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Last weekend, I got to serve as host and/or trade messages with four Disney greats. Here's how that happened. The previous weekend in Kansas City, Missouri a not-for-profit group called Thank You Walt Disney, Inc. held its annual fundraising party and auction, "Cocktails and Cartoons", to support the...

In 1938, Walt Disney wrote, "More things of importance happened to me in Marceline than have happened since--or are likely to in the future." On the third Saturday of each September since 1999, Toonfest has taken place in the town that inspired Main Steet, U.S.A. in California, Florida, Japan, France...

Two talented people who worked with Walt Disney at the beginning and at the end of his incredibly productive career as a filmmaker will be in Kansas City, Missouri on Saturday, October 8 to help raise funds to save the building where it all began. Laugh-O-Gram Films, Inc. was the first Walt Disney company...

As late as the afternoon of Thursday, September 22, large banners were prominently displayed around the massive grounds of the Henry Ford museum in Dearborn, Michigan announcing that " Behind the Magic: Fifty Years of Disneyland " would be open on Friday, September 23, 2005. But it was not so. Due to...

Some people claim that the first theme park was created by Henry Ford. There is no doubt that Ford's Greenfield Village near the massive Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan was a major influence on Walt Disney's design of Disneyland . '; dc.write(''); dc.write(' '); //--> Advertisement That is one...