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Jeffrey L. Baxter's Personal Chronicle of Overcoming Depression and Obesity Set to Display at the L.A. Times Festival of Books 2024

The L.A. Times Festival of Books 2024 will certainly highlight a number of prominent and inspirational speakers. However, there is actually an even greater number of authors who want to motivate and encourage others with the books they arranged to display during the festival., , , , One of them is Jeffrey L. Baxter, a fellow at the National Writing Project, a frequent presenter at hundreds of workshops in the Midwest, and the winner of the 2014 Kansas Teacher of the Year., , , , Behind this succes. ....

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Within a half-hour drive of the University of Central Missouri, rows of neatly-placed headstones line the Missouri Veterans Cemetery in Higginsville honoring individuals who served in the United States military. With only small bits of information etched into each of the hundreds of gray granite monuments that dot this vast burial ground, the life stories of many underrepresented World War II veterans mostly remain untold. This will soon change, however, thanks to a $399,000 Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) National Cemetery Administration (NCA) grant that will also cover project work at Fort Scott National Cemetery in Fort Scott, Kansas. ....

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Students from throughout the metropolitan area are invited to participate in 2023 Young Writers Camps, offered from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesdays through Fridays, either June 20-23 or July 11-14 at the Anita Gorman Discovery Center in Kauffman Legacy Park in Kansas City. ....

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