Kansas City Oasis

Musical guest: Martha Sin Del (https://www.instagram.com/martha.sin.del/) Community moment: Julie Peck Featured speaker: Don Laskey, Fort Osage National Historic Landmark Don Laskey is a historian and park interpreter with almost a decade of experience. After earning a master’s in history from Central Michigan University, he was the lead interpreter at Fort Delaware State Park for several years and demonstrated everything from blacksmithing to historical weapons. For the past two years he has worked for Jackson County Parks + Rec as a living history interpreter at Fort Osage National Historic Landmark. There he helps the public gain a deeper understanding of the...

We are meeting the first Sunday of the month going forward. January's book is "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver. Please bring a snack to share and be ready to discuss this highly acclaimed novel. The Poisonwood Bible, now celebrating its 25th anniversary, established Barbara Kingsolver as one of the most thoughtful and daring of modern writers. Taking its place alongside the classic works of postcolonial literature, it is a suspenseful epic of one family's tragic undoing and remarkable reconstruction over the course of three decades in Africa. The story is told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan...