Speaker 1: Caalaroga Shock Media. Hey there of Johnny Mack with five
Speaker 1: good news stories. The hottest meeting spot in Kansas City
Speaker 1: is a railroad bridge. That's right. It's a one hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty year old railroad bridge that once carried trains
Speaker 1: across the Kansas River. The Rock Island Bridge has reopened
Speaker 1: as a destination featuring restaurants and events based scenic walking
Speaker 1: paths and panoramic river views. That's right. The redevelopment cost
Speaker 1: twenty million dollars. Engineers discovered the bridge's original steel structure
Speaker 1: was remarkably well preserved. They to replace a few bolts
Speaker 1: and clean up some rust, but much of the one
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty year old framework remained intact. Today, visitors
Speaker 1: can stroll across the bridge for free, dying at a
Speaker 1: restaurant built into the historic trusses, not for free or
Speaker 1: tent concerts, markets and community events overlooking the river. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: on Kent, England, a pair of weathered garden ornaments that
Speaker 1: had been dismissed as old concrete decorations turned out to
Speaker 1: be rare eighteenth century Italian marble sculptures worth thousands of dollars.
Speaker 1: These statues were discovered during a house sale where they
Speaker 1: had spent years sitting outside with the garden plants. The
Speaker 1: homeowner believed they were just, you know, concrete ornaments, but
Speaker 1: in a state sale expert noticed something unusual. After closer inspection,
Speaker 1: the bus were identified as hand carved marble sculptures created
Speaker 1: in Florence, Italy, sometime between seventeen twenty and seventeen thirty.
Speaker 1: The two figures depict Apollo, the Greek god of music
Speaker 1: in the sun, and Diana, the goddess of the hunt
Speaker 1: and the moon. Experts believe they may have once decorated
Speaker 1: a grand estate or formal garden before making their way
Speaker 1: to Britain during the era of the Grand Tour, when
Speaker 1: wealthy travelers would turned home with European art and antiques.
Speaker 1: In France, one of the most famous museums has opened
Speaker 1: a gallery unlike any other. The goal is for every
Speaker 1: piece on display to leave The Messelle d'urse has created
Speaker 1: a permanent exhibition featuring artwork stolen during the Nazi occupation
Speaker 1: of France and World War Two that still have no
Speaker 1: identified rightful owners. More than one hundred thousand works of
Speaker 1: art were loose from France during the war. After the
Speaker 1: conflict ended, about sixty thousand pieces were recovered in Germany
Speaker 1: and Austria. Roughly forty five thousand of those were eventually
Speaker 1: returned to the owners, thousands remained unclaimed. The new exhibit
Speaker 1: highlights the effort to return those to the people with
Speaker 1: the proper ownership. Each artwork is accompanied by information tracing
Speaker 1: what's known about the journey from where it was found
Speaker 1: how it entered the museum collection, while also making clear
Speaker 1: what remains a mystery. In Minneapolis, a new way for
Speaker 1: local artists to share their work. You'll find it inside
Speaker 1: ink Will booksellers. Customers can insert four quarters into a
Speaker 1: vending machine and receive a mystery piece of original artwork
Speaker 1: for just the one dollar. The project was created by
Speaker 1: Lilly In, a Minnesota artist who wanted to make it
Speaker 1: easier for merging artists to sell their work and connect
Speaker 1: with new audiences. Each lot in the machine features creations
Speaker 1: from a different local artists, along with a short biography
Speaker 1: explaining who they are. Buyers never know exactly what they'll
Speaker 1: get until the small envelope drops into the tray. Since
Speaker 1: the machine was installed, as sold nearly three thousand miniature
Speaker 1: artworks with every dollar going directly to the artists. Several
Speaker 1: artists reported that customers later sought them out at art
Speaker 1: fairs and purchased additional pieces and good news from Mark,
Speaker 1: he was reunited with his wallet that he lost thirty
Speaker 1: years ago. Here's the twist, he didn't even know he
Speaker 1: had lost it. Mark's wallet was discovered during a community
Speaker 1: cleanup beneath overgrown vegetation in what had once been a
Speaker 1: private garden. Inside was a collection of memories from the
Speaker 1: early nineties, including a membership card for Leeds United's at
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety two season, back when Dexter covered the club
Speaker 1: for The Yorkshire Evening Post. Mark has no memory of
Speaker 1: even losing the wallet. He said he spent a lot
Speaker 1: of time in the area but doesn't remember being over
Speaker 1: that way. His best guests is somebody stole the wallet
Speaker 1: after night out thirty years ago. He looked back at
Speaker 1: his thirty year old photo ID and reflected that yeah,
Speaker 1: he was thirty years old, loved working in journalism and
Speaker 1: was simply enjoying life. Good attitude and those your five
Speaker 1: good news stories for today, have a good one.