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The University Daily Kansan
Fridav. Mav 1, 1998
Mosasaur skeleton on the prowl in museum
By Susie Gura
sgura@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
With the addition of a giant lizard, the information center will not be the only thing greeting visitors at the Natural History Museum.
The mossasaur, an extinct 46-foot-long lizard, will be displayed in the entryway of the Natural History Museum. The bones of the lizard were found in western Kansas in 1911. A replica of the bones will be at the museum.
"It is just the cast of the mosasaur," said Tom Swearingen, exhibits director. "The real thing is too big and heavy."
The mosaasaur was the largest of all lizards, and the museum's mosaasaur is the largest specimen that has been found. Many masosaurs have been found in deposits in western Kansas.
The exhibit extends from the fourth floor to the sixth floor. The museum fastened the sixfoot head of the lizard to the wall yesterday.
The structure will be a permanent display in the museum.
"After we have the head set we will put on the rest of the body." Swearingen said. "We've been working on it for quite a while. In about a month it should be finished."
Facilities Operations, the welding and pipe fitting shop, students and carpenters all have worked on the exhibit.
"The head and tail will be fastened to the wall and the rest will be hung with cables," Swearingen said. "We will keep it here as a centerpiece."
The museum will wait to promote the attraction until the entire display is in place.
"We will be talking about it next year when it is all installed," said Brad Kemp, assistant director of public affairs. "There will be advertisements with it in the coming year."
The masasaur was put in the lobby because that is where the museum had sufficient space for it.
"We also put it there because people who are coming into the museum get a sense of what it has," Kemp said. "It is a preview of what we have at the museum."
The mosaasaur is part of routine updating the museum does each year, Kemp said.
"It is a very impressive thing," Swearingen said. "It shows part of our local history and is an interesting attraction."
Celtic band to shake The Bottleneck
Violin, guitar group to release new album
tmiller@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
By Tamara Miller
When a classically-trained violinist hooks up with an acoustic guitar band the result can be moving.
The Lawrence band Shaking Tree will bring its Celtic and bluegrass fervor to their CD release party tomorrow night at The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire St. The band will be promoting their new album, Sound of Rain. The cover price for the show is $4 and $5. Lawrence band The Regulars will open for Shaking Tree.
Tomorrow's night performance will be the second one for the band, said
Dain Estes, guitarist and vocalist for Shaking Tree, and Kansas City, Kan., senior.
"The Jazzhaus is our main venue," he said. "But we are expecting a good show for The Bottleneck."
Estes said the new album was more experimental than the first. Estes played all of the instruments on the first album, Shaking Tree. Since then, a drummer, bassist and violinist have joined the band.
"I was interested in bluegrass," he said. "But there is a pop sensibility that is the ground work of all our songs."
Aaron Hetherington, Lenexa junior and drummer, and Ian Burns, Overland Park senior and bassist, joined Shaking Tree first. However, convincing Tom Waddington, Leawood senior and violinist, to join the band took some time, Hetherington said.
"It took me a while to come over and
The band has been together for almost a year, and has toured most of the Midwest. Estes said the band will be playing the entire new album tomorrow, as well as old material.
practice," Waddington said. "I'd never played before in a band."
"We have developed a kind of cult following from our shows at The Jazzhaus." he said.
One of the songs the band will play is "The Middle of An Inspiration." Estes said the song was unlike anything else he had ever written.
"A lot of my lyrics are satires," he said. "This song was more of a story about a combination of people I've known that have killed themselves."
Hetherington said although recording the album was fun, Shaking Tree was best on the stage.
“it's a lot more energetic when it's live,” he said. "One of the nice things
"We have found our niche in Lawrence, and The Bottleneck is a great place to play for a lot of people."
Dain Estes
guitarist and vocalist for Shaking Tree
about our stuff is that it's extra dance-
*able.*
Although tomorrow's show is only the second performance for the band at The Bottleneck, Estes said the band was looking forward to introducing the new album there.
"We have found our niche in Lawrence, and The Bottleneck is a great place to play for a lot of people," he said.
Students, residents put art cars on parade
By Chris Horton
chorton@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
The second annual Art Tougeau parade will feature custom-made art cars at noon tomorrow on Massachusetts Street and will proceed from 14th to Locust Streets.
People will be able to view the art cars from 10:30 a.m. until the start of the parade at the east half of South Park and after the parade at the Lawrence Visitor's Center, its destination.
Charles Jones, Lawrence resident and organizer of the parade, said the reasoning behind art cars was simple — to have fun.
"We take our cars and ourselves so seriously. I think sometimes we need to have fun," Jones said.
Charles Jones, Lawrence resident, displays his art car at the old Lawrence train depot. Jones is the organizer of the Art Tougeau parade, which will take place tomorrow afternoon. Photo by Royer Nomer / KANSAN
Jones decorated his car with stars, planets and trophies last year for the first parade, he said.
"My car has a lot to do with following dreams," Jones said. "The stars and planets are related to the Kansas motto 'Ad Astra per Aspera,' which means 'to the stars through hardship'"
Jones said he hoped to make the parade a yearly celebration.
"We would like to make it a yearly event," he said. "I think it would be a great addition to cultural life in Lawrence."
A wrought iron Volkswagen bug, a Ford van covered with bottle caps, a checkered limo and an Isetta, and a small car that looks like an airplane are a few of the 40 entries for this year's parade. Jones said. A group of eight people from St. Louis, Mo., with art bicycles that calls itself the Banana Bike Brigade also will be participating.
Jenny Hart, Lawrence senior, is participating in her second Art Tougeau and helping Jones
organize the event.
"I had always told people it drove like a ton of bricks, so it seemed fitted." Hart said.
Hart painted a brick pattern on her Volvo more than a year ago when she was inspired by a mason's truck, which was covered in brick-patterned vinyl, she said.
There also will be three events held in conjunction with the parade. From 8 to 9 a.m. there will
be a slide show entitled "Ugly Houses of America," which will be at the Watkins Community Museum of History, 1047 Massachusetts St. From 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. at 500 Locust St. there will be a viewing of figure art entitled "New Faces, New Figures." From 4 to 6 p.m. the Replay Lounge, 946 Massachusetts St.. will feature a party benefiting the Social Service League. The Lawrence band The Playthings will play at the party at 5 p.m.
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