The Recollection Agency is based in Missouri, a state with a wide and deep history. Having lived almost all of his years in the state, Trevor Harris remains inquisitive about the 24th state. As a way to marry that wonderment and the history all around him
In 1976, Barbara and Tom Johnson moved from California to Missouri. In the past nearly 50 years, they built a home and had a family. As the Johnson kids grew up they realized there really was something to this homesteading thing. This episode of the Mo’ Curious podcast happens in two-parts. This first half of […]
Webb City's large-scale compost project is rebuilding soil denuded by long-gone lead and zinc interests. Birds like it, too.
A growing number of sites in St. Louis reflect the region's importance to 19th century freedom seekers
With roots traced back to enslaved Missourians, Lucille H. Douglass and Oralee McKinzy are using history to help educate and heal the community.
Sustaining community radio in Columbia has been, well, a community effort
The Bosnian diaspora in St. Louis is preserving their culture while learning The American Way.
St. Louis Bosnian population is influencing the region's religious life, building economic and civic organizations and partaking in recreation. (Think soccer.)
In this episode, we listen to the oral histories of Margot McMillen. We hear from a river boat captain, a train engineer and an independent woman. These and several dozen other Missourians were the subjects of Margot’s late 1970s oral history recordings. At that time, Margot was a young mother of two, a graduate student […]
On January 1, 1939, 1,500 Missourians went on strike. They were tired of hard work, being poor and living in shacks. This podcast explores what that strike means today to one Missouri community.
Back in 1939, the world was a different place. For one thing, there were a lot more people involved in farming. In Missouri’s Bootheel region, this meant bodies were needed to grow cotton. Under the sharecropper model, those Missourians who grew cotton had no guarantees of a wage. They could be evicted anytime from the […]
Madelyn Paine remembers getting weighed at the Dalton elevator. Diane Pippens feels her light skin helped her pass for white or Mexican when she integrated her town's high school. William Payne recalls the town's annual reunion where he met his future wife. It was at Dalton, Missouri's annual reunion in 2021 that I did my […]
Missouri's cooperative culture is alive and well in Scotland County.
Almost as long as there has been a Missouri, there have been idealists in our midst. In 1844, “Doctor” Wilhelm Keil and his followers established the German Communal Society of Bethel in Northeast Missouri. They were followed by an Icarian outpost in 1858 near St. Louis. In this episode of Mo’ Curious, you’ll learn about […]
The stones that make up Missouri are old. Find out how old and how they came to be in this episode.
Or how some long-time Kansas City residents became long-time.
Interstate 70 bisects Missouri from East to West. The roadway's impacts on residents are wide-ranging.
Coal mining created its own culture across Missouri. Here's some of the stories of those miners and their families.
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