Category: Missouri
The Route 66 Neon Park
This is the 100th anniversary of Route 66 and that has many people traveling the old route and reliving its glory years. In one town,…
The Churchill Memorial
Imagine a building project that involved moving 7000 large stones across the Atlantic Ocean to reconstruct a building that was about 400 years old. That’s…
Where the Words Were Delivered
Most of us after heard of the phrase, “the iron curtain” to describe the communist countries of eastern Europe during the Cold War. That phrase…
Predicting the State of the World For Decades to Come
Just two months after the Allies won the European theatre of World War II, the leader of Great Britain, Winston Churchill, lost reelection. The now…
Where Doctor Training Began
Thirty percent of all doctors trained in the U.S. have this distinction. The story of how it all began can be traced to one small…
Turning To a New Occupation
Andrew wanted to be a farmer, but when a drought wiped out his crop, he had thoughts of teaching school. When the pay wasn’t enough…
One of the Longest and Best Known Acts in the Country
It had an inauspicious beginning. A variety show held in the basement of city hall that attracted a couple dozen patrons seated in metal folding…
The Baldknobbers
They were called the Baldknobbers – a group of vigilantes that roamed the Ozarks dispensing justice as they saw fit. The group still exists but…
The Lake of the Ozarks
In the 1930s, it became the largest lake in the world. Interestingly, that record-setter was nestled in the undeveloped forest land of the Midwest…
Winning An Old West Shootout
John Sellers says the key to winning an old-west shootout was not quickness, but accuracy. And when you take into account how difficult it was…
