Becky Ray, a paranormal investigator with the group Paranormal Activity Investigators, the Kansas City area representative for the American Ghost Society, and a co-host of the Internet radio program The Darker Side of the Moon, spoke at our meeting on Wednesday, June 11, 2008, about Ghost Stories and Urban Legends of Kansas City.
Becky explained that [...]
June Meeting Report
March Meeting Report
Dr. Carmaletta Williams, the speaker for our March 12 meeting, gave a fascinating talk on geneaology, with a special emphasis on the specific problems of tracing African-American roots, such as:
• Family separation. In most southern states, slaves were sold from their families, who often never saw them again. Only in Kentucky and Tennessee were slave [...]
November Meeting Report
Robert Unger spoke about his book, The Union Station Massacre: The Original Sin of J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI, at the November 14, 2007, meeting. Unger is a professor at UMKC and worked as a reporter for the KC Star. When he requested information for his book, he ended up with 200,000 pages of material. The [...]
October Meeting Report
On Wednesday, October 10, Lawrence and Suella Walsh spoke at our monthly Partners in Crime meeting. They gave tips on how to keep tension high in a mystery. They said, “Tension is best created by letting the reader know something is going to happen, then delaying it.” The reader then keeps reading, wanting to know [...]
