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Big Tree “A Living Monument” in Old Northeast
After Ben Jones moved into a house in Northeast Kansas City, he
Bringing Out the Dead: The Great Stockyard Fire of 1917
One of the biggest agricultural disasters in Kansas City history occurred in 1917, when a fire scorched the stockyard in the West Bottoms, leaving thousands of dead cattle and hogs charred in its wake.
In Kansas and Missouri, Immigrants are Rooted in the Agriculture Workforce
Rows of workers perch on ladders. They hoist hundred-pound baskets, which get heavier with every apple they pluck, around their necks. That’s the grind 14 hours a day, every day except for Sunday, while they earn maybe $13 an hour. These workers – mostly from Mexico – tend to the apple orchards in Waverly, Missouri….
Tiny Toys, Big Museum
The National Museum of Toys and Miniatures outpunches its weight among museum goers. The museum, established in 1982, is a not-so-secret treasure at 5235 Oak St. on the campus of the University of Missouri-Kansas City. In fact, the museum’s popularity prompted an inquiry for our curiousKC team: Just how many tiny toys are in that…
Backers Continue Push for a Walt Disney Museum in Kansas City
Speeding up or down 31st Street at Forest Avenue, it’s easy to miss the wall-sized mural, “Thank You, Walt Disney.” That location was once the Laugh-O-Gram Studio, Disney’s first professional film studio and apartment, which lasted for only one year in 1923. However, in the past 20 years or so, an organization called “Thank You,…