Kansas City

 

Our first major stop was in Kansas City where we visited the WW1 museum and the Steamboat Arabia. Both are must visits if you get to Kansas City. The WW1 museum is the only one of it's kind in the United States. It is very well organized and
informative.
Steamboat Arabia is a museum concerning a Steamer on the Missouri River that sank in 1856.

 

Each of these 9,000 poppies represent 1,000 combatant deaths in WWI.   This is the entrance to this very nice WWI museum in downtown Kansas City, Missouri.

                                          View from the top of the Liberty Memorial tower.

Steamship Arabia mural with display of china that was part of the massive cargo it carried when it sunk in 1856 on the Missouri River.

                                                  Pickles still sealed in their bottles.

The Missouri River channel changed by several miles since the Arabia sank.  Excavation site in the middle of a farmer's field.