Take a Peek Inside the Re-imagined Harry S. Truman Library & Museum
Take a Peek Inside the Re-imagined Harry S. Truman Library & Museum
Reopening Friday after $29 million makeover Share this story Published June 28th, 2021 at 12:01 AM Above image credit: Guests can enter the interior of the Fractured Globe to view videos describing the many challenges facing President Harry Truman
following the end of World War II. (Courtesy | Harry S. Truman Library & Museum).
This week, the new Harry Truman exhibit could be Kansas City’s toughest ticket.
On Friday, July 2, Harry S. Truman Library & Museum officials will reopen the Independence institution after a nearly two-year shutdown for a $29 million makeover.
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Tracing Kansas Cityâs Ties to the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
Centennial Next Week Share this story Published 2 hours ago Above image credit: The ruins of Black Wall Street after the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921. (Courtesy | Library of Congress)
Last October an Oklahoma forensic team found 12 unmarked coffins containing human remains in a Tulsa cemetery.
What investigators called a âmass graveâ represented evidence of what witnesses had described almost a century ago â that victims of what often is considered the worst incident of racial violence in American history had been buried together without any stone or memorial marking the spot.
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Steve Schreiber has his piano hands ready to entertain visitors.
Officially, the historic Bingham-Waggoner Estate and Vaile Victorian Mansion in Independence open to the public Saturday, following a long pandemic closure.
Volunteers have been sprucing up both of the 19th-century homes, and to some extent have been giving pre-arranged tours in the last couple of months. Schreiber, president of the Bingham-Waggoner Historical Society, often plays the restored Steinway piano in the music room for guests while giving tours – “just like Harry Truman might have when he visited,” Schreiber says.
“We are raring to go,” Schreiber said. “Some of our guides were forced to step back – age, hips and knees and all that type of thing – but I’ve been answering the phone all day.”
Signing Off: Demolition of Old Radio Station Triggers Nostalgia in Westwood
‘Some of the best years of my life were spent in that building’ Share this story Published 1 hour ago Above image credit: Demolition this month of the former Entercom radio complex in Westwood revealed the original KMBC tower transmitter facility, built in 1933 and later hidden within the more contemporary facility added decades later. (Brian Burnes | Flatland)
Paging Wolfman Jack.
In Westwood, demolition crews tearing down an old radio station recently revealed an even older radio station – or, more precisely, the station building’s old tower transmitter facility, which dated to the early 1930s.