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Hours: Monday - Friday 10AM-4PM ; Saturday 10AM-2PM About the Exhibit: Missouri Humanities, in conjunction with the Smithsonian, are proud to present Crossroads: Change in Rural America. In 1900, about 40% of Americans lived in rural areas, By 2010, less than 18% of the U.S. population lived in rural areas. In just over a century, […]
Neosho Arts Council is debuting their new Murals of Neosho Guide and Descriptive Audio Tour. Everyone can now visit the town’s murals in person or online while watching and listening to a descriptive audio tour of each piece. The audio descriptions will guide viewers through the work using descriptive language while weaving in historical and […]
This video Installation by Valerie Wedel, an art professor at William Woods University in Fulton, Missouri, features enlarged, hand-painted copies of letters that are held in the archives of the State Historical Society of Missouri. The images have been artistically “aged” for effect, crumpled, torn, and scattered to represent controversies surrounding access to historical information. […]
In the early 1900s rural farmers in southern Alabama had a hard time keeping up until the agricultural school on wheels came to town! Designed by George Washington Carver, it was an innovative solution for sharing different farming techniques with farm families.
The documentary “Far East Deep South” will be shown and discussed by producer Baldwin Chiu. The film tells his own family’s search for their roots in the Mississippi Delta, during the era of racial segregation. Park Ranger Nick Sacco will provide a historical background on U.S. laws restricting Chinese immigration. Peter Tao, a leader of […]
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