Happy Birthday, Joplin! – Newstalk KZRG
2:30 p.m. Thursday, March 23, 2023: The celebration will begin at 2:30 p.m.in the City Council Chambers on the 5th floor of City Hall, 602 S. Main ...
2:30 p.m. Thursday, March 23, 2023: The celebration will begin at 2:30 p.m.in the City Council Chambers on the 5th floor of City Hall, 602 S. Main Street. Missouri's greatest 20th-century painter, Thomas Hart Benton, began his career as a professional artist in Joplin, Missouri. Nearly seven decades later and in his eighties the artist returned to present his mural Joplin at the Turn of Century – 1896-1906 to Joplin for its 100th Birthday. This year, for Joplin's Sesquicentennial celebration, local historian Brad Belk will outline Benton's teenage days as a sketch artist for the Joplin American newspaper.