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She was KC’s ground-breaking librarian. Then she was told her job was ‘for a man’

With the Kansas City Public Library celebrating its 150th anniversary, staff have spent the year thinking about and promoting our history. One KCQ reader who recently visited the Central Library in…

Strange Bedfellows

December 16, 1931: Nell Donnelly and her chauffeur, George Blair, were kidnapped. Donnelly had become famous after her 1916 founding of the Donnelly Garment Company, which sold…

Did Any Famous Explorers Ever Stop in Kansas City?

Perhaps the most famous explorers to ever spend time in the area were Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, and their Corps of Discovery expedition in June 1804.