Show-Me Missouri Life

John W. Brown is an author, television anchor, traveler, and storyteller, with a great passion for Missouri's people, places, and historical events. (He prefers not to be called a historian, but we k…

Back in 1939, the world was a different place. For one thing, there were a lot more people involved in farming. In the Bootheel of Missouri, this meant cotton. Under the sharecropper model, those Mis…

Madelyn Paine remembers getting weighed at the Dalton elevator. Diane Pippens feels her light skin helped her pass for white or Mexican when she integrated her town's high school. William Payne recal…

Episode 6—Digging Deep: Macon County Mining Memories.

Climate change requires adaptation and, as a result, Missourians are now powering their lives with less pollution and more renewable energy. Wind…

Kansas City is a city of neighborhoods. In this episode of Mo' Curious, Trevor Harris introduces us to a trio of long-time residents of Beacon Hill. These neighbors explain how the place they call ho…

Episode 4 of the Mo' Curious by Missouri Life looks at the history of I-70, with a particular focus on how this busy highway is woven into the culture of communities across the Show-Me State. The epi…

Here comes part two in our exploration of communes in Missouri. We look at utopian communities from the nineteenth century as well as our more recent pass, talking with experts who have studied them …

Here comes part one in our exploration of communes in Missouri. We look at utopian communities from the nineteenth century as well as our more recent pass, talking with experts who have studied them …