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Title: The Friends of Roanoke Park
Description: Article about the restoration of a park by cooperation between the city government and area residents, in this case Sue McCord-Belzer.
Date: 1981-07
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Gardens and Gardeners in Westport
Description: Review of the private and public gardens of Westport, including flower gardens, with photos.
Date: 1979-09
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: The State of the Arts
Description: Description of the State Ballet of Missouri, until 1986 the Kansas City Ballet, with a photo and information about its artistic director, Todd Bolender.
Date: 1986-11
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Kansas City's Most Civilized Man
Description: Portrait and biographical article about James Fisher, columnist of "The Midlands" for the Kansas City Times paper starting in about 1981 "usually about country people and small town people, mostly from Kansas and Missouri." Illustrations and description of his life and career. He was born in Kansas City in 1937 and raised partly in Connecticut before starting with the Kansas City Times in 1960 as a cub reporter and reporting for the "MacNeil/Lehrer News Hour" television show starting in 1984.
Date: 1988-08
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: The Revitalization of Main Street
Description: Article about the various organizations involved in the "revitalization" of Midtown business district along Main Street from 31st to 47th Streets, with photos.
Date: 1980-06
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Allen School and Its Predecessors
Description: History of the Westport school established in 1854, held in various buildings until 1976, along with plans for reuse of its 1912 building by the Westport Cooperative Mission.
Date: 1979-10
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: The Hyde Park Festival
Description: Article reviewing homes on the Hyde Park Festival tour, with illustrations, addresses, and names of owners contributing to the festival efforts, including the later convicted murderer Bob Berdella.
Date: 1980-05
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Artists in Westport
Description: Photos and profiles of the following artists: Blanche Cartenson, Cecil Cartenson, Joseph Horine, Mary Byrne Conry, and Rob McWilliams.
Date: 1978-04
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Hyde Park: Then and Now
Description: Description of the history of Hyde Park and early families who settled there.
Date: 1978-05
Object Type: Magazine Article