A white aluminum façade wraps St. Teresa’s Academy’s chapel as if it were an intricately woven mantilla of lace. It’s delicate but sturdy and striking. When the all-girls Catholic school in the heart of Brookside decided to build a new chapel and academic space on the main campus quadrangle in 2011, they knew it needed… Continue reading The chapel at St. Teresa’s Academy pays homage to the patron saint of lacemakers in a unique way
When you grow up on a cattle farm, there’s always something to do—haying, milking, putting up the neighbor’s hay when a storm comes rolling over the Ozark foothills. For Grace Ames, that was life growing up on her father’s farm in Cassville, just north of the Arkansas border. Everybody in her family farmed and maintained… Continue reading Grace Ames puts her farm-kid roots to work at Colonial Gardens in Blue Springs
Richard Renner had already been working full time as a street performer for almost two decades when he decided his adopted hometown of Lawrence would be the perfect place for a festival featuring others who make their living playing music, juggling, clowning, playing with fire and the like. “One day, I was walking through downtown… Continue reading The Lawrence Busker Festival brings world-class street performers to town
