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Title: Bidding here Takes Horse Sense
Description: Article describes an annual gathering of Amish and Mennonite traders in Rich Hill, Missouri. The author states that these representatives arrive each year from both regional and national religious communities in order to trade horses and other agriculture goods. Background information related to the event as well as attendance statistics are cited.
Date: 2013-04-20
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Accolades for KC's Ed Hogan
Description: Article summarizes the life and notable artistic works of Kansas City artist Ed Hogan. Members of the Kansas City arts community are interviewed and provide insights into Hogan's long career. The author notes that Hogan passed away on November 21, 2013, at the age of 76.
Date: 2013-12-15
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: New Creativity Feeding Surge
Description: Article on an increase in the popularity of murals on Kansas City buildings. Many businesses, particularly those in the Crossroads Arts District, are using murals to attract interest to their buildings. Such murals include historic Kansas City personalities, events, businesses and products, and abstract and contemporary works of art. The article references artists Alexander Austin, Rachel Mesplay Helm, and Travis Bird, and contains images of some of the city's murals.
Date: 2012-08-14
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Just Off Broadway Theatre Gets Larger Home
Description: Thanks to tax increment financing dollars from the Federal Reserve's new regional headquarters just south of Penn Valley Park, the Just Off Broadway Theatre has been able to "dramatically enhance the building at 3051 Central St." The former barn and stable used by the Kansas City parks deparment since the early 1900s has been the venue for the theater since the early 1990s when the wooden portion of the building burned. With insurance money, the theater was built within the remaining stone walls, but it lacked many amenities. Includes a picture from 1945 of the stone and wood horse stable and maintenance barn and another showing the new construction for the additional space.
Date: 2011-07-10
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: A Turn Toward Abstraction
Description: Profile of Kansas City ceramic artist Bowie Croisant and a review of his work on display at Red Star Studios at the Belger Arts Center (2100 Walnut). The exhibition, also featuring the work of Stephanie Kantor, includes cast-porcelain vessels and geometric-inspired sculptures. It caps Croisant's three-year residency at Red Star Studios.
Date: 2011-10-20
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Working on a Long Comeback
Description: Article on YRC Worldwide Inc., an Overland Park-based trucking company in the process of recovering from nearly declaring bankruptcy in 2011. Previously known as Yellow Freight, the company was acquired by "Kansas City businessman, banker, and civic leader George E. Powell Sr." in 1952. The company flourished until the early 2000s when debt from buyouts and mergers began to take its toll. The article includes a brief history of the company and its leadership and details its current financial issues and future challenges.
Date: 2013-08-13
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Collaborative Work Rejuvenates Group
Description: Midwest Research Institute saw its revenues double within the last five years and expect them to double again in the next five years. They attribute that success to their collaboration with universities and a consulting firm. MRI recently announced it would help a "federal laboratory develop clean coal technology." Energy is expected to continue as one of its main areas of research. The article also reviews the history of the company.
Date: 2010-01-22
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: A New Heritage of Frustrations
Description: Article summarizes the current state of the 18th & Vine Jazz District redevelopment plan and problems that have held back its progress. Emanuel Cleaver, Ollie Gates, Troy Schulte, and other interested parties are interviewed and provide their assessment of the longstanding and troubled project. The author states that a lack of appropriate planning, a lack of sufficient funding, and the existence of two independent agencies that oversee development projects, i.e. the Black Economic Union (BEC) and the Jazz District Redevelopment Council Corporation (JDRC), are the primary factors that have stunted development in the area. Plans to address these concerns from U.S. Representative Emanual Cleaver and Kansas City barbecue icon Ollie Gates are covered.
Date: 2013-11-24
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: In Sync Over Saving History
Description: The Civil War Round Table of Western Missouri and the city of Independence, Missouri, have reached an agreement to preserve and promote the Little Blue Battlefield in northeast Independence. The battlefield was considered an "at-risk" historic district by the Civil War Preservation Trust due to a proposed construction of the seven-mile Little Blue Parkway in the area. However, under the new agreement, city tourism officials and round-table members are working together to create a driving tour of the battlefield which will identify 15 significant sites.
Date: 2007-12-28
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Waldo Residents Plant Seeds to Reopen Elementary School
Description: A group of Waldo residents have formed the Friends of Hale Cook organization to convince the Kansas City Public School District to reopen Hale Cook Elementary School. The group wants their children to be able to attend a neighborhood school, and are working to mobilize community interest and conduct a feasibility study that will be presented to the school board for consideration.
Date: 2012-07-24
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: A Transformation Worthy of Some Celebration
Description: Article reports on the opening of the Mary L. Kelly Community Center in the vacated Graceland Elementary School building at 2803 E. 51st Street. The non-profit agency Upper Room, in conjuction with neighborhood associations, worked to acquire the building and repurpose it as a community center.
Date: 2013-09-18
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: KC Neighborhood's Future is in Its Past
Description: Article reports on efforts to have the Squier Park Historic District included on the National Register of Historic Places. The 16-block district is bounded by Armour Boulevard, The Paseo, 39th Street, and Troost Avenue. Developed in the late-1800s, Squier Park was a typical "streetcar surburb" that appealed to residents who worked downtown. An early resident was businessman James J. Squier who built a home at 37th and Troost known as Squier Manor.
Date: 2012-03-14
Object Type: Newspaper Article

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