March is filled with The Way We Worked in Kansas events that are sure to be winners in every bracket.

For nearly 90 years, the Ives-Hartley lumber building served Baldwin City's workers from its downtown location. Now the building is home to the Lumberyard Arts Center, host of The Way We Worked Smithsonian Institution traveling exhibition. March 23 - May 5, 2013. Click here for a full schedule of events. For more about the building's history, click here.
 

What did a fire knocker do? What about a flue borer? What were the experiences of the Mexican American section gang workers who settled in Ottawa? The Old Depot Museum in Ottawa explores the answers to these questions and more in Workin' on the Railroads. March 23 - May 5, 2013. Click here for details.

For nearly a century, Taylor Forge has been Miami County's largest employer. The From Fluor to Taylor Forge: 80 Years of Pipeline Forging History exhibition looks at the company's generations of work and workers. At the Miami County Historical Museum in Paola March 23 - May 5, 2013. Click here for details.

The Eudora Area Historical Society's exhibition, African Americans in Eudora: An Enduring Struggle for Freedom and Opportunity, examines the jobs and work experience of the African Americans who settled in the community after the Civil War. Through May 5, 2013. Click here for details.

Osage County coal miners in the late 1800s and early 1900s are the topic of the Workin' in a Coal Mine exhibition at the Burlingame Historical Preservation Society through June 30, 2013. Click here for details.

There's still time to see The Way We Worked at the National Orphan Train Complex in Concordia, as well as partner sites exhibitions in Blue Rapids, Glasco, Newton, Sabetha, and WaKeeney. Visit the KHC Calendar of Events for more details.