor Sherrie Tucker explores the memories of the famous Hollywood Canteen in her oral history of the club and the World War Two period in which it thrived.

The Hall Family Foundation continues in its support of humanities programs at the University of Kansas.