Diana Staresinic-Deane
@kansaswriter.bsky.social
Kansan, writer, local history junkie, former library assistant, weather watcher, super-slow hiker, guinea pig enthusiast. Will brake for cemeteries. She/Her. Giving in and joining bsky.
Now I'm pondering...what defines a news outlet? Everyone started newspapers (with various degrees of quality and political leaning) in every Kansas town in the 1800s. Many KS towns no longer have a paper, or their paper has no one reporting on public meetings at all.
My @kansasreflector.com column today.
A citizen reporter strayed onto a police gun range. Cops sought a warrant for his online newspaper. • Kansas Reflector
Jarom Smith is being investigated for criminal trespass and authorities have obtained a search warrant for his outlet's Facebook account
kansasreflector.com
November 30, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Now I'm pondering...what defines a news outlet? Everyone started newspapers (with various degrees of quality and political leaning) in every Kansas town in the 1800s. Many KS towns no longer have a paper, or their paper has no one reporting on public meetings at all.
I'm feeling profound love for everyone who is taking a moment to step outside and share the wonder that is the Northern Lights.
November 12, 2025 at 3:04 AM
I'm feeling profound love for everyone who is taking a moment to step outside and share the wonder that is the Northern Lights.
This season's American Hauntings Patreon-only podcast is centered on the Starved Rock Murders, which, as a hiker, I find extra unnerving. @troytaylor.bsky.social
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EPISODE 4 OF CANYON IS NOW AVAILABLE! | American Hauntings
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November 12, 2025 at 1:10 AM
This season's American Hauntings Patreon-only podcast is centered on the Starved Rock Murders, which, as a hiker, I find extra unnerving. @troytaylor.bsky.social
www.patreon.com/posts/142916...
www.patreon.com/posts/142916...
The museum staff has put so much thought and work into this renovation! I can't wait to see it!
Renovated Kansas Museum of History tells stories of ‘everyday people fighting for their beliefs’ | via @journalist-sherman.bsky.social #ksleg
Renovated Kansas Museum of History tells stories of 'everyday people fighting for their beliefs' • Kansas Reflector
A reimagined Kansas Museum of History, which has been closed for three years, will reopen Nov. 22 with free admission, food trucks, music and special guests.
kansasreflector.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:41 PM
The museum staff has put so much thought and work into this renovation! I can't wait to see it!
I'm overwhelmed with the realization that I can take a picture like this with my phone from my front porch.
November 4, 2025 at 1:05 AM
I'm overwhelmed with the realization that I can take a picture like this with my phone from my front porch.
*Eats 26 pieces of candy*
*Eats side salad with pizza*
Look how healthy I'm being
*Eats side salad with pizza*
Look how healthy I'm being
November 3, 2025 at 2:55 AM
*Eats 26 pieces of candy*
*Eats side salad with pizza*
Look how healthy I'm being
*Eats side salad with pizza*
Look how healthy I'm being
I am 1 hour, 23 minutes, and 7 customer service agents into trying to figure out why Square won't let me add a custom attribute to our event tickets. I'm hungry and tired and need the restroom. Send me one of those fluffy dogs with a little barrel hanging from its collar, okay?
October 9, 2025 at 6:45 PM
I am 1 hour, 23 minutes, and 7 customer service agents into trying to figure out why Square won't let me add a custom attribute to our event tickets. I'm hungry and tired and need the restroom. Send me one of those fluffy dogs with a little barrel hanging from its collar, okay?
We've finally brought FCHS and the @olddepotmuseum.bsky.social to Blusky! #Museums #Kansas #HistoryMuseums
LOUIS A. BARNEY (1814-1882): A real estate developer and horticulturalist who struggled mightily with alcohol and became one of the first Kansans prosecuted under the state’s prohibition laws of 1880. The "Barney Block" building stood at the SW corner of 2nd & Main until 1880. #OttawaKS #Cemeteries
October 8, 2025 at 5:26 PM
We've finally brought FCHS and the @olddepotmuseum.bsky.social to Blusky! #Museums #Kansas #HistoryMuseums
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Archivists: what are some things you wish journalists better understood about archives and about your work?
Putting together a training in a couple weeks.
Putting together a training in a couple weeks.
September 14, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Archivists: what are some things you wish journalists better understood about archives and about your work?
Putting together a training in a couple weeks.
Putting together a training in a couple weeks.
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It's official. "God's Misfits," my forthcoming book about the murders of Kansans Veronica Butler and Jilian Kelley in the Oklahoma panhandle, will be released by a new imprint from the University Press of Kansas.
Introducing Plainspoken Books - University Press of Kansas
The University Press of Kansas has launched Plainspoken Books, a new nonfiction trade imprint focused on bringing Midwest stories into national
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September 3, 2025 at 9:15 PM
It's official. "God's Misfits," my forthcoming book about the murders of Kansans Veronica Butler and Jilian Kelley in the Oklahoma panhandle, will be released by a new imprint from the University Press of Kansas.
Goodbye, Mrs. Tauy Jones house. #historichouses #ottawaks 😞
August 19, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Goodbye, Mrs. Tauy Jones house. #historichouses #ottawaks 😞
August 11, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Two sides of the same monument. Grave of Christina Reidy, 1846-1883. Mount Calvary Cemetery. #ottawaks #historiccemetery
August 7, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Two sides of the same monument. Grave of Christina Reidy, 1846-1883. Mount Calvary Cemetery. #ottawaks #historiccemetery
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Looking skyward at 6:15 pm from our home on Constitution Street. It was at this moment, 80 years ago, that the atomic bomb detonated over Hiroshima (it's already tomorrow in Japan, owing to the time difference, so it was 8:15 am Aug 6 there).
August 5, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Looking skyward at 6:15 pm from our home on Constitution Street. It was at this moment, 80 years ago, that the atomic bomb detonated over Hiroshima (it's already tomorrow in Japan, owing to the time difference, so it was 8:15 am Aug 6 there).
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This.
July 26, 2025 at 12:12 PM
This.
Once the home of the widow of Ottawa University founder Tauy Jones, today it served as a SWAT training practice house. It will likely be torn down soon.
The windows were being shattered as I pulled into my driveway across the street.
#RIPhistorichouse #OttawaKS
The windows were being shattered as I pulled into my driveway across the street.
#RIPhistorichouse #OttawaKS
July 22, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Once the home of the widow of Ottawa University founder Tauy Jones, today it served as a SWAT training practice house. It will likely be torn down soon.
The windows were being shattered as I pulled into my driveway across the street.
#RIPhistorichouse #OttawaKS
The windows were being shattered as I pulled into my driveway across the street.
#RIPhistorichouse #OttawaKS
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July 20, 1925: The Tennessee evolution trial turns into a dramatic duel of its main personalities, prosecutor William Jennings Bryan and defender Clarence Darrow. In an open-air cross-examination Darrow quizzes Bryan on the Bible, aiming to mock his fundamentalist beliefs. 1/9
July 20, 2025 at 12:57 PM
July 20, 1925: The Tennessee evolution trial turns into a dramatic duel of its main personalities, prosecutor William Jennings Bryan and defender Clarence Darrow. In an open-air cross-examination Darrow quizzes Bryan on the Bible, aiming to mock his fundamentalist beliefs. 1/9