Kansas City has rightfully earned the moniker “City of Fountains” with 48 fountains spread across the community. To maintain this title, two groups hope to unite even more support for the fountains with the first KC Festival of Fountains June 9. The festival will take place at the Bloch Fountain, in front of the Union Station, 30 W. Pershing Road, from 11a.m. to 5 p.m.

Within a day’s drive and in one case, down the street, five presidential libraries and museums can be found. Four of them are part of the presidential library system, a nationwide network of 13 libraries that are administered by the Office of Presidential Libraries, under the watch of the National Archives and Records Administration.

A place you may not have visited recently, or one you may not know about, represents a revitalized piece of Kansas City’s great history that..