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![photo of Jim Thorpe playing baseball in Blue Rapids 1913](/assets/images/NoCrop_345x345/5e8b537fcf384bd989587fa99adcc2cf.jpg)
Big Teams in a Small Town
In 1913, the New York Giants and the Chicago White Sox planned an exhibition tour to Tokyo, Hong Kong, Sydney, Cairo, London, Paris, and... Blue Rapids, Kansas.
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Hotline: La Yarda
Filmmaker Lourdes Kalusha-Aguirre recounts the story of La Yarda, an East Lawrence community of Mexican railroad workers and their families.
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