When is kansas day 2011

This day is also known as Kansas' birthday, and it has been celebrated since Kansas Day is a state holiday, but not a public holiday. This means that schools and businesses remain open as usual.

Kansas Day was first celebrated in by pupils at a school in Paola, Kansas. The children had been learning about the Battle of New Orleans, which gave them a sense of patriotic pride about their state. So, the school set aside the day of January 29, , to teach the students more about the state of Kansas, its geography, and history. The teacher who oversaw this day, Alexander LeGrande Copley, eventually became the superintendent of schools in Wichita, where he instated the celebration of Kansas Day.

Through the participating children and parents, the observance quickly spread around, and Kansas Day became a state-wide holiday. Kansas became an organized incorporated territory of the United States on May 30, , with the passing of the Kansas-Nebraska Act.

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Then there were short speeches by two or three boys — extracts from Horace Greeley and Charles Sumner. Questions in Kansas history, asked by one side of the room and answered by the other; first things in Kansas, such as the first printing press, the first school, the first railroad, the first capital, the first newspaper.

There was one mistake-—the exercises should not have been held in the schoolroom, but in the largest hall in town, to accommodate the parents and friends who wanted to get in but couldn't.

In Copley became superintendent of the schools in Wichita, and, of course, the day was appropriately observed there.

Meanwhile it was his hobby to attend the county teachers' institutes and at the state teachers' association meetings, held then every year in Topeka at the Christmas holidays and encourage the teachers to celebrate Kansas Day.

A description of Copley's celebration appeared in the Kansas Educationist. Newspapers of the state described the celebration as a Kansas institution. It was then and there decided that a small pamphlet should be published giving the concise information about the state, songs and sample speeches suitable for the proper observance of the day.

Del Valentine, of the Clay Center Dispatch , printed the book.