The life of Gordon Parks, a native of Kansas, will be featured at Tuesday night’s meeting of the Allen County Historical Society. The meeting is open to the public and begins at 7 p.m., at the Frederick Funston Meeting Hall.
Jill Warford, director of the Gordon Parks Museum and Center for Culture and Diversity at Fort Scott Community College will deliver “Gordon Parks: Renaissance Man.” It will include material about his life and his career as a photographer, writer, musician and filmmaker.
Warford previously taught speech and theater at Independence Community College where she also served as director of the William Inge Theatre Festival.
Gordon Parks speaker to speak in Iola
