A four-city, month-long Chautauqua was just the beginning. Diane Eickhoff speaks or performs every three weeks, on average. Want to inquire about having her come to your event? Contact us.
Where We’ve Been
Colby — the Buffalo Bill statue in nearby Oakley, Kansas
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Colby — Diane makes the universal sign of knitting.
Colby—Fred Krebs as Stephen Douglas …
… debates Richard Johnson as Abraham Lincoln
Junction City — Chautauqua was held in this park …
… where soldiers from nearby Ft. Riley are remembered.
Junction City — authentic eating
Junction City — Diane leads a seminar on how she …
… “recovered” the life of her subject
Outside Junction City, on the Flint Hills prairie.
Junction City — Kelly Werts warms up the crowd
Junction City — Crowds were attentive the entire tour
Fort Scott — Breakfast with Diane and Charles Pace …
… who played Frederick Douglass in the Chautauqua
Lawrence — Overflow crowds came to the park each night.
Lawrence — Clarina’s descendant Janice Parker …
… brought the very brooch Clarina wore.
Lawrence — another Nichols descendant
Lawrence — The kids’ workshop kept Diane hopping!
Concordia, at the dinner and speaker of the month meeting
Concordia’s Brown Grand Theater
One of the historic posters at the Brown Grand
Near Concordia we “czeched” out Cuba
… and the famous slice-of-life photos of Jim Richardson
Emporia, Kansas, 2005 — just before showtime
Pawnee Rock, en route to Liberal, February 2005.
Liberal Public LIbrary — check out that book! Just try to!
Liberal Public LIbrary, February 2005.
With members of the audience in Liberal.
Osawatomie, October, 2005.
Kansas Day, 2005 in Marion, Kansas
2004 Bleeding Kansas Chautauqua
Since Chautauqua