The Lending a Hand sculpture represents the hands of all American Veterans striving to hold the world up with freedom. The granite base that supports the sculpture includes The Rotary Club’s four-way test that asks members to ask themselves these questions as they choose their thoughts, words, and actions: Is it the truth? Is it […]
Kansas City’s Union Station is a beaux-arts-style building built in the early 1900s at a cost of $6 million. From its opening in 1914 until air transportation picked up in the 1950s, Union Station was one of Kansas City‘s most critical transportation hubs for more than 40 years, with especially strong rail passenger traffic years […]
As a friend recently asked, “What is it about December that brings out the ‘year in review recaps’ and ‘predictions’ in all of us?” I don’t know the answer, but I do feel myself being sucked in. Because the “A to Z” series I incorporated into my 365+1 photo blogging project has been so well received, I thought I’d […]
The prominent, distinctive bell tower of the Webster House stands tall with Liberty Memorial high on a hill in the background. The building opened in 1886 and is one of the oldest remaining public school buildings in Kansas City. It closed in 1932 and was renovated in 2000. It now stands in the shadow of the Kauffman […]
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