River Adventure
"Jamie Burkart, ... student of film and digital media at the University of California- Santa Cruz, ... became fascinated with Kansas City’s transportation history.
This spring, he organized a subterranean screening of old trolley videos in an abandoned tunnel that used to shuttle goods from the West Bottoms to the heart of downtown. That, he says, got him thinking about what Kansas City would be like without highways and how the metro had lost its connection with its historic thoroughfare: the Missouri River.
Burkart and six others decided to experience the river for themselves through an adventure they whimsically titled “Release yourself onto the river until the taste of salt.” The goal: sail from Kansas City to the Gulf of Mexico on a boat made with discarded materials. More on the launch
