Nearly 50,000 people are expected to flock to Harrisonville for a few short days, as they visit The Moving Wall, a traveling Vietnam War veterans memorial.
It’s seems like only yesterday, but it really was 29 years ago. I was just a young lad anxious to start a new job in the exciting world of radio. I had turned 21 the night before and celebrated appropriately, but all the beer in the world couldn’t stop the anxiety of going on the air for the first time in a real paying radio station.
The Harry S. Truman Library and Museum will close for about a year starting at the end of next month to undergo a $22 million renovation and expansion.
Renovation of a 1906 carriage house got a major boost after the Heard Memorial Club House was notified that a $10,000 grant requested from the DAR was approved.
The State Historical Society of Missouri’s new $35 million facility designed to encourage the study of the state’s history is taking shape in Columbia.