Showcasing our Amazing Artifacts III A Fading Tapestry Recalls Elegant Lady An enigmatic tapestry on the museum’s north wall often attracts comments from visitors, but until lately, not much has been known about it. Don Marsh, a member of the Clay County Historical Society and frequent docent, did some research, and more came from Chery …
Showcasing our Amazing Artifacts II
Showcasing more Amazing Artifacts… 1893 “Chatterbox” was a unique textbook This issue is special for me, Ken Weyand, a Clay County Museum board member and writer of these “artifact” pieces. This time I’m featuring an artifact from my family. Readers may recognize it from one of my “Vintage Discoveries” columns featured earlier in this …
Showcasing our Amazing Artifacts I
Showcasing our Amazing Artifacts – We Can Do It Wartime posters inspired our “Homefront“ During World War II, Americans in Clay County and elsewhere did many things to support the “war effort,” including scrap drives, rationing, air raid drills, and much more. In addition to the family members who served, manufacturing companies dedicated themselves to …
Paranormal Activity?
KSHB-41 NEWS did a piece on “Spirits at the Museum” in 2016 What, if anything, do you see?
Museum Second Floor Video – November 2024
This Video was created by Rhyan Hemphill, the Museum’s high school intern from Liberty North High School as her Fall semester project. Voice-Over by Jeff Knold – Scripted, Filmed and Edited by Rhyan Hemphill
Grandmother, grandson find united cause at museum
LIBERTY — National and international magazines have extolled the virtues of grandparents and grandchildren volunteering together. In Forbes magazine, Jenny Friedman, executive director of the national nonprofit “Doing Good Together”, which promotes family volunteering and service, said, “Volunteering makes you healthier mentally and physically. It’s a way to pass on the values that matter to …
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Suffrage – the 19th Amendment
Ratified on August 18, 1920, the 19th Amendment gave women the right to vote. Decades of suffrage supporters did everything from marching and lecturing to protesting and illegal voting – civil disobedience that led to the right we take for granted. Prior to the amendment’s passage, 9 western states had such legislation by 1912. The …
Phoebe Ess – Before She Could Vote
Known as “The Dean of Missouri Club Women,” Phoebe Ess was an enthusiastic and energetic women’s advocate throughout her life. She lived in an era where women either worked low paying jobs or considered their families to be their job. Mrs. Ess managed to work tirelessly for various reforms while raising a family and creating …
The Withers Legacy
Clay County is blessed with an abundance of recorded history. Personal papers, books and newspapers help families today recreate how their ancestors lived in a very different time in history. Early settlers who followed the explorers, trappers and traders, literally built the county. While others continued the migration west, our pioneers settled and grew a …
Christmas Presents Under the Tree
It’s happening… the rush to Christmas is on! I cherish memories of my childhood as I struggle with the commercialization of most if not all of our current holidays. Traditions may have gone but those memories linger and dance like the long-ago sugar plums, in my head. As children, the excitement of Christmas pageants, Santa …