ShareIf you are planning to go see Emery at the Cape Sports Show on Saturday, and want something else to do in town (or if thesome of your crowd have short attention spans and an hour or two in the Show-Me Center is all they can handle) call (573-290-5218) over to the Cape Girardeau Conservation [...]

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 [...]

ShareCelebrate an Old Fashioned Christmas and Open House at
Alley Spring General Store
Eminence, MO – On Saturday, December 10th beginning at 10:00 am, Ozark National Scenic Riverways is hosting an old fashioned Christmas celebration for the public at the Alley Mill General Store.
Bring the whole family and your friends to view Alley Mill and [...]

ShareBy Jo Schaper
With a chill breeze rustling the early November leaves, a small but dedicated changing cast of 6 to 8 people stood peacefully by the side of the road in the late morning, Saturday, November 5th, outside the entrance to Lone Elk Park. Some held signs. Others took turns approaching each car [...]

Share“Huzzah!” yelled the cannonneer in a clean, dark blue Union uniform. The big gun roard at his side, fire and smoke billowing from the throat. The sting of freshly burned powder smarted in my eyes, from about 40 feet away.
I looked down at the lady in the lawn chair in front of me, [...]

ShareFor more than twenty years, Bob VanGennip has been helping bring smiles to the youth at the Bollinger County Fair (formerly known as Bollinger County Harvest Festival) with his kiddie tractor pull.
It is a known fact to the locals that Bob has a love for tractors, mostly green tractors, and spend more than twenty minutes [...]

ShareJo note: I haven’t done an “Over the Back Fence” recently: these are a bunch of mini-stories and breaking news snippets from the region. Enjoy.

Share It was a struggle to get out of bed on a Saturday morning with the lightning flashing, the thunder crashing, and the rain blowing sideways. I was committed to go to Powder Valley Conservation Nature Center to take some copies of Traveler to their Hunting Clinic. I really would have rather rolled [...]

ShareWhen you come down the big Highway 19 hill into Steelville anytime this summer and fall before Halloween you’re in for an eye-candy treat.
By Jo Schaper
First there were cow sculptures roaming the streets of Chicago. Now, Steelville in Crawford County, the self-proclaimed “Floating Capital of Missouri,” has a flotilla of colorful half canoes floating [...]

ShareTraveler, and many of its readers, have a fondness for home-made Missouri music when it is good, (or at least the kind where playing for the love of it pays a large part in its making). Seeing as home-made music is an Ozark and rural Missouri tradition, it’s not unusual that news of jam sessions, [...]