Historic Sites

First Sunday Family Fun Day: Hurray for Hats

Presented By: Kansas City Museum
Venue: Kansas City Museum
Hours: Sunday, April 11, 2010 from 12:00 PM to 4:00 PM

Hats come in different shapes and sizes and can be worn stylishly or to wear while they are on the job. They can also be used to deflect the sun’s dangerous rays. Explore theses various colors, designs and uses of hats and First Sunday Family Fun Day April 11 at the Museum. Visitors can design their own hat to take home with them as well as discover different hats used on the job through matching games. Visitors can also try and master the “Capes for Sale” obstacle courses and listen to songs about hats from singer Emily Tummons in the StoryTarium.

• Design you own hat to take home

• Learn about different types of hats through matching games

• Try and master the “Capes for Sale” obstacle course
• Listen to hat songs with singer Emily Tummons

Monticello hosts: Working on the Railroad

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: Monticello Community Historical Society
Hours: Thursday, March 11, 2010 from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
The month’s program is called “Trabajando en el Ferro Carril (Working on he Railroad),” presented by Gene T. Chavez, president of Chavez and associates, Kansas City, Kan. He will cover the role of Mexican workers in Kansas railroads. The program is sponsored by the Kansas Humanities Council.

"Voices of the Pony Express" (Living History Event at Mount Mora Cemetery)

Presented By: The Heritage League of Greater Kansas City
Venue: Mount Mora Cemetery
Hours: Saturday, April 03, 2010 from 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM

Celebrate the 150^th anniversary of the Pony Express with many of the “residents” of Mount Mora Cemetery who were a part of that historic mail service. Living history characters representing Pony Express riders and others who made the Pony Express possible will chat with you as you stroll through the beautiful grounds of the cemetery on Saturday, April 3, from 1 to 4:00 p.m.

Mount Mora Cemetery is St. Joseph’s only cemetery to be listed in the National Register of Historic Places. It is the final resting place Charley Cliff, one of the Pony Express riders out of St. Joseph. His story, as well as the story of Pony Express rider James Benjamin Hamilton will be featured. Additional characters will share the story of Mr. John Patee, John C. and Israel Landis, Mrs. Smith, Mrs. Cliff, Mrs. Anna Hamilton, and Mayor M. Jeff Thompson.

Ghostly History of Wyandotte County

Presented By: The Heritage League of Greater Kansas City
Venue: Wyandotte County Historical Museum
Hours: Thursday, April 22, 2010 from 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM

From local cemeteries to abandoned fire stations, come and discover the stories behind the haunting of many well-known locations in Wyandotte County.

Appetite for America: Lunchtime History Talk

Presented By: The Heritage League of Greater Kansas city
Venue: Union Station
Hours: Friday, April 09, 2010 from 11:00 AM to 1:30 PM

As railroads became increasingly popular for Americans during the late 19^th century, travelers found it difficult to find a good meal. Fred Harvey found a cure for these ills inside dozens of depots from Kansas City westward, called The Fred Harvey House. Explore the life of this amazing entrepreneur through the book Appetite for America: How Visionary Businessman Fred Harvey Built a Railroad Hospitality Empire That Civilized the Wild West with author Stephen Fried Friday, April 9, at Union Station.

Speaker Series at the Westport Library

Presented By: Westport Historical Society
Venue: Kansas City Public Library: Westport Branch
Hours: Saturday, June 12, 2010 from 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM
Joe Mattox would like to share stories of “White People in Black History.” As the result of Joe’s research about street names and school names in Kansas City, he has collected stories of white people who affected the lives of black people. Joe is a volunteer at the Bruce R. Watkins Cultural Center and teaches Communiversity classes on the role of black soldiers in the Civil War on the border between Missouri and Kansas.

Speaker Series at the Westport Library

Presented By: Westport Historical Society
Venue: Kansas City Public Library: Westport Branch
Hours: Saturday, April 10, 2010 from 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM
Sharon Snyder from Independence, Missouri, will share the story of the McCoy House, 410 W. Farmer, and the early families who made this a stop on the Santa Fe Trail. The 1856 Greek Revival and Italianate style house was completed by William McCoy, a merchant and banker on property once owned by Samuel C. Owens, a merchant and Santa Fe trader. McCoy is not a close relative of John Calvin McCoy who platted Westport, but the two families may be connected by marriage and perhaps divided by religion. William McCoy served as the first mayor of Independence in 1849. Sharon will dress in costume and draw from original letters to portray Fanny Owens and Eleanor McCoy. She and her husband Brian have owned this National Register and Santa Fe Trail site since 1993 and often share their historic house with interested groups.

Speaker Series at the Westport Library

Presented By: Westport Historical Society
Venue: Kansas City Public Library: Westport Branch
Hours: Saturday, May 08, 2010 from 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM
Caren Hall invites us to meet Madame Chouteau, one of the founders of Kansas City; Eliza Wornall, who survived the gruesome Battle of Westport during the Civil War; and Annie Chambers, a “madam” of the city’s earlier days. Caren is a life member of the Westport Historical Society and serves on its advisory board as well as being an actor and tour guide with her own travel company, Caren’s Charters.

Songwriting Workshop

Presented By: Plaza Wellspring
Venue: Plaza Wellspring
Hours: Wednesday, March 24, 2010 from 6:30 PM to 7:30 PM

Wednesday: 6:30 - 7:30 p.m. Songwriting Workshop with Jamie Sussman

Do you love listening to music? Have you ever wondered what it takes to write a song? Here is your chance to find out. Learn how easy and fun it can be to write your own songs. Exercises will get you writing your own lyrics and melody lines. No musical talent is needed to participate in this workshop. All you need is an open mind and some creativity.

Arrow Rock Lecture with Dr. James Harlan

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: Arrow Rock Missouri
Hours: Saturday, April 03, 2010 from 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM

Dr. James Harlan will speak on Frontier Landscapes, Rivers and People: Early 19th Century Missouri and the Boone’s Lick

Harlan is the senior research specialist and assistant program director for the Geographic Resources Center with the University of Missouri's Department of Geography in Columbia. He also is a Ph.D. candidate in the Fisheries and Wildlife Department at the University of Missouri.

Around 1816 and 1817, surveyors walked the area that would become central Missouri writing detailed accounts of the landscape and rivers. Harlan has read these thousands of handwritten notes and translated them into a set of maps that show everything from how many oak trees there were to the channels of rivers and streams. This lively presentation will introduce you to the landscape and rivers that welcomed Missouri’s frontier families.

The lecture, sponsored by the Friends of Arrow Rock and the Arrow Rock State Historic Site, is the third in the 2010 First Saturday Lecture Series conducted February through May in Arrow Rock. The final lecture in the 2010 series, Rediscovering the Tallgrass Prairie, is scheduled for May 1, and funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities Challenge Grant. All lectures are free and open to the public.

DINOSAURS UNEARTHED

Presented By: Union Station / Dinosaurs Unearthed
Venue: Union Station
Hours: Saturday, May 01, 2010 from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM

Blue Springs Antique Road Show

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: Dillingham-Lewis Musuem
Hours: Sunday, April 11, 2010 from 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM

Early Car Memorabilia: Exhibit by George Deel

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: Dillingham-Lewis Musuem
Hours: Sunday, April 18, 2010 from 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM

Early Car Memorabilia: Exhibit by George Deel

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: Dillingham-Lewis Musuem
Hours: Sunday, April 25, 2010 from 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM

Hi Tea/ Fashion Show

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: Dillingham-Lewis Musuem
Hours: Sunday, May 02, 2010 from 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM

Hi Tea/ Fashion Show

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: Dillingham-Lewis Musuem
Hours: Sunday, May 02, 2010 from 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM

Yesterday's Tomorrow

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art at JCCC
Hours: Saturday, April 10, 2010 from 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM
The Johnson County Museum is hosting its' first-ever event, Yesterday’s Tomorrow on Saturday, April 10^th from 7-10 at the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art. The event will be an announcement party for the initiative to create a national museum of suburban history and policy center. The evening will include wonderful food and unique auction items reflective of the decades of the 1950’s through 2000. Brian Tolle, a featured artist in the Nerman Museum’s current exhibit Faraway Nearby: Addressing Suburbia will be on-hand at the event to provide an informal gallery talk of his work. You are invited to dress decade appropriate or business attire. We would love to have your join us, and we'd sincerely appreciate your help in getting the word out to those you think would have an interest in this event. More details are below.

Speakers Series: Kansans Remember World War II

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: Shawnee Town's Museum Town Hall
Hours: Tuesday, May 11, 2010 from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Dr. Rachel Goossen, a professor at Washburn University specializing in 20th century U.S. and women's history, will present reflections on life during WWII as recalled by Kansans who lived through the period.

Co-sponsored by the KS Humanities Council.

Museum Days at the Library: "Houses"

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: Kansas City Public Library: Northeast Branch
Hours: Friday, June 04, 2010 from 10:30 AM to 11:30 AM

Northeast Kansas City is bursting with culture! Come hear stories and listen to songs about some of the people you find living there.

First Sunday Family Fun Day: Longs Love Horses

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: Kansas City Museum
Hours: Sunday, June 06, 2010 from 12:00 PM to 4:00 PM

R. A. Long and his family were devout lovers of horses. Mr. Long had his Carriage House built first before his home, Corinthian Hall, and his daughter, Loula Long Combs, became a world famous equestrienne. Explore this great passion of the Long family at First Sunday Family Fun Day from noon-4 p.m. Sunday, June 6 at the Museum. The Long family had a fondness for Hackney horses. Visitors can pet a Hackney pony and visit with members of The Carriage and Driving Society of Greater Kansas City. Visitors can also create a horse picture, or play horse bingo and win prizes and so much more.

• Visit with a Hackney Pony
• Learn about what it takes to take care of horse talking with members of the Carriage and Driving Society!

• Create a horse picture and learn about perspective at the same time.
• Play horse bingo and win prizes.
• Design your own horse mask
• Watch a film about horses in the StoryTarium

Community Curator: Charles Ferruzza, Restaurant critic, The Pitch

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: Union Station
Hours: Tuesday, June 22, 2010 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Discover Kansas City Museum’s historic Music and Sound Collection with UMKC Marr Sound Archive Director and KCUR radio host Chuck Haddix at 6 p.m., Tuesday July 27 at Union Station.

Long History Trolley Tour

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: Kansas City Museum
Hours: Saturday, June 19, 2010 from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM
Discover Robert A. Long’s Kansas City legacy with Jackson County Historical Society archivist David Jackson. Hop on a trolley to tour: Long’s famous home, Corinthian Hall; the R. A. Long Building (now the UMB Bank building) at 10^th and Grand and see the board room where Mr. Long managed his lumber empire; and the Liberty Memorial, one of Mr. Long’s most memorable civic contributions to Kansas City. You’ll pass the Independence Boulevard Christian Church, where the Long family worshipped, and Christian Church Hospital, another institution Mr. Long supported.

Museum Walk and Talk

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: Kansas City Museum
Hours: Sunday, June 06, 2010 from 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM
Get some exercise, benefit the environment and learn - all in one program! This program is produced with the Kansas City Parks and Recreation Deaprtment's "Car Free Weekends on Cliff Drive."
Explore historic Scarritt Point and learn about early settlement and development along Missouri's only urban scenic byway during the History Walk and Talk hosted by Michael Bushnell, author, Historic Postcards from Old Kansas City.

Museum Walk and Talk

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: Kansas City Museum
Hours: Sunday, June 20, 2010 from 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM
Get some exercise, benefit the environment and learn - all in one program! This program is produced with the Kansas City Parks and Recreation Deaprtment's "Car Free Weekends on Cliff Drive."
Explore historic Scarritt Point and learn about early settlement and development along Missouri's only urban scenic byway during the History Walk and Talk hosted by Michael Bushnell, author, Historic Postcards from Old Kansas City.

First Sunday Family Funday: Cultures of Northeast Kansas City

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: Kansas City Museum
Hours: Sunday, July 11, 2010 from 12:00 PM to 4:00 PM

Children’s games have evolved tremendously over the 100 years since the Long family moved into Corinthian Hall. Games have progressed from lawn darts, hopscotch and jacks to action figures and video games. Take a journey through the past 100 years and see how children’s games have progressed at the Museum’s August First Sunday Family Fun Day, from noon-4 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 1 at the Museum. Visitor’s will learn the rules and play hopscotch and jacks, play bocce and croquet on the Museum grounds and so much more!

Learn the rules to Hopscotch and Jacks!
Play croquet and bocce on the Museum lawn
Cool off with some 21^st century computer games in the Visitor Center
Listen to songs about rhymes and games with Emily Tummons.

Community Curator: Chuck Haddix, Marr Sound Archive Director, UMKC Miller Nichols Library

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: Union Station
Hours: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

See beautiful decorative silver and examine the decoration and manufacturing of these silver flat, table and hollow wares at the Museum’s August Community Curator Lecture Tuesday, Aug.24^th at 6 p.m. at Union Station. Dr. Catherine Futter, the Helen Jane and R. Hugh "Pat" Uhlmann Curator of Decorative Arts at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, will explore a large selection of items from the Museum’s Silver Collection.

Museum Walk and Talk

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: Kansas City Museum
Hours: Sunday, July 11, 2010 from 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM
Get some exercise, benefit the environment and learn - all in one program! This program is produced with the Kansas City Parks and Recreation Deaprtment's "Car Free Weekends on Cliff Drive."
Explore historic Scarritt Point and learn about early settlement and development along Missouri's only urban scenic byway during the History Walk and Talk hosted by Michael Bushnell, author, Historic Postcards from Old Kansas City.

Museum Walk and Talk

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: Kansas City Museum
Hours: Sunday, July 18, 2010 from 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM
Get some exercise, benefit the environment and learn - all in one program! This program is produced with the Kansas City Parks and Recreation Deaprtment's "Car Free Weekends on Cliff Drive."
Explore historic Scarritt Point and learn about early settlement and development along Missouri's only urban scenic byway during the History Walk and Talk hosted by Michael Bushnell, author, Historic Postcards from Old Kansas City.

Shay Estes and Trio ALL

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: Kansas City Museum
Hours: Friday, July 09, 2010 from 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM

Listen to smooth jazz and eclectic rock music from Kansas City area musicians as the Museum kicks off its second annual Fridays in July concert series, sponsored by the Historic Northeast Cultural Arts Commission.

Mike Miller and Trio JuJu

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: Kansas City Museum
Hours: Friday, July 16, 2010 from 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM

Kansas City Youth Jazz Program

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: Kansas City Museum
Hours: Friday, July 23, 2010 from 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM

Making Movies

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: Kansas City Museum
Hours: Friday, July 30, 2010 from 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM

Museum Days at the Library: "Cultures in the Northeast"

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: Kansas City Public Library: Northeast Branch
Hours: Friday, July 02, 2010 from 10:30 AM to 11:30 AM

Summer’s here and it’s hot outside! Come listen to stories to help you keep cool and make a fan to take home with you.

Award-winning journalist Jonathan Eig to discuss Get Capone: The Secret Plot that Captured America’s Most Wanted Gangster

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: National Archives at Kansas City
Hours: Thursday, July 15, 2010 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

The National Archives at Kansas City will host award-winning author Jonathan Eig on Thursday, July 15, at 6:30 p.m. for a discussion on his new book Get Capone: The Secret Plot that Captured America’s Most Wanted Gangster. Eig will be available to sign copies of his book after the discussion. A 6:00 p.m. reception will precede the event. In addition, attendees are encouraged to view the exhibition Mugged!: Facing Life at Leavenworth prior to the discussion.

Alphonse Capone moved to Chicago in 1920 without the notion that he would one day become America’s Public Enemy No.1. Get Capone: The Secret Plot that Captured America’s Most Wanted Gangster dives deep into the world of the notorious crime boss. Get Capone not only details the fall of Capone, but his rise to control and how he maintained it. Eig traces Capone’s career from his beginnings as a small time Brooklyn hoodlum to his virtual control of the underworld in 1920s Chicago before he was thirty years old. Capone made a fortune bootlegging during Prohibition, eventually extending his reach to racketeering, gambling, and other mob-controlled activities. Ruthless in exercising his power, he evaded criminal charges for his actions, in large part because of the fundamental corruption of Chicago’s law enforcement. Capone would become a national celebrity, igniting the ire of President Hoover. Get Capone presents information that was found in newly discovered personal and government documents including new theories such as - did Capone really have anything to do with St. Valentine’s Day Massacre? Filled with astonishing new information that will change the familiar story, Get Capone offers a fascinating, riveting account of an iconic American figure.

Jonathan Eig is a former writer and editor for the Chicago bureau of The Wall Street Journal and the former executive editor of the Chicago magazine. Eig is the author of two highly acclaimed New York Times best sellers, Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig, and Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson’s First Season. Luckiest Man won the Casey Award for the best baseball book of 2005, and Opening Day was selected as one of the best books of 2007 by the Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, and Sports Illustrated. He has appeared on The Daily Show with John Stewart, NBC’s Today Show, CNN, NPR, and frequently lectures across the United States. He currently lives in Chicago, half a mile from the site of the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, with his wife and children.

Summer Arts Program

Presented By: Johnson County Museum
Venue: Johnson County Museum
Hours: Friday, June 25, 2010 from 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM

Summer Arts
Friday, 10:00 a.m.-Noon
June 11 thru July 30, 2010
Drop-in program for kids 4-8 years old; registration not required. $3 per child; $2 for Museum Members Weekly themes introduce kids to art processes and FUN! Note: Parents must stay with children.

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Story Time with Kathy McLellan

Presented By: Johnson County Museum
Venue: Johnson County Museum
Hours: Wednesday, June 30, 2010 from 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM

First Sunday Family Funday: 100 Years of Children's Games

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: Kansas City Museum
Hours: Sunday, August 01, 2010 from 12:00 PM to 4:00 PM

Family histories are passed down in many ways, orally through songs and storytelling, or written, through poems and journals. Visitors will embark on a journey through their own family histories at First Sunday Family Fun Day from 12-4 p.m. Sunday, March 7. Families can learn and experiment with some of the different ways people have passed down their family histories, such as through oral histories and story quilts. Visitors can listen to story songs with singer Emily Tummons in the StoryTarium as well as create their own family history journal and start recording their family histories in the Museum’s Visitor Center.

• Create your own family history journal

• Design a unique cave drawing

• Construct a story quilt to tell your family story
• Learn how tattoos were used in some cultures to record events and show status

Community Curator: Dr. Catherine Futter, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: Union Station
Hours: Tuesday, August 24, 2010 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Explore Kansas City’s deeply rooted history through classic postcards at Kansas City Museum’s September Community Curator Lecture. Northeast Kansas City historian, author and publisher of the Northeast News, Michael Bushnell, will track Kansas City’s development into an urban metropolis through the Museum’s Postcard Collection.

Museum Walk and Talk

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: Kansas City Museum
Hours: Sunday, August 15, 2010 from 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM
Get some exercise, benefit the environment and learn - all in one program! This program is produced with the Kansas City Parks and Recreation Deaprtment's "Car Free Weekends on Cliff Drive."
Explore historic Scarritt Point and learn about early settlement and development along Missouri's only urban scenic byway during the History Walk and Talk hosted by Michael Bushnell, author, Historic Postcards from Old Kansas City.

Museum Walk and Talk

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: Kansas City Museum
Hours: Sunday, August 01, 2010 from 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM
Get some exercise, benefit the environment and learn - all in one program! This program is produced with the Kansas City Parks and Recreation Deaprtment's "Car Free Weekends on Cliff Drive."
Explore historic Scarritt Point and learn about early settlement and development along Missouri's only urban scenic byway during the History Walk and Talk hosted by Michael Bushnell, author, Historic Postcards from Old Kansas City.

Museum Days at the Library: "Summ in the City"

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: Kansas City Public Library: Northeast Branch
Hours: Friday, August 06, 2010 from 10:30 AM to 11:30 AM

Come hear stories and sing songs about different kinds of transportation. Make your own transportation creation using different shapes to take home with you.

Speakers Series: A Writing Life

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: Shawnee Town's Museum Town Hall
Hours: Tuesday, July 13, 2010 from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Kansas City Star columnist, Charles Gusewelle, will talk about life as a writer in the heartland.

Jo Ho Story Time

Presented By: Johnson County Museum
Venue: Johnson County Museum
Hours: Wednesday, July 21, 2010 from 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM

JO HO Story Time

Join us for a morning of exciting, interactive tales performed by story teller, Jo Ho. This week's theme is "Reptile Romps." This program is free, sponsored by Target. Registration is only required for groups of ten or more. To register your group please call (913) 715-2552.

Straw Hat Saturdays

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: Shawnee Town's Museum Town Hall
Hours: Saturday, August 07, 2010 from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM
Experience summer days in a farm community in the 1920s. Costumed interpreters will be busy with chores like planting seeds, sewing on a treadle machine, churning ice cream and cleaning clothes on a washboard.

The Westport Library Speaker Series for August

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: Kansas City Public Library: Westport Branch
Hours: Saturday, August 14, 2010 from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Dr. Westcott's topic will be GENERAL ORDER NUMBER 11 which was issued by Union Brigadier General Thomas Ewing, Jr. on 25 August 1863. The Order was issued following a guerrilla raid on Lawrence, Kansas, less than a week earlier and was designed to evacuate four western Missouri counties. Loyalists and non-loyalists alike had to relocate to military outposts near Independence, Harrisonville, Hickman’s Mills, Kansas City and Pleasant Hill.

Our distinguished speaker is an Associate Professor of History and Department Chair of Culture and Society at Park University in Parkville, Mo. Dr. Westcott was graduated from Avila College with a bachelor of arts in History in Secondary Education in 1988; the University of Missouri-Kansas City with a master of arts in History in 1994; and the Union Institute, Cincinnati, Ohio, with a doctorate in History in 2002.

He has presented many papers on topics related to Kansas and Missouri history at numerous local, regional, and national conferences. Most notably, General Order Number Eleven, The Trial of Tears Revisited, The Underground Railroad in Kansas, and O Thy Brothers and Sisters of Kansas have been applauded by many audiences.

Westcott is a lifetime member of the Mound City, Kan. Historical Society and the Lecompton, Kan. Historical Society. Recently, he accepted a seat on the board of directors of the Westport Historical Society. He has been a recipient of a Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History Fellowship in New York City. Educational awards include the J.L Zwingle Award for Outstanding Teacher, Outstanding Faculty Award and two “Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers” recognitions

First Sunday Family Funday: Record your own history

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: Kansas City Museum
Hours: Sunday, September 05, 2010 from 12:00 PM to 4:00 PM

Kansas City Museum’s Corinthian Hall is one of Kansas City’s greatest landmarks. Learn about the Mansion and explore its secrets at the Museum’s October First Sunday Family Fun Day, Sunday, October 3 from noon-4 p.m. at the Museum. Visitors will create their own stained glass creation, based on the beautiful stained glass windows inside Corinthian Hall. Families will also learn about and explore the different types of Greek column styles and find out how Corinthian Hall got its name, and so much more!

• Make your own stained glass creation

• Play unique animal games and puzzles

• Learn about different Greek column styles and find out how the Corinthian Hall got its name

• Listen to spooky stories in the StoryTarium

Community Curator: Michael Bushnell, Northeast Kansas City historian & Author

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: Union Station
Hours: Tuesday, September 28, 2010 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

See a rare 1870s Belgian marionette, found in the Nantucket, Massachusetts attic of famed puppet master Tony Sarg, at Kansas City Museum’s December Community Curator lecture Tuesday, December 14 at 6 p.m. at Union Station. Kansas City’s own master puppeteer, Paul Mesner, will explore the intricacies and creation of the marionette, donated to the Museum in 1963.

Corinthian Hall Lecture

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: Kansas City Public Library: Central Branch
Hours: Thursday, September 16, 2010 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Join us for a lively conversation about one of Kansas City’s most beloved architectural and cultural icons. This wide-ranging discussion will explore the transformation of Corinthian Hall from the palatial residence of the Long family into Kansas City’s first history Museum. We’ll hear about the City of Kansas City’s ongoing restoration in light of how historic house museums, locally and nationally, are adapting to contemporary realities, with panelists Lisa Lee, director of the Jane Addams-Hull House in Chicago; Dennis Domer, associate professor at the University of Kansas and Lori Cox Paul, archival operations director, National Archives and Records Administration, Central Plains Region.

Long History Trolley Tour

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: Kansas City Museum
Hours: Saturday, September 18, 2010 from 8:30 AM to 1:30 PM

Discover Robert A. Long’s Kansas City legacy with Jackson County Historical Society archivist David Jackson. Hop on a trolley to tour: Long’s famous home, Corinthian Hall; the R. A. Long Building (now the UMB Bank building) at 10^th and Grand and see the board room where Mr. Long managed his lumber empire; and the Liberty Memorial, one of Mr. Long’s most memorable civic contributions to Kansas City. You’ll pass the Independence Boulevard Christian Church, where the Long family worshipped, and Christian Church Hospital, another institution Mr. Long supported.

Latino Writers Collective

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: Kansas City Museum
Hours: Saturday, September 18, 2010 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

The Kansas City Museum is excited to be working with the Latino Writer’s Collective of Kansas City in 2010. The Collective is a group of Latino writers living and working in the Kansas City metropolitan area, helping each other hone and polish their works for publication. It’s mission is to foster an environment where the voices of Latino students, blue collar workers, professionals and homemakers can be heard, contributing their experience and vision to the larger Kansas City community.

Preservation Workshop:Carpets, Rugs and Runners: Care and Storage of Large Floor Textiles

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: Kansas City Museum
Hours: Sunday, September 19, 2010 from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM

Kansas City Museum presents Preservation Workshops this fall. Each 60-minute workshop includes demonstrations, handouts and supplier lists for necessary materials.

Union Station Kansas City/Kansas City Museum curatorial specialist Lisa Shockley will help learn techniques to care for your large floor textiles. You’ll explore proper storage, maintenance and preventative techniques to keep your rugs and large floor textiles in great condition for many years to come.

Museum Days at the Library: "Getting from Place to Place"

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: Kansas City Public Library: Northeast Branch
Hours: Friday, August 06, 2010 from 10:30 AM to 11:30 AM

Come hear stories and sing songs about different kinds of transportation. Make your own transportation creation using different shapes to take home with you.

Pig Pickin’ – Chicken Lickin’ Feast & Fair

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: Bingham Waggoner Estate
Hours: Saturday, September 18, 2010 from 4:00 PM to 7:00 PM

Is it the same old “Pig – Pickin’ – Chicken Lickin’ Feast”? I don’t think so!

Come out for a fantastic fall evening on the beautiful grounds of the Bingham-Waggoner Estate.

We will have three sets of musical entertainment during this fun packed evening. Dana Mengel String Duo will perform from 4:00 to 5:00. Following will be Bram Wynands on jazz piano from 5:00 to 6:00 and last but certainly not least, Dave Panico, “The Soaring Saxman”, will conclude on the saxophone.

Original and reproduction art featuring local artists will be on display and for sale from 1:00 to 6:00 p.m.

The Heart of America Model A Ford Club will provide a car show for our guests from 3:00 – 6:00 p.m.

The Nimble Thimbles “A stitch In Time” quilt display will be on display in the Mansion not only during the Pig Roast but the whole month of September.

The ever popular silent auction will be held on the grounds of the Estate.

The Carriage House Gift Shop will be open with jewelry, purses, scarves and other great gift items for you or for others.

The menu features ribs from Savage B-B-Q, Chicken Tambucca, Corn Casserole, Pecan Sweet Potato Soufflé and many, many other tasty treats including dessert and as always, we are grateful to Lipton Tea for providing beverages.

Tickets for the evening - all this entertainment and really good food are just $14.00. We are limiting ticket sales this year so make your reservations early by purchasing your tickets from any Board Member, calling Shireen at 816-461-3491 to charge by phone, stopping by the Carriage House Gift Shop or sending a stamped, self addressed envelope to B-W Estate, PO Box 1163, Independence, MO 64051.

Healthy Collection Care Habits: Exhibiting Museum Artifacts Safely

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: National Archives at Kansas City
Hours: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
LEARN HOW TO:

ü Examine artifacts to determine how the object is made, where it is stable/unstable and where it needs support for exhibition;

ü Protect artifacts on exhibit from slippage or and other movement due to vibration or visitor movement, and theft;

ü Choose the most appropriate materials for supporting and mounting artifacts on exhibit;

ü Use or modify ready-made supports; and

ü Design and construct custom-made mounts.

Workshop registration brochures are available on the League’s website. http://www.heritageleaguekc.org/pdfs/Heritage_League_Workshop_Brochure_2010.pdf

All Registrations due by OCTOBER 5, 2010.

First Sunday Family Funday: Secrets of the Mansion

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: Kansas City Museum
Hours: Sunday, October 03, 2010 from 12:00 PM to 4:00 PM

Discover the many ways people travelled 100 years ago, just as Corinthian Hall was being completed, at the Museum’s November First Sunday Family Fun Day Sunday, Nov. 7 from noon-4 p.m. at the Museum. Visitors will play transportation matching games, create a model boat out of clay, use shapes to create a transportation method people used in 1910 and so much more!

• Use shapes to create a transportation method people used in 1910
• Play transportation matching games
• Build a model boat out of clay
• Watch a movie about Trains in the StoryTarium

Community Curator: Michael Raynor, Professor

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: Union Station
Hours: Tuesday, October 26, 2010 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Latino Writers Collective

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: Kansas City Museum
Hours: Saturday, October 16, 2010 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Gay and Lesbian History Trolley Tour

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: Union Station
Hours: Saturday, October 09, 2010 from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM
On Saturday October 9, Kansas City Museum is hosting its first-ever Kansas City Gay and Lesbian History Trolley Tour. Guide Ross Frees will narrate a 1-hour expedition to some well-known and lesser known locales that document gay life in Kansas City over the past 100 years. The Tour includes a wine-tasting reception at Union Station by the Cellar Rat, located in the Crossroad Arts District.

Museum Days at the Library: "Getting from Place to Place"

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: Kansas City Public Library: Northeast Branch
Hours: Friday, September 03, 2010 from 10:30 AM to 11:30 AM

Fall is here. Listen to stories about the seasons and experiment with leaf printing.

Museum Days at the Library: "All About Fall

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: Kansas City Public Library: Northeast Branch
Hours: Friday, September 03, 2010 from 10:30 AM to 11:30 AM

Fall is here. Listen to stories about the seasons and experiment with leaf printing.

American Idyll

Presented By: Octarium
Venue: J.C. Nichols Auditorium at the National World War I Museum at Liberty Memorial
Hours: Saturday, October 30, 2010 from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM

American Idyll
Join Octarium for a choral exploration of what it means to be an American; come experience how music can unify our souls even as politics try to divide them.

October 30, 2010
J.C. Nichols Auditorum
National World War I Museum at Liberty Memorial
100 W. 26th Street, Kansas City, MO 64108
7:30 p.m.
$15, $10 for students and seniors available at the door or online at link below

8th Annual Walk with Civil War Spirits

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: Lone Jack Historical Society
Hours: Sunday, October 31, 2010 from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Follow your spirit guide back through time on hallowed ground where men fought and died during the Civil War defending our liberties.
Search out the spirits of those who lived and died in the Border area. Listen to Rooster Cogburn, the man with "true grit" tell you how he lost his eye in the battle.
Visit with farmer Elmer Thayer as he explains why he answered Col. Shelby's recruitment call.

Was that another guide's lantern or a soldier's ghost gliding past that tree? Ohhh, was that the night wind, or a spirit's caress on your cheek?

Dress for the weather. The spirit walk and museum are free, but donations to the museum are appreciated.
The Lone Jack Historical Society is an all volunteer organization that manages the museum.

Bleeding Kansas and Guerrilla Warfare, 1854-1861

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: The Trailside Center
Hours: Sunday, November 07, 2010 from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Harriet Jacobs: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: Kansas City Repetory Theater
Hours: Thursday, October 28, 2010 from 8:00 AM to 9:00 AM

Harriet Jacobs is adapted from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, one of the most important books in the history of the Abolitionist Movement. After nearly seven years hiding in a tiny garret above her grandmother’s home, Harriet Ann Jacobs secretly boarded a boat and escaped to New York and, eventually, freedom. The young slave woman’s remarkable story of triumph over the most bitter oppression will be the most inspirational show of the season!

Harriet Jacobs: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: Kansas City Repetory Theater
Hours: Thursday, October 28, 2010 from 7:00 PM to 7:30 PM

First Sunday Family Funday: Transportation in 1910

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: Kansas City Museum
Hours: Sunday, November 07, 2010 from 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM

The holidays are a special time to sit back and celebrate the good times with family and friends. Come and help celebrate the winter holidays from various cultures around the world from noon-4 p.m. Sunday, January 9, during Kansas City Museum’s First Sunday Family Fun Day at the Museum. Learn about the relationship between the poinsettia and Latin American cultures or the mythical Icelandic Yule Cat. Visitors will also make a Swedish paper heart and create a holiday cornucopia. Families can also watch a holiday film in the StoryTarium.

Build a holiday cornucopia

Create an Icelandic Yule Cat

Make paper poinsettias to give to a friend

Weave a Swedish paper heart

Watch a fun holiday film

Community Curator: Heather Paxton, The Independent senior research editor The Ball Gowns from Yesteryear

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: Union Station
Hours: Tuesday, November 16, 2010 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Discover classic ball gowns from yesteryear at November’s Community Curator Lecture Tuesday, November 16 at Union Station. The Independent senior research editor Heather Paxton will explore past Kansas City Jewel Ball gowns in the Museum’s collection. The collection includes ball gowns worn by former chair women of the Jewel Ball, including high end dresses worn by notable chairwomen Enid Kemper and Clara Hockaday.

Community Curator: Paul Mesner, Founder and Artistic Director, The Paul Mesner Puppets Inc.

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: Union Station
Hours: Tuesday, December 14, 2010 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Examine rare Horse ornaments from the Museum’s well-known Dyer Collection of Native American artifacts at Kansas City Museum’s Community Curator Lecture, Tuesday, January 25^th at 6 p.m. at Union Station. Artist and textile designer Jason Pollen, will investigate the ornaments’ decorative significance and cultural context of origin.

Neighborhood Holiday Open House

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: Kansas City Museum
Hours: Friday, December 03, 2010 from 4:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Join the Friends of Kansas City Museum and the Scarritt Renaissance Neighborhood Association at the Kansas City Museum’s Neighborhood Holiday Open House from 4-8 p.m. Friday, Dec. 3^rd. We’ll toast the holidays, listen to seasonal music from the musical group Ni Ceallaigh, presented by Northeast Arts KC, and welcome our Fairy Princesses.

Christmas at Pharis Farm

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: Pharis Farm
Hours: Sunday, December 05, 2010 from 4:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Christmas Candlelight Tours

Presented By: The John Wornall House Museum
Venue: The John Wornall House Museum
Hours: Friday, December 03, 2010 from 6:00 PM to 8:30 PM
Come visit the Wornall Family as they prepare for Christmas on the Missouri Frontier. The whole family and many friends will be here to welcome you and involve you in the preparations. Try your hand at quilling, taste Christmas goodies, and maybe even try a period dance.

Christmas Candlelight Tours

Presented By: The John Wornall House Museum
Venue: The John Wornall House Museum
Hours: Saturday, December 04, 2010 from 6:00 PM to 8:30 PM
Come visit the Wornall Family as they prepare for Christmas on the Missouri Frontier. The whole family and many friends will be here to welcome you and involve you in the preparations. Try your hand at quilling, taste Christmas goodies, and maybe even try a period dance.

A Visit with Father Christmas

Presented By: The John Wornall House Museum
Venue: The John Wornall House Museum
Hours: Saturday, December 11, 2010 from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM
Your children and grandchildren are sure to enjoy this fun event! Each child will get to participate in a traditional Christmas activity. There are different hands-on activities in each room. In the last room, you and your child will get to meet Father Christmas. Your child is welcome to sit on his knee and have their picture taken.

Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Majors Christmas Tea

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: Alexander Majors' House
Hours: Saturday, December 18, 2010 from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM

Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Majors Christmas Tea

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: Alexander Majors' House
Hours: Saturday, December 18, 2010 from 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Grinter Place Christmas Event

Presented By: Grinter Place State Historic Site
Venue: TBA
Hours: Saturday, December 11, 2010 from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM

First Sunday Family Funday: Winter Holidays Around the World

Presented By: The Kansas City Museum
Venue: Kansas City Museum
Hours: Sunday, January 09, 2011 from 12:00 PM to 4:00 PM

The Gilded Age, which spanned from 1870-1900, was one of the most dynamic, contentious and volatile periods in American history. America’s industrial economy boomed, creating great wealth and opportunities for businessmen, while leaving farmers and workers struggling to survive. Explore this important era in American history with the Kansas City Museum at First Sunday Family Fun Day, Sunday, February 6 from noon-4 p.m. Families and children will create art work inspired by Gilded Age music, build a bridge similar to the Brooklyn Bridge, and so much more.

Listen to examples of music from the Gilded Age and create your own work of art inspired by it!

The Brooklyn Bridge was built during the Gilded Age. Build your own bridge using the materials provided

Women used fans for more than a cool breeze. Make a fan and learn how fans were used to communicate messages to possible suitors

Look at images from the 1893 Chicago Exposition and learn about the connection between the Exposition and Corinthian Hall, home of the Kansas City Museum

Watch a film in the StoryTarium

Community Curator: David Jackson, Archivist, Jackson County Historical Society

Presented By: Union Station
Venue: Union Station
Hours: Tuesday, January 25, 2011 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Explore the many inhabitants of the famed Gilliss House Hotel through its historic register at Kansas City Museum’s January Community Curator lecture Tuesday, January 25 at 6 p.m. at Union Station. Jackson County Historical Society archivist David Jackson will discuss some of the hotel’s inhabitants, including George Armstrong Custer, and their journeys westward.

Fairy Princess at Kansas City Museum

Presented By: Kansas City Museum
Venue: Kansas City Museum
Hours: Saturday, December 04, 2010 from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM
Kansas City Museum’s Fairy Princess once again spreads holiday cheer at the Kansas City Museum.

There will be Fairy Princess arts and crafts activities and beautiful holiday décor for visitors to enjoy. And there is the popular Fairy Princess Boutique for Fairy Princess essentials. The Fairy Princess is generously supported by Zona Rosa.

Fairy Princess at Kansas City Museum

Presented By: Kansas City Museum
Venue: Kansas City Museum
Hours: Saturday, December 11, 2010 from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM
Kansas City Museum’s Fairy Princess once again spreads holiday cheer at the Kansas City Museum.

Fairy Princess at Kansas City Museum

Presented By: Kansas City Museum
Venue: Kansas City Museum
Hours: Saturday, December 18, 2010 from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM
Kansas City Museum’s Fairy Princess once again spreads holiday cheer at the Kansas City Museum.

Fairy Princess at Kansas City Museum

Presented By: Kansas City Museum
Venue: Kansas City Museum
Hours: Sunday, December 05, 2010 from 12:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Kansas City Museum’s Fairy Princess once again spreads holiday cheer at the Kansas City Museum.

Fairy Princess at Kansas City Museum

Presented By: Kansas City Museum
Venue: Kansas City Museum
Hours: Sunday, December 12, 2010 from 12:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Kansas City Museum’s Fairy Princess once again spreads holiday cheer at the Kansas City Museum.

Fairy Princess at Kansas City Museum

Presented By: Kansas City Museum
Venue: Kansas City Museum
Hours: Sunday, December 19, 2010 from 12:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Kansas City Museum’s Fairy Princess once again spreads holiday cheer at the Kansas City Museum.

Hard Hat Happy Hours

Presented By: KC Museum
Venue: Kansas City Museum
Hours: Thursday, January 06, 2011 from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM

Explore Kansas City Museum’s exquisite 100+ year old mansion home, Corinthian Hall, with a glass of wine and guide Museum Director Christopher Leitch, at Kansas City Museum’s first Hard Hat Happy Hour January 6 from 5-7 p.m. You’ll see Corinthian Hall in mid-renovation, the bare interior of the building exposed for the first time in decades. Examine 100 year-old craftsmanship and hear first-hand about plans for the grand mansion’s future, for only $5!

Museum Days at the Library: All About Horses

Presented By: Kansas City Museum
Venue: Kansas City Public Library: Northeast Branch
Hours: Thursday, January 06, 2011 from 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM

Come learn about why different kinds of hats are worn. Is it for fun? Does it serve as protection? Is it worn at work or play? Find out the answers while we listen to stories and sing songs.

Preschool Storytime: Getting from Place to Place

Presented By: Kansas City Museum
Venue: Kansas City Museum
Hours: Thursday, January 13, 2011 from 10:30 AM to 11:00 AM

Come listen to stories about unique pets and make an animal craft to take home with you.

A Civil War Era Christmas

Presented By: Clay County Museum & Historical Society
Venue: Clay County Museum
Hours: Thursday, December 16, 2010 from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM

“A Civil War Era Christmas” with Jim Beckner. Jim will be in a period Santa costume based on a Thomas Nast drawing, and will entertain and educate us regarding the traditions and customs of Christmas in the 1860’s. This will be a wonderful holiday celebration for young and old. Bring your family and come to the museum for a merry holiday evening.

Jim is a living historian and Civil War re-enactor who has participated in hundreds of re-enactments, dozens of movies, and is an authority on the Civil War in Missouri. He is the winner of the 2010 Missouri Humanities Award for “Keeping Missouri History Alive”.

Doo Dad Mike

Presented By: Johnson County Museum
Venue: Johnson County Museum
Hours: Wednesday, February 02, 2011 from 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM

DooDad Mike @ the Museum
Time: 10:00 a.m.
Details: A Kansas City performer focused on family entertainment, Doo-Dad Mike brings his high-energy rock concert to the Johnson County Museum for one show only!

Fee: $2 per child, members $1 per child. Tickets sold on a first-come, first-served basis; space is limited. Advance registration is recommended. Call (913) 715-2575 to purchase tickets. Maximum of three children per adult. Children must be supervised at all times.

JoHo Storyteller

Presented By: Johnson County Museum
Venue: Johnson County Museum
Hours: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 from 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM

Story Teller Jo Ho @ the JoCo Museum

Time: 10:00 a.m.
Details: Today’s theme is Ms. Bookfinder’s Magical Bookmobile. Come along with me, in my magic bookmobile, chimes Ms. Bookfinder! Listeners will cruise through the shelves of great children’s authors such as Seuss, Kimmel, Carle, and more for a hilarious interactive picture book excursion.

Fee: FREE. Sponsored by Target. Each family receives one free book to take home.

Registration: Drop-in for families. Groups of ten or more must pre-register. Call (913) 715-2552 to register.

Funky Mama

Presented By: Johnson County Museum
Venue: Johnson County Museum
Hours: Saturday, March 19, 2011 from 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM

Funky Mama @ the JoCo Museum

Time: 10:00 a.m.

Details: Join us for the music of Funky Mama! Interactive songs are geared for toddlers and pre-schoolers!

Fee: $2 per child, members $1 per child. Tickets sold on a first-come, first-served basis; space is limited. Advance registration is recommended. Call (913) 715-2575 to purchase tickets. Maximum of three children per adult. Children must be supervised at all times

First Sunday Family Funday: Gilded Age

Presented By: The Kansas City Museum
Venue: Kansas City Museum
Hours: Sunday, February 06, 2011 from 12:00 PM to 4:00 PM

Come and learn about Kansas City’s ground-breaking equestrienne Loula Long Combs at Kansas City Museum’s First Sunday Family Fun Day, March 6 from 12-4 p.m. Visitors will explore Loula’s love of fashion and especially hats, by designing your own hat to take home and dressing your own paper doll. You’ll also get to pet and see one of Loula’s favorite types of horses, Hackney horses, and visit with members of the Carriage and Driving Society. All these great programs and so much more, all for free!

Loula wore some amazing hats! Design your own hat to wear home

Take a look at our Loula Long Combs paperdoll book, and dress your own paper doll.

Learn about horses from members of the Carriage and Driving Society

Watch a film about the Long family in the StoryTarium

Hard Hat Happy Hours

Presented By: KC Museum
Venue: Kansas City Museum
Hours: Thursday, February 03, 2011 from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM

Museum Kids Saturday Workshop: Making Hats

Presented By: Kansas City Museum
Venue: Kansas City Museum
Hours: Saturday, February 05, 2011 from 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM

Explore a popular children’s activity in the 1800s as your child explores paper dolls and paper doll making, led by Museum Educator Beth Harris. Children will learn how paper dolls were the only toys some children had and see examples of historic paper dolls. They’ll choose a time period for their paper dolls clothes and design an outfit to dress them.

Preservation Workshop: Plaster Restoration

Presented By: Kansas City Museum
Venue: Kansas City Museum
Hours: Wednesday, February 16, 2011 from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Military Memories and Mementos with National World War I Museum Curator Doran
Cart and archivist Jonathan Casey
Wednesday, April 20

Many military veterans and family members keep photographs, medals, flags and
patches in shadow boxes to display. Participants will turn a store-bought box into an
archival display and learn how to mount military artifacts with National World War I
Museum Curator Doran Cart and archivist Jonathan Casey. They’ll also discuss caring for
and storing antique firearms.

Museum Days at the Library: Do You Like My Hat?

Presented By: Kansas City Museum
Venue: Kansas City Public Library: Northeast Branch
Hours: Friday, February 04, 2011 from 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM

Children have played with many different kinds of dolls over the years. Come and listen to stories about a few very special dolls and then create a paper doll of your very own.

Preschool Storytime: My Favorite Doll

Presented By: Kansas City Museum
Venue: Kansas City Museum
Hours: Thursday, March 10, 2011 from 10:30 AM to 11:30 AM

Children have played with many different kinds of dolls over the years. Come and listen to stories about a few very special dolls and then create a paper doll of your very own.

Book Signing at John Wornall House

Presented By: The Heritage League of Kansas City
Venue: The John Wornall House Museum
Hours: Friday, February 11, 2011 from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Join author, Alison Henderson, author of the new book, “Harvest of Dreams” for wine, cheese and a discussion of her book. Alison will be available to autograph copies as well.

This is a free event, but, as always, donations are greatly appreciated!

Set in Weston, MO in 1866 (inspired by the Wornall House), “Harvest of Dreams” is a historical romance that follows the life of a young widow, Lisa McAllister.

From the dust jacket:
“Alone on her farm in the middle of a blizzard, young widow Lisa McAllister labors to give birth to her first child. Help arrives in the form of a stranger with a six-gun. Lisa has no reason to trust this man who makes a living by violence, even if he is on the right side of the law. Men and their guns have already claimed the lives of her father, brother, and husband, and she’s determined to protect her son at any cost. Jared Tanner, a security agent for the stagecoach, has been on his own since he was twelve. With Lisa and her baby, he’s finally found something worth fighting for – a family of his own. But a fresh wave of violence threatens to tear them apart. Can their new love survive?”

First Sunday Family Funday: We Love Loula

Presented By: The Kansas City Museum
Venue: Kansas City Museum
Hours: Sunday, March 06, 2011 from 12:00 PM to 4:00 PM

Explore the artistry and patterns of quilts at Kansas City Museum’s First Sunday Family Fun Day April 3. Quilters over the centuries have woven fabrics in beautiful quilts. Families will experiment with creating quilts with your own loom while also making your own wacky woven critter to take home. Visitors will also learn to weave paper into a decorative placemat, and so much more!

Make your own wacky woven critter to take home

Learn how to weave paper into a decorative placemat

Experiment with your own mini loom

Watch a film in the StoryTarium about quilt makers

Hard Hat Happy Hours

Presented By: KC Museum
Venue: Kansas City Museum
Hours: Thursday, March 03, 2011 from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM

Community Curator Program: Dr. Delia Cook Gillis, Center of AFricana Studies

Presented By: The Kansas City Museum at Union Station
Venue: Union Station
Hours: Tuesday, February 22, 2011 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

League of Women Voters Collection

During this year’s municipal election cycle, investigate how The League of Women Voters of Kansas City, MO, Jackson, Clay and Platte Counties has educated voters about the political issues of the day at Kansas City Museum’s March Community Curator Lecture at 6 p.m. Tuesday, March 22 at Union Station. Johnson County (KS) Public Library librarian Donna Lauffer will explore the League’s amazing history from working towards the passage of the 19^th amendment to the U.S. Constitution, giving women the right to vote, to its continuous investigation and education of political issues in a non-partisan forum. The Museum has a vast collection of the local League’s correspondence, minutes and publications dating from 1920 up to the 1990s.

Community Curator Program: League of Women Voters Collection

Presented By: The Kansas City Museum at Union Station
Venue: Union Station
Hours: Tuesday, March 22, 2011 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Dr. Sheryl Farnan Leipzig, Apparel and Textiles Program Coordinator, Metropolitan Community College- Penn Valley

Changes in Styles in 20^th Century Wedding Dresses

Learn about changes in shapes, colors and textures of wedding gowns during the 20^th century at Kansas City Museum’s May Community Curator Lecture Tuesday, May 24 at 6 p.m. at Union Station. Dr. Sheryl Farnan, Apparel and Textiles Program Coordinator at Metropolitan Community College-Penn Valley, will delve into the intricate details of bridal dresses from the Union Station Kansas City/Kansas City Museum exhibit Every Bride A Princess, exhibited in conjunction with the Diana: A Celebration exhibit at Union Station. The exhibit features eight bridal gowns and bridesmaids dresses dating from 1905-1984 worn by notable Kansas Citians.

Museum Kids Saturday Workshop: Making Paper Dolls

Presented By: Kansas City Museum
Venue: Kansas City Museum
Hours: Saturday, March 05, 2011 from 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM

Museum Days at the Library: My Favorite Doll

Presented By: Kansas City Museum
Venue: Kansas City Public Library: Northeast Branch
Hours: Friday, March 04, 2011 from 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM

The Long family had beautiful gardens at Corinthian Hall. come design your own garden, plant some seeds, help "plant" our paper garden, and play plant themed games.

32nd Annual Herb & Wildflower Sale

Presented By: John Wornall House Museum
Venue: John Wornall House Museum
Hours: Saturday, April 30, 2011 from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM

Wildflowers are from the Missouri Wildflower Nursery, owned by Mervin Wallace in Jefferson City, MO. Mr. Wallace, as well as our own gardeners, will be on hand to answer any questions. Ask how you can take advantage of special pre-order options and early shopping privileges by becoming a member of the John Wornall House Museum.

Alice in Wonderland Mother/Daughter Tea Party

Presented By: John Wornall House Museum
Venue: John Wornall House Museum
Hours: Saturday, May 07, 2011 from 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Alice herself will lead you on an interactive tour through Wonderland (aka the Wornall House) where you will meet the inhabitants of Lewis Carrol’s mystical land. Then, enjoy tea and goodies on the front lawn while you socialize with the Queen of Hearts, the Mad Hatter, and others.

Easter Egg Hunt on the Lawn

Presented By: John Wornall House Museum
Venue: John Wornall House Museum
Hours: Saturday, April 16, 2011 from 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM
Bring your own bag and join the hunt!

A Guided Bus Tour: Trails, Tribes & Territories in Lawrence and Topeka

Presented By: The Trails Head Chapter of the Oregon-California Trails Association
Venue: Johnson County Community College
Hours: Saturday, May 07, 2011 from 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM

--Tour Includes visits to:

Black Jack Park ruts near Baldwin
Short segments of the Santa Fe Trail near Baldwin
Sites along Quantrill’s escape route from Lawrence in 1863
Blanton’s Bridge crossing of the Wakarusa south of Lawrence
Sites along the Oregon-California Trail thru and west of Lawrence
Constitution Hall and Lane University Museum in LeCompton
Swales and markers on Oregon-California trail to Topeka
The spectacular Great Overland Station in Topeka
Swales in western Topeka

--Lunch served to us in historic LeCompton

--In addition, as we travel, we will see and/or discuss:

· Routes of the Santa Fe Trail, Oregon and California Trails

· The 1830 Indian Removal Act and Kansas Tribes

· Kansas Territorial history, slavery vs. free-soil and the Underground Railroad

· John Brown and ‘Bleeding Kansas’

· Quantrill Raid on Lawrence in 1863

· Historic sites in Douglas and Shawnee Counties

Dr. Cuppage presents “Medical Practices on the Western Trails” at the Historic Oxford Schoolhouse

Presented By: Historic Oxford Schoolhouse
Venue: Historic Oxford Schoolhouse at Ironwoods Park
Hours: Saturday, April 16, 2011 from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM

The docents of the Historic Oxford Schoolhouse will host an engaging and educational program on Saturday, April 16^th beginning at 10:00 am at the Historic Oxford Schoolhouse located in Ironwoods Park at 147^th & Mission Road, Leawood, Kansas 66224.

Drew Bodner will begin the lecture with an introductory overview about the Historic Western Trails that passed through this area. A comprehensive examination of the medical practices and medicines used on the Western Trails will be presented by Dr. Pete Cuppage.

After retiring from the University of Kansas Medical Center, Dr. Cuppage has focused his energies on his interests in medical history and the frontier medicines of the Western Trails. Cuppage will share his passion in period costume with his portable cabinet of medicines.

F. Scott Fitzgerald Inverview

Presented By: Excelsior Springs Museum
Venue: Excelsior Springs Museum & Archives
Hours: Saturday, April 30, 2011 from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Traveling Photo Exhibit sponsored by Missouri Women's Council. As part of this exhibit, the museum will all host "Women of Excelsior Springs" photo display.

Outstanding Women of Missouri

Presented By: Excelsior Springs Museum
Venue: Excelsior Springs Museum & Archives
Hours: Tuesday, March 01, 2011 from 11:00 AM to 4:00 PM
Traveling Photo Exhibit sponsored by Missouri Women's Council. As part of this exhibit, the museum will all host "Women of Excelsior Springs" photo display.

“Ft. Sumter, Then and Now”

Presented By: Clay County Museum
Venue: Clay County Museum
Hours: Thursday, April 07, 2011 from 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM

We are pleased to announce the next event in our ongoing series of historic-themed presentations. On Thursday, April 7, at 7pm at the museum, we will present “Ft. Sumter, Then and Now” with our speaker, Carolyn Hatcher. Carolyn and Steve Hatcher recently toured Ft. Sumter and will present the history of the fort from its beginnings until the present day, along with future plans that the National Park Service has for the fort. This will be a presentation with photos from the Civil War through today. If you have never been to Ft. Sumter (and even if you have), come learn about the place where the Civil War began 150 years ago.

Spring Victorian Tea

Presented By: Grinter Place State Historic Site
Venue: TBA
Hours: Saturday, April 09, 2011 from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM

Grinter Place Quilt Show

Presented By: Grinter Place State Historic Site
Venue: TBA
Hours: Friday, April 29, 2011 from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM

Grinter Place Quilt Show

Presented By: Grinter Place State Historic Site
Venue: TBA
Hours: Sunday, May 01, 2011 from 12:00 PM to 4:00 PM

Hard Hat Happy Hours

Presented By: KC Museum
Venue: Kansas City Museum
Hours: Thursday, April 07, 2011 from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM

Hard Hat Happy Hours

Presented By: KC Museum
Venue: Kansas City Museum
Hours: Thursday, May 05, 2011 from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM

Hard Hat Happy Hours

Presented By: KC Museum
Venue: Kansas City Museum
Hours: Sunday, April 17, 2011 from 12:30 PM to 2:30 PM

Hard Hat Happy Hours

Presented By: KC Museum
Venue: Kansas City Museum
Hours: Sunday, May 15, 2011 from 12:30 PM to 2:30 PM

First Sunday Family Funday: The Wonders of Weaving

Presented By: The Kansas City Museum
Venue: Kansas City Museum
Hours: Sunday, April 03, 2011 from 12:00 PM to 4:00 PM

In 1955, the world was blown away when the first Bomb Pop was invented on Independence Avenue. Today, the Bomb Pop is one of the most popular frozen confections ever created. Learn about the history of ice cream, snow cones, and the sweet tastes of summer at Kansas City Museum’s August First Sunday Family Fun Day, Sunday August 7 from noon-4 p.m. Children will play ice cream themed games, create ice cream art to take home and learn “cool” facts about these favorite treats. And the best part is, after all this excitement, they get to cool themselves with some cold treats.

·         Make your own serving of ice cream to sample

·         Play some of our ice cream themed games.

·         Why are they called "sundaes" and who invented the waffle cone? Come and learn these fun ice cream facts.

·         Create some fun ice cream art to take home

·         Try a yummy snow cone!

Founders Day

Presented By: The Kansas City Museum
Venue: Kansas City Museum
Hours: Sunday, April 03, 2011 from 12:00 PM to 4:00 PM

In May 1940, the front doors of Kansas City Museum of Science and History opened for the first time to visitors. Celebrate the 71^st anniversary of this special day at Kansas City Museum’s First Sunday Family Fun Day Sunday, May 1 from noon-4 p.m. There will be activities and games galore for children and families to take advantage. Families can take a scavenger hunt around the Museum; learn about the equestrian history of the property from members of the Carriage and Driving Society of Greater Kansas City, and so much more!

Go on a Scavenger Hunt around the Museum and learn fun facts
Watch a film about the Long family in the StoryTarium
Spend some time with the horses that will be visiting the site that day
Play games and win prizes
Enjoy a special Founder's Day treat!

Community Curator Program: C. Stephen Metzler, past president, AIDS Service Foundation of Greater KC

Presented By: The Kansas City Museum at Union Station
Venue: Union Station
Hours: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Explore the life of the famous Kansas City madam Annie Chambers and learn how her friendship with the Bulkley family, the founders of the City Union Mission, changed her life at Kansas City Museum’s June Community Curator Lecture June 28 at 6 p.m. at Union Station. Rev. Dan Doty, CEO of the City Union Mission, will discuss how Miss Chambers befriended the Bulkleys and upon her death left her estate to help continue the Mission’s work. The City Union Mission recently donated three items owned by Annie Chambers, including a dresser, a bell and a framed picture.

Community Curator Program: Dr. Sheryl Farnan Leipzig, Apparel and Textiles Program Coordinator

Presented By: The Kansas City Museum at Union Station
Venue: Union Station
Hours: Tuesday, May 24, 2011 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Dr. Sheryl Farnan Leipzig, Apparel and Textiles Program Coordinator, Metropolitan Community College- Penn Valley

Hattie Carnegie Dresses

Learn about the delicate layers and textures of fashion designer Hattie Carnegie’s dresses at Kansas City Museum’s May Community Curator Lecture Tuesday, May 24 at 6 p.m. at Union Station. Dr. Sheryl Farnan Leipzig, Apparel and Textiles Program Coordinator at Metropolitan Community College-Penn Valley, will delve into the intricate details of the famous designer’s dresses, including a 1933 wedding gown featured in the Union Station Kansas City/Kansas City Museum exhibit Every Bride A Princess, exhibited in conjunction with the Diana: A Celebration exhibit at Union Station. The exhibit features eight bridal gowns and bridesmaids dresses dating from 1905-1984 worn by notable Kansas Citians.

Museum Kids Saturday Workshop

Presented By: The Kansas City Museum
Venue: Kansas City Museum
Hours: Saturday, April 02, 2011 from 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM

Kansas City Museum’s extensive collection is featured in Museum
Kids Saturday Workshops. Young participants will get to see rare and unusual items and do hands-on activities focused on what they’ve seen. Learning and fun go perfectly together in this new series focused on the City’s history.

Explore the artistry and creative patterns and shapes of quilts. Quilts have been used over centuries to tell their family histories and stories and have been passed down from family member to family member. See beautifully crafted quilts with quilt historian and author Deb Rowden, and learn to make a quilt.

Every Bride a Princess: Fashion Tours of Diana

Presented By: Union Station
Venue: Union Station
Hours: Wednesday, April 06, 2011 from 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM
Speaker: Ann Brownfield, Fashion Historian

Did you know that the Union Station Kansas City / Kansas City Museum historic garment collections are renowned in the United States for their depth and variety? Princess Diana was one of the most visible fashion icons of the 20th century. Join Kansas City scholars of fashion for a tour of this special exhibition, and a peek at selections from our own iconic collections!

Every Bride a Princess: Fashion Tours of Diana

Presented By: Union Station
Venue: Union Station
Hours: Wednesday, April 20, 2011 from 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM
Speaker: Heather Paxton Senior research Editor, The Independent

Every Bride a Princess: Fashion Tours of Diana

Presented By: Union Station
Venue: Union Station
Hours: Wednesday, May 04, 2011 from 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM
Speaker: Laura McGrew, Designer, owner of Tomboy

Every Bride a Princess: Fashion Tours of Diana

Presented By: Union Station
Venue: Union Station
Hours: Wednesday, May 18, 2011 from 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM
Speaker: Laura McGrew, Designer, owner of Tomboy

History Walk and Talk: Quality Hill Neighborhood

Presented By: The Kansas City Museum
Venue: Kansas City Public Library: Central Branch
Hours: Sunday, April 17, 2011 from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Explore Kansas City’s history and get some exercise, all in one great program. The
Museum’s April Walk and Talk history tour includes the Quality Hill neighborhood in
downtown Kansas City, and is led by Kansas City historian Dr. Bill Worley. Walkers will
pass the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception and Case Point where walkers can see the
bronze statue of Lewis and Clark. The tour group will also learn about early KC alderman
Jim Pendergast from his statue overlooking Quality Hill’s bluffs.

Preservation Workshop: Military Memories & Mementos

Presented By: Kansas City Museum
Venue: Kansas City Museum
Hours: Wednesday, April 20, 2011 from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Military Memories and Mementos with National World War I Museum Curator Doran
Cart and archivist Jonathan Casey
Wednesday, April 20

Many military veterans and family members keep photographs, medals, flags and
patches in shadow boxes to display. Participants will turn a store-bought box into an
archival display and learn how to mount military artifacts with National World War I
Museum Curator Doran Cart and archivist Jonathan Casey. They’ll also discuss caring for
and storing antique firearms.

Lunchtime History Talk: Rival Rails

Presented By: The Kansas City Museum
Venue: Union Station
Hours: Friday, April 22, 2011 from 11:30 AM to 1:30 PM
In the late 1860s, the transcontinental route was forged, meeting in Utah in 1868.
However, a storm was brewing to create a second, southerly transcontinental railroad
route to connect the rail hub of Chicago to the Southern Pacific city of Los Angeles.

From wagon ruts to a railroad empire, explore the battle to control the American
Southwest rail corridor. Renowned author and historian Walter R. Borneman will explore
the race to build America’s most significant transcontinental railroad through his new
book Rival Rails: The Race to Build America's Greatest Transcontinental Railroad. Attendees
will get a chance to take a tour of the Rail Experience with the author, enjoy lunch while
Borneman talks about Rival Rails and receive an autographed signed copy of the book.
Produced in partnership with the National Archives at Kansas City.

Walk and Talk

Presented By: The Kansas City Museum
Venue: Kansas City Museum
Hours: Sunday, May 15, 2011 from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM

Hosted by David Remley, photographer, David Remley Photography

Explore one of Kansas City’s oldest neighborhoods, Pendleton Heights, with Northeast Kansas City resident David Remley. See beautiful Victorian homes and dazzling views of Cliff Drive and Kessler Park.

Museum Days at the Library: How does your garden grow?

Presented By: Kansas City Museum
Venue: Kansas City Public Library: Northeast Branch
Hours: Thursday, May 12, 2011 from 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM

Where do you live? In a house or an apartment? Where ever it is, someone designed the building where you live. Come listen to stories about interesting houses, and then design your own building to take home with you.

Hawgs 'n History Tour

Presented By: The Kansas City Museum
Venue: Kansas City Museum
Hours: Saturday, May 21, 2011 from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM
Like History? Got a motorcycle? Why not straddle the ol’ chrome pony for the Kansas City

Museum’s first annual Hawgs ‘n History ride led by local historian and Harley Davidson
enthusiast Michael Bushnell. You’ll enjoy a leisurely 100-mile ride through the beautiful
Missouri countryside with stops at some of the region’s more historically significant spots
such as Fort Osage, Lexington, Mo. Civil War battlefield, Lone Jack, Mo. and the historic
Rice-Tremonti Home.

May Day Celebration at Lanesfield

Presented By: Audrea Griggs
Venue: Johnson County Museum
Hours: Saturday, April 30, 2011 from 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM

Date: Saturday, April 30, 2011

Event: May Day @ Lanesfield
Time: 1:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Details: Join us for this celebration of Spring! Dance around the Maypole to live music by Matty Striker and Pope Loy. Make a May Basket. Enjoy free refreshments. Decorate your wagon or bike and parade it around the grounds. Crowd determines crowning of May King and Queen!

Fee: FREE.

Location: Lanesfield Historic Site 18745 S. Dillie Rd Edgerton KS 66021 913-893-6645

Stories of Immigration

Presented By: - Select Organization -
Venue: Johnson County Museum
Hours: Thursday, May 05, 2011 from 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM

Date: Thursday, May 5, 2011

Event: New Immigrants and the American Dream Panel Discussion: Stories of Immigration

Time: 6:00 p.m.-7:30 p.m.
Details: Join the discussion as area immigrants and first-generation panelists come together to talk about their personal experiences of immigration, and reveal the real people behind immigration and cultural myths. Ask questions and challenge your perceptions!

Fee: FREE

Location: Johnson County Museum, 6305 Lackman Rd., Shawnee, KS, 913-715-2550.

Spring Garden Party and Croquet Tournament

Presented By: Grinter Place State Historic Site
Venue: Grinter Place State Historic Site
Hours: Saturday, May 21, 2011 from 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM

Long Trolley Tour (1st Tour)

Presented By: The Kansas City Museum
Venue: Kansas City Museum
Hours: Saturday, June 18, 2011 from 10:00 AM to 1:30 PM

Discover Robert A. Long’s Kansas City legacy with Jackson County Historical Society’s archivist David Jackson. Hop on a trolley to tour; Long’s famous home, Corinthian Hall; the R.A. Long Building (now UMB Bank) at 10th and Grand and see the board room where Mr. Long managed his lumber empire; and a visit to Kansas City Southern. You’ll pass the Independence Boulevard Christian Church, where the Long family worshipped, and Christian Church Hospital, another institution Mr. Long supported.

Community Curator Program: Rev. Dan Doty, CEO, City Union Mission

Presented By: The Kansas City Museum at Union Station
Venue: Union Station
Hours: Tuesday, June 28, 2011 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Learn about the pennant winning 1923 Kansas City Blues baseball team through a rare promotional photo card at Kansas City Museum’s July Community Curator Lecture, Tuesday, July 26 at 6 p.m. at Union Station. Former Executive Director of the Society of American Baseball Research, Lloyd Johnson, will delve into the history of this iconic team and its many colorful players. The 1923 baseball team is considered one of the top 100 minor league teams of all time. Approximately 425,000 Blues fans christened the new Muehlebach Field that year, and the team didn’t disappoint, winning 112 games and bringing home the Junior World Series crown, defeating the Baltimore Orioles in a nine game series.

Hard Hat Happy Hours

Presented By: KC Museum
Venue: Kansas City Museum
Hours: Thursday, June 02, 2011 from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM

Hard Hat Happy Hours

Presented By: KC Museum
Venue: Kansas City Museum
Hours: Sunday, June 19, 2011 from 12:30 PM to 2:30 PM

Walk and Talk

Presented By: The Kansas City Museum
Venue: Kansas City Museum
Hours: Sunday, June 19, 2011 from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM

Hosted by David Remley, photographer, David Remley Photography

Trails 'N Tails: Campfire Breakfast

Presented By: Monticello Community Historical Society
Venue: Garrett Park
Hours: Saturday, May 21, 2011 from 8:00 AM to 10:00 AM

Biscuits and gravy trail breakfast served

8-10AM $5 Adults $2 children 10 and under

FREE ADMISSION

Come hear about the early wagon trails in the area, pioneers getting started on their journeys to Oregon and the gold fields of California, the story of the Garrett stone house on the site and what may have happened in the area around the late 1800's. Meet a "Wild Bill" Hickok character, one of the first constables for Monticello Township.

Long Trolley Tour (2nd Tour)

Presented By: The Kansas City Museum
Venue: Kansas City Museum
Hours: Saturday, June 18, 2011 from 1:00 PM to 4:30 PM

Museum Days at the Library: All About Architecture

Presented By: Kansas City Museum
Venue: Kansas City Public Library: Northeast Branch
Hours: Friday, June 03, 2011 from 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM

Come learn about why different kinds of hats are worn. Is it for fun? Odes it serve as protection? is it worn at work or play? Find out the answers while we listen to stories and sing songs.

Museum Days at the Library: All About Architecture

Presented By: Kansas City Museum
Venue: Kansas City Public Library: Northeast Branch
Hours: Thursday, June 09, 2011 from 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM

Reading at Grinter Place

Presented By: Grinter Place State Historic Site
Venue: Grinter Place State Historic Site
Hours: Thursday, June 02, 2011 from 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM

Doo-Dad Mike

Presented By: Johnson County Museum
Venue: Johnson County Museum
Hours: Wednesday, June 01, 2011 from 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM

Date: Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Event: Doo-Dad Mike @ the JoCo Museum
Time: 10:00 a.m.
Details: A Kansas City performer focused on family entertainment, Doo-Dad Mike brings his high-energy rock concert to the Johnson County Museum for one show only!

One show only at 10:00 a.m.

Location: Johnson County Museum, 6305 Lackman Rd., Shawnee, KS, 913-715-2550.

Summer Arts Program

Presented By: Johnson County Museum
Venue: Johnson County Museum
Hours: Friday, June 03, 2011 from 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM

Johnson County Museum Summer Arts Program,
Fridays 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Drop-in arts program for kids 4-8 years old, registration not required. Weekly themes introduce kids to art processes and fun! $3 per child, $2 for Museum Members. June 3rd to July 29th, 2011.
Parents must stay with children. Dress for mess!

New Immigrants and the American Dream: Spotlight on Israel

Presented By: Johnson County Museum
Venue: Johnson County Museum
Hours: Saturday, June 18, 2011 from 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM

Date: Saturday, June 18, 2011

Event: New Immigrants and the American Dream: Spotlight on Israel @ the JoCo Museum

Time: 10:00-11:00 a.m.
Details: The Johnson County Museum continues its New Immigrants and the American Dream programming with a day of culture and diversity! Meet Lilach Nissim, the only Israeli emissary in Kansas, as she talks about her native country of Israel and its history, customs, and more. Stories, music, and fun for the whole family!

Fee: FREE.

Location: Johnson County Museum, 6305 Lackman Rd., Shawnee, KS, 913-715-2550.

Community Curator Program: Lloyd Johsnon, Former Exectuive Director, The Society of American Baseball Research

Presented By: The Kansas City Museum at Union Station
Venue: Union Station
Hours: Tuesday, July 26, 2011 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Mrs. Samuel Platt by George Caleb Bingham

George Caleb Bingham is famous for his historical pictures, but in his life he was equally celebrated as a fine artist. Learn more about George Caleb Bingham at Kansas City Museum’s August Community Curator, Tuesday, Aug. 23^rd at 6 p.m. at Union Station. Eric Swangstu, Associate Director of Admissions at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, Wash., will examine the Museum’s amazing portrait of Mrs. Samuel Platt. Mrs. Platt, whose maiden name was Emily Jane Miller, was born in Kentucky in 1832 and died in Independence in June 1965. Her husband was a carpenter and contractor who helped build the Independence jail, now a historic site. A reception will precede the presentation at 5:30 p.m.

Hard Hat Happy Hours

Presented By: KC Museum
Venue: Kansas City Museum
Hours: Thursday, July 07, 2011 from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM

Hard Hat Happy Hours

Presented By: KC Museum
Venue: Kansas City Museum
Hours: Sunday, July 17, 2011 from 12:30 PM to 2:30 PM

Museum Days at the Library: Do you like my hat?

Presented By: Kansas City Museum
Venue: Kansas City Public Library: Northeast Branch
Hours: Friday, July 01, 2011 from 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM

It's hot outside, but it's nice and cool in the library! Come and hear stories about different ways kids cool off in the big city. Make and decorate a fan to take home with you.

Preschool Storytime: All About Architecture

Presented By: The Kansas City Museum
Venue: Kansas City Museum
Hours: Thursday, June 09, 2011 from 10:30 AM to 11:30 AM

Quilts keep us warm at night, they decorate our walls, and they even tell stories. Come and learn about the importance of quilts through stories and activities.

2011 Heritage League Workshop: Making Collections Meaningful to Visitors

Presented By: The Heritage League of Kansas City
Venue: Holiday Inn
Hours: Wednesday, October 26, 2011 from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM
Annual HL Collections Care Workshop in collaboration with Kansas Museums Association

Grinter Place Ice Cream Social

Presented By: Grinter Place State Historic Site
Venue: Grinter Place State Historic Site
Hours: Saturday, July 16, 2011 from 3:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Community Curator Program:Eric Swangstu, Associate Director of Admissions, cornish College of the Arts

Presented By: The Kansas City Museum at Union Station
Venue: Union Station
Hours: Tuesday, August 23, 2011 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Loula Long Combs Collection

Loula Long Combs defied the logic that only men were allowed and could succeed at driving carriages by becoming one of the most successful equestrians ever. Learn how Mrs. Combs became an icon and where she ranks with the other well-known ladies in Kansas City’s history at our September Community Curator Speaker Series presentation Tuesday, September 27 at 6 p.m. at Union Station.

First Sunday Family Funday: We All Scream for Ice Cream

Presented By: The Kansas City Museum
Venue: Kansas City Museum
Hours: Sunday, August 07, 2011 from 12:00 PM to 4:00 PM

Families will be challenging each other to create artistic masterpieces as they discover the art of printmaking at First Sunday Family Fun Day Sunday, September 4 from noon to 4 p.m. at the Museum. Families will use printmaking techniques using fruits and vegetables, as well as blocking printing and stamping to create wonderful pieces of art to take home!

Experiment with different printmaking techniques using fruits and vegetables

Assemble your own journal and decorate it with stamps and ink

Create a collage using our flower stencils

Try out batik printing with some pastels and liquid watercolors

Watch a film in the StoryTarium

Hard Hat Happy Hours

Presented By: KC Museum
Venue: Kansas City Museum
Hours: Thursday, August 04, 2011 from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM

Hawgs 'N History

Presented By: The Kansas City Museum
Venue: Kansas City Museum
Hours: Saturday, August 20, 2011 from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM

Like History? Got a motorcycle? Why not take a ride through history at Kansas City Museum’s September Hawgs ‘n History ride led by local historian and Harley Davidson enthusiast Michael Bushnell. You’ll enjoy a leisurely 100-mile ride through the beautiful Missouri countryside with stops at some of the region’s more historically significant spots such as the Civil War battlefield at Lexington and the Confederate Memorial Cemetery in Higginsville.

Hard Hat Happy Hours

Presented By: KC Museum
Venue: Kansas City Museum
Hours: Sunday, August 21, 2011 from 12:30 PM to 2:30 PM

Museum Kids Summer Drop-Ins: Follow the Map to Kansas City Museum

Presented By: The Kansas City Museum
Venue: Kansas City Museum
Hours: Wednesday, July 06, 2011 from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM

This summer, drop in with your Museum Kids for games, music, stories and arts-and-crafts. Different historical themes will keep Museum Kids entertained and (don’t tell them!) they just might learn something.