It’s an event that I’d always wanted to attend, but always found myself out of town or otherwise occupied. Fortunately, I could go to this year’s E. Marie’s Junk Fest, held Sat., June 2. As you may have figured out, I’m a junker – mostly, because I love the stories and often, interesting history, ...
Museums of Missouri #3: Holocaust Museum & Learning Center
Sometimes, it’s the simple thing that we take away from the complex idea. In this case, a metal cup hangs suspended by 2 strings in a glass case at the Holocaust Museum & Learning Center in St. Louis. That cup represents a Jewish prisoner’s sole dinner implement during incarceration at a ...
Portraits of Courage on Display at Wonders of Wildlife
You know how sometimes you read about something and you want to see it? You hope that someday you’ll see it? That started for me when I was a girl, when I read about Da Vinci’s "Mona Lisa," housed at the Louvre Museum in Paris. Then, I saw it. I read about Lewis and Clark’s journals from their ...
Museums of Missouri #2: Sikeston Depot Museum
Throughout the course of writing this column, I have visited many museums that have tried to capture what life was like in their sections of Missouri. Never have I seen such a time capsule, a collection of history, sentiment and modern community life, as the one on display in the Sikeston Depot ...
Museums of Missouri #1: Mastodons in Missouri at the State Historic Site in Imperial
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 ...
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