From the Shoal village we went into downtown Kansas City and visited the Hallmark Corporate offices where they have a Welcome Center. We didn't think it would be much, but we were pleasantly surprised. We had a 17 minute video on the founders of Hallmark, followed by displays of the various products, the awards, snipits of Hallmark movies, interview videos with the designers, and of course Maxine! We used a 1935 ribbon machine to make a ribbon in 15 seconds.
The day we were to leave, we extended our stay for 3 hours and went back into Kansas City to see the National WWI Museum at the Liberty Memorial.The memorial has a tower with observation area with outstanding views of Kansas City. There are two Assyrian Sphinxes also on the Memorial. Memory faces east toward the battlefields of France, shielding its eyes from the horrors of war; Future faces west, shielding its eyes from an unknown future.
Inside the Museum there are endless displays of equipment, uniforms, examples of trenches, various videos of the war; of the US as it lead up to joining the war, etc. One really should spend two days going through the museum! I found the most moving exhibit was the glass floor with 9000 poppies, each one representing 1000 combatant deaths, or a total of nine million dead!
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