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ESU Kansas City Branch Welcomes Andrew Lownie
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PrintDr. Andrew Lownie presented his lecture in Kansas City on Friday, September 15 co-hosted by the English-Speaking Union Kansas City Branch and the International Relations Council
The Arabia Steamboat Museum is a history museum in Kansas City, Missouri, housing artifacts salvaged from the Arabia, a steamboat that sank in the Missouri River in 1856. The 30,000-square-foot museum opened on November 13, 1991.
When the mighty Steamboat Arabia sank near Kansas City on September 5, 1856, she carried 200 tons of mystery cargo. Lost for 132 years, its recovery in 1988 was like finding the King Tut's Tomb of the Missouri River.
Jeff Schnabel accompanied Andrew on a tour of the Steamboat Arabia.
Andrew (L) and Jeff Schnabel next to some of the many artifacts
On Friday afternoon, Andrew toured the National World War I Museum and Memorial. The only museum in the U.S. dedicated to WWI.
With more than 300,000 objects and documents, the museum holds the most diverse collection of Great War items in the world.
A large-scale, multi-layered timeline presents interwoven stories, sharing the domestic, social and cultural impacts of the war to convey the individual and diverse experiences of war.
With its ability to fly over enemy lines, whether for battle or reconnaissance, the biplane rendered trench warfare obsolete, and the evolution of aviation (along with the development of tanks) would completely change the way Europe would fight a war only a couple decades later.
Tour guide, Dave, one of the longest-serving tour guides at the Museum, stands with Andrew (L) and Jeff
Andrew Lownie on stage in the auditorium of the National World War I Museum.
The subject of Andrew Lownie's book, Stalin's Englishman, Guy Burgess, The Cold War, and the Cambridge Spy Ring
Ben Martin, President of the Kansas City Branch of the English-Speaking Union welcomes guests to the lecture.
Even Verploegh, Executive Director of the International Relations Council and co-host of the lecture.
Andrew's lecture program included many slides describing the story of Guy Burgess, the British Double Agent and head of the Cambridge Spy Ring
Following the lecture, a group of ten members of the ESU and IRC attended a private dinner party at Pierpont's Restaurant in Union Station.
(LtoR) Evan Verploegh, Jeff Schnabel, Andrew Lownie, Felicia Londre, Katie Allison, Dan Bukovac, Ginnie Bukovac, Ben Martin, Jim Paszkiewicz, Ron Worth
Andrew opening a keepsake gift from the English-Speaking Union--an autographed book by author Martin Bell, a past Evelyn Wrench speaker. Bell was a well-known British BBC journalist
Andrew standing at the Clementine and Winston Churhill statue on the Country Club Plaza in Kansas City. The statue was dedicated in 1984 by the English-Speaking Union Kansas City Branch.
The statue was designed by the famous sculptor Oscar Nemon. The ESU Kansas City Branch was a co-contributor to the funding for the statue. Nemon created a smaller version of this statue at Blenheim Palace in Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England where Churchill was born and married.
Andrew toured the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, recognized internationally as one of the finest art museums in the U.S.
Andrew wanted to view the French, English, and American artists collections.
Andrew and Jeff dined in the Rozzelle Court within the Nelson-Atkins Museum. It's a re-creation of a 15th century Italian cloister.
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