Writing KC Backstories

LaDene Morton spoke to the Shawnee Mission Rotary Club in 2016 about her book Kansas City History, The Country Club District of Kansas City. She's back to share with us about her process of discovering Kansas City history, and her most recent way of sharing it through her "KC Backstories" blog.

About the speaker: LaDene Morton is an author of both fiction and nonfiction. Her novel What Lies West is a past finalist in the WILLA Awards, and her third book on Kansas City History, The Country Club District of Kansas City, received a Preservation Award from the Historic Kansas City Foundation. As a writer, Morton is a member and former board member of the national organization Women Writing the West, and a former member of the Executive Committee of Kansas City's literary center, The Writers Place. As a writer of history, she is a member of the State Historical Society of Missouri, the Jackson County Historical Society, the Westport Historical Society, and the Historic KC Foundation.