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The independents worth crossing Kansas City for. Worth Crossing. Kansas City · No. 001 · October 5–11, 2026 · Worth the drive Preview edition. Every story here is source-checked. Source-checked stories link to their evidence. This week in Kansas City The things we make room forTwo of this issue’s three features turn on 1988: by their own accounts, the year KC Clay Guild began in a potter’s home and the year a cultural society acquired the old Scroggs house on Strawberry Hill, in Kansas City, Kansas. The third is Lenexa Public Market, which the city owns and runs. Then the practical part, starting with Thursday, when both free museums in this issue stay open until 9. Everything here comes from public sources, linked under each story. None of it comes from a visit.  Image: AI-generated for Worth Crossing. 01 / The drive / Kansas City, MO · KC Clay Guild / 2 sources, linked Room to make.By its own account, KC Clay Guild began in a potter’s home in 1988, with artists buying materials together. Its teaching artists now take clay into elementary schools.  Image: AI-generated for Worth Crossing. 02 / Worth the drive / Lenexa, KS · Public Market / 2 sources, linked In Lenexa, the tables are the point.The City of Lenexa owns and runs its Public Market. Skip the counter debate: the best idea in the building is the communal seating between the counters.  Image: AI-generated for Worth Crossing. 03 / Worth the drive / Kansas City, KS · Strawberry Hill / 1 source, linked The house that kept changing.John and Margaret Scroggs decided to build it in 1887. In 1919 it was sold to become St. John’s Orphanage. Strawberry Hill’s own history is more interesting for those turns than for the woodwork. Advertisement · From Worth Crossing The Thursday email has room for one partner. One Kansas City business a week, here and beside every story on the web.  Image: AI-generated for Worth Crossing. 04 / This week / Kansas City, MO / 2 sources, linked Southbound Route 50 drops the Plaza loop.RideKC says that from Sunday, October 4, southbound Route 50 stays on Brookside Boulevard instead of entering the Plaza Transit Center loop. Route 47 gets revised times.  Image: AI-generated for Worth Crossing. 05 / Worth the drive / Kansas City, MO / 2 sources, linked See less of the Nelson-Atkins, on purpose.Admission is free, though nonmembers still check in, online or at the door. Closed Tuesday and Wednesday; open until 9 p.m. Thursday and Friday.  Image: AI-generated for Worth Crossing. 06 / Worth the drive / Kansas City, MO / 1 source, linked Kemper’s Thursday runs until 9.Free general admission and a 10 a.m.–9 p.m. Thursday; closed Monday and Tuesday. The October 8 member preview is a separate matter.  Image: AI-generated for Worth Crossing. 07 / This week / Sat, Oct 10 · Kansas City, MO / 1 source, linked Forty-five minutes with a Kemper docent.Saturday, October 10, 1–1:45 p.m. An all-ages gallery conversation, free, with registration encouraged. That’s the issue. See you next Thursday. Worth the drive. Published independently in Kansas City. Advertising is always labeled. |