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Title: Jazz, Kansas City-Style: The Beat Goes On
Description: Photos and article about the Kansas City Jazz Museum, or "the American Jazz Museum and Negro Leagues Baseball Museum" at the 18th & Vine District in Kansas City. Description of the history of Kansas City style jazz from the 1920s and 1930s and many of its musicians (Charlie Parker, Count Basie, Bennie Moten, et al.) and sites at the museum and related facilities such as the Gem Theater, the Blue Room night club, the Charlie Parker Memorial, and the Mutual Musicians Foundation, etc.
Date: 2001-02
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Water Wonderland: Kansas City's Fabulous Fountains
Description: Photos and article about the fountains of Kansas City, including "the Meyer Circle 'Sea Horse' Fountain," the Muse of the Missouri Fountain, on Main Street between 8th and 9th Streets since 1963, several Country Club Plaza area fountains, and the Northland Fountain at North Oak Trafficway and Vivion Road, et al.
Date: 2000-10
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Missouri's Plain People
Description: Article about the Amish town of Jamesport, Missouri, with descriptions and photos of the community's low-technology way of life.
Date: 2000-04
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Maryville: Modern Matrix
Description: Article about the town of Maryville, Missouri, in the northwestern Missouri county of Nodaway, home of Northwest Missouri State University and the birthplace of Dale Carnegie, author of "How to Win Friends and Influence People." Description of some of the town's notable characteristics, including the "first electronic campus in the country," the first NCAA Division II football team to win consecutive national championships, a high quality school system, a diverse but cohesive community, and equidistant proximity to Kansas City, Omaha, and Des Moines, with photos.
Date: 2000-04
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: A Family Tradition: This Spud's for You
Description: Photo and article about "the Backer's potato chip plant in Fulton," Missouri run by the Backer family since its establishment in 1931 at nearby Hiller's Creek, Missouri.
Date: 2001-06
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Splendor in the City
Description: Article gives the history of the Cathedral Basilica of Saint Louis and includes several color photographs of the interior and exterior of the church.
Date: 2000-12
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Made in Missouri--Roll Out the Barrel: Bygone Buckets
Description: Photo and biographical article about Doug Bratcher, a cooper or barrel-maker in Liberty, Missouri, making wooden storage items for movies, electronics companies, and Silver Dollar City, etc.
Date: 2001-02
Object Type: Magazine Article

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