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Join us at 1:30pm on first Wednesdays for our monthly Senior Wednesday. No need to register; simply walk in! Tickets are $4 plus tax or free for Museum members. Light refreshments provided.

This month our talk is entitled "Charlatan: The Story of the Kansas Goat Gland Doctor." This talk will be delivered by local history professor, Ken Spurgeon.

About the Speaker: Ken Spurgeon

Ken Spurgeon is an Associate Professor of History at Friends University and a consultant at the Kansas Oil Museum in El Dorado, KS. He has spent over 20 years teaching at the high school and college level. 

Mr. Spurgeon is the author of “A Kansas Soldier at War:  The Civil War Lives and Letters of Christian and Elise Dubach Isely,” published by The History Press, Charleston, SC, 2013.

In 2004, he was the co-founder of Lone Chimney Films, Inc., a not-for-profit documentary film company dedicated to films about the Midwest. He has written or co-written and directed three documentaries. The last two films (Home on the Range and The Road to Valhalla) have earned the Western Heritage Award (Wrangler) at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum, 2018 and 2015. He most recently completed a docudrama entitled The Contested Plains. He is currently working on a film entitled Sod and Stubble based on the book by the same name. Filming is set to begin in the late summer of 2023.