ShareJo’s been working too hard, so I sent her to bed early with some really good cough syrup. I’m not supposed to be on the computer, but she forgot to shut it off.
I’ve got a secret to tell you.
If you go to Cape Girardeau THIS WEEKEND on Friday, Saturday or Sunday, to the [...]

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ShareWhitewater on the Upper Colorado: Missouri floating was never like this.
by Jo Schaper
As the story about John Wesley Powell in the July Traveler hints at, I’ve always secretly wanted to paddle the Colorado River. When the opportunity came up a week ago to run Colorado whitewater through part of Glenwood Canyon, above and through Glenwood [...]

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By Jo Schaper
His/Her name is Gomer, and for Jo it was love at first sight. She was on assignment for Traveler last Sunday, down at Current River Cavern near Van Buren. Her task was to tour the recently re-opened show cave and interview the owner, Danny Gillespie. Even if you’ve only seen the paper or [...]

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I never thought I’d be asking a vivacious young woman in low cut fluff and ruffles, “How has being a youth gun instructor contributed to your character and qualifications to be the Fair Queen?”
With a junior firefighter, a 4-H Swine Leader, the captain of a BB gun team, a member of [...]

ShareHow long has it been since you’ve chased and caught lightning bugs? Over 2,000 species of fireflies, lightning bugs, glow worms, whatever you call them, ring the planet and they seem to be decreasing in numbers.
Near as anyone can tell, people are afraid of the dark, and the fireflies are paying the price.

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The commercial madness called the American December holidays is almost upon us. Whatever you call it, (Christmas, Hannukah, Kwanzaa, solstice or just December 25) the frenzied call to go out and buy stuff is here, and even before deer season.
They arrived Friday in the Traveler office, in the form of a slick [...]

Share(With the constant media blitz the last few days about some fellow inciting political strife based on religion, when this story showed up in our exchange copy of the Reynolds County Courier, I felt compelled to summarize and pass it along. I’m not a member of any of the denominations, and nothing in it is [...]