{"id":32917,"date":"2017-06-12T12:00:47","date_gmt":"2017-06-12T17:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tmn.fhsu.edu\/?p=32917"},"modified":"2017-06-12T12:00:47","modified_gmt":"2017-06-12T17:00:47","slug":"prairie-heritage-announces-book-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=32917","title":{"rendered":"Prairie Heritage Announces Book Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Courtesy of Margy Stewart\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Once again, the Prairie Heritage Awards Committee has selected TWO outstanding books as the winners of this year\u2019s <em>Jan Garton Prairie Heritage Book Award.\u00a0 <\/em>The award comes with a $1000 prize for each book.<\/p>\n<p>The winners are:<\/p>\n<p><em>Wildflowers and Weeds of Kansas, <\/em>by Michael John Haddock, Craig C. Freeman, and Jane\u2019t E. Bare, University Press of Kansas, 2015; and<\/p>\n<p><em>This Is Not Dixie:\u00a0 Racist Violence in Kansas, 1861-1927<\/em>, by Brent C. Campney, University of Illinois Press, 2015.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The award for <em>Wildflowers and Weeds of Kansas <\/em>will be presented to the authors at the Junction City Commission meeting (<span>7 p.m.<\/span> on Tuesday, June 20, 2017, at 701 N. Jefferson) by Prairie Heritage president and Junction City Commissioner Jim Sands.<\/p>\n<p>The award for <em>This Is Not Dixie <\/em>will be presented to the author at a book talk and book signing on Thursday, September 21, 2017, 7 p.m., at the Dorothy Bramlage Public Library at 230 W. 7<sup>th<\/sup>St. in Junction City.<\/p>\n<p>Usually, only one award is made each year.\u00a0 But for the last 2 years, books have been submitted that are landmark achievements in the separate fields of natural history and social history.\u00a0 Prairie Heritage wishes to honor these achievements.<\/p>\n<p>Prairie Heritage, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation dedicated to the preservation of the prairie and its stories (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.prairieheritage.org\/\">www.prairieheritage.org<\/a>). \u00a0\u00a0The book awards are made possible by a bequest from the estate of Kansas conservationist Jan Garton (1949-2009).<\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact Margy Stewart, <a href=\"mailto:margystewart785@gmail.com\">margystewart785@gmail.com<\/a>, <a href=\"tel:(785)%20539-5592\">785.539.5592<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy of Margy Stewart\u00a0 &nbsp; Once again, the Prairie Heritage Awards Committee has selected TWO outstanding books as the winners of this year\u2019s Jan Garton&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":142,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[11109,11110,11111,11112,11113],"class_list":["post-32917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-books","tag-margy-stewart","tag-prairie-heritage","tag-this-is-not-dixie-racist-violence-in-kansas","tag-wild-flowers-and-weeds-of-kansas"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}