The Lawrence Kansas Monthly Blog

  Welcome back to my monthly blog, and today we're gonna talk about the most important topic I've been willing to learn about ever since I was in school. The History of Lawrence Kansas Let's get started, shall we? Lawrence Kansas was founded in 1854 and it's a city in and the county seat of the Douglas County community. It's also the sixth-largest city in the state. It is in the northeastern sector of the state, astride Interstate 70, between the Kansas and Wakarusa Rivers. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 94,934. It's even a college town and the home to both the University of Kansas and Haskell Indian Nations University. Lawrence was founded by the New England Emigrant Aid Company (NEEAC) and was named for Amos A. Lawrence, an abolitionist from Massachusetts, who offered financial aid and support for the settlement. Lawrence was central to the Bleeding Kansas period from 1854–1861, and the site of the Wakarusa War from 1855 and th...

  Welcome back to my Lawrence Kansas Monthly Blog. What you're about to witness is something that you haven't heard before. As you may know, I've been making music for years ever since I lived there, and I'm still gonna keep on making music for more years to come. Right now, we thought it would be a good idea for me to do a look back at what happened in Lawrence Kansas over the years in my own time. Way back in September of 1989 when I was born, Billy Joel was opening doors in the way we look at history in his song "We Didn't Start The Fire". This is what it looked like in that video. And in case you didn't know just yet, it was featured on his 1989 album Storm Front. So before I move back to Lawrence Kansas and since there's plenty of time left until the time comes, I'm gonna take the time to work on our own version of the hit song. In the meantime, here's the lyrics I made. "We Didn't Start The Fire [Lawrence Kansas Version]...