Laura Spencer
Producer, StoryCorps at Freelance
audio reporter & producer | writer & researcher | past: @kcur. tweets about #ks & #mo, arts stuff, breaking news & #pubmedia. Follow: @lauraspencer.bsky.social.
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3 weeks ago |
kcstudio.org | Laura Spencer
In June 2024, Kansas City Public Library kicked off Adult Summer Reading at Vine Street Brewing Co. (photo by Kenney Ellison/3 Shots Photography)The Kansas City Public Library launches its annual Summer Reading program May 30, and it runs through August 15. In 2017, the adult winter reading program was folded into youth summer reading to become an all-ages program. Kaite Stover, director of readers’ services, says it connects a larger community of readers.
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2 months ago |
ourcommunitynow.com | Laura Spencer
Share While writing his latest book, Soman Chainani moved to St. Louis, Missouri. The pace of life, he says, after more than two decades in New York, is a little slower. “I like it, it’s much quieter,” Chainani says. “I feel like I can think.” But the book, “Coven,” which is illustrated by Joel Gennari, is anything but quiet. Their first graphic novel collaboration draws on one of Chainani’s childhood passions.
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2 months ago |
kcur.org | Laura Spencer
While writing his latest book, Soman Chainani moved to St. Louis, Missouri. The pace of life, he says, after more than two decades in New York, is a little slower. “I like it, it’s much quieter,” Chainani says. “I feel like I can think.”But the book, “Coven,” which is illustrated by Joel Gennari, is anything but quiet. Their first graphic novel collaboration draws on one of Chainani’s childhood passions. “I loved monster movies,” says Chainani, who grew up in Miami, Florida, in the 1980s.
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Dec 13, 2024 |
kcur.org | Laura Spencer
If you live in an older neighborhood in Kansas City, Missouri, you might have a black-and-white photograph of your house with a hat-wearing man displaying a numbered signboard. The images date back to a federal project in 1940 to clean up property records in Jackson County. And more than 50,000 of these photos still exist. Now, a new Kansas City Public Library site called KC-1940 is making the collection even more accessible.
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Dec 3, 2024 |
kcstudio.org | Laura Spencer
Photographs, postcards, a letter from Walt Disney, and other items from the Library’s collection are on view in “Disney100: The Exhibition” at Union Station. Right before the entrance to the main exhibit for “Disney100: The Exhibition” at Union Station – the first display case in the “Local Connections” gallery includes objects from the Kansas City Public Library’s Missouri Valley Special Collections. Although Walt Disney made it big in California, his roots were in the Midwest.
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