A Royal treat since 1899
Michael Bushnell Publisher The roots of today’s American Royal can be traced to 1899 when the fledgling event was referred to as the National Hereford Show. Billed as the first…
Michael Bushnell Publisher The roots of today’s American Royal can be traced to 1899 when the fledgling event was referred to as the National Hereford Show. Billed as the first…
Michael Bushnell Northeast News In the late 1880s, Kansas City was awash with excitement that it too would soon have its own Harvest Festival. The Priests of Pallas, an annual,…
Michael Bushnell Publisher This week we celebrate October as Italian Heritage Month by featuring this Electric Park postcard published by I.I. Norton exclusively for Electric Park, showing Eugenio Sorrentino, leader…
Michael Bushnell Northeast News The year was 1871 when Phillip Danforth Armour, in partnership with John Plankington, opened a small slaughterhouse at State Line and Central Avenue in what was…
Michael Bushnell Publisher This week’s Historic Postcard column delves into how Elmwood Cemetery, integrated on all levels, is a reflection of Kansas City’s population racially, socio-economically and professionally. Paupers lay…
Michael Bushnell Northeast News Funerary Art is well represented in Elmwood Cemetery and some of the finest stone carvings can still be seen in a number of the tombstones placed…
Michael Bushnell Publisher Welcome to the first of a series of four Historic Postcard columns dedicated to Elmwood Cemetery in honor of their sesquicentennial on October 1st. When consecrated in…
Michael Bushnell Northeast News This week’s Historic Postcard focuses on the upcoming Labor Day holiday and a brief history of the Ford Motor Company’s Kansas City Assembly Plant, the first…
Michael Bushnell Publisher No Historic Postcard series on the Kansas City beer scene, past or present, would be complete without a profile of our present day hometown beer, Boulevard Brewing…
Michael Bushnell Northeast News To date, our Historic Postcard series this summer has focused on Kansas City’s local brewing history, chronicling the stories of local brewing companies such as Heim,…