Missouri on Mic
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Missouri on Mic is an oral history and journalism project from KBIA staff and students documenting stories of Missourians in the state's 200th year. Catch new episodes on KBIA 91.3 FM and KBIA.org every Monday at 8:45 AM during Morning Edition or at 4:45 PM during All Things Considered.Special thanks to the State Historical Society of Missouri (SHSMO) and True False Film Fest for partnering with KBIA on this series, and to Missouri Humanities and the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute (RJI) for their support for the series. Big thanks to the Burney Sisters for providing music for the project. You can follow the Burney Sisters on https://www.facebook.com/TheBurneySisters or learn more at https://theburneysisters.comTo learn more about the story behind this collaborative project and how to produce something similar in your community, check out our Tool Box website here.
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Lorry Myers: 'I love to see the young people that grew up here move away and come back ...'
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May 16, 2025 |
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Chris Cox: 'I don't think we're that far apart'
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May 16, 2025 |
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Paul Million: 'It's just like our family.'
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May 16, 2025 |
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Carol Maher: 'I'm happy to live in my little bubble on my little farm.'
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May 16, 2025 |
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Charlotte Wolpers Craig: “Southeast Missouri has long been a tremendously underserved area in terms of rescues for animals."
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Dec 26, 2022 |
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Mike Shane: “The newspaper – they wanted weekly articles about museum exhibits, and so, I got voted to write those articles."
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Dec 19, 2022 |
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Sue Crites Szostak: “As I grew up, I found out that books were my passion because they took me anywhere I wanted to go.”
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Dec 12, 2022 |
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John Stanard: "The Daily American Republic’ is the successor after many, many names of the first newspaper in Butler County.”
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Dec 05, 2022 |
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Diana Moxon: “As a child, I always felt like the world was this huge and exciting place… and that my adventure lay far beyond the borders of the town.”
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Nov 28, 2022 |
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J.R. Patterson: “You can do whatever you want… ideas can be endless.”
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Nov 21, 2022 |
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Cheryl Huffman: "Really the crazy jellies didn't really come around til probably this season."
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Nov 14, 2022 |
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Kate Sandefur: "We wanted to start getting together again with kids, other children, and we felt like the safest place to do it was outside.”
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Nov 07, 2022 |
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Joyce Slater: The Tale of the Sallybally
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Oct 31, 2022 |
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Toni Howe & Cate Oakley: “They know if you’re with Grandma, you're gonna go to the library.”
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Oct 24, 2022 |
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Jason Haxton: "The story is Andrew Taylor Still. One man, 130 years ago, with an idea of bringing better health care."
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Oct 17, 2022 |
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Joe Love: “In the summertime, we would all go and pick berries, eat berries till we get sick, and then pick them and bring them home.”
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Oct 10, 2022 |
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Zac Burden: "Through these stories, you really get a sense of what Kirksville has meant to this region—to the entire state"
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Oct 03, 2022 |
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Larry Lewis: "Even though we had very little money, we ate like kings."
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Sep 26, 2022 |
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Sharon Pritchard: "I love to do the window and make people stop and think 'Oh my god, that's gorgeous.'"
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Sep 19, 2022 |
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William Robb: "We wanted to provide a place that it didn't matter what was in your pocket, you could still have healthy food that was delicious."
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Sep 12, 2022 |
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Brittney Like: "If you want teachers, you need to pay them."
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Sep 05, 2022 |
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Joel Kabamba: "What I want is for people to be aware of the war that is going on in my country every single day."
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Aug 29, 2022 |
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Ava Thompson: "That's how I even really found out about volleyball. I found a manga called 'Haikyū!!' that I read."
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Aug 22, 2022 |
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Hattie Berke: "Reading actually gives me more of an open-minded opinion on things and has helped teach me how to approach people in different situations"
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Aug 16, 2022 |
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Cassandra Messer: "So I actually was the first one to get a pygmy goat. And I named her Tinkerbell."
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Aug 08, 2022 |
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Abe Kropp: "We always have appreciated the way the United States helped us."
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Jul 31, 2022 |
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Jessica Kanne: "You spend so much time at school so why not call your class a family?"
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Jul 25, 2022 |
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Steve Paul: "You know, the one thing that writers leave is their work. They leave us their work."
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Jul 18, 2022 |
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Selinda LeVoir: "By the time I was five, I knew that I really wanted to be a doctor. And I've just been saying that ever since."
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Jul 11, 2022 |
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Verna Laboy: "It just adds to our life, to the quality of our life when we really explore nature."
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Jul 04, 2022 |
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Stephan Haynes: “Where there's time there's love. You taste that in the food in Missouri.”
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Jun 27, 2022 |
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Kibby Smith: “Trees are so important because they do provide beauty, but they also provide shade and cooling.”
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Jun 20, 2022 |
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Megan Gilbertson: “Our state has a lot to offer without having to drive very far in any sort of direction.”
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Jun 13, 2022 |
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Cassie Moore: “We were a very close-knit family, and we had our own family club.”
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Jun 06, 2022 |
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Van Beydler: “I think that if you haven't been to a state park – for the future, this is something that you ought to put on your bucket list.”
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May 30, 2022 |
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Sarah Stouffer-Lerch: "I want Missourians to be more in touch and more in tune with their history."
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May 23, 2022 |
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Tonya Ellis: “Reading has kind of been a thread throughout my life.”
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May 16, 2022 |
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Lisha Taylor & Leah Freeman: “Seeing her and seeing how strong she was – I feel like that made me into the woman I am today.”
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May 09, 2022 |
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Scott Lochmueller: “It's also kind of a world immersion thing – when I arrange them, I can picture myself in the world they represent.”
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May 02, 2022 |
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Dale Amann: “I don’t have enough dirt for all the seeds I would like to grow.”
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Apr 25, 2022 |
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Lucy Barber: “I set a reading goal for myself – to read 52 books , which came out to like one book a week.”
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Apr 18, 2022 |
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Miguel Rodriguez: “You need to get out of town and know better the world.”
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Apr 11, 2022 |
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Tyrone Seals, Sr: “You got to find it within yourself to combat the situation and try to keep moving.”
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Apr 04, 2022 |
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Pat Wilson: “They treat the veterans so much better nowadays… back then, they gave me an honorable discharge and I got $12 in gasoline money to get home.”
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Mar 28, 2022 |
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Shelley Botts: “Crooked Betty – the biggest character I've ever had in my flock.”
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Mar 21, 2022 |
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Akshay Koppula: “If you say, ‘Hey, I'm from Missouri, and I go to this school’ – not many people know unless or until they're watching football.”
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Mar 14, 2022 |
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James Glasgow: “We're crafters. You have to have 100 different skills. That means sewing. That means having a hot glue gun any given moment.”
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Mar 07, 2022 |
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Emily Spain & Catie Critchfield's “special heart"
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Feb 28, 2022 |
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“The Brotherhood [of Pirates] is brothers and sisters united. We look out for each other no matter what.”
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Feb 14, 2022 |
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Roxie Campbell: “If we don't take care of it, we will lose a lot of our natural biodiversity and ecosystem health.”
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Feb 07, 2022 |
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Ritcha Chaudry: “I can sit on my deck, and I can look out and see fireflies in my yard.”
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Jan 31, 2022 |
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Tim Berghold: “Have an open mind and come for something that's going to be a bit of a fantasy adventure.”
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Jan 24, 2022 |
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Lana Dicus: “It’s just a great thing to have so many relatives nearby that I can count on, depend on and socialize with.”
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Jan 17, 2022 |
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Shaun Smith: “Every moment you have with your family, with your colleagues, you know, being an educator with students and parents is precious.”
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Jan 10, 2022 |
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Linda Godwin: “When you see the Earth from space – you realize that we are all in this together.”
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Jan 03, 2022 |
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Barb Bailey & Aaron Horrell: “Hopefully, we put something on the wall that speaks Missouri in a loud way. In a proud way."
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Dec 27, 2021 |
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Missouri on Mic Special: Missouri's Tradition of Oral History and Storytelling
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Dec 22, 2021 |
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Nadia Naverrete-Tindall: “I'd like Missouri to be green and to be environmentally friendly.”
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Dec 20, 2021 |
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Wayne Cummins: “Surviving the pandemic and working on the frontlines definitely made me grow a lot as a person and as a firefighter.”
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Dec 14, 2021 |
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Lisa & Gary Kremer: "It’s just this very large reset and reminder of every day – of counting every day."
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Dec 10, 2021 |
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Jackson Hotaling: In China the "transportation situation is just on a completely other level, and I will never forget that."
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Dec 06, 2021 |
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Jin Yan: “I think the ability of the people to voice their opinions [is] a very precious right and responsibility.”
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Nov 30, 2021 |
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Renee and Kenny Hulshof: “Our buildings are our history, and I would like to see Missouri do a much better job at preserving those things.”
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Nov 25, 2021 |
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Mahree Skala: “Obviously, the overt segregation days are over, but we still see the fruit of that even here in Columbia."
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Nov 17, 2021 |
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Terry Asplund: “If you don't have your history, you have nothing."
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Nov 08, 2021 |
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Megan McConachie: " I think that there's a little pocket of everywhere else here in Missouri."
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Nov 01, 2021 |
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Arden Steele: "Harry Truman and my dad were acquaintances through the American Legion."
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Oct 25, 2021 |
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Barbie Skinner Reflects on a Childhood in Ferguson, Missouri "There are three crosses – one great big cross and two little crosses – that were burned."
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Oct 18, 2021 |
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DC Smith: "We need to celebrate everything about Missouri. I think we need to tell its entire history."
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Oct 11, 2021 |
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Shiron And Elizabeth Hagen: "I wish people would learn more about the history of the actual land and give respect to it."
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Oct 04, 2021 |
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Jake Edgar: "It's so beautiful, and I wish that the rest of the country could start acknowledging it for that, rather than its negative political policies."
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Sep 27, 2021 |
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Michele Curry: "Their house is with their granddaughter now, and I've turned it into my own little space."
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Sep 20, 2021 |
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Sean Xiaohao Duan & Sharon Gygax: "The shape of Missouri has a little bit more flavor. It's a little more recognizable. We got our cute little Bootheel."
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Sep 13, 2021 |
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Sean Xiaohao Duan: "In the COVID-19 pandemic, there's a lot of anti-Asian racism and anti-Asian violence that's been spiking up, which I don't love."
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Aug 30, 2021 |
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Grace & Gaedene Vance: "I feel like the luckiest mom in the world. I had the chance to raise two absolutely fantastic people."
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Aug 23, 2021 |
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Mark Johnson and Janet Saidi: "We've got this big like 100-year Pin Oak, and just sitting out on the deck eating a popsicle – that's Missouri for me."
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Aug 16, 2021 |
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Frank Finley, Diane Lurkins and Sasha Goodnow: "Being outside gives me so much hope for my future."
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Aug 09, 2021 |
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Jane and Evie Bowen: "I think that schools in Missouri, in Columbia should get more school funding."
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Aug 02, 2021 |
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Amy Enderle: "I feel like when I drive an hour and a half, you know, maybe it's just 70 miles, but it's also like two generations."
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Jul 26, 2021 |
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Kelsey Kupferer: "Missouri needs to really reckon with the past 200 years... and think about how we are going to make the next 200 years different."
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Jul 19, 2021 |
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Randall Quisenberry Reflects on Losing His Mother: "That morning, we just talked very briefly. I later learned that the last time anybody had contact with her was Sunday night."
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Jul 17, 2021 |