Wipe your feet at the door, feel free to sit on the furniture and use the restroom. Fred and Mabel-Ruth Anheuser’s home, aka the Anheuser Estate, in the country near Kimmswick, welcomes visitors on Thursday afternoons and during special events. Anheuser Estate The stately house belonged to ...
Sleuthing for Stalactite Tombstones
“So this is what we come to – our final resting place becomes a repository for old long underwear bottoms and empty Pringles cans," said biologist Eugene Vale, as he looked down into a narrow gravesite surrounded by old concrete walls. I looked and saw what he was referring to, for there inside the ...
Missouri’s Shut-Ins Offer Summertime Thrills and Spills
Many families spend hundreds of dollars in the summer standing in line for hours at Missouri’s waterparks. Why pay money to slip and slide down a plastic chute of rapidly moving water, or float in a man-made current, when you can take advantage of Missouri’s natural waterparks? In fact, if you want ...
Why I Love Country Auctions
“Hey lady, point your finger one more time and that’ll be yours!” said a guy next to me who noticed how my animated conversation with my pal at a country auction was attracting the attention of the auctioneer. (I think I was inadvertently bidding on a garden tiller. No problem – we could use ...
Museums of Missouri #4: The Vacuum Cleaner Museum in St. James
It’s not the stuff that museums are made of … it’s the stories associated with the stuff that make museums interesting. You will find plenty of stories associated with the main character—a vacuum cleaner—here at this unusual museum in St. James, Mo. Its curator, Tom Gasko, is the chief storyteller ...
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