Park City ALIVE

Park City Alive! is a humanities series in Park City, Kansas, beginning its twelfth year of providing lectures, book discussions, Shakespeare in the Park, etc. to the residents of the area. Three organizations sponsor programs: Park City PRIDE, Friends of the Park City Library, and the Chisholm Trail Seniors.

We have an event once a month, on a Saturday evening at 7 pm – always Saturday, always 7 pm. Our attendance has been remarkably strong, with 25-40 at every program. Our audience is always participative since everyone in Park City has an opinion about everything. The speakers always seem to be willing to come back and I think that participation is a big reason.

January 28, 2012

Harvey Girls: It All Started in Topeka, a presentation and discussion by Michaeline Chance-Reay on January 28, 2012 at 7:00 PM at Park City Public Library, 2107 E. 61^st Street North, Park City KS 67219. Members of the community are invited to attend the free program. Contact the Park City Public Library at 316 744 6318 for more information. The program is made possible by the Kansas Humanities Council in conjunction with Park City Alive!

Preferring the term Harvey Girls to waitresses, Fred Harvey recruited single women to work at Harvey Houses along the Santa Fe Railroad Line from Kansas to California. Between the 1880s and the 1950s, more than 100,000 women, many Kansans, proudly wore the black-and-white uniform of the Harvey Company.

Park City Pride Committee, Inc.