February weekends are all work and lots of play as more The Way We Worked in Kansas events open in Concordia, Blue Rapids, and Glasco.

Explore the work and community impact of Concordia's Civilian Conservation Corps Camp #788 in the National Orphan Train Complex's companion exhibition to The Way We Worked Smithsonian Institution traveling exhibition. Both exhibitions are on display February 2 - March 17, 2013. Click here for a complete schedule of events. 

Tom Parker spent 2012 taking thousands of photographs of workers on the job in Blue Rapids, from postal workers to nursing home staff to welders. A selection of the photographs are featured in The Way We Worked, 2012, on display at Blue Rapids Historical Museum, February 2 - March 17, 2013. Click here for details.  

Kansan Clementine Paddleford served as the food editor for the New York Herald Tribune from 1936 to 1966 and became a foremost authority on regional foods. Join Cynthia Harris, co-author of Hometown Appetites: The Story of Clementine Paddleford, as she discusses "the forgotten food writer who chronicled how America ate" on February 10, 2013, at 2:00 p.m. at the Glasco Corner Store. Click here for more information. 

Additional The Way We Worked in Kansas events include partner site exhibitions in Burlingame, Colby, Eudora, Newton, Sabetha, and WaKeeney. This month, the Kansas Reads one book, one state discussions of Then We Came to the End continue in Newton and Junction City.  For more information, visit KHC's Calendar of Events. 

Banner photo: Justin Hiltgen, assistant manager of Casey's General Store in Blue Rapids by Tom Parker. For more photos, visit Parker's blog, Dispatches from Kansas.