Monthly Archives: August 2009

Urban cowgirl dollies

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Friends Tori Reeves, 22, a waitress at La Parrilla Mexican restaurant in Lawrence, and Jessie Unruh, 21, a student from Kansas City, met about a year ago and frequently swap clothes. Jessie is wearing Tori's skirt in this photo. She owns about 15 pairs of boots, many unique and old. 

Tori cuts the neck out of most t-shirts. "If it's not completely comfortable, I don't care how cute it looks," she says.

A thinking man’s game

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Sherman Tolbert, 56, (left) sets up his chess board in downtown Lawrence almost every day. "It's the conversation with people. Some of it's spiritual. Some of it's political," he says. "I like to think."

His partner for this game is Ken Soap, 29, a Lawrence DJ.

Tolbert oversees the Salvation Army's local shelter and teaches cognitive therapy to inmates." "People teach you the alphabet and they teach you social studies. But no one teaches you to look at your thinking," he says.

He voted for the first time in the November elections, though for a presidential write-in instead of Obama. "I wasn't pleased with any of the candidates." 

A colorful walk through downtown Lawrence

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Lawrence is a university city with about 100,000 year-round residents. It's the birthplace of basketball, too.

Here's the entrance to a used record store where I bought a Candelbox and three Tom Petty CDs. That store and several others lure in customers with resident kitties adopted from the local no-kill shelter.

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The downtown area has seen a few businesses close during the past year — among them a drug store (not pictured) that had been locally run more than 100 years.

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