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cowboy chic
Filmmaker, professor, musician, collector ... Benjamin Meade’s Kansas City home is as eclectic as his soul
here stands an unassuming red brick house on Charlotte Street in Kansas City, MO, and while it may look simple on the outside, the inside tells a very different tale. A small, iron gurney from the 1800s that once carried deceased children sits to the side of the fireplace. A 90-year-old Czecho- slovakian bass is perched on a stand on the other side. Cowboy hats hang in the foyer next to country western framed prints. American Indian medicine bags made from fox pelts—containing human teeth, hair and beads “to give you a little power”—adorn the walls. Dr. Benjamin Meade calls it “cowboy chic.” t
Words SAMANTHA COLLINS Photos JILL DIMARTINO
10 vintagekc summer 2016
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