ShareThe June Traveler issue is our annual float issue. A young friend of mine, Jimmy Sherrell, said he saw this a day ago and thought of me.

What’s the best ORIGINAL caption you can come up with for these guys? There have to be hundreds of them out there.
Post your best caption here, or on [...]

ShareEven hardworking employees have to have a little fun in their lives. Last night my husband Eugene and I went to a concert in Columbia, Mo. This double bill consisted of the farewell tour of Big Smith, a Southwest Missouri family string/bar/Ozark hill band, and a reunion concert of Ozark Mountain Daredevils, a 1970s [...]

ShareAfter failing through inaction in 2008 and 2009, a bill to issue $5 gold commemorative and $1 silver commemorative coins with the likeness of Mark Twain passed the U.S. House April 18.
The bill, H.R. 2453, sponsored by Rep. Blaine Leutkemeyer whose district includes Hannibal, Missouri, would direct the U.S. Mint to make [...]

ShareIf you’re curious about bats, you’re in luck this April, starting tonight.
All events were scheduled before Monday’s news about white nose syndrome in bats being found here, but just as a sick person is more than their disease, these creatures are fascinating in their own right.
All events are free and open to the [...]

ShareYou don’t have to be trained naturalist to see that spring sprung early this year. The United States Geological Survey is interested in your observations, regardless of where you are across the country.
Nature’s Notebook needs you to get outside this spring, join many other observers across the nation, and help it reach its millionth [...]

ShareIf you’ve never heard the tale of Jim the Wonder Dog, you’re missing out. That any dog is remembered 75 years after his life is pretty amazing, but according to report, Jim was pretty amazing.
Jim apparently could answer questions in languages his master didn’t understand, predict baseball game outcomes, pick people he’d never met [...]

ShareThis via the Springfield Missouri Convention and Visitor’s Bureau:

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ShareThree natural resource items came to our attention over the weekendYou might like to check them out.

St. Louis Today had an article in the February 26 paper reporting on a benefit race run through the Crystal City Underground, the abandoned St. Peter sandstone mines under Crystal City.Dubbed “sperunking,” this is an obstacle course as [...]

ShareThere are some stories give you cold shivers when you hear them. You either internally or out loud say “YES!” and then they gnaw around inside your brain until you either have to write it or go insane.
This is one of those stories. I’m not sure if it is really a Traveler story, [...]

ShareIt’s not often you get to interview a vulture expert.
We’re still a month out from the swallows going back to Capistrano, California, and it’s the depths of the off-season in Branson.
Time to celebrate vultures, according to John Miller, interpretive center manager for Missouri Department of Conservation’s Shepherd of the Hills Hatchery, on Lake Taneycomo [...]