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Author and SHSMO editor Kimberly Harper, will talk about her new book, Men of No Reputation, examining Robert Boatright, one of the greatest con men of the early 20th century, along with the Buckfoot Gang, which operated out of towns in Jasper County and extended its large criminal syndicate throughout the Midwest. Working in concert with a […]

Kathleen Seale, coordinator of the SHSMO’s Rolla and Springfield Research Centers digs into a unique SHSMO collection that details a 1950s film technology developed by two Rolla theatre owners Rowe Carney and Tom Smith. Their invention of the rotoscope used a special single camera for filming and a cinema system to project movies in a […]