Randy Mason

1 week ago | kansascity.com | Randy Mason |Monty Davis

Inside Look is a Star series that takes our readers behind the scenes of some of the most well-known and not-so-well-known places and events in Kansas City. Have a suggestion for a future story? Email our journalists at [email protected]. After 1955, Kansas City could rightly call itself a "major league town." And postcards like this one from the late 1950s were part of the proof. It's hard to say exactly who the Athletics might have been playing on that afternoon, but it hardly matters.

2 weeks ago | kansascity.com | Randy Mason |Monty Davis

It's not quite the Kentucky Derby or the Indy 500, the Boston Marathon or those bulls in Pamplona. Not yet anyway. But the Running of the Beds in Lee's Summit might be gaining on them. Now in its second year, the raucous race drew eleven teams to the Summit Church on Chipman Road on Saturday to raise funds for a good cause- Flourish, the area's only furniture bank.

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Randy Mason |Monty Davis

It’s not quite the Kentucky Derby or the Indy 500, the Boston Marathon or those bulls in Pamplona. Not yet anyway. But the Running of the Beds in Lee’s Summit might be gaining on them. Now in its second year, the raucous race drew eleven teams to the Summit Church on Chipman Road on Saturday to raise funds for a good cause—Flourish, the area’s only furniture bank.

2 weeks ago | kansascity.com | Randy Mason |Monty Davis

Inside Look is a Star series that takes our readers behind the scenes of some of the most well-known and not-so-well-known places and events in Kansas City. Have a suggestion for a future story? Email our journalists at [email protected]. In the 1890s, as Kansas City crept farther and farther from the riverfront, it began looking less and less like a small frontier town.

3 weeks ago | kansascity.com | Randy Mason |Monty Davis

Inside Look is a Star series that takes our readers behind the scenes of some of the most well-known and not-so-well-known places and events in Kansas City. Have a suggestion for a future story? Email our journalists at [email protected]. The Sisters of Loretto, a Catholic order that originated in Kentucky, came to Kansas City in 1899. Their mission here and in other growing cities was to educate young women, and potentially prepare them for college.