Category: Kansas City
Quite a Way to Hide Money
When Union and Confederate sympathizers threatened to take this bankers money, he did something quite unique – he dressed as a woman and began transporting…
Where’s Waldo?
You may remember the popular Where’s Waldo books that had kids searching for a man hidden in pictures. Today we search for Waldo ourselves –…
Peanuts and Baseball
Dan Nash has been selling peanuts at Kansas City Royals games for about three decades. While the current season is on hold, I thought we’d…
Drives Into the Upper Deck
Dan Nash has been known to launch drives into the upper decks of Kansas City’s Kauffman Stadium. While those shots don’t affect the scoreboard, they…
Throwing at the Ballpark
Dan Nash has thrown plenty of pitches at the ballpark. He earns a nice living but he’s not throwing baseballs. Rather he’s still pitching a…
100 Year-old Letters with a Tie to Today
Jonathan Casey reads a lot of letters. Most of the letters are over a century old, but they are very interesting reading yet today and…
The Struggle Against the Spanish Flu
Over a century ago the world was struggling against what we call the Spanish flu. However, the disease probably didn’t begin there. In fact, it…
A Pandemic from Over 100 Years Ago
We are still traveling the countryside…although today’s interview was done by phone, a necessity of our current times. We look back at another pandemic that…
A Bull on the Run in the Ladies Room
If you’ve been around cattle for much of your life, you know there are times when one in the bunch just doesn’t want to cooperate. …
The Spark That Created the FBI
Some say this event was the spark that created today’s FBI. It was a crime that made national headlines and still leaves a literal mark…
