The docents at the KATY Depot Visitors Center in Sedalia regularly receive inquiries about the city and its ragtime heritage. Since the folks there are quite busy with local business and traffic, they pass along many of the inquiries to me. I am grateful for the opportunity to meet new ragtime enthusiasts and to have something productive to pass my time. In addition, I am fascinated by the history of a community that briefly nurtured America’s music and has promoted their heritage through the Scott Joplin Ragtime Festivals for the last 47 years.
Occasionally there are those who want to thoroughly research the community and I have compiled a bibliography to further that pursuit. Simply email me at my address at the end of this column and I’ll gladly send it along.
