Category: Reading list
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Coleman’s book invites rediscovery of Midtown – and reimagining of Kansas City
Anyone who knows Midtown Kansas City is going to encounter some pretty familiar places and things – with some slight twists – when reading the book Of Stones and Feathers. There’s the barely-disguised Nelson Museum of Art with its shuttlecocks and sheep sculptures; Gillham Road and Penn Valley Park; Martini Row with its Never-Sleeping, Three-Headed…
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Book details the history of the Country Club District
As time goes by, people in Armour Hills and Mission Hills forget what links them and so many other neighborhoods. “After 110 years of existence, the identity of the Country Club District is starting to fade,” said LaDene Morton. She spoke at the Kansas City library at the Plaza last week about her new book, The…
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New book details lessons from park and boulevard history
Midtown would be a completely different place today, or perhaps would have disappeared, without the influence of Kansas City’s unique park and boulevard system That’s the conclusion of Dona Boley, the coauthor of a new book called Kansas City Parks and Boulevards written with Patrick Alley. If one of the reasons to study history is…
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Book signing features park, boulevard history
Two Midtown historians will be offering insights into the development of the park and boulevard system at a book signing tomorrow. Hyde Park residents Dona Boley and Patrick Alley have just published Kansas City’s Parks and Boulevards. They’ll be signing books Wednesday at Tower Tavern, 401 E. 31st Street from 4 to 7 p.m. The…
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As Irish Fest approaches, a look back at Midtown’s Irish heritage
Posted by Joe Lambe The Irish played a large part in the history of Kansas City and Midtown, and it’s time for a nod to Celtic culture and a wee bit of remembrance. The Kansas City Irish Fest begins Friday and runs through Sunday at Crown Center. Many Midtown residents, former residents and their descendents…
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Midtown bookshelf: new book chronicles history of Hyde Park
Review by Mark Dillon excerpted from the Hyde Parker newsletter One gets a sense of the passion that KCMO baby boomers had back in the early 1970s in the final chapter of Kansas City’s Historic Hyde Park. First time authors Pat Alley and Don Boley recount the birth of the modern Hyde Park Neighborhood Association,…
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Midtown bookshelf: Redemptorist Church celebrates 100 years
A new book celebrating the 100-year history of Redemptorist Church at 3333 Broadway notes the church was once the “center of the Catholic universe in Midtown.” It chronicles the relationships between the church and the neighborhoods around it as Kansas City grew and changed. Among the milestones the book records: Redemptorist priests and brothers arrive…