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All Fired Up Print E-mail
Summer 2007 - Shopping and Lodging
Written by Evangeline McMullen   
altAll Fired Up, Kansas City, Missouri

Other than a clever pun, it’s hard to decide what to call All Fired Up. To potential patrons, it seems to be a store, art studio and alternative Friday night destination rolled into one. Teddy Wright, All Fired Up’s creator and owner, has a quick solution.
“I would call it a paint-your-own-pottery studio,” she says.

All Fired Up’s environment is hard not to love. Vividly colored handprints cover the right-hand wall, evidence of the children who have enjoyed a birthday party here. Shelves upon shelves line other walls, stacked from floor to ceiling with both finished and unfinished pottery. Every imaginable creation is on display, from a mug bigger than a person’s head to a clever plate with ridges designed to keep tacos upright.

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Summer 2007 - Shopping and Lodging
Written by Laura Prather   
altDepot Inn and Suites, La Plata, Missouri

Set up like an old railroad station, the Depot Inn and Suites signals its customers with its friendly atmosphere just as the trains that pass through signal their presence with a blow of a whistle.

The Depot Inn and Suites, located off Highway 63 in La Plata, Mo., first opened its doors in May 2006. Kelly and Thomas O. Marshall, owners of the Depot Inn and Suites, said they discussed the possibility of starting their own hotel for quite some time before actually acting on it.

“Kelly and I, for a number of years, have always talked about how owning a hotel would be kind of fun,” Tom said. “Then when the new highway development started and we knew there was a new restaurant going in and all this new development, we decided that this spot was really good. We’re just a nine-minute drive from Kirksville.”

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