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Friday, November 16, 2018
The KCTV broadcast tower at 31st Street and Grand Avenue once served as a 1,042-foot tall beacon at night, visible for miles around with more than 1,3...
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Sunday, November 25, 2018
Question: What happened to all the Christmas decorations that used to be downtown, particularly the crowns strung across the streets with garl...
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Wednesday, December 19, 2018
UPDATED Question: What happened to all the Christmas decorations that used to be downtown, particularly the crowns strung across the streets w...
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Thursday, January 17, 2019
The excitement at Arrowhead Stadium during the divisional playoff game against the Indianapolis Colts got Tom Solon to wondering how the st...
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Monday, January 28, 2019
Each year, the Library partners with the Local Investment Commission (LINC) and the Black Archives of Mid-America to...
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Wednesday, February 27, 2019
Street signs along Kansas City's Paseo Boulevard began coming down in late February, replaced with new ones proclaiming the street’s...
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Wednesday, March 20, 2019
As Kansas City International Airport breaks ground on a new terminal on March 25, 2019, the Library's Missouri Valley Special Collection...
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Monday, June 28, 2021
Lucile Bluford – namesake of the Library's L.H. Bluford Branch – was a local civil rights leader and helped make...
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Tuesday, June 29, 2021
Henry Perry, the man who first assumed the title of Barbecue King of Kansas City, was born on March 16, 1874, in Shelby County, Tenne...
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Monday, August 9, 2021
Two hundred years ago, on August 10, 1821, Missouri officially became the 24th state. From this year’s Homegrown Stories Summer Reading Prog...