Free Speech Still Matters: Revisiting William Allen White’s editorial To An Anxious Friend will be presented on Sunday, September 14 at 2 p.m. in the Red Rocks State Historic Site visitor center, 927 Exchange Street, Emporia, Kansas. Dr. Michelle Keller, University of Kansas, will present the program.

Red Rocks State Historic Site, the legendary home of the William Allen White family, opened to the public in May 2005. The 2025 Sundays at the Site program series celebrates this 20 th anniversary year.

In an era when misinformation, censorship, and political polarization continue to challenge the role of a free press in the United States, William Allen White’s editorial To An Anxious Friend is as timely today as it was when published in 1922. Dr. Michelle Keller, Professor of the

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