Gordon Parks Museum among recipients of tourism attraction grants

On May 17, the Gordon Parks Museum Foundation was awarded a $9,229 Tourism Attraction Development Grant. Pictured from left are, Marion Stepps, Robert Nelson, Fort Scott Tourism Manager Jackson Tough and Ty Covey, members of the Gordon Parks Museum Board of Directors; Gordon Parks Museum Executive Director Kirk Sharp, Kansas Tourism Director Bridgette Jobe, Gordon Parks Museum board member Jane Campbell, and members of the project planning committee, Craig Campbell and Healthy Bourbon County Action Team Executive Director Rachel Carpenter.

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Lieutenant Governor and Secretary of Commerce David Toland announced May 20 $500,000 has been awarded in the latest round of Attraction Development Grant funding.

The Gordon Parks Museum Foundation was awarded a $9,229 grant for the Wayman Chapel AME Church Commemorative Park Project. The church, which once stood at 301 S. Lowman St., was torn down in 2001, and a commemorative park is planned for the site, Gordon Parks Museum Executive Director Kirk Sharp said.

Sharp has said plans are to develop the property as a commemorative low-maintenance park with signs, photos, benches and short walls as a tribute to the AME church.

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