About 20,000 envelopes of families’ photos survived the tornado May 2011 tornado in Joplin, Mo. Through the efforts of a local historian and an army of volunteers, those families can reclaim pieces of their past they had thought were gone forever.
Rachel Keal was pleasantly surprised when she walked into her math adviser’s office and saw Nick Kullman. It was December 2008 and Rachel, 20, and Nick, 19, had volunteered to help start a math club at the University of Missouri-Columbia. They had emailed prior to the meeting but had never met in person.
After dancing with Louie Kadera, Ometa Siegelin told her mother, “I met the guy I want.” Her mother said, “I will help you get him.” Omerta invited Louie to her house. There he fell in love with her mother’s homemade apple pie and also started falling for Ometa.
Before Ted Lee and his brother, Matt, became the ambassadors of Southern cooking known as the Lee Bros., they were just those Yankees who moved from New York to Charleston, S.C., as children. Their status as outsiders gave them “a sense of wonder as it relates to the food of Charleston,” Ted said recently.
After decades of declining growth, Ohio’s third-largest city is on a huge upswing, pumping billions of dollars into new development and revitalization. In less than 10 years, the city has transformed itself back into a growing, bustling destination as businesses and residents flock to downtown and surrounding neighborhoods.
Trendy mamas aren’t going with “Grateful Dead tie-dye” this spring, said Becky Hanf of Mission Fresh Fashion. Instead they’re choosing subtle, two-tone tie-dye designs.
Eyelet is a sweet, lace-like fabric with cut-out patterns in a variety of shapes and sizes. Typically made of cotton, eyelet fabric is widely seen as the epitome of girly-girl attire.
Here’s another entry in our elemental, alphabetical, occasional guide to Kansas City’s built environment — “L” is for Lace, Lots and Lustron.
When the Central Ice Co. first got going in the early years of the 20th century, it was one of two dozen or so ice dealers in the vicinity of downtown. The history of the company and this building, in the 2000 block of Campbell Street, intersects in ensuing years with some prominent names
