Monday, Aug. 23, 2021
Jean Wise writes: "When you’re a kid, summer means swimming, and when I was growing up in Leawood I did most of my swimming at the Leawood City Park’s pool. I also spent a lot of time on the playground where Lee Boulevard and I-435 meet. Both the pool and playground were thoroughly remodeled in 1997, when I was eleven, and the original playground has long lingered in my memory as a lost paradise – a Shangri-Leawood, if you will. I liked the remodel quite a bit, but once I became an adult I found that every time summer rolled around I started thinking back to the city park as I originally knew it."
Read more of Wise's interview about the history of Leawood's City Park »