On August 14, the Lone Jack Historical Society held its annual
commemoration of the Battle of Lone Jack. The event was a huge success.
The day’s festivities began with a pancake breakfast put on by the Boy
Scouts, followed by a parade. There were craft and informational booths,
homemade pies, snow cones and some great barbeque.
I was trying to think of ways to describe Shannon
Lawrence, all-around cool musician and fun gal.I thought of a curly-headed little girl with musical notes circling
around her head since music and Lawrence are one in the same.
The stories of downtown Lee’s Summit are as numerous and varied as the stars in the sky. They are the mortar that holds our city together. One such story is the story of the Eugene Browning family. It is a love story and a story of family values. Born in 1921, Browning and his family moved to Lee’s Summit from Holliday, Kansas, when Eugene was in high school. His parents were the late Lacy and Mabel Browning.
The commemoration of the Battle of Lone Jack took place this past weekend. Once again a big crowd came to hear and see the heartbreaking events that took place in the bloody years of the Civil war. This year a trial took place where the Provost Marshall portrayed by Jim Beckner sentenced young men who left their posts during the battle to be shot by a firing squad. The crowd was in tears, including the re-enactors.
I am not sure when I first met Doug Barnes. It seems like he was always there. Barnes left us this past week a victim of Cancer. I stopped by his beautiful home on Wednesday evening to pay my respects to Mary his lovely wife.
August 7th was the last in the marvelous concert series that is put on by our great Parks and Rec Department. I was a little late because I was at the Lee’s Summit Historical Society meeting but I could feel the great vibes of the music up in the Arnold Hall parking lot. It was a balmy evening with the best breeze ever which helped take the steam off of the day’s heat.
