Of local Kansas City Interest

If you live in the Leavenworth/Lansing/Western KC/St Joseph metro areas you *might* be interested in an Open House tomorrow (Thursday, 17 November) at Fort Leavenworth. The Frontier Army Museum (a good little museum I have *nothing* to do with) is hosting a FREE Open House that will showcase not only the newly-renovated exhibits, the curators will also be showing artifacts related to Fort Leavenworth and the Frontier Army that are usually in storage and not normally available to casual visitors.

As a further incentive, free wine and cheese! Starts at 7PM with a short presentation, and lasts until 9PM. Access to the Fort requires only a photo id, though if you don't have a DoD vehicle sticker you will have to use the right hand lane and let them search your vehicle.

As a disincentive - I'll be the bearded fat guy (or, one of them, if there are more than one who show up) but I promise I'll ignore you unless you introduce yourself...

Really - if you have the time, there are worse ways to spend an evening. Especially if you've never been to the museum.

And no, neither the Director of the Museum, nor the Director of the Combat Studies Institute (co-sponsor of the event) asked me to shill this for them.

It was someone else. Frequent contributor Rich B.!

Just come to the Fort and follow the signs - which isn't too hard - when you enter the Fort at the Main Gate you are on Grant Avenue. Go north on Grant to Reynolds. Turn east on Reynolds, past the gym, and the museum is on the north side of the road, with a little semi-circle drive.