“Rural School Life,” is the topic of Saturday’s spring meeting of the Allen County Historical Society. The program includes six panel members who will discuss their unique experiences of attending the county’s one-room school houses…

Community members will have the opportunity to dive into Civil War history — and learn about the process of writing historical nonfiction — at a special event hosted by Iola’s Rotary Club on Saturday, April…

A traveling exhibit about American Indian cultures will be the topic at this Sunday’s winter meeting of the Allen County Historical Society. Guest speaker Dr. Eric P. Anderson, one of the original consultants on the…

Many of the buildings and roads Allen County residents enjoy on a daily basis were built in the 1930s as part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal public works projects. The Works Progress Administration…

Attention turns Thursday to the history of Iola’s WPA projects. The Allen County Historical Society will have its fall meeting at 7 p.m. at the Frederick Funston Meeting Hall, 207 N. Jefferson Ave. Donna Houser,…

Iola Reads is going to the dogs with several activities that celebrate both books and canine friends, along with a bit of history and time-travel. This year’s youth selection is a series of books by…

Editor’s note: The Register recapped the 1969 murders of Betty Cantrell and Sally Hutton in an article Tuesday. Following is a look at the women behind a true-crime podcast examing the cases. They’ll discuss their…

“The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.” — Lois McMaster Bujold, author It’s been nearly 55 years since the unsolved murders of Betty…

Community development doesn’t always mean “new,” Emily Cowan, president of the Abandoned Atlas Foundation, told a group at the Allen County Historical Society’s spring meeting Tuesday evening at the Iola Public Library. “That’s a mindset…

Emily Cowan, founder of the Abandoned Kansas and Missouri branches of the Abandoned Atlas Foundation, recalls seeing her first abandoned place. The Skedee school in Oklahoma had been closed for 50 years, so Cowan was…