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Kernels of Culture: Maize Around the World (May 3, 2024 – March 31, 2025) at the Stephen and Peter Sachs Museum at the Missouri Botanical Garden focuses on the complex story of one of the world’s most important crop plants, maize (Zea mays), which is used by billions of people every day, for food, for […]
A series of six exhibitions and presentations, curated and implemented by Dr. Billie Follensbee, Museum Studies Program Coordinator, exploring the history and culture of the Ozarks October 2024-September 2025 at the Park Central Library Branch, Springfield, MO. This exhibition series is supported by a Missouri Humanities Council Major Grant. This exhibition and presentation series features […]
The State Historical Society of Missouri invites the public to visit a new exhibition, Wild Missouri – the ART of Conservation, open now through March 29, 2025, at the SHSMO Art Gallery located in the Center for Missouri Studies, 605 Elm St., Columbia. A public reception featuring the exhibit’s curator Joan Stack and photographer Noppadol […]
Sponsored by Matt & Ashley McConnell. Ardith Goodwin’s much-anticipated book, Penwonderative, is the first in her ""Predictably Unpredictable"" series, set in the fantastical Land of Ardithian. This children’s fantasy tale is a vibrant fusion of imaginative storytelling and intricate world-building, filled with hope and wonder. After 15 years of bringing the Fantastical Characters of Ardithian to […]
The Linwood Gathering is a community event in which all participants of the community can come meet & greet others from their area, development positive relationships, share ideas and more. All while enjoying Live Music, Food and Games for All Ages.
The presentation gives the background of Wooldridge, Missouri and it’s historic decline. The fire burned half the town in ninety minutes. I present audio recordings of the participants and some of the illustrative videos that show the intensity of the fire. This was the largest fire that some of the most seasoned first responders in […]
The Beekeeper is a feature-length drama about three generations of families in rural, Missouri. Taking place within the confines of a summer afternoon, this evocative drama explores the ramifications of an affair between a beekeeper and his’s sons girlfriend, already a single mother, who has become pregnant. Spurned by the beekeeper, the girlfriend tells the […]
The Beekeeper is a feature-length drama about three generations of families in rural, Missouri. Taking place within the confines of a summer afternoon, this evocative drama explores the ramifications of an affair between a beekeeper and his’s sons girlfriend, already a single mother, who has become pregnant. Spurned by the beekeeper, the girlfriend tells the […]
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