Landscapes of Summertime Past
2026-06-13 10:00 - 16:00 (America/Chicago) | Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site, 7400 Grant Rd, St. Louis, MO, 63123, United States
Twenty historic sites are joining together for this event. See how our ancestors connected
with the land, in both ornamental and practical ways. Take the opportunity to enjoy the
new path through our native grasses to Little Prairie Creek. White Haven will be open from
9:30 AM to 4:30 PM with ranger presentations at the top of the hour.

Turkic Food and Art Festival
2026-06-13 11:00 - 17:00 | Dialogue Institute Kansas City, 4215 Shawnee Drive, Kansas City, 64106
Join us for a vibrant Turkish Food and Art Festival celebrating culture, community, and connection!
Enjoy a delicious variety of authentic Turkish cuisine, including freshly prepared dishes, desserts, and traditional drinks. Experience the richness of Turkish culture through live art, music, and interactive activities for all ages.
✨ What to expect:
• Authentic Turkish food and desserts
• Cultural art displays and handmade crafts
• Live music and performances
• Family-friendly activities
• A welcoming community atmosphere
Bring your friends and family and come explore the beauty of Turkish culture with us. We look forward to sharing this special day with you!

2026 French Heritage Festival
2026-06-13 11:30 - 21:00 | Lion’s Club Park, 155 Market Street, Ste. Genevieve, 63670
The Ste. Genevieve French Heritage Festival is a cultural celebration of treasured traditions, skills, cuisines, stories and musical talents of the French Creole Corridor in and around Ste. Genevieve. Held annually on the second Saturday in June, the French Heritage Festival features musical performances, storytelling, living history skill demonstrations, games and frontier folk dancing in a family friendly event set among the amazing and rare 18th century architecture of the Ste. Genevieve historic district.

Flag Day Commemorative Program: The Thirteen Colonies and Their Flags
2026-06-13 13:00 - 14:00 | George Washington Carver National Monument, 5646 Carver Road, Diamond, Missouri, 64840
Join us this Flag Day to commemorate the adoption of the American flag as the national flag of the United States on June 14, 1777, with guest storyteller and reenactor Kavan Stull.

Second Sunday- Free Days at the Museum
2026-06-14 10:00 - 16:00, 2026-07-12 10:00 - 16:00, 2026-08-09 10:00 - 16:00, 2026-09-13 10:00 - 16:00, 2026-10-11 10:00 - 16:00, 2026-11-08 10:00 - 16:00, 2026-12-13 10:00 - 16:00, 2027-01-10 10:00 - 16:00 and 8 more dates | The National Museum of Toys and Miniatures, 5235 Oak Street, Kansas City, MO 64112, Kansas City, M, 64112, United States
Bring the whole family to Free Days at the Museum. Occurring on every second Sunday of the month, Free Days provide greater access to The National Museum of Toys and Miniatures’ vast and awe-inspiring collections for visitors near and far.
All attendees can explore the Museum at no charge.

Ranger Talk: The Grants' World Tour
2026-06-28 13:00 - 14:00 | Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site, 7400 Grant Rd, St. Louis, MO, 63123, United States
Following eight years in the White House, Ulysses and Julia needed a break. What began
as a trip to London to visit their daughter, Nellie, ultimately turned into an unprecedented
2-1/2 year tour around the world. As a war hero and former president, Grant was greeted
as a celebrity and unofficial ambassador. Park Guide Jared Clark follows the Grant’s
adventure as they traveled around the world. The program is free. Call 314-842-1867 ext.
230 for reservations.

Keynote Event: Denise Kiernan
2026-06-30 18:00 - 21:00 | The Grandel Theatre, 3610 Grandel Square, St. Louis, 63103
Join Missouri Humanities in St. Louis this summer for a fireside chat with bestselling author Denise Kiernan!
Kiernan is the author of The Girls of Atomic City and The Last Castle. She will be discussing her upcoming book, Obstinate Daughters, about the writers, renegades, enslaved women, soldiers, and community leaders who ignited the fight for America’s independence.
This program is supported by the Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy, The State Historical Society of Missouri, and Anders CPA.
June 30th, 2026 │ The Grandel Theatre, St. Louis, MO
Purchase tickets at https://www.metrotix.com/events/detail/denise-kiernan

First Saturdays at Keystone: Arts, Culture & Creative Entrepreneurship
2026-07-04 | Keystone CoLAB, 800 E 18th St, Kansas City, 64108

MO-TELL's Annual Liars Contest
2026-07-10 - 2026-07-11 | Joplin Avenue Coffee Company, 506 S. Joplin Ave., Joplin, 64801
MOTELL, Missouri Storytelling organization, will be holding their annual Liars Contest July 10&11. Friday night we will open with a free storytelling concert with nationally renowned storytellers and local live music. Saturday will begin at 9:30 with a free workshop on storytelling. The contest will begin at 2:00. Come hear the whoppers and see who wins bragging rights for Missouri’s biggest liar.

Author Talk: Guerillas in Civil War Missouri
2026-07-18 13:00 - 14:00 | Field House Museum, 634 S Broadway, Saint Louis, MO, 63102, United States
The Field House Museum is pleased to welcome author and historian James Erwin!
James Erwin will speak on his book Guerillas in Civil War Missouri at the Field House Museum, Saturday, July 18th at 1:00pm. As a border state, and one with deeply divided political sentiments, the Civil War was uniquely intimate in Missouri. Besides the 26 large battles fought in the state, Missouri was the setting for countless skirmishes. Citizens and soldiers alike took part in or fell victim to the guerrilla warfare that became a characteristic of Missouri’s Civil War struggle. James Erwin will walk listeners through the key people, places, and engagements of Missouri’s guerilla war.
This program is free with limited availability in person and on Zoom. Reservations must be made in advance on our website, by calling the Museum at 314-421-4689, or by emailing info@fieldhousemuseum.org.
About the Speaker:
Jim Erwin practiced law in St. Louis for 38 years. He is the author or co-author of eight books on various local history subjects, including the Civil War in Missouri, steamboat disasters, and 200 years of notorious crimes in Missouri. His latest book (with his wife Vicki) is Ulysses and Julia Grant’s Missouri Love Story, published by the History Press in 2025.

Si Siman, the Ozark Jubilee, and Music Business at the Crossroads
2026-08-15 13:00 - 15:00 | Rolling Hills Library, St. Joseph, Missouri
Kitty Ledbetter will tell the story of Si Siman’s role in creating, developing, securing talent for, and co-producing the first continuous live network country music television show in history (and one of the first in color), the Ozark Jubilee. Almost all major country artists appeared on the Jubilee during its run from 1955 to 1960. At its peak, 25 to 30 million viewers watched the show every week, broadcast live from the Jewell Theater in Springfield, Missouri, making Springfield the third largest broadcast origination point behind New York City and Hollywood.

Women in the Archive
2026-08-19 18:00 - 19:00 | Jefferson County Library – Northwest Branch, 5680 Missouri PP, High Ridge, 63049
Dive into the untold stories of remarkable women through short vignettes centered around meaningful objects. Participants are invited to bring their own piece of women’s history, whether a family heirloom or personal memento, and join the discussion on preserving and recovering the often overlooked narratives of women’s lives.

Author Talk: The War for Missouri: 1861-1862
2026-08-22 13:00 - 14:00 | Field House Museum, 634 S Broadway, Saint Louis, MO, 63102, United States
The Field House Museum is pleased to welcome author and historian Joseph McCoskrie.
Author of War for Missouri: 1861-1862 Joseph McCoskrie will walk guests through the history detailed in his book . McCoskrie will reveal the first years of the Civil War in Missouri, a particularly bitter theatre of the American Civil War.
Join us at the Field House Museum Saturday, August 22nd at 1:00 pm to learn about the important people, places and events of the Civil War in our state!
This program is free with limited availability in person and on Zoom. Reservations must be made in advance on our website, by calling the Museum at 314-421-4689, or by emailing info@fieldhousemuseum.org.
About the Speaker:
Joseph McCoskrie is a long time Kansas City, Missouri resident currently living in Fulton, Missouri. He is a graduate of the Virginia Military Institute and is a retired Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Army. McCoskrie taught Leadership & Military History for the University of Missouri’s Army ROTC, and has been a Churchill Fellow and tour guide at the National Churchill Museum in Fulton for the past 13 years. McCoskrie’s books include The Civil War Missouri Compendium: Almost Unabridged and War for Missouri: 1861-1862.

Speaker Series: Poetry with Laureate Justin Hamm
2026-09-05 13:00 - 14:00 | Field House Museum, 634 S Broadway, Saint Louis, MO, 63102, United States
The Field House Museum is pleased to welcome Missouri Poet Laureate, Justin Hamm, for a special live performance.
Justin Hamm, named Poet Laureate in 2025, will bring his modern verse to the birthplace and boyhood home of the “Children’s Poet,” Eugene Field. Join us at the Field House Museum to enjoy an afternoon of poetry honoring the form Eugene Field held dear.
This program is free with limited availability in person and on Zoom. Reservations must be made in advance on our website, by calling the Museum at 314-421-4689, or by emailing info@fieldhousemuseum.org.
About the Speaker:
Justin Hamm is the current Missouri Poet Laureate (2025-2027). He is the author of five books of poetry—O Death, Drinking Guinness With the Dead: Poems 2007–2021, The Inheritance, American Ephemeral, and Lessons in Ruin—as well as the creator of Poet Baseball Cards and founding editor of the museum of americana. Justin was chosen as a 2024 and 2022 Woody Guthrie Poet, a 2020 Missouri Arts Council Featured Artist, a finalist for the 2018 River Styx International Poetry Prize, and the winner of the 2014 Stanley Hanks Memorial Poetry Prize.
His poems, stories, collages, and reviews have appeared in Nimrod International Journal, The Midwest Quarterly, Sugar House Review, Verse Daily, Southern Indiana Review, the New Poetry from the Midwest anthology series, and many other publications. In 2022 he delivered a performance entitled “The American Midwest: a Story in Poems” at TEDx Oshkosh, and in 2019 his poem “Goodbye, Sancho Panza” was studied by approximately 50,000 students worldwide as part of the World Scholar’s Cup curriculum.

Stone by Stone: Community Cemetery Preservation Workshops
2027-05-01 08:00 - 15:30 | Webb City Cemetery, 1811 South Oronogo Street, Webb City, Missouri, 1811 South Oronogo Street,, Webb City, MO, 64870, United States
The Jasper County Cemetery Preservation Society (JCCPS) is excited to host the inaugural Stone by Stone: Community Cemetery Preservation Workshop at Webb City Cemetery on Saturday, May 2, 2026.
This FREE community event is designed to 1) promote respectful stewardship of historic and active-burial cemeteries and 2) support the mission to protect and preserve the resting places of those who laid the foundations of our communities.
The “Stone by Stone” event workshops will feature preservation specialist Kurt Jordan, the KC Cemetery Man, and will include instruction on proper headstone cleaning, monument stabilization demonstrations, review of safety protocols, and much more!
Date: Saturday, May 2, 2026
Time: 8:00 AM – Registration
8:30 AM – Opening Remarks
8:45 AM – Demonstrations Begin
Location: Webb City Cemetery
1811 South Oronogo Street, Webb City, Missouri
A special feature of the day will include JCCPS’s annual Flower Sale. Visitors are encouraged to pick up their Memorial Day decorations for a donation which supports cemetery preservation efforts. We’re happy to help you build bouquets.
The Jasper County Cemetery Preservation Society’s facebook page is the best place for community members to see the developing schedule of events and engage with the planners. Several announcements about additional demonstrations and workshops will be finalized in the coming weeks. FREE tickets are available on the event page – please let us know you are coming.
JCCPS President Rikki Smith can be reached at 417-629-4914 for more information about the organization or event sponsorships.
