Should you wash 100-year-old jeans? Textiles expert Abe Lange has the answer for you!

At a party for a librarian who just earned her master's degree. There are books on the table, and honestly, this party is an introvert's dream come true

Rewatching GBBO and the showstopper challenges have evolved Early seasons: Bake a three-tier chocolate cake Later seasons: Using no fewer than 4 types of biscuit dough, recreate a childhood moment when you triumphed over despair and you must be able to hang it like a chandelier #gbbo

Now I'm pondering...what defines a news outlet? Everyone started newspapers (with various degrees of quality and political leaning) in every Kansas town in the 1800s. Many KS towns no longer have a paper, or their paper has no one reporting on public meetings at all.

I'm feeling profound love for everyone who is taking a moment to step outside and share the wonder that is the Northern Lights.

The view from my porch... #ottawaks

This season's American Hauntings Patreon-only podcast is centered on the Starved Rock Murders, which, as a hiker, I find extra unnerving. @troytaylor.bsky.social www.patreon.com/posts/142916...

The museum staff has put so much thought and work into this renovation! I can't wait to see it!

I'm overwhelmed with the realization that I can take a picture like this with my phone from my front porch.

*Eats 26 pieces of candy* *Eats side salad with pizza* Look how healthy I'm being

I am 1 hour, 23 minutes, and 7 customer service agents into trying to figure out why Square won't let me add a custom attribute to our event tickets. I'm hungry and tired and need the restroom. Send me one of those fluffy dogs with a little barrel hanging from its collar, okay?

We've finally brought FCHS and the @olddepotmuseum.bsky.social to Blusky! #Museums #Kansas #HistoryMuseums

Archivists: what are some things you wish journalists better understood about archives and about your work? Putting together a training in a couple weeks.

Reaching across Ottawa right now. View from the Eisenhower exit from southbound I-35. #ottawaks #kswx

It's official. "God's Misfits," my forthcoming book about the murders of Kansans Veronica Butler and Jilian Kelley in the Oklahoma panhandle, will be released by a new imprint from the University Press of Kansas.

Rohrbaugh Mausoleum, Hope Cemetery. #ottawaks

Goodbye, Mrs. Tauy Jones house. #historichouses #ottawaks 😞

This is an accurate representation of what our sky looks like right now. #ottawaks #kswx

Two sides of the same monument. Grave of Christina Reidy, 1846-1883. Mount Calvary Cemetery. #ottawaks #historiccemetery

Looking skyward at 6:15 pm from our home on Constitution Street. It was at this moment, 80 years ago, that the atomic bomb detonated over Hiroshima (it's already tomorrow in Japan, owing to the time difference, so it was 8:15 am Aug 6 there).

This.

Greenwood Cemetery and Greenwood Baptist Church. #Kansas

Outside the Archives. #kansas

Once the home of the widow of Ottawa University founder Tauy Jones, today it served as a SWAT training practice house. It will likely be torn down soon. The windows were being shattered as I pulled into my driveway across the street. #RIPhistorichouse #OttawaKS

July 20, 1925: The Tennessee evolution trial turns into a dramatic duel of its main personalities, prosecutor William Jennings Bryan and defender Clarence Darrow. In an open-air cross-examination Darrow quizzes Bryan on the Bible, aiming to mock his fundamentalist beliefs. 1/9

July 17, 2025

"THE WESTERNERS" COVER REVEAL, including the spine! Both show how my new history of the 19th-c American West puts readers on the ground in this vast region with several fascinating individuals (four of them pictured here), all of whom put the lie to the frontier myth. Pub date: April 21, 2026!

This thread tugs at me. Why do we at the Franklin County (Kansas) Historical Society post so many photos of floods in Ottawa? Because FRCO floods enthusiastically and often, and the flood control system works... until it doesn't.

I was messaging a friend when my phone autocorrected "hospital" to "godforsaken," and I shrugged and considered leaving it.

The river receded yesterday, but the log jam is a mess. #OttawaKS

Really rooting for my Sump Pump right now. 2.75 inches since about midnight, according to Kansas Mesonet.

I remember standing in our driveway in Emporia, watching thr clouds begin to spin and drop on their way to Reading. Radio host Harold Camping insisted that same day-- May 21, 2011--would end in the Rapture. This tornado was overshadowed by the Joplin tornado, which happened the next day.

Me: I'm getting an early start to my day! 28 minutes later:

Okay, friends. If you love true ghost stories, what was the gateway story or book that got you hooked? Kathryn Tucker Windham's account of the Bell Witch and Daniel Cohen's real ghost photos of the Brown Lady of Raynham Hall and the Watertown Ghosts launched a lifelong love for paranormal stories.

@troytaylor.bsky.social For your future books?!

Oliver! #guineapigs

Never pass up the opportunity to eat in a sunbeam #guineapigs

Omg this man! 😭😭😭 #antiquesroadshow

The story behind this pendant watch is EVERYTHING. #antiquesroadshow

"I brought it in a roller cooler with snacks on top," says the owner of the $20,000 ancestor. #antiquesroadshow 😂

I'll be honest. My lower back started to hurt just looking at this chair. It's pretty, though! #antiquesroadshow

I am rather tickled by the line, "You have made me so proud, I'll be hard to live with" in Reagan's letter. #antiquesroadshow

I am--for once-- fashionable. www.marieclaire.com/beauty/dark-...

I LOVE adaptive reuse of old buildings! You just know these living spaces will have lots of natural light and the walls between you and your neighbors will be SOLID. #cottonwoodfallsks #KansasHistory

Is a ceiling an #AntiquesRoadshow first?

You can't save every piece of architecture, but I'm so glad he saved what he could. Also, that must have been a pain to haul to #antiquesroadshow!