Streetcars were the way to go
By MICHAEL BUSHNELL Northeast News December 14, 2016 Kansas City’s street railway began humbly in 1869 with the advent of small, animal-drawn (usually using mules due to their availability) cars…
By MICHAEL BUSHNELL Northeast News December 14, 2016 Kansas City’s street railway began humbly in 1869 with the advent of small, animal-drawn (usually using mules due to their availability) cars…
By MICHAEL BUSHNELL Northeast News December 7, 2016 Upon its opening in 1914, Longview Farm was hailed by many as the world’s most beautiful farm. Longview was the country estate…
By MICHAEL BUSHNELL Northeast News November 30, 2016 In 1888 when the Forest Hill Cemetery was incorporated, it lay outside the Kansas City limits at 69th Street and Troost Avenue.…
By MICHAEL BUSHNELL Northeast News November 23, 2016 What we celebrate as Thanksgiving is traditionally tied to a three-day feast involving the Pilgrims after their first American harvest in 1621.…
Billed as the first streamlined diesel-powered train between St. Louis and Kansas City, the Alton Burlington, Ozark State Zephyr graces the front of this linen era postcard sent to Meyer Supply Company of St. Louis on Feb 23, 1937. Built entirely of stainless steel, the train was the flagship of Burlington Railway…
If you’ve forgotten what the third floor of the Kansas City Museum looked like when your elementary school booked a field trip there, here’s a little refresher for you…
Depending on whom you ask, the geographic center of the United States could be one of four different places, all in various midwestern states.
By MICHAEL BUSHNELL Northeast News October 26, 2016 Halloween traces its origins to the ancient Celtic holiday “Samhain” (pronounced “sow-in”), celebrating the end of the traditional summer growing season on…
Northeast News Camp Crowder in Neosho, originally established as an Army Signal Corps training camp, was made famous by a variety of celebrities who spent time there during World War..
By MICHAEL BUSHNELL Northeast News October 12, 2016 Arguably one of the finest examples of Art Deco architecture in the country, rivaled only by the Chrysler Building in New York…