Offer outlets for area artists' works
Local small shops on the increase
By KAREN BOOKER
Kansan Staff Writer
Lawrence has seen a new trend in merchandising in the past two years. Instead of depending entirely on the large chain stores shoppers are able to browse and buy in a number of small shops owned by young people and
showing hand made items, many of which are made in Lawrence.
Sherri Coleman and Rob Amborn were Fine Arts majors at KU until they went into business for themselves and opened The Hodge-Podge last April.
"The idea of opening a shop
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Shoppers find unique gifts in small shops Sherri Coleman, co-owner of the Hodge Podge, assists customers as they browse through the store.
came to me last Christmas when I was shopping," said Miss Coleman.
"I was looking for some unique gifts that were reasonably priced," she explained, "and we opened the shop to offer customers just that."
Amborn said that most of the items in the sl.op were hand made by students at the University or Lawrence residents. This includes jewelry, pottery and candles.
"We started the business to offer the public a happy medium between what was available," said Amborn, "and to offer a place where students and Lawrence artists could show their work."
The shop also sells leather goods. Miss Coleman and Amborn make these themselves.
The Sunflower Dress Factory, owned by Jane Brackman and Ray Ditirro, was opened last May. At first Miss Brackman made all the garments herself and by reinvesting the shop has broadened its scope.
"Evereything in the shop except for the bell bottoms and leather goods is handmade," said Miss Brackman.
"Garments are taken in on consignment," she said, "we want to help local people sell their products."
Miss Brackman and Ditirro are in the process of redecorating the shop and are doing all the work by themselves.
The Sandelwood, managed by Ron Benedick, was opened last November. Benedick said that a lot of the merchandise was imported from New York or California.
"Some of the items we sell are made in Lawrence," he said.
"Valory Jones designs and makes some of the clothes and some of the leather vests and jewelry are made by students," Benedick explained.
Mark Shelton taught himself leather work almost four years ago and two years ago opened Primarily Leather. Before opening the shop Shelton was a Liberal arts at KU.
"Almost all of our merchandise is made in the shop," Shelton said.
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James E. E. Post is a man in prison. The main difference between him and the majority of the people there is that he can walk out any time he wants.
Billed as a lecturer, educator, traveler and army chaplain, Rev. Post is the Protestant Chaplain of the Kansas State Penitentiary in Lansing.
Rev. Post said he looks forward to September and the beginning of school so that he can lecture to high schools across the country. December 9 he spoke at Lawrence High School.
Rev. Post said he lectures at high schools in the hope of helping young people stay out of trouble and out of prison. He has been at Lansing since 1954 and said that in those years, he had seen basically good men come in who had made only one mistake which ruined their lives.
He added that most people don't plan to go to prison.
Rev: Post asked the students how many of them planned to spend part of their future in prison.
When he had a few positive responses to that question, he said,
"If you come see me after the assembly, I'll tell you how easy it is to trade your name in for a number. Do you know what I think when I see somebody answer that that way? Everytime I ask that dumb question, and get a few responses, I believe they are really saying, 'Hey, look at me, Man—I'm an idiot!'"
This drew applause from his audience. Most of the people were now straining to hear all the Chaplain had to say. He proceeded to explain that he hadn't come
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to tell them how to get into the penitentiary, he had come to tell them how to stay out.
"We don't need you at Lansing," he said. "We're crowded up there now and you're too young. You can get in there easier than you think."
There are 1,540 people now in Lansing and none of them planned to be there.
Rev. Post told his audience just how easy it is to get into prison. He told them about three of his friends. Explaining that most of his friends were either in prison or were ex-convicts.
The first man Rev. Post talked about got to prison "the most popular way—he's a thief. Most of our guys did a little stealing to get in there."
Rev. Post called him Ed and said he began stealing milk bottles to sell for spending money. He took his wagon and walked the streets of Chicago picking up milk bottles that people had left on their doorsteps.
Ed then began stealing hubeaps and then the wheels to go with them. One day he stole a car and went for a 15-minute joyride. For those 15 minutes before he was caught he is now paying one year of his life for each minute of his ride—15 years behind bars.
One out of eight persons is a potential alcoholic. John, who was a professional truckdriver liked to drink and was a hopeless alcoholic.
"The odds for stealing are simple. You can get away with it a thousand times—you only have to get caught once."
"Ed got the idea that it isn't wrong to steal," Rev. Post said. "Just don't get caught stealing."
One day he got drunk and when he woke up, he was in jail looking through the bars at his lawyer.
He thought his lawyer was there to bail him out as usual, but he was mistaken.
His lawyer was there to tell him that after he had gotten drunk, the bartender had tried to get him to stop drinking. John refused and hit the bartender.
The bartender lost his balance, fell back and hit his head on the counter. He died instantly of a broken neck.
John was not facing his normal charge of being drunk. Instead he was facing a second degree murder charge. Now a resident of Lansing for the rest of his life, he no longer has to worry about driving a truck.
Rev. Post said nine of ten prisoners in Lansing owe their prison sentences to alcohol. "We've learned to fly to the moon and back, but we haven't learned how to cure alcoholism. That is one disease that we don't know the answer to yet," said Rev. Post.
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