This summer at this site, watch for a series on museums of Missouri. Let's start with this cool museum in Imperial, where mastodons once roamed and now, is the home of the Mastodon State Historic Site's museum. Move over Jurassic Park. The Ice Age was here. You can experience it now by visiting ...
An Afternoon with Soda Popp
When I heard this guy’s name, I knew I had to meet his mama. “It’s Soda,” he told me last spring when I met him at the Lake of the Ozarks, where he guided hunters during turkey season. “S-O-D-A, and my last name is Popp, P-O-P-P.” Soda Popp. Soda’s mother is a 90-something, reed-like woman with a ...
Finding Porter Wagoner’s Place
Supposedly, when Bob Dylan left his hometown of Hibbing, Minn., he never looked in the rearview mirror. After a visit to West Plains, Mo., hometown of famed country music singer Porter Wagoner, I wonder if Porter ever looked back. The town named a major street after the star of the Grand Ole Opry, ...
Harry S Truman’s House
Walk through the doors of Harry S Truman's house in Independence with me on this trip. The park ranger from Anchorage adjusted his Smokey Bear hat, ordered us to spit out our gum and admonished us not to touch anything in the house. Then he led us single file to the back door of the house of Harry ...
Hosman the ‘Hubcap Man’
Here's a trip down memory lane when we traveled on Highway 63 from Missouri into Arkansas, and met Bill Hosman, aka the "Hubcap Man." But first ... Southern California, 1991 “Look Mom, there it goes!” said my young son, from the back of our ’83 Volkswagen Vanagon while we traveled on a ...
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