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Alex wanted me to see what was happening, wanted me to understand - but he wasn't there to show me. All I could do was wander aimlessly, picking up the pieces, hoping they would somehow fit. There was the shack just off the freeway where Alex lived and worked. There was Deana, his strong and enigmatic young girlfriend. There was Jerry, a pathetic little man with a comb-over, who thought he could run everything. There were drugs and sex and violence, and I sampled all of it. The only thing missing was Alex. I would never know what any of it meant until I knew what it meant to him.

Harrisonville, founded in 1837, is one of the oldest towns in western Missouri. Situated just south of Kansas City, it served Cass County as the center of government, commerce, and cultural life for over 150 years. Its geographic proximity to the Kansas border brought conflict and bloodshed during the Bleeding Kansas and Civil War eras, from 1854 to 1865, as jayhawkers and bushwhackers raided, looted, and terrified local citizens. After the war, four railroads brought new settlers and business opportunities. The town flourished as the center of a rich agricultural region and touted...

Beauport is the tantalizing personal statement of interior designer Henry Davis Sleeper. Built as a summer home, each room presents a theme that showcases Sleeper's amazing collection of thousands of decorative arts objects. This dazzling book of photographs and text offers an intriguing window on decorative art traditions of the past.