St. Joseph tables
By Dorri Partain Each year, the Feast of St. Joseph is celebrated on March 19. In addition to a special Mass, the event includes the blessing and viewing of a…
By Dorri Partain Each year, the Feast of St. Joseph is celebrated on March 19. In addition to a special Mass, the event includes the blessing and viewing of a…
By Dorri Partain It’s a popular prayer that won’t be found printed in any prayer book or Bible. “My Kitchen Prayer” has instead been copied many times in church cookbooks…
By Dorri Partain Manners maketh man, and woman and child, in this hefty tome devoted to gracious behavior at home and in public. As penned by Mrs. Oliver Harriman, and…
By Dorri Partain To the victor goes the bragging rights, and what better way to brag that your hometown team is No. 1 than with a novelty license plate for…
By Dorri Partain In the 1979 Kansas City, Mo., mayoral election, Democratic candidate Bruce R. Watkins faced Republican candidate Richard Berkley. Born in 1924, Watkins was adopted by his step-father…
By Dorri Partain Numerous sites throughout Kansas City have been named in honor of business owners and civic leaders Theron B. Watkins (1877-1950) and his adopted step-son Bruce R. Watkins…
By Dorri Partain Does your TV set still need rabbit ears? Prior to the direct television signal offered through cable providers, television viewers relied on either an outdoor or indoor…
Much like today’s text abbreviations, language users have looked for ways to write faster. Shorthand, also known as stenography from the Greek “stenos” (narrow) and “graphein” (to write), was first…
By Dorri Partain A colony of feral cats roaming the alleys of the Pendleton Heights neighborhood has brought a group of neighbors and cat lovers together to care for them…
Which version of Coca-Cola do you prefer? That was the question everyone was asking when new Coke debuted on store shelves for a brief period of 79 days in 1985.…