Message from Marc Liby, Executive Director

The Great Plains Theatre, the only professional theatre between Kansas City and Denver, is honored and proud to have the Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum as one of its key partners in the community of Abilene. What started as a partnership allowing patrons discounts when they produce a ticket stub from either location, has grown into the sharing of expertise, ideas and resources to help each other continue to advance and grow step by step. The uniqueness of both the Great Plains Theatre and the Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum provides visitors to Abilene a total experience that cannot be duplicated. With this partnership the Great Plains Theatre knows that this is only the beginning and is excited for the endeavors to come.

And rumor has it, the power in partnerships slows the progression of male pattern baldness. This of course is really great news for me!

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Museum Day is an annual event hosted by Smithsonian magazine in which participating museums across the country open their doors to anyone presenting a Museum Day Ticket...for free.

Just go to www.smithsonianmag.com/museumday. There you can download and print a ticket which will admit two persons to participating museums, including the Eisenhower Presidential Museum and Boyhood Home, on September 24. What a deal!

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"I believe that the United States must make certain that every citizen who is entitled to vote under the Constitution is given actually that right. I believe also that in sustaining that right we must sustain the power of the Federal judges in whose hands such cases would fall."

-Dwight D. Eisenhower, July 31, 1957, News Conference

We have a busy season planned for this fall. The temporary "Eisenhower: Agent of Change" exhibit continues through January 29, 2012. In addition to the exhibit, a variety of programs complimenting the 50 year retrospective are scheduled.

Many of our annual programs are fast approaching. We are looking forward to the the flurry of activities in mid-October for Eisenhower's birthday. Wrapping up the year, the Abilene City Band will perform again during the holiday reception in December. 

Additionally, there are a number of excellent programs coming up that are not an annual event or part of the "Agent of Change" programming.  

Here is just a sampling of what's to come: 

Did you know General Patton was a photographer? Patton's Photographs: War as He Saw It is scheduled for Nov. 11, which is Veterans Day AND Patton's birthday. This presentation will be given by our pal and Ft. Leavenworth historian, Kevin Hymel. 

For all the quilters out there, we have a special exhibit and program lined up for you! The Quilts of Valor exhibit is on display in the Library building now through Nov. 30. On Nov. 12, Sue Reich, a renowned WWII quilt historian, will do a presentation.

Far too many other activities and events are planned to list here. Make sure to like us on Facebook and check our calendar often.