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How does style permeate our everyday lives?
And lastly, we talk to Laura Fish, who built an inspiring space for the endan gered monarch butterfly in an uninspiring roundabout. While Laura’s intent was definitely more substance than style, the garden is a beautiful spot that brings cheer to those who travel by it. And spreading joy, in addition to the lofty endeavor of saving an endangered species, is always in style.
Thanks for reading. Until next month!
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One of my favorite quotes is by Coco Chanel: “Fashion changes, but style endures.” I like to remind myself of this when curating my closet or designing my home, and especially when shopping the fall fashion lines and seeing a lot of things that I wore in the 90s. Reminder to self: put the flare jeans down! September is home to our style issue. Typically, our style issue is very fashion-focused, but this year we decided to massage that definition of style. Style, of course, can mean fashion, but like Coco Chanel, we were more focused on the enduring qualities of style. How does style permeate our everyday lives? Our lives are impacted by style in the form of fashion, yes, but also art, design, and decor. Our cover this month is about one of the most stylish people I know, Brittany Romero. I met Brittany through a mutual friend when she was in the early stages of launching her wallpaper line, Beverly-Jane. Brittany’s home is a beautiful space with curated vintage finds and an eclectic feel, and her closet and her new businesses continue that tradition. I interviewed her this month about her wallpaper line, her history in the design world, and also got to tour her new antique shop, Else-Wares, in Weston. It’s well worth a visit. We also have a story by food writer Tyler Shane about the long-awaited Acre restaurant in Parkville, a stylish space centered around a crackling hearth. I sampled the restaurant last month during a soft opening and it was so lovely watching Chef Andrew Longres, surrounded by friends and family, create a love letter to the Midwest. Selfishly, I’m also thankful for another date night-worthy restaurant that’s north of the river where we need it! Writer Diana Lambdin Meyer also brings us a travel-themed fashion piece all the way from Wichita, straight from the famed Hatman Jack who makes pieces for Harrison Ford when he’s in town (which, apparently, is regularly, when he’s servicing his place).
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inside the issue The Style Issue SEPTEMBER 2022 ON THE COVER DEPARTMENTS 4 Lifestyle Letter 8 City Scene 10 Business Monthly 12 Local Experiences 14 Giving Back LIFE + CULTURE 20 Chef’s Selection FOOD + BEVERAGE 26 Artist’s Palette HOME + DESIGN 34 Travel Journal TRAVEL 38 Events 34 20 14 26 FEATURED 14 A Journey to Monarch Island How Parkville resident Laura Fish turned a generic roundabout into a haven for butterflies 20 Gather ‘Round the Hearth Chef Andrew Longres celebrates Midwestern fare in his new stylish Parkville restaurant, Acre 26 A Portal to Elsewhere Brittany Romero curates a sense of delight with her new wallpaper line and antique shop 34 Hold On To Your Hats A special trip to Hatman Jack’s in Wichita is worth the trek Photography: Katie Currid Beverly-Jane wallpaper line by Brittany Romero 6
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“This was such an eyesore,” says Laura. “It was so bad. I kept saying, when I retire I’m going to take this. And it just ended up — it happened way before I retired.”
Back in 2016, Laura contacted multiple authorities to find out who was responsible for maintaining the roundabout in Parkville. She worked her way through multiple governing bodies before getting permission from the commissioner of Parkville to start her project. But she still had a long way to go.
If you stand in the roundabout on Union Chapel Road off of 45 Highway in Parkville long enough with Laura Fish, you’ll have people rolling down their windows to yell things in your direction. And if you listen, you’ll hear that they’re shouting compliments — things like, “We love it!” The thing that they love? Laura’s monarch butterfly garden.
Getting the roundabout from a patch of grass to a beauti ful garden took a lot of work. It started with Laura and Pete attempting to rototill the rock-hard ground in the snow in February of 2016, eventually asking the Parkville Special Roads District to turn it over for her. After that, Laura and Pete were in the roundabout breaking up the giant clods of dirt when a man drove by, saying his tractor could get the job done more quickly. An hour and a half later, the dirt was a beautiful powder. Laura couldn’t wait to get seeds in the ground. But the drama wasn’t over just yet.
“A master gardener should know — soil test,” says Laura, who calls herself a “former master gardener” since she hasn’t kept up with the credentials after becoming one in 2007. “I should’ve tested the soil and amended it. So I went and I took samples and sent it off. The soil in this roundabout was dead. There was no organic, life-sustaining force in this at all.”
“You’ll hear them, ‘Thank you for the butterflies!’ says Laura. “That pays me. I love that people are paying attention — that I’m making somebody else’s day.” With the help of her husband, Pete, Laura has been working to turn the public roundabout near their home in Parkville into a monarch waystation since 2016.
But that certainly isn’t the case now. After throwing every thing she could at the soil to get it healthy again, the garden grew and continued to grow. Monarch caterpillars showed up the same year Laura started the garden, and they’re still showing up six years later.
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“This is a perfect spot,” says Laura. “Who would’ve thought — all these cars and trucks go by. All this exhaust. Why would a monarch come here? And here they are.”
Laura had her roundabout, which she affectionately calls Monarch Island, designated an official Monarch Waystation, #15601, in 2017. All of the work in the garden is performed by
‘I knew I shouldn’t have planted,” says Laura. “I knew I shouldn’t. But I got so excited that we laid it all out and I planted seeds.” Laura says zinnias are notoriously hardy plants, but they came up about a quarter of an inch and just stopped. Laura figured the seeds were bad, so she bought more seeds and replanted them — only for the same thing to happen a second time.
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Laura dutifully keeps track of monarch eggs, caterpillars, and butterflies, watching what they land on to make sure that what she plants is beneficial and even taking eggs home to hatch in the safety of a cage so they won’t be killed by parasites like the tachinid fly. She even added a whiteboard to the roundabout to track how many male and female butterflies are hatched from the garden, and passersby have made it into a bit of a competition, rooting for the girls or the boys when one pulls into the lead.
“I just think they’re kickass insects,” says Laura. “They’re majestic. They’re beautiful. And I would be heartbroken if future generations couldn’t ever see them except in a picture book. They’re worthy of being protected, I think.”
And that’s exactly what Laura wants — for the community to get excited about butterflies and maybe be inspired to plant their own garden for bees or birds or monarch butterflies.
Laura’s garden is full of different plants — zinnias and coneflower and autumn joy. All the plants surround a flag pole, installed by a local veteran. But the most important plant in the whole garden is the milkweed — the only thing a monarch caterpillar will eat, as the milky sap in the plant makes them taste unpleasant to predators. The milkweed, a tough plant with a sophisticated root system, has been removed for decades because it’s such an unpleasant weed, but the monarchs need it to survive, so it is the staple of Laura’s gardening endeavors.
“Monarchs need help,” says Laura. “Bees need help. If I can do something, why can’t I do it? If I help one — what if I saved the last butterfly, you know?”
Her work is even more important since, at the end of July, the monarch butterfly was declared officially endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. The pop ulation of monarch butterflies has declined between 20% and 90% in recent decades.
Laura Fish will receive the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution Conservation Award on September 10 for her work on the garden. If you’d like to make a donation to the monarch waystation, you can find Laura in her round about most mornings between the spring and the fall.
Laura and her husband, and everything — the seeds, the dirt, the mulch, the water, and more — is donated by the couple or subsidized by passersby handing her cash donations while she works in the roundabout.
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“Our three pillars are amazing ingre dients, exquisite execution, and genuine Midwestern hospitality,” says Andrew. Acre was not conceived as a fine dining restaurant. Quite the opposite, as Andrew
“We wanted to make sure that every thing was either raised, procured, or found on the farm,” says Andrew. “It puts us in our own little bracket where we have to really focus on the Midwest.”
While other regions within the US face the dilemma of limited seasons or extreme weather, the Midwest has the advantage of experiencing all four seasons, allowing us to grow the largest variety of crops.
Some may view the chef’s dedication to the fly-over states as a challenge. For example, focusing on regional cuisine means guests will not see saltwater fish gracing Acre’s menu. But the concept of Acre was inspired by Longres’ childhood
CHEF ANDREW LONGRES CELEBRATES MIDWESTERN FARE IN HIS NEW STYLISH PARKVILLE RESTAURANT, ACRE
ARTICLE BY TYLER SHANE PHOTOGRAPHY BY ASHLEY ELWELL of growing up on his grandparent’s farm, Rolling Acres, where he learned to hunt, fish, and cook over a campfire. Where some see limitations, the Missouri native sees an opportunity to give Midwest fare the accolades it deserves. In his eyes, many have yet to experience the beauty of a well-cooked freshwater fish and he is eager to impart his wisdom. When patrons enter the restaurant, they are immediately confronted with an open kitchen complete with a stunning brasero-style, wood-fired hearth that was forged by Kevin James of J & S Welding in Holt. The primitive use of open fire is the preferred cooking method of Andrew, who believes that despite being a demanding process, it allows for optimal flavor, espe cially for meats.
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For many Midwesterners, the hearth is a place for gathering and upon which community is built. The same is true for Acre’s dazzling centerpiece. The kitchen staff can be seen constantly nurturing the element of fire throughout the evening, a process that demands a considerable amount of diligence and harmony.
Chef Andrew Longres has traveled the world throughout his culinary career, cooking in kitchens across Europe and the U.S. – the French Laundry, Bluestem, and The American Restaurant to name a few. Yet his journey has landed him back to his Northland roots and with his own restau rant, Acre, located in Parkville. The highly anticipated restaurant opened on August 2 with a mission to put Midwestern cuisine in the spotlight. With menu items such as dry-aged Duroc pork chops and Wisconsin cheese curds with pimento cheese mousse, Acre’s menu achieves a delicate balance between elevated comfort foods and unpretentious twists on classic dishes.
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envisioned a comfortable space with stellar tradi tional eats. The interior of Acre is elegant yet casual. Its relaxed setting is achieved through the natural mate rials that span the restaurant and the walnut wood pan eling throughout the 80-seat dining room. According to the chef, the space “includes all the different variations of what things need to live. Living organisms like trees, fire, wind, water.”
Trees were a significant source of inspiration for Andrew and the Kansas City-based architectural firm, Herron + Partners. Like fire, trees are an invit ing natural element that provides comfort and hos pitality. One wall that composes the bar is adorned with an impressive wine rack that is embedded with a wrought iron tree sculpture. The acoustic tiles that adorn the ceiling are etched with a tree branch pat tern and a custom painting by local painter Jennifer Janesko ties in the organic textures of the restaurant with its striking scenery. What accompanies each meal beyond the kitchen is a good ole’ helping of Midwestern hospitality. The new culinary hot spot is more concerned with how guests feel at the end of their meal than dishing out shock and awe. Despite the refined design, Acre is intent on not taking itself too seriously and takes pride in providing an approachable dining experi ence where guests can enjoy familiar favorites. It’s the fearless use of butter throughout the menu, the seasonings that would make grandma proud, and the knowledge that fried chicken will never go out of style. In the essence of genuine Midwestern hospital ity, at Acre, comfort and quality reign supreme.
“Our three pillars are amazing ingredients, exquisite execution, and genuine Midwestern hospitality.”
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“I had not focused on any creative outlets for several years, and I think everything we went through with Covid really made me start doing a little more soul searching,” says Brittany. “I realized that I missed the creative aspect of things.”
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Over the last two decades, Brittany has been busy in the design world. She’s worked on (and been on!) HGTV television shows, built up clientele and rela tionships while working at institutions like Holly Hunt, and launched her own sales rep business. She became a mother six years ago and moved to Kansas City from Chicago with her husband and son shortly after. Between all of that, there just didn’t seem to be time to create things with her own hands. But during the pan demic, like many of us, Brittany found some time.
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Brittany Romero has been a steward of wallpaper for years. She’s an independent sales representative that represents artists and designers under her business, The Beverly Collection, managing lines of wallpaper, fabric, and lighting. But while Brittany was surrounded by art both in her home and her work, it had been years since she had created anything herself.
“As a sales rep, I find it really satisfying to be a cura tor of all of these different lines, but I wasn't creating,” says Brittany. “I was just curating and so I guess the inspiration was just that. One day I sat down and started sketching again and it all just kind of came out.”
With Brittany’s background in the design industry, translating hand-drawn art to wallpaper was a no-brainer. She took her sketches — inspired by her garden or the music she was listening to — and worked with a collabo rator, who created the repeating patterns necessary for wallpaper, and made her own wallpaper line. It’s called Beverly-Jane, named after her grandmother and mother. HER
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While the patterns may vary in subject matter or feel, the collection has an ageless quality that connects them as a whole.
Brittany’s resulting wallpaper line has a lit tle bit of something for everyone. The designs range from simple, traditional lines to bold geometric patterns. She has floral patterns, like her “Honeysuckle Rose” design (named after the Fats Waller jazz song and seen on the oppo site page, bottom right) and some of the wallpa per even seems to have a bit of an Art Deco feel. The patterns and colorways are named after things like cocktails, natural elements, and jazz musicians, and the wallpaper is made of various materials, such as faux silk, grass cloth, textured artist paper, and vinyl.
“Because I had started collecting vintage pieces for props for my wallpaper photos, I was really in the vintage mode and I just thought, why not give it a try to just do a monthly vin tage market,” says Brittany. “While we aren't open all of the time, I’m revamping and bring ing in new pieces and I hope that it gives peo ple something to look forward to.”
“I want it to feel like something that's been in existence for a long time, that's not neces sarily new, and I definitely don't want to be designing wallpapers that are trendy,” says Brittany. “I want it to feel timeless and to feel nostalgic and comfortable.”
Of course, some may think wallpaper is dated or may harbor resentment toward the medium after tricky removal jobs, but it has seen a renaissance in recent years. Brittany says newer products are a definite improvement to what most of us are familiar with removing from dated houses and believes the revival comes from the fact that “people started missing hav ing fun patterns on the wall.” While in the process of launching her wall paper line, Brittany started looking for a space to house her wallpaper material that could also act as a studio and presentation space for the Beverly Collection. She found the perfect space in historic downtown Weston, though the space was far bigger than she needed. While she could utilize the upstairs for Beverly-Jane and the Beverly Collection, she needed to figure out what to do with the downstairs space and felt the building was far too beautiful not to be open to the public. A monthly antique market proved the solution.
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Modeled after First Fridays in Kansas City, Brittany’s vintage and antique market, ElseWares, is open the second weekend of each month. Brittany collected many of the pieces
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That sense of comfort, through vintage pieces with a history, cer tainly comes through in her eclectic shop as well as her wallpaper line. The feel the entire shop curates is what inspired its name, Else-Wares.
“I just want people to feel inspired and cozy,” says Brittany. “I don't ever want a space to feel too cluttered, but I want it to feel like it has a soul. That's really important to me. I think that having pieces that speak to you and that have a history are really important.”
While Brittany struggles to describe her personal design style, she does have a clear sense of how she hopes her wallpaper line and antique store make people feel.
“Whenever you walk into our shop, we just want you to feel that you are elsewhere,” Brittany explains. “Not necessarily that you can put your finger on the time or the place, but we just want you to walk in and just have a sense of being transported somewhere delightful.”
“I initially wanted to focus on French antiques and gifts but I am a maximalist and I have a hard time just zeroing in on one country because I love so many things from all over,” says Brittany. “So the vibe is definitely more European and I do have quite a few pieces from France but I'm glad that I didn't limit myself to just one nation of inspiration.”
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You can visit Else-Wares the second weekend of each month or by appointment at 414 Main Street in Weston and you can follow the shop on Instagram at @elsewaresweston . You can see the wallpaper and fabric lines Brittany represents with The Beverly Collection at thebevcollection.com and see her own wallpaper line, Beverly-Jane, at beverlyjanetextiles.com
in the shop on her drives between Kansas City and her hometown of Amarillo, Texas.
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Jack reached for a royal blue with a fat ribbon around a slanted boxy crown. It looked like something Queen Elizabeth might wear.
Better known as Hatman Jack, Jack is a soft-spoken, genuinely warm observer of the human face. Choosing the right hat begins with understanding the shape and coloring of each individual face, according to Jack.
We walked around the counter of his store in Wichita’s historic Delano district and into a workroom filled with sewing machines, irons, and steamers. One wall was filled with shelves holding hundreds of wooden blocks, similar to heads of all shapes and sizes. These are the tools, some of them dating to the 1800s, that Kellogg and his small staff use to create custom hats or customize previously manufactured hats to adhere to each customer’s individual face shape and coloring.
“Your face is almost a heart shape, which is great to work with,” he said looking at me with benign objectivity. “It’s slightly longer than it is wide at the widest point and narrows at the chin.”
But round faces, square faces, bold chins or noses, Kellogg has worked with them all and created a pleasing look.
Me? I put on a hat and it looks like something died on my head. That is, until I visited Jack Kellogg in Wichita.
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“You want the crown shape to be a contrast to the shape of your face,” Jack says.
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“The queen has a great milliner,” says Jack. “Notice the queen’s hats the older she gets. The brim tilts up ever so slightly. It’s like an immedi ateJackfacelift.”then positioned the hat on my head. Unless I received an invitation to tea with the Queen, I could never imagine myself wearing such a thing, but it worked.
I love people who can wear hats. They are so classy, so polished, so panache.
A second showroom filled with literally thou sands of hats appropriate for men and women created a colorful array of feathers, ribbons, textures, and accents. Fedoras, fascinators, bowlers, berets, bonnets, Panamas, pillboxes, porkpies, and so on.
Jack was awarded 2022 Retailer of the Year by The Headwear Association. His shop in Wichita is the third largest hat shop in the U.S.
“Blue,” he says, “is your color. It really brings out your eyes.” In any other setting, his words could have been a bad pick-up line, but Jack was all business. I pointed to a bright yellow hat with a big floppy brim, but he wouldn’t even take it off the wall. Yellow is not my color and the brim too big. Jack says it’s equally important to under stand an individual’s “vibe.” So he picked up a sassy straw hat with a medium brim and colorful green ribbon and positioned it on my head, tipping it ever so slightly to the left and bending the brim up just a bit. Then he snatched it off my head and disappeared into the back room where he steamed the brim into place. The final product was perfect for me. I was not the Queen of England, but wow, for a girl from Platte County, Missouri, it looked pretty good.
WHO IS HATMAN JACK?
“I was not the Queen of England, but wow, for a girl from Platte County, Missouri, it looked pretty good.”
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You might as well spend a day or two in Wichita flaunting your new hat. Consider the Home2 Suites in the Delano district as your base. It is within sight of Hatman Jack’s, the riverfront baseball stadium, home of the Wichita Wind Surge and a couple of great restaurants. The Keeper of the Plains, whose nightly lighting on the Arkansas River is an event, is also within walking distance. For more information, visit visitwichita.com
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Anyone who knows Wichita knows that Kellogg Avenue is a major east-west thor oughfare that is finally complete after nearly two decades of construction. That long ago Kellogg was a distant cousin to the Hatman and a postmaster in Wichita. In 1922, the Kellogg family opened a feed store a few blocks from where Jack would eventually open his hat store. At age 15, he began working in a dry cleaner, where he learned about the proper care of hats. By 18, he had opened a hat shop with a friend and a few years later, Hatman Jack’s wasJackborn.loves movies and loves Humphrey Bogart’s hats. The entire “Indiana Jones” series was a great boost for the hat business. But no movie or TV show has ever had the influence on the profession as has the current show “Yellowstone” starring Kevin Costner. Jack and team have created hats for characters in that show, as well as a dozen more movies and TV shows.
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ATKINS-JOHNSON FARM AND MUSEUM | 9:00 AM
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Atkins-Johnson through the Eyes of Young Artists
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PARKING LOT IN FRONT OF THE KEARNEY SCHOOL DISTRICT BUILDING | 5:00 PM
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