A few years back was looking for information on the Vernaz Drug Store for Maurine Achauer when I ran across a couple of photos of a dapper young man named Jimmy Kemper in the Juanita Vernaz file. He grew up in the "Good House" which was then the Kemper home. This young man ended up in New York and shared his song stylings on nationally syndicated show called Beautiful Thoughts on NBC Blue Radio. He performed in Kansas City and in Chicago as well. If anyone has heard any of his music please let us know, have yet to find any sound files. It may be that he was a comedian/songster, and he sometimes went by the name Jamie Kemper... we think. Anyway, he is still an untold story among the more notable Johnson Countians... and finding his picture really piqued this curator's enthusiasm for the gems hiding in our files!; This particular photo was not the first, but is signed to one of our founders' daughters, Liz Smiser Schwensen.
