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Alvin Sykes Interview - 06/29/2015

Alvin Sykes has lived in Kansas City, Kansas, Kansas City, Missouri, Topeka, and Omaha, Nebraska. He is well know for his work as a human rights…

Barbara Craddock- 08/22/2014

Interviewee Birth Year: 1945
Interviewer Birth Year: 1992
Interviewer Relation: Volunteer at Don Bosco Center

Faith: Baptist
Church: Friendship…

Benjamin F. Farney - 06/20/2014

Benjamin F. Farney was born in Kiowa, Kansas. He left there to attend the University of Kansas, where he graduated with a law degree in 1957. He…

Cathy Betz - 02/24/2015

Cathy Betz was born in Grundy County, MO and has lived in Liberty, MO for the past 25 years. She has a Master's degree in Library and Information…

Cecil Simons - 06/27/2014

Cecil H. Simons was born in a log cabin in Lindy, Missouri on January 24, 1921. Lindy, Missouri was a small town (that no longer exists) in New Madrid…

Chris Eaton - 05/02/2015

Chris Eaton had been a teacher for 30 years before retiring. She went to SW Missouri State for Education, and was married in 1976. She taught in…

Cody Croan - 05/02/2015

Cody grew up in the Parkville, MO area and went to school in the Park Hill School District. He works with the Mid-Continent Public Library as the…

Colleen Power -8/4/14

Colleen Power was born in St. Louis, Missouri. She remained there until 1985 when she moved to Kansas City, Mo to go to Rockhurst College. She lived…

Dan Schepis - 05/02/2015

Dan Schepis has been conservation agent for the past 3 years. He discovered this position while obtaining his Masters in Biology. Dan finds mixing his…

Dora Munyon Interview - 06/24/2015

Dora Munyon experienced many difficulties in her early life. Family troubles resulted in a separation from her siblings and placement in an orphanage.…

Dr. Serese Cannon - 05/31/2014

Serese M. Cannon, D.D.S. has over 20 years experience in pediatric dentistry and surgery. In 1992 she began her own practice, Children’s Dental Care,…

Eugenie Maynard - 05/03/2015

Eugenie Maynard was born in Minnesota in 1950. She went to school in Moorhead, earning a degree in Accounting. During her school years from 1969-1972…

Flo Biehl - 12/15/2014

Flo Biehl was born in 1930, at home on the family farm near Burns, KS, on the edge of the Flint Hills. She lived and attended public schools there…

Gail "Randy" Randall Thompson, Jr.- 4/6/14

Gail "Randy" Randall Thompson, Jr. was born in Bakersfield, CA. At the age of two, his family moved to Kansas City, MO where his folks bought at house…

Hollie Westring - 05/02/2015

Hollie Westring spent her childhood in southern Illinois, attending high school in Hale, Mo. She later received her bachelor's degree in journalism…

Irene Zamrripa Lopez - 7/15/2014

Irene Zamarripa Lopez was born November 9th, 1937 in Turner Kansas. Irene moved to Kansas City at age thirteen in 1951. She attended West Junior High…

Jasen Ballenger- 05/02/2015

Jasen Ballenger is a wildlife biologist with degrees from Missouri State and Baker Universities. He has varied experience working for the Missouri…

Jo Newsom - 8/4/14

Jo Newsom was born in Carrolton, Mo. She was raised on a farm and came to Kansas City to teach where she remains in the Northland.

Interviewee…

Karen Baiers - 05/02/2015

Karen Baiers was born in Watervliet, Michigan. She grew up on the farm, then moved to Kansas City in 1968 after graduating from Michigan State…

KCPT Young Writers Contest, Part 1

Every year KCPT / PBS sponsors a young writers contest for students in Kindergarten through 3rd grade. Sophia, Madeline, Ishya, Finland, Jana and…