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Show Me The State: The Disappearance Of Paw Paw French
Show Me The State - February 22, 2021 21:53 - 25 minutes - ★★★★★ - 47 ratingsFrench settlers colonized southeast Missouri over 200 years ago. And with them came the French language and culture.
Show Me The State: Which State Saved The Wine Industry?
Show Me The State - February 09, 2021 20:21 - 24 minutes - ★★★★★ - 47 ratingsAbout 150 years ago in the vineyards of southern France, winemakers start to notice their vineyards aren’t looking healthy. They rack their brains but can’t figure out what is devouring the crops. Samples are taken, scientific investigations mounted and letters for help are sent out across the gl...
Show Me The State: Barbara Papish
Show Me The State - January 25, 2021 17:02 - 23 minutes - ★★★★★ - 47 ratingsIn 1969, graduate student Barbara Papish hands out an underground newspaper on the University of Missouri Columbia campus. The Free Press Underground issue features a cartoon on the cover depicting police officers raping the Statue of Liberty and Lady Justice. The words “With Liberty and Justice ...
Show Me The State: Diamond Billy
Show Me The State - January 12, 2021 15:53 - 27 minutes - ★★★★★ - 47 ratingsOn some days in the early 1900s, you could walk out to the railroad tracks near the Iowa border and watch rail cars full of horses moving in and out of Missouri. Occasionally, also in those cars are elephants, lions and monkeys.
Show Me The State: The Fulton Flash
Show Me The State - December 27, 2020 19:17 - 29 minutes - ★★★★★ - 47 ratingsHelen Stephens starts high school in Fulton in 1931. She’s a gangly, gravelly-voiced farm girl dressed in homemade clothes. Her classmates tease her with the unfortunate moniker “Popeye.” Helen takes it in stride with humor, attempting to own her identity - a feat for any teenager.
Show Me The State: Percy Green
Show Me The State - December 15, 2020 17:14 - 24 minutes - ★★★★★ - 47 ratingsWhen the St. Louis Arch was being built in 1964, no Black workers had been hired for the construction crew.
Show Me The State: Laura Ingalls Wilder
Show Me The State - October 28, 2019 20:29 - 28 minutes - ★★★★★ - 47 ratingsLaura Ingalls Wilder’s journey to becoming a worldwide author is interlaced with pure hardship.
Show Me The State: Lake Of The Ozarks
Show Me The State - October 21, 2019 19:34 - 27 minutes - ★★★★★ - 47 ratingsToday, on a map, Lake of the Ozarks looks like a sprouting, twisting tree root that covers 86 square miles. The over 1000 miles of shoreline are dotted with resorts and cabins.
Show Me The State: Sunken Steamboats Of The Missouri River
Show Me The State - October 09, 2019 15:17 - 27 minutes - ★★★★★ - 47 ratingsIn the steamboat’s glory days right before the Civil War, there would be on average, 60 boats traveling through different ports along the Missouri River each day. Cargo of agricultural products, furs and settlers would move up and down the river. From St. Louis to Montana.
Show Me The State: The Gay Purge
Show Me The State - October 01, 2019 17:45 - 28 minutes - ★★★★★ - 47 ratingsIn the 1940s and ‘50s, designated police officers and university administrators were on the lookout for gay students and faculty.
Show Me The State: The Lost Disney Park
Show Me The State - September 22, 2019 17:00 - 28 minutes - ★★★★★ - 47 ratingsWalt Disney famously spent a good chunk of his youth growing up in Missouri. Just ask the residents of Marceline, Walt’s boyhood town.
Show Me The State: Jim The Wonder Dog
Show Me The State - March 25, 2019 16:28 - 25 minutes - ★★★★★ - 47 ratingsHow many tricks can your dog do? Sit? Stay? Rollover?
Show Me The State: The Honey War
Show Me The State - March 11, 2019 20:10 - 25 minutes - ★★★★★ - 47 ratingsDid you know Missouri and Iowa almost went to war in the 1800s? Each claimed ownership over a strip of land along the border and believed it had the right to tax the people living there.
Show Me The State: Missourah? Or Missouree? Who's right?
Show Me The State - February 25, 2019 15:24 - 25 minutes - ★★★★★ - 47 ratingsHow do you pronounce Missouri? And why do you say it that way?
Show Me The State: Sedalia Tries To Steal The Capital
Show Me The State - February 11, 2019 16:01 - 29 minutes - ★★★★★ - 47 ratingsWhat would the state look like today if the capital wasn't Jefferson City? But Sedalia?
Show Me The State: The Legend Of Doc Annie
Show Me The State - January 28, 2019 18:28 - 23 minutes - ★★★★★ - 47 ratingsIf you grew up in 1970s Poplar Bluff, you likely heard of the story of Doc Annie. Legend has it, Doc Annie was a witch-like woman who operated a haunted hospital in the woods. She kept fetuses in jars of formaldehyde there. She also would throw babies into an old well called “the pit.”
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