Traveling to Kansas City in a few days. Any suggestions for things to see and do?

[Cousin Dupree]

[greymattermom]

1. World war 1 museum.

Nelson-Atkins. Have lunch in Roselle court. Kemper museum nearby.

Skip the Plaza. It's just a shopping center.

[Cousin Dupree]

4. Thanks! Are there any good blues joints you'd recommend?

[MuseRider]

28. The Negro League Baseball Hall of Fame is in the same building

as the historical Blue Room at 18th and Vine. I can go look up some stuff for you, both of my sons play jazz in KC and are usually in the know about all that is going on there, if I can get a hold of them. There is a lot going on right now.

[MuseRider]

38. Jazz/Blues

Blue Room https://americanjazzmuseum.org/events?field_venue_tid=26 I LOVE Matt Otto, really outstanding.

If you have FaceBook https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=17022525 Spine Showcases is going on this week Created by Kelly Gant. If she is singing you should hear her. She is so good and she whistles too, amazing whistle solos! Non FaceBook link https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=17022525 Peter Schlamb is outstanding and he is with Ryan Lee Mmmmmm, also Matt Villinger. I really do not know much about Blues shows but you can usually find them around. One of DU's oldies who has been gone for a long time from here, did/does great art has a blues band that is pretty well known around there. If I can find that they are playing I will let you know.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

2. The Negro League Baseball Hall of Fame

An inspirational trip through history prior to the integration of Major League Baseball.

Then take a drive to Independence to your the Truman House and Library.

[Cousin Dupree]

5. Will definitely do the Hall of Fame. Thank you

[liberal N proud]

3. Here are a couple

River Market
Country Club Plaza
Arthur Bryant's BBQ

[Cousin Dupree]

6. Thanks, will check them out.

[WhiteTara]

7. The Nelson Art Gallery and

the Sophian Plaza. Old KC and there's a bar with a Maxfield Parrish mural on the wall. But in the Nelson Gallery is a life size statue of the Quan Yin in seated with one foot on the ground, poised to aid all sentient beings. A must see if you have any awe for sacred art.

[Cousin Dupree]

11. Thank you so much

[Cracklin Charlie]

19. I love to go to the grounds of the Nelson.

Wonderful outdoor sculpture garden. And the new Bloch Gallery (on the Nelson grounds) has wonderful exhibits. Also the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art is nearby.

The Country Club Plaza is in the vicinity with shopping and dining. The Crossroads District has good galleries and restaurants.

Hot today, but a nice cool front will be here tomorrow for a few days. Enjoy your visit.

[VarryOn]

8. Union Station is a beautiful building...

Doesn’t cost anything to walk in and look around.

[Cousin Dupree]

13. We'll check it out!

[Wellstone ruled]

9. Prepare to sweat your butt off.

[Cousin Dupree]

10. I know. Not looking forward to that!

[Wellstone ruled]

14. This time of year

all those towns along the Mississippi get down right brutal. Always carried a clean set of Uni's on the Passenger seat from Memorial day to Labor day. Only had the 55 A/C,windows rolled down and 55 mph.

[LuvNewcastle]

27. Kansas City isn't on the Mississippi,

St. Louis is. I don't think the humidity is quite as bad in KC.

[Wellstone ruled]

29. Sorry forgot the River Name.

Difference,sits in a river valley.

[MuseRider]

35. The Missouri River. n/t

[Wellstone ruled]

37. Yupper,

last time we were in KC the Mo was at flood. Talk about crap floating in that river. Mega humidity and being only 90 degrees felt like some where north of a 110 .

[MuseRider]

39. I am about 60 miles away

from them and in a different river valley but not as big. The other day before the heat wave started it was 85 degrees and I went out to clean the barn thinking that is a nice temp. I was drenched in minutes, checked the weather service and the humidity was 91%. It gets muggy around here and with such a long very wet spring it is worse!

[Wellstone ruled]

40. My Spouse and I have been

tracking another anomaly. We started watching this event back in 2006 or so,it is called Corn Humidity. Happened to purchase a Camping Humidity as well as a Ambient air Temp monitor at a local out fitter store. Just out of a lark,while parked in our Relatives Farm yard in southwestern Minnesota,lets see what this Humidity is all about. BTW,we were surrounded by ten foot corn . Holy Cow,Humidity at the local Airport was reporting 30+%. Fifteen miles west in the middle of the corn fields,we were showing 70%. The next day we went to the University Extension Office in that town just to see if we screwed things up . No we didn't,the Extension Lady said they we aware of this new phenomenon which was first discovered in Southern Illinois a few years earlier and a research paper was in the works.

Under certain conditions,a Fog bank has been observed a few feet above the Corn tassels. Fully understand the soaking wet in the Barn. Grew up with those Black and White critters. That is why we put a shower and change room addition to the Milk House.

[LuvNewcastle]

41. Interesting

I've been in corn fields and I know how hot it gets, but I always thought it was hot because the corn was blocking the wind. Didn't know it actually raised the humidity. I wonder if it's the same for other crops that grow tall or if it's unique to corn.

[Wellstone ruled]

42. Soybeans produce a similiar effect

and what was noticed at the extension farm was the fog could contained Herbicides and Pesticides during the first few events that were monitored. Same for the Corn,only the first few events tend to be quite heavy. There again major difference in plant size and structure. Beans tend to hold moisture in the leaves were as Corn tends to emit that excess moisture.

[LNM]

44. I noticed that at a friend's farm near Spring Valley, Wi.

Way more humid than the Twin Cities and they're bad enough!

[Wellstone ruled]

46. The Humidity for Spring Valley should as a rule

be 10% less than the Twin Cities,but as you said,you are right on. Know the area,as Dairy has gone away,more of the land is now Corn and Beans and less Hay and Pastureland. Some of the Worlds Richest Soils are in that area.

[Cracklin Charlie]

20. High temperature forecast for Monday is only 81.

Now, that will be pleasant!

[Cousin Dupree]

21. With humidity at 90 percent? LOL

[Cracklin Charlie]

23. Just checked again.

Monday hi 83 low 62
Tuesday hi 82 low 63

10% chance rain and sunny

Should be fantastic! People gonna go crazy. Find something to do outdoors at night, check Starlight Theatre schedule. Kansas City Royals game? Go to Liberty Memorial for a night view of the city. Find the Scout Statue in Penn Valley Park. He is an icon.

Kansas City is the City of Fountains. See how many you can find. You should definitely check out the J. C. Nichols fountain at the Country Club Plaza. It is beautiful!


Edit to add: about the fountains...if you are flying in, you should see at least one fountain before you leave the airport.

[Aristus]

12. Yeah: the signs reading "Now Leaving Kansas City."

There's a reason we fly over those states on the way to somewhere else.

[Bradshaw3]

16. What a shitty thing to say

The kind of thing that gives credence when the haters call liberals smug and condescending.

[Cousin Dupree]

17. Not at all helpful. On many levels. No need to have your nose up in the air.

[LuvNewcastle]

31. I could say something negative about any place I've been.

So what?

[MuseRider]

32. Apparently you have never been?

I agree with those above, that is a shitty thing to say. I am not a big fan of Kansas City, I live about 60 miles from it and spend a great deal of time there since my sons live there and all my husbands family. That being said, it is not lacking for any kind of entertainment or good food or kind people. It is a typical big city without being HUGE. Harder to get around in now but it is a nice place full of wonderful things and great places of entertainment and food. The Art Galleries are fabulous and you can find all kinds of them spread out through the city.

I don't know where you are from but is it really so great you have to be so pretentious?

[Bradshaw3]

15. Definitely go to the Truman Museum and area

Best presidential museum I've been to. Also, his family house is worth a visit just because it shows how humble this extraordinary man was.

[Cousin Dupree]

18. Guess what? Just found out the library and museum closes Monday for one year for renovations.

Story of my life.

[Cracklin Charlie]

22. Truman's house is also a very interesting tour.

There are several other good places in Truman’s Independence area.

Trails West Museum, 1859 Jail Museum, Bingham-Waggoner Home and Museum, Vaille Mansion.

Disclaimer: I live in Independence, home of Harry S Truman.

[LNM]

24. The Boulevard Brewery!!

Love the WWI museum, Nelson-Atkins but a fun trip is touring the Boulevard Brewing Company - my favorite beer. The tour is fun and they give you a sample at the beginning of the tour and more (4?) at the end.

[MuseRider]

34. If you go to BBC there is a really nice

Tapas place right down the road. La Bodega. We eat there now and again and were just there a couple of weeks ago. Mmmmm, really good. For fancy Corvino's is nice and they almost always have a jazz group there. The Majestic Steak House almost always has a jazz group too.

[LNM]

45. Thanks. Good to know.

[lastlib]

25. Definitely go check out the Steamboat Arabia museum!!

A fantastic exhibit of mid-19th-century artifacts salvaged from a sunken riverboat. The whole thing is just jaw-dropping! Located north of downtown in the River Market area. Very much worth the price of admission!

https://www.1856.com/

[beveeheart]

33. My favorite! If you have any curiosity about what people

needed that had to shipped back then, this is the place to go. Plus, it's an amazing story of how the riverboat was found in a field.

[lapfog_1]

26. Spend time in the Plaza

in the evening so you don't completely bake.

of course, Christmas there is much better, but summer is OK

Gates and Sons BBQ - if you like KC style BBQ

and should you make it out to the burbs... Zarda Dairy for some Ice Cream (if they are still around). That's in Lenexa and Shawnee... where I grew up.

[gopiscrap]

30. World War I monument and the Negro League Baseball Hall of Fa me

are both well worth it

[msongs]

36. "there's some crazy little women there..." ? nt

[LuvNewcastle]

43. First thing that popped into my head!

I always wondered how little they were; were they dwarves? Nothing wrong with that if you're into that.