Anne Kniggendorf
Anne Kniggendorf is a freelance writer based in Kansas City, whose work has appeared in local media outlets as well as in the Smithsonian Magazine, Saturday Evening Post, Electric Literature, Ploughshares, and several literary reviews, including two as far away as India and Scotland.
She’s a graduate of St. John’s College in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she did not study journalism but Western philosophy and historical mathematics. She holds an MFA from the University of Missouri-Kansas City in creative writing, which she thinks is close enough to journalism the way she does it. Anne is a Navy veteran.
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Pat Gray was 12 years old when she lost the use of her legs to polio. Now 80 and in an assisted living facility, she sees similarities between the two viruses and their aftermath.
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Vocalist Molly Hammer was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2008 and learned in 2016 that cancer had spread to other parts of her body. She was known for her advocacy for cancer awareness and her support of Kansas City's music community.
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In addition to various types of equine therapy, Northland Therapeutic Riding Center in Holt, Missouri, encourages horse painting. Even the horses enjoy it.
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The Elders' guitarist and vocalist Steve Phillips has died due to complications of COVID-19.
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The Kansas City Repertory Theatre will stage six performances on the south lawn of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in October.
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A program out of New York state aims to celebrate the legends and lore of every state that wishes to participate. Missouri is taking applications now.
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Big Brothers Big Sisters has connected Kansas City children with adult mentors since 1964, but as cries for racial justice inspire prospective volunteers, the pandemic creates entirely new obstacles.
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Once reliant on the lunch rush and big events, food truck operators are rethinking their business model in the pandemic.
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There's a lot still up in the air about the coming school year, but here's a round-up of where Kansas City area schools stand now.
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Rockhurst University professor emeritus Patricia Cleary Miller has just published a collection called "Can You Smell the Rain?" — a book rife with sorrows, but a comedy in the end.