THE HISTORY

The Finding La Yarda project recognizes the dedication of previous individuals and organizations who have researched the history of the La Yarda community in Lawrence such as the individual La Yarda families and their kin, the surrounding Mexican American community, Helen Krische of the Watkins Museum of History; Jacinta Langford, Francisco Lemus Jr. and Nora Murphy at St. John’s Church; Architectural Historian Brenna Buchannan Young, the East Lawrence Neighborhood Association, the Lawrence Public Library, the Lawrence Preservation Alliance, and many others. This project utilizes the oral histories featured in the Searching for La Yarda documentary by Lourdes Kalusha Aguirre and Marlo Angell from 2021, as well as several new oral histories filmed in 2022-23, as its primary sources for inspiration for this realization. We invite the public to further explore the local history of previous scholars’s work to learn more. We enthusiastically look forward to new research on this topic by future generations.