May partner meeting announced

By Johnny Szlauderbach

NEWS — APR 23, 2025

Freedom’s Frontier NHA will hold its next partner meeting on Monday, May 19 at the Johnson County Museum in Overland Park, KS.

The meeting’s program will focus on emergency management and disaster preparations. Partners and experts will speak on their experiences and provide best practices for implementing mitigation strategies. There will also be time for questions, networking, tours, and snacks.

The meeting space opens at 12:45 p.m. The program will begin at 1 p.m. and end at 4 p.m.

Please note: A catered lunch is not planned for this meeting. The deadline to guarantee seating is Wednesday, May 14.

Partner Meetings are among FFNHA’s primary means of fulfilling its mission. The events, which include speakers, breakout sessions, and best-practices seminars, encourage communication between the organization, FFNHA partners, and the communities they serve.

Freedom’s Frontier National Heritage Area (FFNHA) builds awareness of struggles for freedom in western Missouri and eastern Kansas. Established by Congress in 2006, FFNHA covers a unique physical and cultural landscape across 41 counties and 31,000 square miles. It promotes three diverse, interwoven, and nationally significant stories: frontier settlement, the Missouri-Kansas Border War and Civil War, and enduring civil rights disputes. FFNHA inspires respect for multiple perspectives and empowers area residents to preserve and share these stories, achieving its goals through interpretation, preservation, conservation, and education for all residents and visitors. It is one of 62 federally recognized National Heritage Areas across the United States.