Missouri Life October/November 2012

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Contents OCTOBER 2012

The Great River Road

[32] ALONG THE MISSISSIPPI Three writers explore different sections of this amazing road.

departments> [12] MEMO

The best pies and babies on the brain

[14] LETTERS More Missouri colleges, facts about beef, and big trees

[18] ZEST FOR LIFE The art of bee rescue, canopy climbing, a downtown mercantile, and a cycling hub. Plus, an author spinning spooky tales and an artist sculpting a new life.

[30] MADE IN MISSOURI Gold jewelry, apple butter, and Mizzou picture frames

featured>

[82] DINING WORTH THE DRIVE

Follow a team competing in the Missouri Valley Archery Rough Fish Roundup Bowfishing tournament.

[85] MISSOURI WINERY

A redneck steakhouse, Dutch tavern, and vintage Paris

[44] SILVER LINING

Indian Creek Winery in Monroe City pours history.

[52] WOMAN OF THE WAR

[87] MUSINGS

Illustrator Raeburn Van Buren inspired the doughboys of World War I.

On preserving individuality, freedom, and liberty

[60] KEEPING BEARS WILD One biologist makes it his mission to preserve the wildness of Missouri’s black bears.

114 fall festivals and events

[64] TIGHTWAD FOR A DAY Our writer embarks on a journey to find a tightwad in Tightwad only to discover the real miser.

[114] MISSOURIANA

[70] EIGHT GREAT PIES

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Indulge in a Baker’s Week of Pies with these eight beloved pies. Plus, our staff’s family pie recipes.

[88] A LANDMARK FILM St. Louis becomes inspiration for the producer of A Fall From Grace, set to film this fall.

special sections> GEORGE DENNISTON

[93] ALL AROUND MISSOURI

[56] HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE Visit Columbia for one-of-a-kind handmade gifts.

[78] THE MIZZOU TRAINING TABLE Our Missouri Tigers fuel up on the power of protein for peak performance.

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On the Web

Meet the neighbors.

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WE ARE sharing three top secret pie recipes with you, including Imogene’s chocolate chip pecan pie, The Rolling Pin’s chocolate cream pie, and a black walnut pie.

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EVENT SCHEDULE:

Oct. 5-7 & 12–13: PFAA presents “Frankenstein” Waynesville Oct. 7: Frogtober Fest, Waynesville Oct. 13: Richland Hometown Harvest Oct. 13: Cruise in @ Crossroads, Richland Oct. 20: Route 66 on the Square – Octoberfest, Waynesville Oct. 20: Armed Services 3K Fun Run and Trunk & Treat, FLW Oct. 20: Richland Fun Show Oct. 26-27: Southern Gospel Reunion, Waynesville Oct 27: Richland Chili Cook Off Oct 27: Halloween in the Park, St. Robert Oct 27: Spooktacular Trail, Richland Call Today Oct 27: Halloween Bash, Laquey Nov. 11: Veteran’s Day Parade for Your FREE Nov. 17: Christmas Bazaar & Quilt Show Visitor’s Guide Nov. 30: PFAA presents “A Visit From St. Nick” Waynesville

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Mexico is a perfect combination of small-town charm and urban style. Artsy boutiques, jewelry, quilt shops, scrapbooking, antiques and cultural offerings give Mexico a sophisticated air, but with a family-friendly attitude. Come visit us today!

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DECEMBER 6-9: The Sound of Music PRESSER PERFORMING ARTS CENTER 573-581-5592 | www.presserpac.com DECEMBER 20: 72nd Christmas Evensong WWW.MISSOURIMILITARYACADEMY.ORG 573-581-1776 or 800-573-2765

PRESSER PERFORMING ARTS CENTER With a 920-seat auditorium, Presser Performing Arts Center has many arts education programs for the public, such as Dance, Piano, Voice, Film, Writing, Photography, and of course THEATRE!!! The calendar fills up fast year after year with concerts, ballets, plays, musicals, lectures, gallery shows, special events, and classes. We strive to offer the BEST professional highly qualified instructors in the state of Missouri. From October 26-28, see the 2012 Mexico Area Community Theatre and Mexico Parks & Recreation production of “The Kitchen Witches.” Tickets are on sale at City of Mexico and Mexico Area Chamber of Commerce or at the door. The holiday season Presser Performing Arts Center, Mexico Area Community Theatre and Mexico Parks & Recreation will once again present the annual Christmas production of “The Sound of Music”.

Tickets are available online at www.presserpac.com and at the Presser Performing Arts Center box office from November 26 thru December 5 from noon to 5:30 p.m. Presser Performing Arts Center is centrally located in the state of Missouri, serving mid-America with quality cultural performing arts. Check out the upcoming events page at www.presserpac.com.

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Missouri Life Festival of food, wine and art at the world-famous Nelson Art Gallery in Kansas City.

Tickets will be $20 early bird price per person through Dec. 1. Limited capacity, so reserve your festival ticket today! Visit www.MissouriLife.com or call 800-492-2593 for tickets.

Want to be a vendor?

May 4, 11 am-7 pm at the Nelson-Atkins Museum

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Downtown Moberly Haunted Tour, Sunday Evening, October 28th, Downtown Moberly

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THE EXPLODING PIE

MORE MISSOURIANS

MOST PEOPLE have a favorite pie, but I love pies so much

WE’VE HAD babies on the brain here at Missouri Life.

that it’s hard for me to choose. Who can resist a freshly baked apple pie, especially with vanilla ice cream? Or, after the turkey and dressing are finished, who can turn down a piece of pecan pie?

I have had a love of pies, I admit it. My mom made, and still does make, incredible pies. Although she makes a five-star apple pie (her crusts are superb), I’ll always have a place in my heart and belly for her banana cream pie. She came by her baking and cooking skills the old-fashioned way as her mom was raised on a Georgia plantation.

But as great as my mom’s and my grandmas’ pies were, I’ll never forget the first pie that really caught my taste buds.

I was probably 5 years old when my dad GREG WOOD, took us to a Howard Johnson’s restaurant PUBLISHER in St. Louis. I kept eyeing a pie through the glass case and begged my dad to let me have a piece. He did, and I’ve been hooked on blueberry pie ever since.

I think I have figured out that every cook makes one pie that is better than the rest. Danita’s mom makes a chocolate pie with a meringue top that is always a crowd pleaser. Danita never makes the same pie twice and is always experimenting with new recipes, so I can’t really choose one of hers. But there is one pie that sticks out in my mind.

That would be the exploding pumpkin pie of 1983.

The reason I know it was 1983 is that she was pregnant with our first child, Callina. It was Thanksgiving, and we were living in Iowa. My folks were coming up from Missouri for the This was the first time we had made Thanksgiving dinner for family, and we were both nervous about how to make the dinner everything that it was supposed to be.

Everything was going well, and we were shuffling things in and out of the oven like clockwork. But in the commotion of all the side items and desserts and turkey (here I need to interject that in Danita’s family, at least 40 dishes are required for a Thanksgiving dinner, so there were plates and bowls all over the place), I didn’t notice the kitchen counter had gotten wet from things going in and out of the sink. When I pulled the pie out of the oven to put a new dish in, I sat the piping hot glass dish down in the unnoticed skiff of water. It immediately exploded into pieces all over the kitchen. We are talking weapons-grade high here.

We were still cleaning up the mess when my folks arrived. Danita never said anything. She just started making another pie, and it was out of the oven and nearly cooled in time for dessert. The whipped cream did slide off of it pretty fast though.

But I guess when it comes to pie, it’s all good.

I became a grandma for the first time. Associate Editor Lauren Hughes, who makes the run on time, became an aunt for the first time when her sister Heather had a baby. And my daughter Callina and her husband, Andrew, became aunt and uncle for the first time when his sister Kate had a baby just nine days before Callina had her baby.

Callina is our oldest daughter, and she was still in high school when she essentially started the Missouri Life when we launched the magazine in our basement.

After she graduated from college in journalism and served with Americorps for a year, she returned to our magazine staff for a couple of years. Then she went back to school for her RN degree.

DANITA ALLEN WOOD, Here are the baby stats: EDITOR > Callina and Andrew named their 10-pound, 4-ounce girl Ada Mae. She was born August 16. > Lauren’s sister Heather and her fiancé Colby Poulton delivered a 7-pound, 2-ounce girl named Evelyn on August 20. > Henry Ehrich Stone weighed in at 7 pounds and 8 ounces on August 7, son of Andrew’s sister, Kate, and her husband, Erik Stone.

Aren’t they just the cutest babies ever?

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Rocking Ada Mae reminds me of rocking my own children. Greg bought me a rocking chair as a surprise early Christmas gift in December, when Callina was born. I'll never forget seeing that rocker, with a tiny stocking tied to its back. On the stocking was pinned a paper nametag, which was what we called her until she was born and named Callina Mae. We chose Callina’s middle name to honor my own Grandma Mae, my father’s mother. So we’re pleased Ada Mae will carry the name forward.

Both Greg and I wish all the same joy and happiness that we’ve had in being parents, but most of all, we wish for the children a future full of the love of family, the peace of faith, and the blessings of living in this remarkable country.

Scooter,

new parents

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OCTOBER 2012

LETTERS from all over You write them. We print them.

OLD CHAMPION TREE I enjoyed the article about the biggest tree in Missouri. Interesting how they measure points. We live in Buffalo and would like to go see the previous biggest tree in Polk County. If it is visible from public land, would you please tell us where it is? We love your magazine. There always seem to be articles about something we love to do or places we enjoy visiting.

—Robin Wheeler, Buffalo The tree in Polk County is on private property, so the coordinates have not been released. —Editors

LOOK AT ALL SIDES You have outdone yourselves in the article on the

Students at William Woods University in Fulton prepare for a graduation ceremony.

Schutte Brothers farm in the August 2012 edition. I read similar information in farm magazines but they are not as broad and to the point. More importantly

THE RIGHT SCHOOLS

I was excited to see an article about Missouri col-

they do not have the diverse readership of Missouri

Thank you for including College of the Ozarks,

leges in the August/September issue of Missouri

Life. It is very important that the general public

or Hard Work U, in your feature “Which School

Life but disappointed to note that the Kansas

knows about the information in the article. The side-

is Best: Finding the Right Missouri College.” As a

City Art Institute, the only four-year college of

bars are especially informative.

graduate of College of the Ozarks, I can tell you

art and design in Missouri (founded 1885), was

I consider myself a typical rural person. However, I

that attending was one of the best decisions I’ve

not mentioned. I hope you will keep us in mind for

hope my education and 50 years as a rural veterinar-

ever made. In my opinion, College of the Ozarks

a back-to-school story next fall! Meanwhile, I in-

ian have given me a little more background of mat-

is one of the few accredited colleges that truly

vite you to learn more about us at www.kcai.edu.

ters considered in this article than the average per-

prepares a student for the real world as students

—Anne Canfield, Vice President for

son. Having to add sulfur to the fertilizer brings out

are juggling work and school, and academics are

Communications, Kansas City Art Institute

a fact that most people do not understand. Clean air

made to be a priority. The best part of my College

is very important to us all. But like most things any

of the Ozarks experience was knowing that the

I want to thank the staff at Missouri Life for

change has good points as well as liabilities. The

hard work paid off on graduation day as I walked

taking time to tell the story of Missouri col-

general public is only told the side of the Clean Air

across the stage with a diploma and no debt.

leges. However, I was disheartened to see that

Act that authorities want us to know, nothing about

Thanks again for a great article.

Columbia College was overlooked. As a thriving

now having to add sulfur because cleaning the air

—Andrea M. George, St. Joseph

Missouri with campuses in Columbia, Kansas

crops. Growing plants are nature’s way to balance

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the constituents of the air.

Most people don’t realize that a non-pregnant woman produces 240,000 times as much estrogen

City, St. Louis, Jefferson City, Lake of the Ozarks, Rolla, Fort Leonard Wood, and Springfield, we have a substantial impact on the education of Missourians. The college was founded in 1851

in a day as is in a serving of implanted beef. Most

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people don’t understand how much less air pollu-

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160 years. Columbia College has grown and now

tion is caused by modern farming than farming of

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educates more than 30,000 students annually

the last century. I hope these facts will stimulate

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the general public to look at all sides of the infor-

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mation they receive.

—Dr. Gerald T. Brouder, —R. F. Taylor, DVM, Fayette

President of Columbia College

COURTESY WILLIAM WOODS UNIVERSITY

has taken nature’s way of having sulfur available for

college that reaches throughout the state of

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Zest FOR LIFE

Macon

HONEYBEE CARETAKERS

Landon West

Bob that inhales the bees without harming them. Once they locate the queen, they put her in a tiny cage and let her order her subjects home with a wing buzz. Another queen ballad immobilizes the bees.

Dan has applied for a grant to see if the queen’s siren song can be duplicated by a sound device. He sees it as a necessary tool. “Firefighters or police would welcome a way to immobilize bees while they respond to a call,” he says.

In 2011, the two bee rescuers removed and relocated about 55 swarms, and they are on track to equal that for 2012. Both share a love of bees. A few years back, Bob, who has worked with bees since the 1970s, was only keeping four hives. When Dan asked Bob to provide bees for pollination at West Orchard north of Macon, the two became friends, and Bob revived his interest and kindled Dan’s. At the orchard, they now jointly have 40 hives, which annually produce about 500 pounds of honey.

So far it’s a break-even project. Dan does sell some honey at West Mercantile, his antique and book store, but they give most away. He’s an endless experimenter. In addition to his queen-song project, he used juice from fallen apples to make ethanol (which powered the orchard equipment), builds and sells flintlock rifles, runs the bookstore, and oversees a farm lease.

Back in the ’70s, when Bob was in the heyday of his bee fever, an old beekeeper mentored him. Today, Bob mentors Dan on the art of beekeeping and rescue, and both men are beginning the task of training Dan’s 7-year-old grandson, Landon, in the art.

In the heart of Bee Trace, an area of northern Missouri and southern Iowa, named for its historic proliferation of bee trees, honeybee enthusiasm is alive and well. —Joel M. Vance

St. Louis

Vertical Voyage GET READY to climb! This October, the Missouri Botanical Garden and Shaw Nature Reserve are offering tree climbs. Join a certified tree-climbing instructor as you learn the tricks to climbing. Once at the top you’ll learn about forest canopy biodiversity and conservation while sitting on branches, limb-walking, or resting in a hammock.

Both the Missouri Botanical Garden and Shaw Nature Reserve offer four classes on October 14 and 28 at 9:30 and 11:30 AM or 1:30 and 3:30 PM. Climbers must be 8 years old, and cost is $43.

Advanced registration is required.

—Andrew Bridges www.mobot.org • 314-577-5100

COURTESY MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN; JOEL VANCE

HONEYBEES don’t have a 911 number, but if they did, it would be 233 on your cell phone. And the call would be routed to Dan West and Bob Brammer, the EMTs of bee rescue. For the past two years, the two Macon men have relocated honeybees that wear out their welcome.

Unwanted bees come in three forms: ones that swarm and haven’t picked out a new neighborhood; ones that locate in trees and present a threat; and those that decide your home is so nice it would be a good place to set up a new hive.

Home removal sometimes involves taking out siding to get at the bees inside.

Dan and Bob gently brush the bees into a container or use a vacuum devised by

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DOWNTOWN MERCANTILE THE EMPTY streets that showed their years like old wrinkles are springing back to health in downtown Excelsior Springs.

Once drawing visitors from around the country with its healing mineral springs, the town is again showing signs of life, helped in small part by a humble bistro and retailer nestled among the old buildings.

Willow Spring Mercantile started as a simple antique shop in 2005 but quickly evolved, adding gifts, then coffees and teas, wine tastings, and finally a full kitchen.

Today, it is proud to claim the title of the largest selection of Missouri wines in the world.

“We love coffee and wine; we love relationships and food and people,” says Daphne Bowman, who owns the shop along with her husband, Jim. “When we started putting ‘us’ into the store, that’s when it became successful, and that’s when it made it fun.”

Creating a partnership with other businesses, the pair turned their attention to art and culture. That’s also when the old streets started getting used again, as this new focus attracted more visitors. “We realized that local art was an important part of our town,” Daphne says. “We’re trying to create that energy with art and the history.”

At Willow Spring, the recently added live music on the weekends has become the perfect complement to lunch and a glass (or two) of Missouri wine. Both tourist and local alike are finding their way back downtown where those healing springs seem to still be the cure. —Matt Smithmier www.shopthemercantile.com • 249 E. Broadway • 816-630-7467

Springfield

Whirring Machines ENTER THE HUB, and you’ll find yourself surrounded by fine coffee aromas and the gentle sound of whirring machines. At any other coffee shop, you could assume the whirs come from an espresso press. But here, it might be a bike tool. Or a sewing machine. Co-owner Isaac Neale presents his business with the air of a circus ringmaster. Even with a coffee shop, bike sales and repair center, and bike accessory workshop all under one roof, sometimes it seems like more.

Isaac owes his start in the business to the small, but loyal, Springfield biking community. Before The Hub, Isaac worked at both a coffee shop and a bike shop.

Through the cycling community, he met Jason Strother, founder and co-owner of The Hub, and eventually Isaac became a co-owner. “Jason was the owner of a coffee-and-bike shop, so the meeting was serendipitous,” Isaac says.

In the past several years, the Ozark Greenways citizen group has developed a trail network, pushed to incorporate bike lanes in every major repaving project, and procured for the city a bronze-level Bicycle Friendly Community status. These initiatives encourage The Hub’s goal of building a commuter cycling community. Isaac points out that a focus on city cycling may not be as popular a focus as mountain biking or road racing.

“The focus is more obscure, probably more European,” Isaac says, “but it’s a more practical option than what is considered ‘sexy’ in the cycling community.”

Boxcycles, a Danish company that specializes in cargo bicycles.

On the other side of the building, Jason procures coffee from three of the world’s leading roasters: Intelligentsia, Handsome, and Madcap. Baristas take care with the traditional drinks, brewing everything to order with artisan brew methods, including a piston and lever-driven machine. The artisan coffee loyalists can sit and enjoy the view of the historic Greene County Courthouse in the shop’s ample seating, some of which was handmade by Jason.

Sewing machines whir at The Hub as well. Isaac creates cycling commuter bags using reclaimed tarp from semi-trucks. He hangs his products at the back of the shop (and on Etsy.com) under the brand name Commute Bags. It’s the final spoke in The Hub’s circle of cool bikes and stimulating coffee. —Tina Casagrand www.insidethehub.com • 811 N. Boonville Avenue • 417-862-0670

COURTESY THE HUB AND WILLOW SPRING MERCANTILE

The Hub is the only Missouri retailer of Linus, a well-built vintage style bike, and

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WOMAN OF LEGEND Author shares the spooky tales of Missouri.

BY KELLY MOFFITT

ASK AUTHOR

Mary Collins Barile about her purpose in sharing the legends, tales, and spooky stories of Missouri, and you get an unusual answer: “I’m happy for someone to tell me I’ve got it wrong,” she says.

That’s because Mary’s purpose in writing is not to get every minute detail but to take stories as far back to their roots as she can find and encourage the search for more in her readers. She hopes readers will walk the same path she did in asking the questions, “Where did this story come from?” and “What does this tell us about ourselves?” Whether readers use that as a starting point for conversation, for further research, or for telling their own tales is no matter; Mary wants to ensure these stories become anything but static.

Mary, who originally hails from New York City, lives in Boonville and is drawn to Missouri for its softer, personal beauty—and also to some of the nation’s quirkiest characters. Her most recent work, Forgotten Tales of Missouri, tracks some of those characters’ stories to their beginnings in more stripped-down versions of legends that are common around the state.

“Adjectives are nice,” Mary says, “but I want readers to be more interested in knowing the story, not my interpretation. When you read a legend, you expect a person, which is what these stories come down

to. When you read a ghost story, you expect atmosphere.”

Ranging from historical tales of wind wagons to shifty tales of murder, the 192-page book whets the appetite with stories already outlandish in their truth, leaving room for the reader to imagine myriad other crazy turns the story could take.

For readers wanting a bit more atmosphere, Mary also recently published The Haunted Boonslick: Ghosts, Ghouls, and Monsters of Missouri’s Heartland in the Haunted America series. Decidedly spine-tingly (just the names of haunted places, such as Ravenswood and Skyrim, are creepy enough to inspire horror movies), all manner of ghost stories in the Boonslick area were researched by Mary.

The 128-page collection features stories about famed pianist John “Blind” Boone, the Missouri State Penitentiary, Mark Twain’s steamboat ghost, and “headless horrors.”

Perhaps one of these tales will inspire readers to share their own, which is the one thing Mary says not to be afraid of as the creepy-tale season approaches.

There’s only one thing to remember when sharing your spooky story, according to Mary: “Don’t put yourself between the story, the origin, and audience. You should be invisible, but the listener should be right there.”

The Forgotten Tales of Missouri

The Haunted Boonslick: Ghosts, Ghouls, and Monsters of Missouri’s Heartland Mary Collins Barile, 128 pages, The History Press, softcover, nonfiction, $19.99

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The Mizzou Fan’s Survival Guide to the SEC Ron Higgins, Steve Richardson, and Dave Matter, 240 pages, Reedy Press, softcover, nonfiction, $16 This know-it-all SEC football guide is a must for Tiger fans who don’t want to seem like the new kid on the block as football season kicks into high gear and Lawrence and Lincoln road games are turned over for Oxford and Nashville.

With tips for game-day lodging, eating, and traditions as well as stories about Mizzou’s SEC connections, this book will help you achieve super fan status by the end of the season.

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Cynthia Collins, 245 pages, Mockingbird Lane Press, softcover, fiction, $16.95 Seventeen-year-old Lisa Duncan turns to the help of a sea captain’s wife who is long dead when her brother’s ship is lost at sea. Equal parts mystery, young romance, and ode to tall ships, this young adult novel is for any who want to know what it feels like to lose your heart to the sea.

Find these reads at bookstores or publishers’ websites unless otherwise noted.

COURTESY PUBLISHER; ANDREW BARTON

Donald Spivey, 376 pages, University of Missouri Press, nonfiction, $29.95 This biography explores the life of Leroy “Satchel” Paige, a premier star and pitcher of Negro Leagues Baseball. Paige played for both the St. Louis Browns and the Kansas City Athletics. The book articulates the challenges Paige faced battling the color line in America and recounts his tests and triumphs in baseball. Spivey’s words delve into Paige’s private life as well, showing readers a man who was also a public speaker, musician, and cook.

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MT. VERNON ARTIST Terri Balden is no stranger to art. She’s experimented with many different mediums. She’s used a split-nib pen and inkwell to write approximately 10,000 names in chancery-style calligraphy, and for many years, watercolors and oils were the stars of her portfolio. One of her paintings was chosen for an internationally distributed calendar, and another was used as the design for the dust jacket of a book.

But in 2003, she took a detour from fine art, rinsed off and put away her paint brushes, and tried one more medium: stoneware pottery.

“Whenever my husband, Gordon, and I would go to art fairs, I would buy other potters’ work,” Terri says. “And Gordon said, ‘Why don’t you make your own?’ And I said, ‘I don’t know how.’ ” So that Christmas, Gordon bought Terri pottery lessons, and she began sculpting and molding her new life as a potter.

“I’m a fine artist who turned into a potter, and the clay is my canvas,” she says. “The clay has proved to be an immensely enjoyable medium, capable of withstanding the whims of an imagination, yet still holds the capabilities of being functional.”

Terri’s pottery is showcased throughout the state. Currently, Art Impressions Gallery and Framing in Sedalia and Waverly House Gifts and Gallery in Springfield house her work.

Other than the initial pottery lessons, Terri is a self-taught artist.

When she switched from fine art to pottery, Terri started making bowls to master the technique of throwing clay on the wheel and molding it into art. Her repertoire has now bloomed to include mugs, plates, platters, and more.

These pieces are functional yet also decorative with extensive hand-carving on the surface of her pots. She also creates unusual forms by combining different pottery techniques, such as wheel thrown, extruded (pressing the clay through a simple hand-powered machine), and slab-rolled clay.

“A pitcher may be a combination of several methods,” Terri says. “The body may be extruded, the bottom is a slab, the spout may be wheel-thrown, and the handle would be hand-pulled. All these variety of pieces are then assembled into one piece.”

The process of creating these pieces can take almost three days from start to finish. Terri uses stoneware clay to throw whatever piece is on tap; usually her decision of what comes next is based on inventory and what has sold well. Mugs and bowls usually sell the best.

She takes the pottery off the wheel, lets it air dry, then puts it into the kiln for 12 hours at 1,888 degrees. After 24 hours, it is cool and ready to be glazed. It goes back in the kiln so the glaze

COURTESY TERRI BALDEN

A fine art painter sculpts a new life with clay. BY RACHEL KISER

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Left: Terri Balden is a visiting craftsman at Silver Dollar City’s National Harvest Festival.

Top, clockwise: Carved Bowl. A lump of clay on the wheel begins to take shape. Celestial Tray.

can set, and it is fired for another eight hours at 2,232 degrees until it is ready to cool for one more day before being finished.

Not all of Terri’s pottery is created equal. The shape of the pot will change how Terri places her hands and where she exerts pressure when she is throwing on the wheel. A mug will require her to bring the clay up into a straight cylinder. If she is fashioning a bowl, she forms the clay to lie flatter and brings the sides out more.

The glaze used also changes among each pot created; the concept of one-size-fits-all is nonexistent in Terri’s studio. She mixes her own glazes, and some colors are harder to come by than others. Take, for instance, a large bowl she designed with hand-carvings riddling the sides. It has blue runs that glide down the inside of it, and the blue subtly changes into soft lavender. It’s not often she can manage to get a lavender out of the glaze, which makes the piece unique.

Shifting from a portfolio laden with fine art to one where pottery snags the main stage has also shifted Terri’s view of her artwork.

“Whenever I did fine art, it would take me a whole year to do a painting and get it finished,” she says. “Pottery doesn’t take that long. And I like being able to sell it to people. I like to see that it makes them happy, that they enjoy my work.”

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IN MISSOURI

Hannibal

GOLDEN ART THE ONLY Missouri jeweler to win awards at the Jewelers of America CASE Awards is located in Hannibal. Ava Goldworks opened in December 2004 and is run by the Hurt family—husband-and-wife team Randall and Debbie and their daughter Brandy. AVA Goldworks competed against more than 25 jewelers at the CASE Awards this past January where Brandy’s hand-fabricated necklace won first place. Brandy also won second place in the under $2,000 category, and Randall was awarded the Buyers’ Choice CASE Award.

The entire Ava Originals collection is made in house by Randall and Brandy. Their unique and modern designs are sure to make a statement anywhere.

—Lauren Young 211 Center Street • 573-221-1928 www.avagoldworks.com

LEAR JET DESIGNER WILLIAM LEAR WAS BORN IN HANNIBAL.

Augusta

The Way it’s Supposed to Taste

Jefferson City

Mizzou Frames

FOR 154 YEARS, the Knoernschild

With football season in full swing, new black

in Augusta. When the family first began making its homemade apple butter, they relied on the

and gold gear is a necessity.

knowledge of neighbors and Midwestern hospitality to produce and craft the spread. Now, after

Jefferson City artist Rhonda Koebel has the perfect item for any Mizzou Tigers

years of practice, this family is an expert at making the centuries-old favorite. Centennial Farms uses

fan. Her tiger-striped personalized picture frames are sure to make any Tigers

a copper kettle to create this traditional treat.

Spending the 15 hours it takes to craft apple but-

enthusiast roar.

ter the right way gives a savory sweet flavor that many in older generations will remember as what

Besides Tigers-themed items, Rhonda also paints whimsical birdhouses, colorful

apple butter should taste like, current owner Bob Knoernschild says. Look for Centennial Farms at

boxes, and cheerful picture frames. Her hand-painted, customized items can be

local farmer’s markets, or visit the farm in Augusta to taste a bit of this nostalgia. —Emily Adams

made to suit anyone’s tastes and add a special touch to any room. —Lauren Young

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PROMOTION

EXPLORING MY CITY!

UPCOMING EVENTS Be sure to catch these cool events around Columbia.

M-I-Z…Z-O-U! Are you ready for football? I know I am. My husband, Mark, and our kids just love Mizzou football. It’s a family tradition to don black and gold and head over to Memorial Stadium on game days to cheer on our Tigers. This year, we’ll be cheering extra loudly, helping our Tigers barrel through the competition in the Southeastern Conference.

With four home games left this season, I’m sure we’ll be hoarse by the end of it! I can’t wait to see the MU Tigers take the SEC by storm! Don’t miss your chance—visit www.mutigers.com for ticket information.

1 COMMENT: Mary said: “Don’t forget to stock up on Tiger gear! The new Rally House store on Broadway has tons of MU shirts, hats, and more.”

Titanic, the Musical October 7 Jesse Auditorium Yonder Mountain String Band October 10 The Blue Note King’s Daughter Holiday Festival November 9-11 Holiday Inn Select Executive Center

COURTESY OF MIZZOU ATHLETICS; CONCERT SERIES; STOCK.XCHNG

Wings, Burgers, and Beer In the spirit of fall football, I’m craving good, old-fashioned tailgating food. You know what that means—wings, burgers, and beer! Columbia has, hands down, the best burgers and wings I’ve ever had. Head to Ninth Street for Booches, which has some of the juiciest cheeseburgers in town and the country. Booches’ burgers, served on wax paper, were named one of the top 10 burgers in America by USA Today in 2000.

Founded in 1884, Booches is also a pool hall, so come hungry and ready to play.

Speaking of pool, don’t forget Billiards on Broadway, another fun pool hall with tasty bar food, including the Famous Billiards Burger—made with fresh seasoned beef—and King’s Wings—10 spicy and flavorful chicken wings smothered in Buffalo sauce. And because I love wings so much, I’m a frequent visitor to CJ’s, arguably the best wings in Columbia. Their chicken wings are meaty and filling, and they are always fresh, never frozen. The best complement to wings and burgers? Beer! Broadway Brewery has some fantastic seasonal selections perfect for any football fan.

1 COMMENT: Don said: “I’m a big fan of Harpo’s. It’s a Columbia institution for game days.”

Turkey Trax 5K Run/Walk November 22 www.ultramaxtri.com

Holiday Ballet I know it’s not Christmas quite yet, but when November rolls around, I begin the countdown to see Moscow Ballet’s Great Russian Nutcracker. This year, it’s on November 27 in Jesse Auditorium. I love hearing Tchaikovsky’s music set to the classic Christmas tale full of the sugar plum fairy, mouse king, Chinese tea performers, and more! What’s best is that it’s perfect for the whole family—children’s tickets are only $12. Visit www. concertseries.org for more information and to order tickets.

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THE GREAT RIVER ROAD is an iconic scenic drive—3,000 miles long, stretching through 10 states along the Mississippi River. But few have explored Missouri’s 215 miles of the Great River Road, the scenic byway rolling beside the Mississippi River, all the way from up near Hannibal down to the Bootheel.

We at Missouri Life set out to change this. Here, we bring you Missouri’s Great River Road in three parts: Canton to St. Louis, St. Louis to Cape Girardeau, and Cape Girardeau to the State Line. (Although the official Great River Road crosses into Kentucky at the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers at Cairo, we extended the trip south to the Bootheel for a little more Missouri.) Each piece of our River Road offers its own fun, from charming river towns and a booming city to sprawling fields and rolling valleys. And because each stretch of the Great River Road in Missouri is unique, we’ve got three different writers, all setting out on

SEAN ROLSEN

their own adventures along the Mighty Mississippi.

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Mark Twain once stayed at the Garth Woodside Mansion, built in 1871.

Food, Festivals, and Fall THE MIGHTY MISSISSIPPI. It cuts right through our grand country and forms our state’s entire eastern border. It’s a river with history, stories, and charismatic river towns—a river long since turned into legend by Mark Twain. And while I can’t craft a raft and meander its wide berth like Huck, Tom, or Jim, I can certainly do the next best thing: embark on an adventure to explore the Great River Road.

The Great River Road’s northern section closely follows the river and is well marked, making a road trip from Canton to St. Louis, with stops in Hannibal, Louisiana, and Clarksville along the way, the perfect road trip for a long weekend. Really, there’s no better time than the fall when the sturdy, tall trees lining the river begin to show off their colors.

I set out on an autumn day to explore this stretch of road with my youngest sister Hannah. All too often, our busy lives get in the way of quality time together, and I was thrilled to have a chance to share this road trip with her. Our starting point, Canton, gave me pause. We parked the car near the riverbank, crossed a railroad track, and climbed

up the bank to catch our inaugural glimpse of the Mississippi River.

Clouds filled the sky as drops of water sputtered onto our heads. We stood for a while until finally the sun broke through the clouds, and the rain subsided. Things were looking up.

Canton is exactly what one would expect from a small river town— friendly people, small shops, a diner or two, and several churches. The surprise was Culver-Stockton College. This beautiful red brick campus blends seamlessly with the rest of Canton.

Not much was open because it was a Sunday, so we drove around for a while, admiring the homes decorated for fall festivities. We then made our way to Fourth Street where we began our journey south on the official Great River Road. There are signs designating U.S. 61 Business South as the Great River Road, which was comforting to two girls with little road-tripping experience. Fears of getting lost quelled, I turned my attention to fully appreciating the beauty of this winding country drive. I could see the Mississippi peeking through the orange-colored

BY L AU R E N H U GH E S

SEAN ROLSEN

CA N TON TO S T. LOUI S

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trees as we snaked our way down the River Road, hitting several onelane bridges along the way.

We passed through La Grange and a couple miles later hit Highway 61. Although not as picturesque as the previous road, we continued south to Highway 168 toward Hannibal. I’ve only been to Hannibal once, but the town holds a special place in my heart. One summer when I was a child, my dad let me pick our family’s getaway. He gave me my options: Ocean’s of Fun in Kansas City or Hannibal. I didn’t hesitate—of course it would be Hannibal! My siblings were livid. I guess I understand their frustrations looking back, but all I could think about was stepping into the incredibly real world Mark Twain had created.

He was the first classic author I didn’t hate. I loved the adventure, and most importantly, I loved that his characters made me laugh. I wanted to get lost in a cave with Tom and float the Mississippi with Huck.

(Who could blame me, the girl who once tried to tackle Tolstoy’s War and Peace in seventh grade? Books were my life.)

I was eager to get back to Twain’s world, and this time Hannah was excited too. After some twists and turns getting to downtown Hannibal (we had to get back on Highway 61 and then get on Mark Twain Avenue), we rolled right into historic Hannibal just in time for the Hannibal Folklife Festival. Main Street was filled with vendors of all sorts—artisans, musicians, and food stands.

Oh my, was there food: chicken and noodles, chili, ham and beans, catfish sandwiches, caramel apples, homemade beer bread with butter, chocolate cake, bread pudding, and so much more. It was unlike any festival I have been to. I settled on the chicken and noodles, which hit the spot. It was comfort food perfect for a brisk fall day. Hannah and I walked up and down Main Street, stopping off into boutique stores and antique shops while also perusing the festival’s vendors. We indulged in chocolates at Chocolaterie Stam and looked at beautiful jewelry at AVA Goldworks. I sampled Missouri wines at St. Petersburg Mercantile, and we tried cheese at the Badger Cheese Haus.

When we’d had our fill of food, we ventured over to the Mark Twain Boyhood Home and Museum. I’m not much of a museum person (I spent a grand total of two hours at the Louvre when I was in Paris), but I love historical buildings that have been preserved and restored. These were no different, giving me a much better sense of the history and the stories Twain created. We walked through the Mark Twain Boyhood Home, the Huckleberry Finn House, and peered into the Becky Thatcher House as it was in the middle of being renovated. I came away inspired to delve into Twain’s autobiography as soon as I had the chance.

We decided to leave downtown Hannibal and head toward Garth Woodside Mansion. The bed-and-breakfast was unlike anything either Hannah or I have ever stayed at before. Our room, the Rosewood, was complete with an extravagant bed, a fireplace, and the home’s original claw-foot tub. We rested for a bit then made our way to rocking chairs on the porch, where we enjoyed hot apple cider. The sun was still shining, orange and yellow leaves were rustling in the wind, and the air was crisp.

To say it was a flawless fall afternoon would be an understatement.

I met Julie, the mansion’s owner. She is a charming, loquacious woman with tales to tell. Before I knew it, it was time for dinner. Julie opened bottles of local wines from Crown Valley Winery, a Frontenac and

Top: Hannibal selects several girls and boys in the seventh grade as semifinalists for becoming Tom and Becky for a year. The semifinalists are whittled down to five finalists after tests on the history of Mark Twain and Hannibal. The final Tom and Becky are announced after the Fourth of July parade. Bottom: The Mark Twain Boyhood Home and Museum has operated since 1912.

Norton, as we ate filet mignon and finished our meal with a brownie sundae. At the end of dinner, Hannah and I settled into fluffy robes, made some tea, and watched a movie before falling asleep.

After breakfast, we left Garth Woodside Mansion, vowing to return again, and drove to the Mark Twain Cave, taking Highway 79 south.

The day was cooler than the day before, and it was overcast and gloomy.

The temperature outside matched the temperature in the cave, 51 degrees. The cave tour began, and we were told legends of its use: a sinister doctor performing experiments, Jesse James and his crew hiding

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out, and Civil War soldiers seeking shelter. Our tour, rampant with corny jokes, was also full of Mark Twain lore.

At the tour’s end, we continued on Highway 79 toward Louisiana, winding through pastures full of cows. As the midway point in the corridor of art called 50 Miles of Art that stretches from Hannibal to Clarksville, Louisiana is a typical river town. A newly revitalized downtown area gives way to historic homes lining Main and Third streets, and Riverfront Park offers a nice view of the Mississippi.

In Louisiana, we grabbed lunch at The Eagle’s Nest—butternut squash soup and chocolate pecan pie. We walked around Louisiana stopping into antique stores. I found a vintage gold clutch I had to have at Kate’s Attic. One of our more interesting visits was ASL Pewter. Owners Thomas and Patricia Hooper create salt wells, goblets, inkwells, ornaments, and more from pewter. Several years ago, their work was featured in the HBO miniseries John Adams. Hannah and I spent a while watching them make inkwells, as they poured the molten, silver liquid into molds.

We hopped back on the Great River Road and stopped off at the Crown Valley Port House where Crown Valley Winery makes its port.

Here, road-trippers can taste wines or eat at the bistro. As we made our way into Clarksville, a part of me felt I knew what to expect. After all, Clarksville is a river town much like Canton or Louisiana. But as Hannah and I drove into the downtown area, I was genuinely surprised.

Clarksville is downright cute. The storefronts were decorated with hay bales and scarecrows, and the Mississippi was so close you could grab a rock and skip it across the flowing water. It didn’t matter that it started raining and cooled rapidly. We donned our jackets, grabbed our umbrellas, and tried out The Farm Cafe. We spent the rest of the afternoon traipsing around Clarksville’s boutiques, chai and pumpkin spice lattes in hand. Clarksville’s stores are hidden gems—Bee Naturals has bath and body products of all sorts, and there are many artists and artisans that call Clarksville home.

We made our way to the Beehive Inn, where we were staying for the night, and curled up on the couch to read. The inn looks out over the riverfront park, and I saw a barge moving in as rain pelted the river. The cold, rainy day was just as perfect a fall day as the day before.

While there aren’t too many restaurants in Clarksville, one in particular is a must for all Great River Road travelers. Dinner was fantastic at The Station at Overlook Farm. I ordered barbecue pork ribs and pork shoulder with vinegar greens and mac ’n’ cheese, and Hannah indulged in chicken and eggplant parmesan. Even though I haven’t been to all of the restaurants in Clarksville, it’s a safe bet to say The Station is one of the best.

The next day we woke early to finish our last leg of the River Road.

It was still a bit dreary and rainy as we traveled Highway 79 and made our way into downtown St. Louis. It seemed fitting to end our exploration of the Great River Road at the Arch, one of the most well-known landmarks along the Mississippi. The gateway to the West, the Arch is a symbol of expansion and exploration.

I like to think it beckoned us, calling us toward it, sort of a Mecca for adventurous travelers.

And weren’t we now? Hannah and I had spent the past several days living life as close to the river as we could, trying new things and really digging into the river towns along the Great River Road.

We may not have had a raft, but we sure found ourselves exploring the river’s majestic charm, just like Tom and Huck.

JIM DIAZ; MATT FAUPEL; GLENN CURCIO

From left, clockwise: Historic homes abound in Louisiana, where you can take walking tours of the Victorian streetscape on Main and Third Streets. Eagle watching is a common winter activity along the Great River Road, especially in Louisiana and Clarksville. “Touch the Mississippi” is written on the Clarksville Riverfront Park entrance.

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S T. LOUI S TO CAPE G I R AR DE AU IN THE SPIRIT of Lewis and Clark, my friend and I abandoned the GPS and our cell phones as we began our trip from St. Louis to Cape Girardeau along the Great River Road, winding our way parallel to the Mississippi River. Apart from exploring this stretch of Missouri, I had an alternative agenda on our road trip: to make a great discovery in one of the many antique shops along the way. I vowed to keep my eye out for that diamond-in-the-rough treasure.

I love driving through St. Louis. It reminds me of home, which is just over the river. Trying to get as close to the Mississippi as we could, we drifted off Interstate 55 onto Highway 61, away from the main line of interstate traffic and into a cluster of cities, including Herculaneum, Crystal City, and Festus.

I spied one antique shop driving through Crystal City. As the city got its name from the glass that it was founded to produce, I figured Remember When Antiques, with vintage cars just outside the shop, would be a good starting place. I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t see anything that caught my eye, so I decided it would be best to see a few more antique shops before selecting a treasure.

We were on our way toward Ste. Genevieve when we felt like abandoning civilization for a less-traveled route. We left I-55 and took the extended route where Highway 61 crisscrosses back over toward the river. Though we had been driving on the Great River Road for nearly two hours and still hadnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t seen the river from the car, this stretch of the road beckoned to me in a different way. It took me back to my roots.

Clotheslines and cows were everywhere; nearly every house had one or the other or both, and the sight of each took us back to what felt like a simpler time. We cruised along enjoying the fall colors of the trees, and as we made our way to Ste. Genevieve, the small towns along the way seemed to get further and further apart.

When we hit the little town of Bloomsdale, population 419, we decided to stop off at the roadside park, which boasted a scenic viewpoint. It was a welcome chance to stop and stretch our legs. The park lies smack-dab in the middle of town and looks down into a valley stretching on for miles. The view was beautiful, like a scene taken from a watercolor landscape. A small stone marker told us we were 583 feet above sea level and looking south down at the Fourche a Du Clos

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Valley. The Fourche a Du Clos stream runs through the valley, and I found out later it is recommended for fly-fishing.

Several small lizards ran up and around the rock wall lining the ledge before the drop off into the valley. While we were looking at the colorful wildflowers, we were swarmed by ladybugs. Hundreds of ladybugs flew along the breeze, stopping on the white fence post that marked the roadside park. With ladybug luck on our side, we began our journey again, refreshed and ready for what else the River Road had to offer.

It was still early in the afternoon when we saw the smoke stacks of the Mississippi Lime Company, our signal that we had reached Ste. Genevieve. A sign posted on Highway 61 leading into town said, “Turn Left for the Heritage Festival,” so we did. This turn took us to Market Street where there were signs for a ferry crossing the Mississippi. I was excited to finally get a glimpse of the river I had been tracking. But before we made it to the ferry, we found the festival.

Historic Ste. Genevieve is a small French colonial village enclosed by a city. By the time we reached the end of Market Street, we had passed all the staples that make up a small village: the courthouse, church, and post office. Bed-and-breakfasts speckled the area. The tourism center and history museum at the end of the street provided us with a map for the Heritage Festival events and a look into the French roots of the city. Along the streets we saw great opportunities for shopping (including antique stores), people in period costumes, and areas set aside for interactive crafts.

The first place we went was the Show Me Shop on the corner of Merchant and Main Streets. Half the building is a trinket shop, and the other side showcases products made in Missouri and Ste. Genevieve. The shop featured a wine tasting that day, but what was more

interesting to me was the “prize-winning Missouri maple syrup” from Fernwood Syrup Works. A helpful staff member informed me that a man in Bloomsdale makes the syrup. After our shopping trip, we decided to take the small tour via horse and buggy ride, which saved us walking a couple of blocks to see the historic Bolduc House.

This historic home was built by French-speaking Louis Bolduc in 1792. Damaging floods in 1785 forced Ste. Genevieve to relocate inland about three miles from its original location closer to the Mississippi River. Bolduc was unable to salvage much of his original home, but dendrochronology tells us that at least one board from the ceiling of the Bolduc House came from the original house. And although flood waters may have harmed the original home, the New Madrid earthquakes in 1811 and 1812 left the newly built home untouched. For a small fee you can pay to get a personal tour of the building.

Outside the Bolduc House in another historic home was a display of beautiful quilts showing off the fine craftsmanship of The First Settlement Quilting Club, a group of about 30 women who meet once a month to quilt. They were both making and selling quilts to help benefit the local hospital.

The daylight was fading, and we were reluctant to leave, but our accommodations for the night were an hour down the road at Cape Girardeau. Ste. Genevieve has entirely too much to see and do for one day, especially when there is a festival. Next time, I told myself, I’d be sure to make enough time for Ste. Genevieve.

By the time we arrived in Cape Girardeau, it was dark, and we headed downtown for a bite to eat. We checked out Broussard’s. If you like spicy Cajun food, this place is for you. I devoured Gator Bites and étouffée. Cape Girardeau’s downtown strip was alive with music and

NOTLEY HAWKINS

The advent of the steamboat in the 1830s led to Cape Girardeau becoming the largest port on the Mississippi River between St. Louis and Memphis, Tennessee.

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From left, clockwise: A River Runs Thru It antique store is close to the Burfordville Covered Bridge, the oldest remaining covered bridge in Missouri. The Bolduc House in Ste. Genevieve was owned by members of the Bolduc family from the late eighteenth century until 1948.

The First Settlement Quilting club of Ste. Genevieve quilts at the Heritage Festival.

people in the different bars and restaurants lining Main Street—not surprising considering Southeast Missouri State University is within walking distance.

The next day, we went back to the downtown area where the city meets the river and soaked in the view of the Mississippi. Downtown Cape Girardeau juts right up next to the river, and you can dip your toes in if you dare.

Murals painted in bold colors line the floodwalls, marking the history of the city and its relationship to the river. A mural of famous Missourians decorates one of the walls before you reach the Bill Emerson Memorial Bridge connecting Missouri and Illinois. We had to drive across just for the view.

It was easy enough to find our way to the state park dedicated to one of our nation’s tragic moments: Trail of Tears State Park. With our handy visitor’s guide to Cape Girardeau we found the route: right off Highway 61, then take Highway 177 into the park. We drove into the park and around a loop leading to campsites. At the end of the loop is a scenic viewpoint overlooking the river.

While snapping some landscape shots with my camera, a couple from New England joined us. Of all the 49 states they had visited, they told me Missouri had the most beautiful colors in the fall. They came just to see the landscape. And as I looked down over the trees and onto the longest river in North America, I had to agree with them.

But the pride I felt at the beauty of my state was quickly overshadowed by the graveness of the history I was standing upon. Trail of Tears State Park memorializes the trail along the Mississippi where thousands of Native Americans died while being forcibly relocated over a thousand miles from their ancestral homeland in southeastern United

States. A tag on the bench reads: “We came, we saw, we are changed.” In silence, we carved our names next to hundreds of others.

Ready for adventure after a solemn trip to the state park, we arrived at Lazy L. Safari Park. The park is home to an exotic collection of animals, some used in big Hollywood movies. We met the giraffe that starred in Evan Almighty alongside Steve Carell. We also met a herd of plump pygmy goats, several rare species of deer, and a zorse, which is a half-zebra, half-horse hybrid. The best part of Lazy L. Safari Park, which has been family-owned and operated since 1988, is you can feed almost all of the animals. The park is open on the weekends in the month of October.

It was nearing the end of our trip, and I still hadn’t scored at an antique shop. We decided to make one last stop. We detoured to the Bollinger Mill in Burfordville on Highway 34.

The mill and covered bridge, one of only four remaining in Missouri, date back to the Civil War. Inside the mill is a small museum showcasing original mechanics such as the stone grinders used to grind the corn. There is a park right next to it.

And then I saw it: A River Runs Thru It antique store in Burfordville, near Bollinger Mill. Among my finds was an egg scale—which the owner assured me would work because she tested it herself—and some great vinyl records. Happy with my finds, I prepared myself for the trip home.

Maybe the diamond-in-the-rough treasure I sought during my sojourn on the Great River Road wasn’t something I could find in a rustic, charming antique store, though.

My treasure was something more: a peaceful respite along the Mississippi River.

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COTTON CALLING In 2009, Missouri ranked sixth in the nation for cotton production.

IF YOU WANT TO GET SOMEPLACE, take the interstate. If you want to see something, take state highways. And if it’s the Mississippi River you want to see, take the Great River Road.

My road trips have often been to get somewhere, like the times I’ve helped friends drive cross-country to new jobs or summer internships.

Just driving. Making minimal stops. Enjoying the scenery. As I embarked on my expedition from Cape Girardeau south to the state line, I had to shift my road-trip thinking.

On a cool, gray day accompanied by spitting rain, I unfolded a Missouri state map and located the series of light gray pilot’s wheels designating the Great River Road along the river and parallel to Interstate 55.

Then for easy reference I refolded the map to display the southeast corner of the state for my portion: Cape Girardeau to the Missouri-Arkansas state border.

I ventured to my starting location, Cape Girardeau, and after driving around the town for a bit noting the historic homes in the river town, I was delighted to see an interesting bridge crossing the Mississippi River to Illinois as I have always been fond of bridges.

I checked into the Rose Bed Inn before I set out to explore the town for the remainder of the day. The inn is warm and inviting, a welcome treat on a brisk fall day. After checking out the inn, I drove past several historic buildings. The rain made it cold, but I had adequate rain gear, so I decided I would head downtown and explore the antique shops—“stuff stores” I like to call them.

I perused a few stores before happening upon the Visual Arts Co-Op that was still open. The lights, though dim, showcased an artist who sculpted abstract porcelain sea creatures in whimsical colors.

For dinner I decided on Port Cape Girardeau Restaurant and Lounge.

The three-story brick building faces east toward the river and has a worn Coca-Cola mural like a boat hand’s tattoo. Inside, the wood-paneled walls are adorned with town history; the menu is too. In the style of an old newspaper, it touts what would have been current events and an extensive list of barbecue items and homemade sides. I indulged in the house specialty, hickory-smoked barbecue with crisp fried okra. It was only fitting to follow this with a slice of Mississippi mud pie.

After dinner I drove around the downtown area admiring the lights in the night, the sky still spraying its mist. When I was ready to turn in, I settled into the Rose Bed Inn, reviewing my route for the following day while sipping tea.

The next day proved to be another gray one, though with no rain. I weaved my way through the streets of Cape Girardeau to hook up with Highway 61 heading south.

The Great River Road in Missouri follows the river closely until you get past Cape Girardeau. It doesn’t make every dip and bend the river does. Instead, it careens through various small towns, past acres and acres of farmland. As I drove past the on-ramp for the interstate, I smiled with a sense of freedom. This drive was peaceful without a constant barrage of billboards. Cruising along, I sighted several conservation areas.

BY SARAH HERRERA

SARAH ALBAN

CA PE GI R A R DE AU TO S TAT E LI N E

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From left, clockwise: Eat a hearty breakfast at the Rose Bed Inn, a Victorian-styled home in Cape Girardeau built in 1908. The Port Cape Girardeau Restaurant is one of the oldest standing structures west of the Mississippi, dating back to the 1830s. Find more than 100,000 ornaments at the Yule Log Cabin in Commerce close to River Ridge Winery.

I stopped at the General Watkins Conservation Area near Benton and hiked around. I would have stopped at every conservation area I encountered, but then I would have never made it to the state line. I was eager to get to New Madrid and explore the New Madrid Historical Museum.

As I approached Sikeston, the gorgeous pattern of scenery out my car window was interrupted when I caught my first sight of cotton. Excited to see cotton growing in Missouri, I shouted, “Cotton!” aloud, even though no one else was in the car. I had planned on visiting the Southeast Missouri Agriculture Museum, but the museum was closed that day. I’d have to learn about cotton on this trip some other way.

I pulled off the highway to New Madrid, the rain still steady, and drove through neighborhoods in search of another museum, the New Madrid Historical Museum. I parked at the museum and walked to a lookout point on the river. The sky, the water, and the land in the distance were all shades of gray. I imagined boats and barges making their way down this bend in the river.

A woman named Dot greeted me. She guided me to the video room, the first exhibit in the museum with a video explaining the infamous earthquakes and the founding of the town. The museum features dioramas, a petrified snake named Alfred, and materials used for garments.

One of the first three sewing machines ever invented is located at the museum, though it hardly resembles what is recognized as a sewing machine today. New to the museum is an interactive earthquake display. I also got to see Civil War paraphernalia from the area, including uniforms, ammunition, and even a young soldier’s journal.

As I continued along the Great River Road, I saw field after field of cotton each in a different stage of harvest. Occasional bits of the fiber were strewn across the road. This area of the state is vastly different from the tree-covered, hilly mid-Missouri where I live but reminiscent of the flat, open fields in central Oklahoma where I grew up.

I suppose that’s the wonder of geography—how it rolls along and changes subtly, and then all at once the lay of the land is drastically different from the point at which you last took note of it. Land defies the borders we draw on maps.

To it, borders are just imaginary lines. Pay no mind to them, the dirt and trees and rock probably think as they move about in their slowly changing ways.

Before I realized it, I had reached the state line and crossed into Arkansas. Wow, that was fast, I thought as I pulled into the parking lot of a farm co-op just inside Arkansas. I sat in my car for a moment in disbelief that I had already driven my assigned stretch of the road.

I had traveled the entire portion I was supposed to, yet my trip felt incomplete. Something was lacking in my Great River Road experience.

The answer was sprawled out in front of me for miles. Cotton.

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I turned my car north on the same highway, brainstorming how to go about getting a lesson in cotton and remembered a friend of mine whose folks live down here in the Bootheel. Luke suggested his father could show me around the farm. Perfect, I thought.

I ventured off the marked River Road and maneuvered state roads to a farm just outside of Senath. I pulled into a lot next to a big metal building. As I entered the shop, my nose caught the musty scent of tools and equipment, labor, and hard work. In the far corner in a section office, I found my cotton expert, Byron Small.

He showed me the cotton picker and explained how it worked to pull the cotton off the plant. Then he drove me out to a field and showed me the plant. There were bales of cotton along the roads we traveled as we drove to the cotton gin, a machine that separates the seeds, hull, and other foreign objects from the cotton.

“Cotton 101” with Byron was the coolest part of my trip. I left the farm with a greater appreciation for the cotton used in the clothes I wear as well as the people producing that cotton. In a time when we are so removed from the land, the food we eat, and the products that make the things we use, it was refreshing and maybe even eye-opening to catch a glimpse into the process. River Road travelers can pick up a bit of this farming history at the Southeast Missouri Agriculture Museum in Sikeston by calling to schedule a tour. I bid Byron farewell and thanked him for taking time to show me around the farm.

I found my way up through Senath and into Kennett then a quick ride east back to my dear new friend, the Great River Road. I drove back up to New Madrid where I would stay for the evening with Anne Copeland, an acquaintance. She welcomed me into her home, where she was talking with a couple of friends.

We visited for a bit about the day’s travel and the New Madrid Historical Museum over catfish, coleslaw, and hushpuppies. As we chatted about the Great River Road, one lady mentioned there was a winery and Christmas shop just off the River Road. I figured it wouldn’t hurt to make one last stop the next day.

I was right. In the tiny river town of Commerce is River Ridge Winery and its partner store, the Yule Log Cabin. The winery offers a wide selection of wines grown in sprawling vineyards as well as gourmet foods served in a quaint bistro area. The menu selection was delightful, and I could have gone for the highlighted entrée of the day, but I settled for a chocolate chunk cookie and a small bottle of the Christmas wine to take to my folks in Oklahoma when I visited for the holidays.

The Yule Log Cabin, open every day except Christmas Day from September 1 to New Year’s Eve, is on the other end of Commerce, which is not much of a distance. Tucked away in a wooded area, the shop looks like something straight out of a storybook. Inside the cabin and in an adjacent stable is tree after tree covered in ornaments. Each tree has a theme. There was a tree covered in silver ornaments, gold ones, peppermint-colored ornaments, wildlife ornaments, and, of course, black and gold ornaments for Old Mizzou. If you are seeking a specific ornament, you would most certainly find it here.

After marveling at all the different ornaments, I selected a few to give as gifts and went along my merry way, munching on my cookie and enjoying the sunshine that was finally joining me on the tail end of my road trip on the Great River Road.

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explore the river road HANNIBAL

The Farm Cafe

Bolduc House

Port Cape Girardeau Restaurant

Folklife Festival

This French-inspired coffee house

The property hosts three historic

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Buy crafts, eat traditional food, and

offers casual fare.

homes that are available to tour.

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listen to folksy music during this two-

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125 S. Main Street | 573-883-3105

building full of history.

day festival on October 20 and 21.

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Beehive Inn

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Bollinger Mill

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Mark Twain Boyhood Home

Naturals shop.

This site has a working mill, covered

River Ridge Winery

The author lived here during the

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bridge, picnic area, stream bank,

The winery is situated in an old

mid-1800s and found inspirations

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and historic cemetery.

farmhouse on the hills above the

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Mississippi River.

for his future novels.

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The Station at Overlook Farm

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door patio, a fine dining room, and Garth Woodside Mansion

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CAPE GIRARDEAU

Yule Log Cabin

This bed-and-breakfast offers a peaceful getaway in Hannibal.

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Broussard’s

Christmas trees and ornaments from

The cuisine appeals to both a spicy

September 1 to New Year’s Eve.

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Cajun palate and American fare.

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The Arch

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Mark Twain Cave

Venture to the top of the iconic

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Visit the state’s first show cave,

Gateway to the West.

written about in Twain’s books.

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Trail of Tears State Park

General Watkins

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This park’s visitor center tells the

Conservation Area

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This Christmas shop offers decorated

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stories of Native Americans who

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Remember When Antiques

1838 and 1839. There are also four

at this conservation area.

The Eagle’s Nest

Pick up a vintage treasure.

trails and shaded picnic sites.

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The Eagle’s Nest hosts a winery, inn,

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and bistro.

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LOUISIANA

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SIKESTON

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STE. GENEVIEVE

Lazy L. Safari Park

Agriculture Museum

ASL Pewter

Ferry

This park features alpacas, wal-

This museum boasts the largest col-

Pick up pewter pieces for the home.

The ferry travels from Ste. Gen-

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JUST AFTER HIGH NOON on the drought-starved Missouri River near Jefferson City, we spot a whole mess of ’em piping away at the surface of the water. Johnboat captain Neil Guinn cuts his trolling motor, and we drift in for the big kill.

“Look at ’em all,” says Steve Howard. “There’re tons of ’em. We’re going to have to do a countdown on this one.”

Despite my glaring deficiencies as a greenhorn to my new favorite sport, Neil and Steve graciously accept me as their teammate in the Missouri Valley Archery Rough Fish Roundup bowfishing tournament.

No more than 20 yards in front of us is a school of river menace Number One: silver carp, an invasive species of the Asian variety threatening to wreak havoc on the Missouri River’s ecosystem. They are such a hazard that the Missouri Department of Conservation suggests fishermen do not throw them back alive. It’s even illegal to use Asian carp as live bait. MDC’s fear is that the carp will get transported to other bodies of water in the state.

When it comes to silver and bighead carp, another variety of Asians, the motto is simple: Exterminate the brutes.

In recent years their population has exploded and given biologists cause for real concern. However, the silver carp’s freshwater blitzkrieg has become a windfall for bowfishermen across Missouri. And it just may be what catapults the sport out of its barbaric redneck reputation and into the public’s popular conscience as not only an action-packed way to spend an afternoon on the river but a thrilling form of conservation.

“Alright, when we get up on ’em, let’s each of us pick one out,” says Neil, a 29-year-old document control specialist sporting a camouflage T-shirt and backward Cardinals hat.

Brief showers and overcast conditions diminished visibility earlier in the morning and turned the water’s surface into a mirror. But at this moment the clouds part, the sun blazes down, and our polarized sunglasses reveal myriad black silhouettes underwater, feeding at the top.

Steve, a 33-year-old laboratory instrument specialist, is strapped with his faithful Browning compound bow equipped with a Zebco 808 fishing reel wound with fast flight 200-pound test line. Neil wields a Black Bear compound, a $40 eBay find he set up with a $150 AMS triggered retriever reel with neon orange line. I have my loaner, a camouflage PSE Elite compound with a retriever similar to Neil’s, only my line is chartreuse.

“Remember, aim low,” whispers Neil. Because of the refraction factor of the water, the fish appear to be higher than they actually are. It’s an optical illusion, like how a drinking straw seems to bend when it’s stuck in a glass of water. To compensate, Bowfishing 101 instructs shooters to aim six to eight inches below the fish.

Lined three abreast on the boat’s bow, we each take a deep breath and draw our bows.

“One, two...,” I say. “THREE!” Taut bow strings thwack, and our arrows zing through the air. Lines unspool in a helical, neon hiss. Neil broadsides a silver, as do I. Steve, our boat’s sharpshooter, comes up with a rare miss. As the fish Neil and I speared buck and contort, the remaining school of carp dart in every direction, turning the water into a matrix of dorsal-finned getaways.

My retriever begins chewing up line, so I set down the bow and pull the line in, hand over hand. Neil has his fish in the boat first. He pulls up the skewered carp, grabs the arrow’s shaft, and twists its tip to flip the V-shaped barbs so the fish slip easily into our boat’s 40-gallon plastic drum, a staple of every bowfishing vessel. My line is a tangled cat’s cradle, so Neil lends me a hand, flipping my arrow’s barbs and directing my kabobbed carp into the bucket.

“Nice shot,” Neil says, giving me a fist bump before wiping carp innards on his cargo shorts.

From the bow of his boat, Guy Lanphere fires a shot at a silver carp, an invasive species threatening the Missouri River.

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Once the clouds return, any hope I had of offering a worthwhile contribution to my team vanishes. The wind picks up, turning the water into a choppy mirage.

Even with my polarized shades, I struggle to see fish. Steve, on the other hand, is a deadeye marksman.

“I think after you see your first half dozen or so, you can focus in on what color the fish gives off in the water,” says Steve. “If it’s not on the surface, you have to be looking for something else.”

Steve finds ‘something else’ when he spears a three-foot, 10-pound longnose gar, a relic of the prehistoric age and a native species classified by MDC as a rough fish, thus making it fair game for bowfishermen. The teeth of the torpedo-shaped gar are sharp as broken glass. Its hard ganoid scales make the fish well-fortified against the few predators it counts as enemies. Touching a gar feels like running your hand over a plate of tiled armor. In fact, Native Americans used their scales as arrowheads. They’re a fierce fish and not to be underestimated, especially while thrashing around in a small, tipsy boat.

Once Steve gets the gar in the boat, Neil steps up with his best form of protection against its sharp teeth: a pink hand towel.

“Ouch!” Neil yells as he wraps the towel around the gar’s snout. He then enlists the help of a sawed-off push broom handle to thump the gar on its head in a vignette of violence.

“That’s pillow talk you hear,” Steve says.

As he removes the arrow and dumps the lifeless gar into the drum, Neil raises a bloody hand.

“Looks like I’ll be picking gar teeth out of my hand all week,” he says. “They’re like little needles that just flake off.”

Flesh wounds aside, Neil says bowfishing’s appeal is like no other.

“Even though there can sometimes be a lot of time between shooting fish, for me, you’re not just sitting there waiting for a hook to be set,” he says.

Steve, a seasoned deer hunter, likes how bowfishing gives him more time to hone his archery prowess. “There’s quite a bit of skill involved,” he says. “And with the Asian carp, it’s good just to try and control their population. So it’s kind of like a double positive.”

Although the region’s first bowfishing tournament of the summer, the Mid-Mo Big 12 in June, was a contest of size, the Rough Fish Roundup is strictly for numbers. Whichever team brings back the most fish takes home first place and, more importantly, bragging rights.

“These numbers tournaments are great,” says Steve. “Any time you can get a couple dozen guys to go out and kill as many Asian carp as they can, that’s a great thing.”

Just as the Asian carp population has grown, so too has bowfishing’s popularity. Steve says back when he was growing up, tournaments like this didn’t exist. He doesn’t know if bowfishing can put a dent into the Asian carp population, “but it’s fun to try.”

With woozy dehydration beginning to set in, compliments of eight hours in shadeless triple-digit heat, we decide to call it a day.

A known sharpshooter, Guy Lanphere directs one of the many silver carp he’s shot on the Missouri River into his boat so he can remove the arrow and put the fish in his 40-gallon plastic barrel.

We have 40 minutes to make it back to the 4 o’clock weigh-in. We have 25 fish in the drum, all silver carp save for the gar: Steve shot 16, Neil tagged eight, and I, the pathetic recruit, only shot one.

Steve’s white T-shirt looks like a Jackson Pollack painting, splattered with carp guts. Neil’s neck looks like a raw steak. Save for a few flecks of guts on my shirt, I am fairly unscathed. Though after a day of punishing sun, the aroma on the boat could wake the dead. It is a dry-heaving medley of the worst kind: a miasma of rotting carp, the omnipresent flatulence of the ‘carp whistle,’ and the ripe, toe-curling body odor of stubbly river rats in dire need of a shower.

As Neil fires up the jet motor, a few silver carp leap in the boat’s wake giving us a glimpse of their notorious calling card. The drone of boat motors startles the carp and causes them to vault out of the water like kamikaze acrobats. Silver carp can grow up to 40 pounds and are capable of jumping 10 feet in the air, which can make boating on the river less about recreation and more about dodging slimy projectiles that weigh as much as a big bag of dog food. I’ve heard stories of boaters using metal garbage can lids as shields.

However, Neil says this epidemic gives him and other bowfishermen the green light to be greedy.

“I’m kind of selfish about the problem. It’s really given us an abundance of fish,” he says. “How many regular carp did we see today?

One. How many Asian carp did we see? Thousands. While that’s great for our sport, it’s bad for the riverways of Missouri.”

Asian carp were introduced into the United States in the early 1970s to harvest them for food and use them for biological water control because they like to nosh on undesirable bluegreen algae.

“You see in the media that the floods of the early ’90s caused the escape of these fish. That’s really not the story,” says Duane Chapman, a research fish biologist for the U.S. Department of Geological Survey. “The fish got loose almost immediately.”

Duane began studying Asian carp in the mid ’80s. A few years later, other biologists started to recognize the dilemma.

“They started saying, ‘Hey, there’s a lot of bighead carp out here; what’s going on? These things could be a problem,’ ” says 53-yearold Duane.

Duane still remembers his first encounter.

“The first silver I ever saw in Missouri was in 2000 on the Lamine River,” he says. “I saw a bunch of fish jumping. I thought they were gizzard shad. I threw out a cast net and, what do you know, they weren’t gizzard shad. As soon as I got them into the boat, I knew immediately what they were. I said right away, ‘This is a potential problem.’ ” Fishes with the highest risk of being threatened are those with pelagic early life history, which means they live near the surface in open water when they are very young.

“Yellow perch, walleye, white bass, crappie—these are fishes that have pelagic early life stages,” Duane says. “Their young eat zooplankton out in the water column. If you get a big Asian carp population

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Top: Steve Howard, foreground, lands his first silver carp during the Missouri Valley Archery Rough Fish Roundup. Neil Guinn, background, scans the water for signs of fish.

Bottom: A staple of every bowfishing boat is a 40-gallon plastic drum to collect fish.

If the bowfishing community of central Missouri had a face, it would be Guy Lanphere’s. The gregarious, laid-back 33-year-old may be uncomfortable with assuming such a figureheaded role, but that’s only because he’s teeming with the kind of reluctant modesty native of the Midwest.

As organizer of the Missouri Valley Archery Rough Fish Roundup— the fifth bowfishing tournament he’s spearheaded in the last three years —Guy is the man behind the curtain. He’s a tireless workhorse and a

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out there, there’s not going to be anything for those little crappie to eat.”

Other kinds of fishes potentially affected by Asian carp are gizzard shad, buffalo fish (commonly called buffalo carp), and paddlefish.

Duane credits last year’s heavy snowfall and summer rain, piggybacked with this year’s low water, for creating the perfect conditions for a silver carp explosion.

“High water is excellent for baby Asian carp and spawning,” he says.

“With the past two years’ high water, we had big Asian carp that basically expended all their energy into making babies. What we have now are a bunch of small juveniles.

“When you get a low water year like this, there’s some retention time behind those wind dikes. The turbidity falls out. This is a really bizarre year because of the clarity we’re seeing. As soon as the river slows down enough to produce algae, then conditions really get good for Asian carp.”

Normally, this isn’t so. “The Missouri River, overall, is a crappy habitat for Asian carp,” Duane says.

The Missouri River typically runs fast and muddy, and the plankton and phytoplankton can’t grow in the mud. However, this year’s absence of rain has created ideal conditions for plankton to survive.

“The Missouri River in general is very turbid,” Duane says. “Asian carp’s favorite food is plankton. You have to have light penetration to grow the phytoplankton.”

But Missouri’s freshwater ecosystems aren’t the only ones facing danger. “If you’re a fisherman, you’ve got a problem,” Duane says. “You have fish flying through the air. They break things and hurt people.”

However, Duane is quick to dish advice.

“I would really recommend that anybody on the river think about your throttle mechanism and where it is,” he says. “Most fish jump in the back third of the boat. If it hits it on the front or back of the throttle mechanism, it’ll slam it into gear. The boat reacts dramatically, especially if you got 150 horses on the back.”

Duane speaks from experience. On one fish-tracking expedition on a creek, a leaping carp slammed the throttle down and floored it. The boat ended up at a 45-degree angle up a mud bank.

“It left everybody clinging to the transom,” Duane says. “Next day we built a throttle protector.”

To stay on the forefront of where the Asian carp are popping up next, Duane says he trolls the message boards of the men on point.

“I frequent the bowfishing Web pages because bowfishermen have another viewpoint,” Duane says. “These guys are out looking for fish, and they see them more than other people. When these carp show up in a new place, often it’s the bowfishermen that find them.”

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marksmen that were part of the last tourverbose outdoorsman blessed with the nament’s winning team, the trio fits the twin gift of not only speaking the downprofile of a bowfishing dream team. home language of the most backwater Guy and company murder the comhillbilly but being articulate enough to petition, bagging first place with 68 fish, navigate the savvy public discourse necesmostly silver carp. sary for organizing major events, wooing “When we were floating by the wind sponsors, and being a media spokesman dikes today, we could literally look over for the sport. the other side and see hundreds of fish all “Bowfishing doesn’t really have a lot of piping on top,” says Guy, an electronics people that are taking charge and doing salesman. stuff,” Neil says. “Guy’s taken it to a new Thanks entirely to Neil and Steve, level.” my team takes home an honorable sixth Besides being a hospitable ambassador, John Richards, “The Turtle Man,” tosses one of the tournament’s place with our 25 fish. For Guy, that’s a Guy’s greatest asset to bowfishing just may silver carp into his truck’s trailer. Richards networks with bowfishermen, using fish from their tournaments to feed the job well done. be his ability to turn curious newcomers snapping turtles he breeds and sells on his farm.

“Look at all those smiles out there today. on to the sport. Of the handful of bowThat’s what does it for me,” he says. “When we came back together, fishermen I aim low with, the common denominator of their bowfisheveryone was laughing, cutting up, and telling fish stories that were ing origin stories always began with Guy. bigger than any of the fish brought in.”

“I got into bowfishing three years ago,” Neil says. “It was late in the But when it comes to silver carp, a fish Guy refers to as “the mice of season, so I only got to go one time. Next spring I was ready to go. I the river,” he takes a more serious tone. had all my gear. I was just waiting for the weather to change.”

“They’re never going away. I think they’re here to stay,” Guy says.

Back at archery outfitter Missouri Valley Archery’s parking lot in “It’s unfortunate, but as bowfishing continues to grow, I think a lot of Jefferson City, Guy is wearing two hats at the weigh in. As the tourpeople are going to realize how worthy an opponent and worthy a speney organizer he is calling the shots, corralling the 16 registered teams cies it is to target these silver carp.” and orchestrating a muddle of trailer-hitched boats into an orderly seA worthy opponent, indeed, but Guy says it’s an even tastier meal. quence. The other hat he dons: tournament participant on Team Holy “Every one of these fish are going to the turtles today,” he says, “but Shoot.

I’ll tell you what, there were a couple in that bucket that I wish I were “Alright everyone, gather ’round. The Turtle Man is on his way,” taking home for myself. They eat good.

Guy hollers, cupping his hands around his mouth. “What I want y’all “Maybe one of the reasons bowfishing still seems exotic is that, if to do is drive your trucks down around the building to the bottom of you tell someone you eat carp, you’ve just knocked yourself down the hill. That’s where we’ll do the fish count.” about eight levels on the socioeconomic scale. You’re written off.”

Moments later, John Richards, a.k.a. The Turtle Man, pulls into the What Guy says people fail to realize is that silver carp are not botlot wearing a black bandanna and shades. His truck tows a flatbed tom feeders like other carp. trailer with a bin on it the size of a small swimming pool. John, 53, is “They strain feed. They eat the fine plankton,” he espouses. “If picking up breakfast, lunch, and dinner for the more than 1,000 hunyou were to look down inside their throat, it looks the same as a gigry mouths he has to feed back on his farm in Stratford. ant baleen whale. They’re not going around scooping up trash off the “I breed and sell snapping turtles—both kinds—alligator snapping bottom. They’re not rooting around in the turtle holes. They’re a big turtles, common snappers, and soft shell turtles,” he says, puffing on schooling fish like you would see in the ocean.” his ever-present cigar. “For years I used to feed them chicken, but it Helping Guy see the light was Duane Chapman, who showed him just got problematic with limited quantity. Now they eat carp.” how to properly filet the notoriously boney species.

Three years ago, John reached out to Missouri’s bowfishing com“I’m a convert. I have totally bought into silver carp being good eatmunity with a cost-effective proposal to feed the snappers that live in ing,” he says. “Now that I know how to do it, me and six guys can sit his ponds. His pitch: You shoot the fish, I’ll buy ’em. around and eat ’em until we’re so full we can’t drink anymore beer.”

“This is a good bunch of ecologically minded folks,” John says. “We Tourney participants—some brandishing gaff hooks—continue do have a real problem with these invasive fish, and this sport is good to sloppily chuck their carp into the Turtle Man’s brimming barrel. for thinning them out. Not that this is going to solve any problems, John begins throwing frozen jugs of water onto the pile to ice down but it doesn’t hurt.” his cargo for the long ride home. Approximately 2,300 pounds—381 Since the tournament is a numbers-only round up, sticking big fish fish—await his snappers. isn’t a priority. A numbers-only platform caters to the slay-’em-early, “You got a full load there,” I remark to John. slay-’em-often philosophy, a mind-set that can only be backed up by “Brother, that’s nothin’,” he says, chomping on his cigar. “Man, these the best shooters. When Guy, known for his reputation as a sharpare just appetizers.” shooter, joins forces with Jeff Thompson and Nathan Sizemore, two

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with Australian and British soldiers in 1918, Missourian Raeburn Van Buren had a single mission. A struggling cartoonist and magazine illustrator before World War I, he wished to use his talent to make fellow doughboys laugh a little.

He proclaimed in a letter to his parents back in Kansas City, “I want to do all I can to keep these fellows over here cheerful.”

By all accounts he succeeded. He won high praise from The New York Times, which likened his gag drawings with their wry sense of humor to those of Bruce Bairnsfather, a famous British cartoonist.

When the war ended, it labeled him “the American Bairnsfather.” It was high praise for a freckled-faced redhead who had grown up in Kansas City.

A born comic, Van Buren loved one-line gags. Following a fouryear stint as a sketch artist for The Kansas City Star, he left his hometown in 1913 at the age of 23 to try his luck in New York City.

He arrived with three other Missourians: artist Thomas Hart Benton, cartoonist Ralph Barton, and actor William Powell. They shared a studio at the rundown Lincoln Arcade.

In the apartment above Van Buren lived another struggling illustrator, Neysa McMein, who like the Missourians was also a Midwesterner. She was described as a “tall, lithe beauty with softness in her manner and calmness in her person that many men found very reassuring.” Van Buren used her as a model whenever he could, and she, in turn, invited him up to her apartment by thumping her foot on the floor. He’d sneak up the fire escape for whatever adventure she had in store.

It was a lifestyle Van Buren loved. But in the summer of 1917, after the United States declared war on Germany, an ex-reporter for The Kansas City Star and current managing editor of Collier’s magazine, Charles Phelps Cushing, persuaded Van Buren and another alumnus from the Star’s art department, Lauren Stout, to enlist in the Seventh New York National Guard Regiment.

Van Buren’s bohemian days were over.

The Seventh was a regiment of upper-class citizen-soldiers—the blue bloods of Manhattan. When new enlistees like Van Buren had to be added to the roster, the regiment’s blue blood thinned out. Its numerical designation was changed, too, from the Seventh to the 107th Infantry. It then folded into the 27th U. S. Division.

Before Van Buren enlisted in this division, it was stationed on the Texas border in 1916 to guard against marauding outlaws. There wasn’t much to do in the blistering heat, so the creative guardsmen in the division founded a magazine and dubbed it The Rio Grande Rattler. It combined gung-ho articles, satirical essays, and cartoons by enlisted men that poked fun at everything. The Rattler proved so popular that newspapers in New York took note. In 1918, when the 27th Division went to Camp Wadsworth, South Carolina, to train for the Great War, the magazine went with it. The title was changed

From top: Most of Van Buren’s work were gag drawings, except for this realistic cover in the 27th Division’s Gas Attack magazine. But he relied mostly on his humor as shown in the cartoon entitled Love is Hell from the Gas Attack’s Christmas 1918 issue.

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to Wadsworth Gas Attack and Rio Grande Rattler. In time, it was shortened to Gas Attack.

A private in Company E, Second Battalion, Van Buren at first paid scant attention to Gas Attack. No sketches of his appeared in the magazine. His only gag drawings showed up in his regiment’s own publication, The Seventh Regiment Gazette. But six months into his enlistment he made his debut on the cover of the January 19, 1918, issue of Gas Attack—the face of a beautiful woman with the tag line “Why Boys Go Home.” He drew another cover for the February 9 issue, then three more covers just before the division sailed for France. His April 13 cover, titled First Aid, was one of the best covers to grace Gas Attack.

The division’s first assignment was to train with the British in Flanders in Belgium. Here, in early July 1918, Van Buren’s regiment tasted trench warfare for the first time.

And it was here that the famous portrait painter John Singer Sargent dared venture into the trenches to see a beautiful woman drawn by Van Buren on the timbers of a dugout deep underground.

Van Buren’s Company E had been hunkered down near Dickebusch Lake in Belgium for eight days. With nothing much to do, he drew his beauty. When he finished, the woman brought cheer to his fellow soldiers. Word of the woman reached division headquarters where Sargent had been commissioned by the British prime minister to paint English and American troops fighting together. He was just finishing a portrait of Commanding Officer Maj. Gen. John F. O’Ryan when he heard about Van Buren’s woman. He told O’Ryan he wanted to trek down to the trenches to see it. O’Ryan advised against it, but Sargent went anyway, accompanied by three officers, including a talented writer, Capt. Tristram Tupper, who wrote an account of the trip for The New York Times.

The trek took two hours. It was an “evil night,” Tupper penned, “to look for a dugout where a young soldier artist by the name of Van Buren had drawn on the wall ... a remarkable picture of a woman.” He wrote how the ground smelled of toxic gases and that Dickebusch Lake was nothing but a stinking marsh filled with poisonous pools of water. “A strange place,” he believed, “for a young artist to have dreamed of a woman.”

Sargent and the officers descended into Van Buren’s dugout, which was deserted at the time. They lit a candle, and in the flickering light, Sargent studied Van Buren’s sensuous work of art. “On the wall a woman had been drawn with seeming carelessness,” Tupper wrote, “a creation of the war.” It was suggested they cut out the timber and bring it back to headquarters. Sargent disagreed. “This is the only frame that suits it,” he said. “It should be left here.”

And it was, Tupper wrote, “The woman of the war.”

After the 27th Division left the trenches, Van Buren traded in his rifle for a pencil. His new assignment was to piece together a wartime history of the division. It kept him safe from a ghastly

Above: Another of Van Buren’s work in the Christmas issue of Gas Attack, entitled Nowhere in France.

Left: Van Buren is photographed in his military uniform as a private first class, Company E, 107th Infantry Regiment.

attack on September 29, which had a 60 percent casualty rate. Some 349 men lost their lives.

The division was finally pulled from the front line in late October, and its writers and artists went to work on the Christmas issue of Gas Attack. It’d been more than six months since the last issue, published back in the States. Several changes took place, one of which included Van Buren becoming its new art editor.

When the Christmas issue reached New York in January, the city’s newspapers, from the Herald to the The Sun to The Times, roared their approval. The Times reproduced two of Van Buren’s cartoons, stating: “His drawings carry the New York soldiers … through the months of fighting with the British and Australians to the last days before the armistice. ... Most of them are humorous and laughable; in other words there is a touch of sympathy, tenderness and sentiment—common feelings among the American soldiers that have made them the most beloved of comrades for all their allies.”

After the article Van Buren’s career as an illustrator soared. But his days of living the New York bohemian life he liked so much never returned.

He married his Kansas City sweetheart and moved to Great Neck, New York. In a garage-studio built by his father he toiled at his work. He eventually drew more than 350 stories for The Saturday Evening Post and a like number for Collier’s, the leading magazines of the day. He quit the magazine field in the late 1930s to create the comic strip Abbie an’ Slats, which he worked on until 1971.

When he died in 1987, Van Buren was 96 years old.

For more illustrations by Raeburn Van Buren, visit www.MissouriLife.com.

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SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION

Columbia GIFT�GUIDE

g your head and it feels like the only If early December’s got you scratchin y, is a macramé ornament for Aunt Bett Christmas present idea you have left you. for s idea ent pres ct perfe e has the quit itching—Columbia’s shopping scen who can’t stop talking about Mizzou’s ew neph the for tie bow -gold -and A black ess Missouri prints for the kitschy-cool entrance into the SEC, beautiful letterpr s lucky lady are just three original gift idea friend, or custom-made perfume for a for the holiday shopper. stmas shopping done than perusing And what better way to get your Chri Living Windows Festival, a lively the t the fine shops of Columbia? Don’t forge n December 7 from 6 to 8 pm. Downtow holiday event held in The District on and ts stree the l strol you ry scenes as shops are transformed into whimsical wint s. gift kind of-astock up on one—Kelly Moffitt

Sophisticated Clothing For the sophisticated chap with an undeniable sense of style, a gift card to Bingham’s would do quite nicely. With it, he could revel in the purchase of a made-to-size suit or perhaps some oxfords with brogue detailing. For the tried-and-true dad gift, a Robert Talbott necktie would brighten up any businessday. To order call 573-442-6397 or visit the store at Ninth and Broadway.

Tiger Fan Help the ultimate Tiger fan acclimate into the SEC state of mind with a black-and-gold bowtie from the MU Bookstore. If preppy’s not his thing, try an MIZ-SEC T-shirt on for size or give your resident chef a Mizzou barbeque set, complete with a brander with the image of a Tiger emblazoned on it. To order, stop by the Mizzou Book store at 911 E. Rollins or shop online at www.mubookstore.com.

Grilling Extras If your house has a gourmet grill-master in it, look no further for the perfect barbeque accessories than Spicewine Ironworks, which offers delicious rubs, marinades, and sauces. From Jamaican jerk rubs to the award-winning Smokin’ Cracker barbeque sauce, there is sure to be something to tempt his palate. To order, stop by 1333 Business Loop 70 or visit www.spicewineironworks.com.

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for the WOMEN

SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION

Jewelry, dahling Jewelry can be a girl’s best friend—if you know the right places to look.

Luckily, Columbia boasts fabulous collections of jewelry at McAdams Ltd. and Tucker’s Jewelry. McAdam’s boasts designer baubles in addition to antiques, décor, and furniture. Tucker’s features custom-made pieces and in the store you can see the jeweler’s workshop in action.

They even do recreations of your sweetheart’s favorite old pieces.

For more information, visit www.tuckersfinejewelry.com or 100 N. Providence Road #103, and www.mcadamsltd.com or 32 S. Providence Road.

Original Scents Frankincense, White Ginger, Black Orchid, China Lily…if your nose perked up just reading these fragrances, you might need to make a stop into Makes Scents to craft some custom-scented items for those on your list. Make a traditional perfume, opt for a reed diffuser, or create a body lotion unique to the recipient in store or online. Stop by the store at 19 S. Ninth Street or order online at www.makesscentsonline.com.

Luxurious touch Know someone on your gift list who has tension? There’s a massage for that at Cherry Hill Massage, where licensed therapists specialize in the individual’s health needs to improve life vitality. Whether you’re looking for the traditional—Swedish, Deep Tissue, Sports—or the technical—craniosacral, myofacial release, or reflexology, you can find a massage that fits with a gift certificate. You might even be able to work in a massage for yourself and a loved one with the couple’s massage—all for his or her well-being, of course. Call for details and pricing at 573-4463376 or stop by 307 Locust Street.

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Movie Buffs Give the gift of a perfect Oscar’s ballot to the movie buff in your life with a membership to Ragtag Cinema. There’s a membership for all in-the-know indie fanatics ranging from the $25 student membership to $475 all-inclusive memberships. Benefits vary with each level of membership but most include discounted ticket prices and invites to members-only events. Purchase memberships on Ragtag’s website at www.ragtagfilm.com or at 10 Hitt Street.

A True/False Pass If there’s someone on your list who’s already talking about next spring’s True/False Film Fest, let that be a clue to your gift-sensing capabilities that True/False Film pass is perfect for them. A pass to the festival, held February 28 to March 3, gives them access to first picks at movies, exclusive events, and more. For more information, and to stay up to date on the 2013 True/False Film Fest, visit www.truefalse.org.

A Concert Series Are there people in your house who enjoy the magical world of Harry Potter? Or hum tunes from today’s hit musicals? Buy them tickets to any number of shows in the University Concert Series, held at Jesse Auditorium and the Missouri Theatre. Give tickets to the Potted Potter or Shrek: The Musical, which will be coming to town in the new year.

Purchase gift certificates at www.concertseries.org.

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for the YOUNG�AT�HEART Creative Kids Grandpa, mom, dad, cousin—at some point, one of them has lectured you on the virtue of playing with building blocks back in the day. Show them you were listening with a modern set from Columbia’s Timberworks Toys or give the gift of fun to a little one in your family. With toy sets ranging from 18 pieces to 100, let the little ones’ creativity shine.

For more information, visit www.timberworkstoys.com.

Kitschy If your family or friends nerd out for movie premieres, Halloween, or costume parties, get them something kitschy and fun at Gotcha Costumes. Whether it be a Jedi Robe, some fake teeth, or bloody wound makeup, you’re sure to get a smile out of gag gifts.

Visit www.Facebook.com/gotcha.costumes or 819 E. Walnut Street.

Music and More For the adorable packrat or pop culture collector, Slackers is paradise.

Indulge him or her with a collectible DVD, trading card, poster, or gaming system from the store with a massive variety. Or help him or her repair that old console they have hiding in the closet but haven’t been able to use. Visit www.slackers.com/columbia or stop by 1010 E. Broadway.

Blank Canvas This isn’t your baby niece’s finger-painting. The Canvas on Broadway is a fun-filled time of directed art-making and wine! Give a gift certificate to a painting session where you create a masterpiece or invite someone special to join you for a colorful night or morning on the town. Visit www.thecanvasonbroadway.com or stop by 706 E. Broadway #100.

Full of Gifts No two gifts are exactly alike at Poppy and that is especially the case for 1canoe2 letterpress prints such as the “Love me, show me, know me” Missouri state print, stationery, or recipe cards. Check out ReAuthored book covers, which are repurposed books that act as a cover for your tablet or e-reader—they come in a variety of patterns and styles. Visit www.poppyarts.com or stop by 920 E. Broadway.

Fair Trade Scarves, baby apparel, winter ear-warmers, home goods—Mustard Seed has such a pleasant variety you’ll definitely find something for that hard-to-pin-down person on your list. Exclusively fair trade, you can also feel good about what you’re purchasing. Stop by 25 S. Ninth Street or visit www.shop.mustardseedfairtrade.org.

Distinctive Flair For the well-appointed home, a distinctive art and craft collection is a must. To start the artsy person on your list off right, stop by Bluestem Crafts, which boasts the work of 325 artists from Missouri and its eight neighboring states. Plus, giftwrapping is free of charge. Stop by 13 S. Ninth Street or visit www.bluestemcrafts.com.

573-875-1231 www.visitcolumbiamo.com 300 South Providence Road

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for the GOURMET

Chocolate Lovers Try an elegant, decadent collection of truffles from The Candy Factory for a family with the eclectic sweet tooth—flavors range from amaretto to tiramisu, and, yes, chocolate. Treat your foodie to a gift pack of 10 artisan chocolate bars from Patric Chocolate, which are made straight from the chocolate bean. The assortment includes Madagascar Dark Chocolate and several other delectable flavors.

Visit 701 Cherry Street or www.thecandyfactory.biz, and www.patric-chocolate.com.

Bean Perfection If fresh-roasted coffee is a requirement for a friend or family member’s home, head over to Lakota Coffee Company, where bean perfection is guaranteed and gift options abound. You’ll find the perfect treat in a gift certificate for one of Lakota’s delicious latte concoctions, swag from the company, or a variety pack of coffees. You can even combine them all in a sweet gift basket that will fuel the caffeine junkie in your life for the year to come. Visit www.lakotacoffee.com or stop by 24 S. Ninth Street.

Wonderful Wines Even picky eaters can’t complain when a bottle of wine shows up on their kitchen counter. To ensure the perfect palate companion, stop by Top Ten Wines, where the staff can show you the best picks for a generous host or hostess. For a school-spirited refreshment, try a bottle from Mizzou Cellars Wines, such as the Norton. Visit 111 S. Ninth Street # 160 or www.toptenwines.net, and www.cafnr.missouri.edu/mizzoucellars.

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Puppy Love Treat your puppy to a special Christmas treat from Treats Unleashed—they are decorated especially for the occasion. Or give the gift of a fanciful wash from Lizzi and Rocco’s, where the self-service wash features earthbath shampoo, skin and coat conditioner, and blueberry facial scrub. Visit 1400 Forum Boulevard or www.treatsunleashed.com/bakery, and 503 E. Nifong Boulevard or www.lizziandroccos.com.

Adventure, ho!

Is your sweetie always talking about spending some quality time on the Katy Trail or on one of Missouri’s many rivers? Help them put words into actual adventure with a gift from Walt’s Bike Shop or the Alpine Shop, where you can find top-of-the-line bicycles, hiking gear, snow skis, or fashionable workout apparel. Visit 1217 Rogers Street or www.waltsbikeshop.com, and 1102 E. Broadway or www.alpineshop.com.

Bouldering Garden Give the gift of climbing! Bouldering Garden features two large caves, a 45-degree wall, a large stalactite, two pillars, several slab walls, dihedral, and arêtes. There are classes for beginners and variety for the advanced rock climber. For those who want the fun but not the work, a fun experience starts at the top of Zip Line Mountain.

Visit www.theboulderinggarden.com or 5400 Saint Charles Road.

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Vacation or Stay-cation For a quick getaway in Columbia, try one of our city’s many great hotels. Head to www.visitcolumbiamo.com for a complete list of hotels.

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COURTESY MISSOURI DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION

The black bear is one of the largest and heaviest mammals in the state. Right: Jeff Beringer tracks tagged black bears using a GPS monitor and an antenna tree. Far right: Jeff and a field assistant climb a tree to reach a black bear.

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KEEPING

BEARS WILD

COURTESY MISSOURI DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION

By Ben Unglesbee

Wildlife biologist Jeff Beringer tracks Missouri’s black bears.

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Marching through weeds and thickets, a hiking troop of Missouri Department of Conservation staff makes its way through woods outside of Seymour. They march with a purpose almost routine for them but plenty exotic for city folks such as myself—they are tracking a black bear.

Jeff Beringer, a wildlife biologist for MDC, and Spencer Lynch, a field assistant, head the party.

They stop from time to time as Jeff raises a tree of an antennae above his head. The two of them worry over a GPS monitor that takes in information about the landscape. On the monitor, they hope, are the whereabouts of Bear 1008, a female bear the team last encountered in September 2010. The batteries in Bear 1008’s GPS collar are due to expire soon, which is one reason for the outing into the woods. But the hike has taken on a new excitement after Jeff and Justan Blair, another field assistant, heard earlier from the property owners that they had seen bear cubs in the area.

Today’s mission is another installment in the Missouri Black Bear Project, an ongoing effort to track the numbers and whereabouts of Missouri’s newly revived black bear population. The project began at Jeff’s initiative. He had been researching wild turkeys when the man in the position Jeff holds now died.

“Hey, how about you give me bears?” he asked his supervisors. Administration did him one better. They gave him the furbearer position. Jeff soon got to work designing a plan to study Missouri’s bears and eventually secured $400,000 from the department to fund the project.

After unchecked hunting and habitat destruction drove the state’s black bear population to destruction, the bears had all but disappeared. Quietly, and on their own, black bears started making a comeback in the latter part of the 20th century.

Jeff hopes to collect enough data to take a census on Missouri’s black bear population and get a geographical picture of the bears. Without more data Jeff won’t venture a guess as to how many bears are in the state currently. What he will say is he and his team have studied 50 bears in the field, and he can’t imagine that represents even half the bears in the state.

Our party tramps over a hill with anticipation and a couple of complaints about the heat. Once over the hill the woods all but clear out. Only a few trees stand on this heavily logged patch of ground; otherwise, horsehair, aster, and oak saplings cover the ground. Up ahead Jeff and Spencer kneel peering at what looks like a giant bird’s nest composed of felled tree tops—the makings of a bear den. The rest of us step loudly on dead leaves on our way down the incline before Jeff, turning with a finger to his mouth, silences us.

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Above left: Jeff replaces a battery in a tranquilized bear’s GPS collar while a field assistant measures the bear.

Above right: Most black bears, the only species of bear in Missouri, are found south of the Missouri River, although some have been reported in a few northern counties.

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Jeff, Spencer, and Justan huddle together within 15 feet of the timber pile. In a moment, the team’s tranquilizer rifle is unsheathed and in Jeff’s hand. After loading a syringe with a clear fluid and loading the syringe into the rifle, Jeff checks the gun several times, eyeing the barrel. Gun in hand, he lowers himself in a sliding sidestep toward the den. A bear’s length away from the den, he’d be easy sport for Bear 1008 if she were to see him and lose her temper.

The thud of the tranquilizer dart rocketing out of the gun sounds like someone blowing into a beer bottle. It dies just as suddenly as it sounded, leaving only the birdsong and squirrel patter of the woods. Jeff returns relaxed, his face unchanged, a man who goes about his work as if born to do it.

Ten minutes later he checks in on Bear 1008, finding her still rustling around. Jeff decides to give her another dose of tranquilizer, this time by hand. After more waiting, he returns to the den, claps his hands outside it to test Bear 1008’s alertness, then lowers himself inside. Once in, he hands two bear cubs to the field assistants.

The sniffing, fawning, whining cubs amaze me. They could be puppies for all their cooing helplessness, but they have outsized prickly claws and look more like possums than puppies or bears.

The field team passes the cubs around while Jeff changes the battery in Bear 1008’s GPS collar.

Spencer and Justan take measurements of the cubs while their mother sleeps off her sedatives. The team only brought one GPS collar with them for Bear 1008, so they don’t fit the cubs with collars.

Plus, the cubs would quickly outgrow anything the team tried to put on them.

After returning the cubs to the den, Jeff won’t leave until their mother wakes. He fears the cubs’ whining could attract a coyote or bobcat, which might make a meal of the cubs. After we spend more than an hour leisurely chatting, Bear 1008 shows signs of waking. Only then do we gather the equipment and head back over the hill.

As we walk back through the woods, I think about something Jeff told me weeks earlier. Jeff likes bears. He calls them (in various contexts) secretive, smart, opportunistic, dominant, and romantic.

He not only wants the bears around; he wants them wild.

Bear 1008 has made her den on a patch of logged woodland less than two miles from a cluster of homes with the attendant tractors, trash cans, clotheslines, and fire pits. She wears a bulky GPS collar tracking her every movement. Bear 1008 and her cubs are certainly not as wild as they would have been in the time before white settlers arrived in Missouri, but, short of today’s interruption, she is autonomous and self-sufficient. A life partially mediated by humans must be preferable to her—and certainly to Jeff—than extinction.

Above: Justan Blair holds a bear cub while other field assistants observe and inspect the bear den it came from.

MDC TURNS 75

By Andrew Bridges The Missouri Department of Conservation is celebrating its 75th anniversary this year. The department began in 1937 after a constitutional amendment creating the non-political conservation commission was passed.

Today, the department is funded through the Conservation Sales Tax, a unique feature in which funding comes from a sales tax and not through the state’s budget.

Through the years MDC has restored the state’s deer and turkey populations.

At one point there were only 3,000 turkeys found in Missouri. Now there are more than 500,000. Deer, too, were at a low 400 in 1925, and in 2011 there were nearly 300,000 deer tagged by rifle and bow hunters.

Thanks, MDC, and happy birthday!

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TIGHTWAD for a day TIGHTWAD, MISSOURI, NEEDS A TIGHTWAD.

STORY AND PHOTOGRAPHY

BY SARAH ALBAN

Its eponymous tightwad apparently left behind no money-grubbing descendants in the village of 69 residents. I recently went looking for the tightwads in Tightwad, which I believed would abound as plentifully as ever in a slumped economy. The hunt was challenging from the start: Tightwad is only one square mile.

But the harder I hunted, the more helpful the what can only be called “loosewads” of Tightwad grew. Their devotion to facilitating my hunt became so omnipresent, so unshakeable, I finally found only one tightwad in Tightwad.

But before that, about that name.

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From left: Tightwad’s city-limits sign gets stolen so often, it’s now reinforced. (Some have spotted it as far away as Canada.) Carrie Fields owns Tightwad Cafe, one of several businesses in the perfectly square-shaped town.

Pick up a Tightwad souvenir at the Tightwad Cafe, C Store, or the Tightwad Bank.

ORIGINAL TIGHTWAD Tightwad takes its name from a Scrooge-like mythical character who stars in at least four legends. The most popular tale—the one that locals tell over and over—pegs him as a watermelon farmer who lived many more than 75 years ago (that’s the most concrete dating locals could do). Back then, Tightwad was Edgewood.

One day an Edgewood postmaster asked the farmer to set aside one watermelon, which the postmaster intended to pick up after his route. The farmer agreed. But when the postmaster returned, the melon had vanished, taken by a customer who had offered 50 cents more.

“Tightwad!” the postmaster called the farmer.

Some say he repeated “Tightwad!” every day thereafter.

Postmasters have a history of sharp tongues. Benjamin Franklin, Abraham Lincoln, Harry Truman, and William Faulkner all served as postmasters. In the early days of the United States, postmasters could freely submit place-name suggestions to the government. Names had to be short, easy to read and write, and not copycats of other places in the state, according to Robert Lee Ramsay’s

Our Storehouse of Missouri Place Names.

So the fruitless mailman suggested Edgewood’s new name: Tightwad.

TIGHTWAD AT THE SHOPS Tightwad Cafe owner Carrie Fields lifts a washcloth from a table and points a finger out the window to where she says the watermelon cart once stood. “It was right there,” she says, pointing across the street. “Or else it was down by the church.”

In a field across the street, where the legendary watermelon cart used to sit, junk is rusting in piles. But in the summer, farmers come back here to set up a produce market.

You can still buy a Tightwad watermelon.

For less than $10, you can buy coffee and a meal at the Tightwad Cafe, too, where the stories are free along with smells of hot biscuits and burgers, photos of John Wayne and Marilyn Monroe, and a constant stream of jokes.

“We have live entertainment,” Carrie says, looking at her chef and a few customers, who grin. “But the bar is closed.”

Carrie bought the cafe from her aunt four years ago and closed its adjoining bar. A few lines deepen when she smiles big, which happens often. Her raspy, deep voice often escapes through a smile. Carrie says she had to

buy the cafe when her aunt retired because “nobody would hire a mouthy waitress.”

She and her chef sometimes wear matching T-shirts that read, “Tightwad Bad Girls Club.”

They cuss. Nobody objects, or they don’t today. As Carrie zips from kitchen to register to dining room and back, she’s always between telling a story or grinning at one of the customers. The stories are communal, like a big dish in the center of the table.

One story about a derelict and a deer lick has hijacked the conversation. A customer raps his cane fast on the wooden floor while a smile overcomes his face. Carrie’s black eyeliner scrunches into the corners, and the chef slaps her hand hard on a counter dividing kitchen and dining room. The cafe, which could seat about 50, bursts with laughter from about seven people.

“You won’t be able to print half of this,” one customer says.

As he taps his cane again, a fire-engine red truck rolls by the window.

“Finally, that’s my truck!” Carrie points.

When her truck brakes broke, Carrie tossed the keys to Tightwad mechanic Sterling Franklin Albin, who’s parking the truck in her lot right now.

Frank, a 75-year-old who’s lived his life in

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Tightwad, walks into the cafe from a back door and drops the keys into Carrie’s hands.

Carrie, with a huge smile, gives me the first omen: She puts a free lunch into Frank’s hands.

A pitiful tightwad, her, I think.

Not only is Carrie giving away this lunch, but she regularly gives the fire department half-price lunches when its firefighters have a big call.

An inconceivably free-spending tightwad.

Frank takes the lunch. Rain seems to have wrestled his hair into a nest of salt and pepper.

“He’s too cheap for a comb,” Carrie says.

But Frank pulls one out of his pocket. Alas!

By the time Frank offers to show me to the Tightwad convenience store, Carrie has already pulled out a phone book and an oldfashioned cord phone and arranged for me to meet the Tightwad fire chief. The black eyeliner is scrunching again, the lines running deep, and I think, This hunt could be hopeless.

A half mile down the road, Frank stands in the rain to meet me, an eave from the Tightwad convenience store partially covering him. He’s soaked through.

Shelves inside glisten like a toy factory, full of green and purple plastic piggy banks, cork quarters, travel and coffee mugs, and rainbows of T-shirts. “Tightwad” brands

everything, and nothing costs more than $10.

“I heard you were coming,” Tightwad C Store co-owner Wendy Huey says, closing a phone, extending a hand, and slipping me a debriefing called “Tightwad, Missouri.” She hands the flier to customers who ask about the name, which a lot do. Wendy researched the town’s history so her husband and store co-owner Mark Huey would have something to say to inquiring customers.

For 20 minutes, Wendy, Mark, and Mike Huey (Mark’s brother) turn away from their business, which serves hundreds of customers daily in the off-season and up to thousands during summer, to talk to me. They give me one postcard, and Frank buys me another. This happens too fast for me to object.

Maybe Tightwad doesn’t know we’re in a recession, I think.

TIGHTWAD IN THE FIRE DEPARTMENT The Tightwad Fire Department sits about a mile down the road from the convenience store.

“We’re a volunteer fire department,” says Willie Houk, a retired nurse.

But of course.

Willie works as an RN for the department.

Her husband, Milton Houk, says the fire department has existed since the 1960s.

The tiny red shed housing its equipment

doesn’t look like more than a bread box from the outside, but it opens into a monstrous garage on the inside, packed with five flashy fire trucks, some splashed in flames and including retired military vehicles. They all read, “Tightwad Fire Dept.” and have been collected over the decades with grants from conservation and homeland security departments and from donations. Crossing the doorway inside feels like going to a child’s piano concert and realizing the child is Mozart.

The Houks and about eight other full-time volunteer firefighters wear giant radios, like old brick cell phones, on their belts 24/7.

When a call comes in, as many volunteers respond to the emergency scene as possible.

A few days ago, the Houks had had dinner and gone to bed when the radio went off for a heart-attack call. They climbed out from the covers, threw on heavy yellow reflective coats, and raced a truck to the scene. They went home after placing the patient in an ambulance that arrived later.

Milton does this—climbs out of bed for emergency calls — at age 80, all for free.

“We can get there faster than the ambulance,” Willie says, as if volunteering their golden years—their time in a ratio of 24/7— is the natural human way. The tone she uses would be the same one you’d use to say, “Well we had bandages and were going that way anyway…” Except Willie and Milton hadn’t

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From left: Tightwad’s volunteer firefighters supply victims with water, oxygen, and blankets on site. Retired nurse Willie Houk taught her husband, the fire chief, CPR at a bad crash scene. If you want to open an account with Tightwad Bank, make sure to have at least $500 to avoid a monthly fee.

been “going that way anyway.” They’d been sleeping.

The Tightwad Fire Department once responded to a car crash scene while the Houks were out of town. The car had gone off-road, and the volunteers gave aid on the spot. But the crash took a life. Milton and Willie remember missing the call. When they got back in town, they gathered the volunteers at their house. Willie had worked in a psychology ward before retiring. They talked, cried, and re-clipped the radios to their belts, the heavy yellow coats lingering nearby.

Some of those yellow coats the Houks paid for out of pocket. Willie has also gathered a giant plastic bag of stuffed toys she gives to kids at emergency scenes. One of the toys, a plush red stegosaurus with blue spikes, looks like a hundred kids have squeezed it. It looks loved.

The hunt for tightwads can hardly be said to be fruitful at this point, I think.

TIGHTWAD AT THE BANK Willie and Milton—and Frank, Carrie, and the Hueys—have bank accounts at Tightwad Bank, which faces the firehouse.

But bank manager Ellen Lindsey can’t let any of them inside.

Ellen, who says she’s held “the most coveted job in Tightwad” since the bank opened in March 2008, works at a building

notorious for being robbed. (Carrie mentioned the robberies unprompted at the cafe.)

Before Tightwad Bank was Tightwad Bank in a town seemingly bereft of tightwads, it was UMB bank and, previously, Windsor Bank. The building has served as a bank since 1900. Tightwad Bank chairman Donald Higdon chuckles as he notes the town’s size compared to how many times the bank has been robbed.

So Ellen serves her customers through a drive-through window and snail mail. Her voice lacks the New York accent that would betray her origins. In fact, it sounds as if it might fit a dozen Mother Goose-story mothers—and it is reaching me through a drivethrough speaker, where I’ve parked my car backward. (My driver-side window doesn’t roll down.)

As we talk, a truck pulls up facing the direction in which vehicles traditionally pass through this drive-through and stops. I try to wave it forward.

“I hope I’m not scaring off your business,” I say. (The truck finally pulled through once I left.)

“I think you are,” Ellen says.

You are my last hope for finding a tightwad, I think.

Tightwad Bank has opened accounts with residents of all 50 states. Ellen handles snailmail banking from clients who want the

privilege of paying the electric bill with checks that say, “Tightwad Bank.”

The checks fly the bank’s logo, a moneybag. The first picture on the bank’s website is a fist clutching money. Donald has raised the bank’s checking deposits to about $13 million dollars since opening. And his bank gives customers higher CD rates, as of February 2012, than Bank of America.

“You can’t compare us to other small-town banks,” Ellen says.

When you open an account at Tightwad, you’re offered a travel or coffee mug, baseball cap, or other trinket with the bank’s logo. I’m deciding which I want when a raspy voice says something from the drive-through next to mine.

I wave vigorously to Carrie and her chef, who cranes over the passenger seat in the drive-through lane beside mine and waves vigorously back. Ellen sends a travel mug through the drive-thru machine. It gets added to the pile of postcards while Carrie takes off.

And this is when I shriek. Repeatedly.

Through a smile that is rapidly flattening.

Distractedly, I tell Ellen, “Goodbye,” but as she tells me to drive safely in that Mother Goose voice, all I can think is, I forgot to pay Carrie for the coffee.

So I’ve found Tightwad’s tightwad after all.

She’s sitting next to free Tightwad souvenirs, enjoying free coffee, and just passing through.

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Events OctOber 13 Historic Washington Cemetery Tours NOvember 24 Annual Boat Parade

radled in the howard County hills overlooking the Missouri River is the town of Glasgow, Missouri. Once a bustling steamboat port and home to the first all-steel span bridge, Glasgowâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s historic past is preserved in its antebellum and Victorian homes and buildings. Imagine steamboats loaded with hemp and tobacco, and retrace the footsteps of Union and Confederate soldiers. Tour the Lewis Library, the oldest continuously operating library west of the Mississippi, and then head down a tree-lined brick street to the Community Museum.

Stroll down Main and Market streets to enjoy a stack of pancakes, comfort food, pastries, pie, or fine dining. Have a milk shake at the local drug storeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s old fashioned soda fountain, and then shop for unique art, antiques, food, wine, and gifts. You can set up camp and launch your boat at Stump Island, take a hike at Kuemmel Park, or rest and watch the world go by at Veterans or Pocket parks. End the day watching the sunset over the river with a glass of wine, or if kicking up your heels is more your style, visit the local saloon. Finally get ready for some pampering, relaxation, and rest at one of the several bed and breakfasts or the inn.

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History COMMUNITY MUSEUM 402 Commerce Street 816-338-2435 LEWIS LIBRARY 315 Market Street 660-338-2395

FOOD AND Beverage Historic past • exciting present • Glasgow, MO www.glasgowmo.com

BECKETT’S 510 First Street 660-338-9978

Shopping GLASGOW TRADING POST 619 First Street 660-338-5900 MARKET STREET FLORAL 111 Market Street 660-338-2300

Lodging CHARITON LODGE BED & BREAKFAST North of Glasgow on Hwy 5 660-338-2408 FISH TALE INN 107 Market Street 660-338-9989

RIVER CITY ANTIQUES 609 First Street 660-338-2450 RIVERPORT MARKET ART & ANTIQUES 106 Market Street 660-338-9989

BUSHWHACKER BEND WINERY 515 First Street 660-338-2100 FISH BEAK SALOON 418 First Street 660-338-2884 HENDERSON’S DRUG 523 First Street 660-338-2125 PERRY’S DRIVE-IN 1009 Randolph 660-338-5100 RIVER BEND CAFE 615 First Street 660-338-2450

HILLTOP BED & BREAKFAST 907 Union Street 660-338-5824

RIVERPORT MARKET TASTE OF MISSOURI 518 First Street 660-338-2020

THE COOLER 520 Water Street 660-338-2200

RIVERVILLA BED & BREAKFAST 735 Randolph Street 660-338-2771

THE CORNER STORE 101 Market Street 660-338-5869

THE ROLLING PIN 104 Market 660-338-0800

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culinary tradition since at least the 1800s, sweet pies are ubiquitous features of summer Sunday dinners, Grandma’s kitchen, and Thanksgiving feasts. The flavors and styles are limited only by your imagination—meaning they’re virtually limitless.

This spring, I went looking for seven great Missouri pies, one for each day of the week. I had a couple of conditions: The pies had to be made from scratch, and they had to be fantastic. After talking to most of the pie shop owners, I knocked coconut cream out of the running. Apparently Missourians have a hankering for coconut cream because nearly every owner said that was his or her bestseller. I wasn’t about to try seven different varieties of coconut cream.

Besides, I already know my mom makes the best coconut cream pie in Missouri.

My travels took me across the state to tiny towns with huge reputations for great pies: Kimmswick, Collins, Golden City, Glasgow, and Blackwater. I also went to bigger cities with pie reputations to match: Rolla, Branson, and the Kansas City suburb Riverside.

You’re thinking, Wait a minute, that adds up to eight places. And you’re right. When it comes to pies, there aren’t enough days in the week, so I added another day.

Call it … Pieday. It falls somewhere between Monday and Sunday, on a day when one slice of pie just isn’t enough.

And here Missouri Life brings to you our Baker’s Week of pies.

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BY JOE MCCUNE

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The Rolling Pin in Glasgow baked 2,800 pies last year, including 155 pies for the Missouri Senate.

One of its more popular pies among customers is the chocolate cream pie, pictured here.

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A slice Of Pie, ROllA Moe’s Millionaire Here’s what you need to know about A Slice of Pie: Terri Combs of Eminence stops in every time she travels north to visit relatives and not just for a slice of pie; instead, she’s there to pick up a whole pie—or two.

It’s featured in Jane and Michael Stern’s book Roadfood on page 371.

Ron Hopson, owner of A Slice of Pie with wife Mic, says they get 1,000 customers a year from that book’s listing alone.

There are only nine tables in this nearly hidden Ozarks institution, so most folks get their pies to go. You couldn’t tell it by the business today, but Ron says, “When we first opened, we knew nothing about the food business.” Apparently they’re quick learners.

I choose Moe’s Millionaire, named for former employee Ramona. It’s a vanilla silk pie with banana, pineapple, mandarin oranges, pecans, and a real whipped cream topping.

The mandarin orange’s sweet tartness is the top note, quickly followed by the smooth taste of subtly sweet banana. Pineapple is a counterpoint to the first two flavors, and then the crust and the nutty taste of pecans. The whipped cream’s consistency is just right, firm without being heavy, the perfect topping for Moe’s pie.

Before I know it—heck, long before I’m ready—I’ve inhaled it, and the slice before me is reduced to slight smears of whipped cream on the plate. I want another piece, but for once willpower wins.

601 Kingshighway • 573-364-6203 In December 2011, The Blue Owl went through 77,500 apples. If every apple went into the Levee High Caramel Apple Pecan pie, that would translate to more than 4,300 pies in one month.

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Levee High Caramel Apple Pecan Pie Don’t eat this pie because it has been featured on the TODAY Show.

Or because Oprah Winfrey’s O: The Oprah Magazine named it one of its favorite things in its 2011 Gift Guide. No. Eat this pie because you love apples—lots and lots of apples. Because this pie, nine inches tall, is made with 18 apples. It’s cut into eight pieces, which means each one has two and one-quarter apples in it. (Owner Mary Hostetter said that in December 2011, The Blue Owl went through 77,500 apples.)

Once it’s baked, the pie crust is covered with a thick caramel topping and sprinkled liberally with toasted pecans.

The slice arrived on my table. I looked at it for a minute and dived in. The apples had just the right amount of crunch—not too hard, not too soft: perfect. The caramel stuck to the roof of my mouth. After a few bites, I ordered a glass of milk.

Halfway through the slice, I was already getting full. I slowed down, taking more and more time between bites. Caramel was stuck to my molars, too, and sticking my finger in my mouth to pry it out seemed a little gauche in front of strangers. I took another bite. And another.

And another. Finally, with about two bites left, I threw in the towel and cried uncle.

It was, without a doubt, the biggest piece of apple pie I ever tackled, and I nearly finished it. And that’s saying something because I’m apparently one of the few people in America who doesn’t even like apple pie.

Of course coconut cream is one of Peggy and CJ Smith’s bestsellers, but that’s already been ruled out, and the board on the wall holds a dizzying array of pies and cobblers. Now what?

Enter waitress Lindsay Keller. She’s worked at Smith’s for several years, so she knows the pies well, and her favorite, she says, is the black walnut cream pie. Sold.

The main dining room is nearly full on a Sunday afternoon, folks eating dinner after church, chitchatting with their family and friends. Peggy comes to talk.

The restaurant gets many customers by word of mouth, and I can attest to that. Friends in Springfield turned me on to Smith’s, and I’m glad they did.

The black walnut cream pie finally arrives. I’ve never even heard of a pie like it, let alone tasted it. It’s so good, it’s sinful, and from the first bite, I’m hooked. The cream filling is light, melting in my mouth. With tiny pieces of walnut inside it, the filling is a combination of sweetness balanced with the nutty crunch of walnuts. The whipped topping has more black walnuts sprinkled on top.

I asked Peggy for the recipe. She looked at me like I was crazy.

“We don’t ever give out our recipes,” she said. “No, not going to do that.”

Oh well, I had to try.

I ate slowly. It was so good, I could have eaten a whole pie. When I finished, I left crumbs much too small for even Whos’ mouses.

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www.smithsrestaurant.com • 417-275-4575

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The Rolling Pin, glasgow Chocolate Cream Pie Owner Jeremy Sayler worked eight years at The Pear Tree Restaurant in Bevier doing a variety of jobs in the kitchen.

But seven years ago, he was looking for something more, something where he was the boss.

Thus The Rolling Pin was born. It turns seven in October. With picture glass windows, hardwood floors, wooden tables and chairs, a pressed tin ceiling, and an open kitchen, The Rolling Pin has become a favorite.

104 Market street • 660-338-0800

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Above: Smith’s Short Stop serves black walnut cream pie in Collins, Bolivar, and Clinton.

Below: Moe’s Millionaire is made with banana, pineapple, mandarin oranges, pecans, and cream.

“I kind of fell in love with the town,” Jeremy says.

The feeling is most definitely mutual. Heck, my mother and grandmother—neither of whom lives in Glasgow—have sung its praises so often, I knew it would make the cut.

Jeremy has his fingers, literally, in the pies. He arrives around 6 in the morning, has 10 to 12 pies made by 8 am and all of them cooked by 10:30 am. He has a rotation of about 18 pies depending on what’s in season.

Last year, The Rolling Pin baked and sold around 2,800 pies. This year, Jeremy says, they’re on pace for 3,000 or more.

There’s no secret to his recipes: They come out of cookbooks with a few of Grandma’s recipes thrown in for good measure. For the chocolate cream pie, he uses cocoa and homemade custard. Sometimes, less is more—and that’s definitely the case with the chocolate cream pie.

When my wife and our daughter met Mom and Grandma there, they were already deep into their pies. One taste of the chocolate, and I knew that would be the one.

The meringue is nearly two inches high at the pie’s point, light, fluffy, and toasted to a golden blonde with a few small chocolate chips sprinkled on top.

The first bite is deliciously decadent. Cocoa and custard—simple ingredients—combine to taste like an artisan milk chocolate bar. The meringue melts in my mouth. I taste the flaky crust and savor the flavor.

“What do you think?” Grandma asks.

Mmm, I grunt. I think Mom has an I-told-you-so look on her face.

The next time my family goes to visit Grandma, I’m stopping for pie at the Rolling Pin—but this time, I’m bringing home a whole pie.

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McFarlain’s FaMily restaurant, Branson Traffic Jam Pie It’s perhaps the biggest tourist town in all of Missouri, so of course the 17-year-old McFarlain’s isn’t just a stand-alone restaurant. It’s part of an IMAX entertainment complex containing 17 shops that sell touristy items. You can even get a mini massage at one of the kiosks.

When you’ve had your fill of tourist items, it’s time to fill up your belly at McFarlain’s familystyle restaurant—it seats 597!—which features heaps of comfort food. Whatever you do, though, save room for pie. Specifically, save room for the Traffic Jam Pie. No one at the restaurant knows the origin of the pie’s name, but if you go to Branson on Memorial Day, the Fourth of July, or Labor Day, you’ll know why the name is appropriate.

The pie filling is a mixture of cherries, strawberries, cranberries, and rhubarb, and there’s a white sugar glaze on the top crust. The first bite is an explosion of sweetness, a strawberry-rhubarb pie on steroids. The crust is thick, and in this case that’s a good thing. That’s because the crust is tasty: crispy but not hard, flaky but substantial.

This is a pie like you wish Grandma made. (Sorry, Grandma.)

Soon, the pie is gone. But there’s still pie filling left in the bowl. There’s too many of the wait staff milling around to pick up the bowl and lick the filling out, but the thought crosses my mind.

And you better believe I bought a piece to go. For, you know, the wife at home. Yeah, that’s my story. www.bransonimax.com • 417-336-4680

Cooky’s CaFe, Golden City Blackberry Pie Cooky’s Cafe has been in Carol Eldred’s extended family since 1975, but you have to go back to when the place started in 1942 to get its name.

Cecil “Cooky” Ambler opened it that year and ran it for 30 years.

Above: The blackberry pie at Cooky’s Cafe is one of 30 pies made on weekdays.

Below: The Traffic Jam pie is a blend of cherries, strawberries, cranberries, and rhubarb.

Carol has been working there since 1984, baking pies for most of that time. In 1987, son Greg began working there, and today, Carol and Greg arrive at 5 am to bake 30 to 35 pies on weekdays and 50 to 60 on the weekends. Stop me if you’ve heard this before, but of course coconut cream is their bestseller. (Confession: Even though I told myself that I wouldn’t eat coconut cream, I had a piece. Hey, you hear it’s the best so many times, eventually you’ll cave in and try it.) But back to my official selection: blackberry pie.

It’s the one pie I associate most with childhood, when picking blackberries was a family affair with Mom, Dad, Grandma, my sister, and me loading up on them when there was a bumper crop.

Carol gets me a piece of blackberry, and it’s a trip down memory lane.

The pie is sweet like blackberry has to be, and the individual berries are clearly defined inside the filling. The crust is browned perfectly.

It’s my fourth piece of pie for the day, but when I’m finished, all that are left are crumbs (and not many of ’em).

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Corner CaFe, riverside Ed and Kathi Rule opened the restaurant on May 15, 1983, and in those days it was a 40-seat diner that was open for breakfast and lunch Mondays through Fridays. A new restaurant was built in 1994, and it’s the one that stands today. The people waiting are a cross section of Middle America, many coming for their dinner and dessert after church, still dressed in their Sunday clothes. Others take a more casual approach, wearing shorts and T-shirts. Whatever they’re dressed in, people are there for the home cookin’. And pie.

Because I’m there on a Sunday, I can’t order any of their daily desserts, such as Tuesday’s Coco Loco Pie. Or Wednesday’s Platte County Pie. Or Thursday’s banana pecan cream pie. Or Friday’s lemon meringue pie.

But what I can, and do, order is the strawberry pie. Under the pie is

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Judging by the steady stream of customers on an early Saturday afternoon, it’s a talent folks appreciate.

Pressed for her favorite she finally settles on the sour cream pie, but with some reservation. “Actually,” she says, “after you make that many pies, they don’t even look good anymore.”

But if the pies don’t look good to her, they do to me and the other folks in the shop. Spread out on a table, there are cream pies and fruit pies and the one I settle on, the chocolate chip pecan pie.

It’s dense and dark and extremely sweet, like a chocolate chip cookie with pecans on top. The recipe calls for butter or oleo, which is what my mom called—and sometimes still calls—margarine. The crust is flaky and light, just the way you’d expect someone who has been baking pies for 82 years would make it.

I share it with my wife. And if I weren’t married, Imogene’s note next to the recipe in her cookbook says I just might be soon: “This pie,” it reads, “will make a confirmed bachelor propose marriage!!” www.blackwater-mo.com • 660-846-2263 Above: The strawberry pie at Corner Cafe is offered daily. Below: Imogene Mersey claims her chocolate chip pecan pie will make a bachelor propose marriage.

this sentence: “This is our most requested dessert, and we think for good reason!”

It’s a strawberry explosion with big berries that taste fresher than the ones you buy in the grocery store. The crust on the bottom is thick— nearly a quarter-inch in places—but it’s flaky and almost too rich it’s so good. The whipped cream topping is creamy in the best sort of way.

I take my time, sort of. But it’s tough to do, and soon enough the piece of strawberry pie is gone for good. And I can say without hesitation that the Corner Cafe was telling the truth about their strawberry pie.

and There you have it: eight great Missouri pies, all different but oh so good.

You can have your Easter, Fourth of July, Thanksgiving, or Christmas feasts, but what do you most look forward to? The pie at the end, of course.

Pies are the thread that bind generation to generation, a sweet indulgence that says you’re family, that says you’re home.

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Chocolate Chip Pecan Pie Imogene Mersey is 92 years old and still making pies. Let that sink in.

Ninety-two and still making pies, just like she has for the last 82 years.

When she was born, the Titanic was eight years into its cold northern Atlantic Ocean grave; World War I had been over for two years; F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby was published five years after her birth; and the stock market crash that precipitated the Great Depression was still nine years away.

She’s been around the block a time or two.

To celebrate her 92nd birthday in March, Imogene published My Favorite Recipes from the Picket Fence. In the book are handwritten recipes for soups, salads, main dishes, candy, and, of course, pies. You aren’t called “the pie lady of Blackwater” by making chicken and noodles.

If you want a piece of pie, however, don’t bother going on a weekday; The Picket Fence is only open from 11 am to 4 pm on Saturdays and Sundays. At home Imogene gets out of bed at 5 am on weekends and makes up to eight pies between 5:30 and 9:30.

She says she didn’t learn from anybody in particular about how to make pies but instead through trial and error.

“I guess it’s just a talent,” she says. “I’ve just always made pies.”

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Missy’s Fantastic Cream Pie

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Variations: Chocolate Cream: 8 ounces bittersweet or dark chocolate, chopped Chocolate shavings

For topping: Coconut Cream: 1 quart heavy 2 tablespoons whipping cream coconut extract 2 cups powdered sugar 1 ½ cups shredded 2 teaspoons vanilla coconut, toasted

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1. Mix flour, sugar, and salt in a stainless sauce pan until well blended. Add one cup of milk, and whisk until smooth.

2. Whisk in egg yolks and remaining milk to mixture. Cook and stir over medium heat until it reaches a full boil. Continue cooking and stirring for three to five minutes or until thick.

3. Add the vanilla. For Chocolate Cream, add the chocolate. For Coconut Cream, add the coconut extract and toasted coconut.

4. Pour mixture into two pie shells and cover with plastic wrap. Chill in the refrigerator for at least two hours or until firm.

5. While pies are chilling, prepare the whipped cream. Whip heavy whipping cream with powdered sugar and vanilla.

6. Top pies with whipped cream. For Chocolate Cream, top pie with chocolate shavings. For Coconut Cream, top with toasted coconut.

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By Tina Casagrand Photography By Casey Buckman

JANA HEITMEYER, SARAH THUNE, DOMI RICHARDSON, STEPHEN EVANS

J

ana Heitmeyer is winning.

As nutritionist for the sports teams at Mizzou, she’s the most valuable player for the most valuable skill athletes can learn: eating right.

Herself a former gymnast, Jana now works in an office with a window open to the weight room in Mizzou’s state-of-the-art Athletic Training Facility. That is—if she’s not hanging

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“Balance is key.

Everything in moderation.”

advisory nutrition cards at the dining hall or working as a strength and conditioning coach.

No matter how she’s helping the athletes, though, the training table is never far from her mind.

She stays in touch with a group of collegiate and professional sports dietitians, who share and discuss new research. Basic groundwork— balancing diets, staying hydrated, always eating big breakfasts, eating every three to four hours, and thinking lean protein—has already been laid, and Jana applies this essential knowledge to the nutritional programs at Mizzou.

Balance is key. Rather than strict guidelines, Jana holds a philosophy of everything in moderation. “I tell them, ‘Have a burger and fries, just throw salad in there, and I’m going to be ok with that,’” she says. Every night before dinner she visits the dining facility to hang tags by the food: “Whoa” - red light for food high in calories, sugar, or fat. Some athletes can have one red-light food a day, some have it once a week.

“Slow” - yellow-light for items such as spaghetti and other boxed foods that they should eat less of, but are still necessary to balance every meal.

“Go” - green-light for low-calorie food they can eat anytime.

Junior soccer players Sarah Thune and Domi Richardson say the visual reminders hone their cognizance of what enters their bodies. “The carbs and proteins are so important to us because we need that energy,” Sarah says. “When I see a red light, I think, ‘OK, maybe stop taking that.’ ” Domi remembers the dramatic training changes her freshman year “like it was two weeks ago.” The girls went from club soccer practices twice a week to university practice six days a week. In season, they do lighter lifting for injury prevention and off-season they do heavy lifting for muscle building. Other days they have recovery workouts. Newly painted SEC logos on the field remind them to step up their game even more this year. They move like gazelles, with speed and endurance. That wouldn’t be possible without the right diet.

Jana fosters healthy eating habits starting at summer camp during breakfast on day one. After she instructs the athletes on portion sorting, they fill their plate with food, and then she asks them what’s missing. Not everyone gets it the first time. Inevitably, a freshman will proudly report to Jana that he or she ate Welch’s fruit snacks—it’s fruit! “No! That is not fruit!” Jana

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THE POWER OF PROTEIN recalls, groaning. Someone once said to her, “I drank strawberry milk today, coach, that counts, right?” “Nope, not that either,” she merrily replies. Once she irons out that kind of confusion, it’s pretty smooth sailing. They play with diets the most during off-season and preseason. “Once football season hits, nutrition’s on the backburner,” she says. “We have to have our diets in place.”

Each sport has different needs. A cross country runner who weighs 120 pounds can eat up to 7,000 calories a day, while a 300-pound off-lineman might take in 3,000. “It’s funny; it makes me laugh,” Jana says. She once watched

a cross-country runner eat every bite of five plates of food. “You’re literally the size of my leg,” she told the runner, laughing.

Nutrition education is now simply part of the training program. Not all 580 athletes need individual plans, but Jana’s door is always open to the players that want more help. After nine years at Mizzou, Jana has a long roster of people with success stories. When these alumni return and tell the current athletes that it works, they’re very receptive. “The athletes have become really good at learning the information and learning it for themselves,” she says. “They ask very good questions.”

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n the practice fields under a harsh sun about a month ago, cleats kick up turf and a coach calls out plays on a megaphone. “One to one, one to one,” the echoed voice announces.

“Third and nine, third and nine, third and nine.”

Football camp works athletes hard, possibly harder than the tackles and shoulder-checks they’ll endure each weekend for the next three months. Every day at camp, players wake up before 6 am and practice three hours. They run plays, hustling and then stopping at the whistle.

Stop and go. They tackle and get tackled. It’s an interpretive dance of what happens inside their bodies during the season: fluids, vitamins and minerals are pumping through their system; fat is traded out for muscle; muscle gets pummeled and built back again. What they put back in to replenish themselves is vital to their performance on the field.

“We want them to have protein within 30 to 45 minutes of their workout,” Jana says. “It

MyPlate is the USDA’s new nutritional guideline. Here are the basics: balance calories; enjoy your food but eat less; avoid oversized portions.

Make half of your plate fruits and vegetables, and make half of your grains whole grains. Drink water instead of sugary drinks.

HERE’S THE BEEF ON PROTEIN: What foods are in the protein group? All food made from meat–including beef!–poultry, seafood, beans, eggs, processed soy products, nuts and seeds.

Proteins function as building blocks for bones, muscles, cartilage, skin and blood. They are also building blocks for enzymes, hormones and vitamins.

B vitamins found in this food group help the body release energy, play a vital role in the nervous system, aid in the formation of red blood cells and help build tissues.

Iron is used to carry oxygen in the blood. Magnesium is used in building bones and releasing energy from muscles. Zinc is necessary for biochemical reactions and helps the immune system function properly.

According to the Harvard School of Public Health, animal sources provide all the essential amino acids that the human body needs. Red meat especially provides iron, zinc, omega-3, and B vitamins.

Zinc is vital for a healthy immune system. Omega-3 and B vitamins promote brain and heart health.

Consumed in careful moderation, beef can round out complex nutritional needs.

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helps them recover and build muscle.” The workout created little rips and tears in their muscles, and the only way to repair is to put protein in its place.

How much food from the Protein Group is needed daily? The amount depends on age, sex and level of physical activity, but here is an average guide:

“We want them to have protein within 30 to 45 minutes of their workout.”

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“I feel like my body’s breaking down slowly,” Matt White admits after practice. Smiling playfully, he adds, “but it’s good.” Nutrition is second nature for Matt, a free safety on the football team. He wakes up at 5:55 every morning, and eats breakfast at the dining hall. Now in his redshirt junior year, Matt instinctively knows to select healthy portions and recites his diet without thinking. “I usually try to get a protein, some eggs, and then some fruit, just to have some energy out here to run on,” he says.

Then after practice, “I drink a shake, just to get everything you lost back in you.” Then he has a meeting, lunch, nap, and then dinner. Since he’s on the weight gain track, Jana told him to eat before he goes to sleep every night and to eat as much as he can.

Because training camp demands so many calories, Jana actually encourages the athletes to eat whatever and how much they want. The other advice emphasizes protein, protein, protein.

STEPHEN EVANS

FEED YOUR HUNGRY TIGERS Tiger Pot Roast 10-12 pounds beef pot roast, uncooked 2 quarts water 2 teaspoons salt 2 teaspoons ground black pepper 1 1/2 cup onion, sliced 2 teaspoons garlic powder 1 cup carrots, chopped 3 tablespoons parsley, chopped 1 (14-oz) can diced tomatoes, undrained 1/2 teaspoon allspice 1 bay leaf 1/8 teaspoon ground thyme 1/4 cup vinegar 2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce Place roasts in stock pot or steam-jacketed kettle; brown on all sides; add water. Add salt, pepper, onion, garlic, carrots, parsley, tomatoes, allspice, bay leaf, thyme, Worcestershire sauce, and vinegar to roasts. Cover. Simmer 3-1/2 to 4-1/2 hours or until tender. Remove foam as it rises to the surface during cooking. Remove cooked beef. Let roast stand 20 minutes; slice 1/8-inch thick. Serve with your favorite beef broth gravy.

Chef Stephen Evans prepares food to feed 580 athletes. This tiger-sized recipe has been scaled down to a more family-friendly size.

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nder the lofty ceiling of the Sells Family Athletic Dining Hall, head chef Stephen Evans designs delicious meals that keep the athletes happy and Jana at ease with their diet.

Breakfast is open to the public, but dinner is exclusively for the athletes. There they enjoy a choice of three entrees, salad, pizza and sandwich bars, a range of drinks (but no soda) and desserts. During the school year, Jana says this helps athletics know “they’re getting at least one good meal, know that they’re eating.”

Dressed in a black double-breasted chef ’s jacket and a Mizzou baseball cap, Stephen whizzes through the serving counters: three salad bar counters, an island for stir-fry, a pizza bar, a frozen yogurt machine and fountains for Gatorade, tea, milk and water. In the back, he checks on a beef roast peppered with peas, stacks nearly a dozen trays of beautifully encrusted tilapia into the oven and sets garlic-rosemary mashed potatoes on to warm.

On his desk, steak sauce and hot sauce bottles sit alongside stacks of meal plans and a manual from a “Pasture to Plate” tour. On the tour, he

saw the beef process from calf to auction barn to feedlot, with lessons from veterinarians and scientists. Add that to previous careers in catering and as a Navy chef, and you have a man ready to tackle the state’s most diverse and demanding roster. Many of his recipes, including meatloaf and Japanese beef yakisoba, come from the U.S. military cookbook.

“What’s really the difference in serving our troops and the troops for the university, you know?” he says. “Everything has to be well-balanced, and the Navy has the best food out of all the branches.”

The big challenge in moving to Mizzou was learning to cook healthier meals. He’s moved away from really heavy sauces and trims more fat off of the beef than he would at home. As he hashes out nine-week plans for menus—including Taco Tuesdays and a monthly Greek night—Jana stops by to double-check the meals. Is there at least one green-light entrée?

A starch? Plenty of vegetables? Stephen knows what she wants and usually tries to include a lean beef, fish, or grilled chicken, each night.

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Stephen says he and Jana strive to make sure Mizzou has the best training table in the SEC, and he’s confident they can. “A lot of schools don’t even have their own dining facility,” he says. “And we spend as much money on fresh fruit as we do on all of our meat and proteins.” New research on how vitamin D works in the body and the benefits of fish oil in healing brains are sure to be incorporated as it’s introduced to the athletic community.

“We spend as much money on fresh fruit as we do on all of our meat and proteins.”

Despite her expertise, Jana has battles. “We fight about stuff,” she says of some resistant players. “I always win. A guy who was bullheaded said, ‘This is never going to help me.’ Here was my question to him: When you order your food, do you think, ‘Coach would tell me to order a salad right now?’ He said, ‘Yeah!’ Then I’m winning.”

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REDNECK RESTAURANT IF THERE’S ANY lesson to learn from T’s Redneck Steakhouse in Lebanon, it’s that redneck is anything but a derogatory term. Instead, it’s a lifestyle that should be embraced and heralded.

A plaque on the wall reads: “Redneck: It’s a noun used to describe good ol’ boys and gals who love cold beer, hot romance, fast cars, slow dancing, barbecue, long kisses, country music, pick-up trucks, good fishing, America, mom, apple pie, and are proud to defend any of ’em!”

Owner Tina Fears-Akers points to this plaque as her guiding philosophy for running this restaurant.

“We’re not white table top, we don’t do drizzle or have frou-frou food,” Tina says. “We have big, full, healthy meals. I’ve had nobody tell me our helpings are too small.”

Tina opened the restaurant five years ago, making the leap from managing three Burger Kings to owning her

Stan Akers and Tina Fears-Akers

own eatery. She saw a need for a sit-down restaurant that wasn’t a chain in Lebanon, a town “loaded with fast-food restaurants.” Plus, the community didn’t have a steak house or a barbecue joint at the time.

“I really enjoyed the idea of being able to do our own thing, not having someone dictate like in the corporate world,” Tina says. “Here, our customers dictate what we are going to do. Most of our ideas come from them.”

Free from corporate oversight, Tina has the opportunity to make meals from scratch. Her blue cheese dressing has only seven ingredients and is made fresh on a regular basis, whereas the typical vat variety has 27 ingredients to prolong its shelf life, Tina says. T’s smokes its own meats, makes its own barbecue sauce, and mushrooms are breaded right in the kitchen. Sweet potato fries are dressed up in a cinnamon-pear glaze, and the succulent homemade desserts are much more than defrosted cakes.

This do-it-yourself attitude also allows Tina to put her own spin on other steak house staples. Take, for instance, The Ex burger, which starts out on a sweet note with Thousand Island dressing smothered on top of a juicy patty. In the end, though, the burger burns you with a mess of jalapenos stuffed inside.

Nachos are transformed when she tops them with barbecue pork, and her cream cheese corn entices many taste buds.

Perhaps her most redneck endeavor to date is the addition of a distillery in the restaurant.

“We’re that redneck steak house; that was my whole thing,” Tina says. “How redneck do you get besides making your own moonshine?”

There’s a big picture window so customers can see the still and watch Tina and her crew handbottle the moonshine.

Moontinis, moonaritas and moonpicks all find their way onto the restaurant’s drink menu, a simple reminder that being a redneck ain’t so bad. —Rachel Kiser www.tsrednecksteakhouse.com 221 Evergreen Parkway • 417-532-3519

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Eat, Drink, and Sleep The Old Dutch Hotel & Tavern is pulsating with life again ever since it reopened in April 2011 following an extensive renovation. Even the funky neon sign of a Dutch windmill has been restored and glows nightly.

A downtown landmark for decades, the building dates from 1923 and the hotel from 1935. The Old Dutch was a local tradition through the 1940s and ’50s, and in the ’70s workers building the power plant in nearby Labadie lived in the hotel. Gradually the hotel and tavern fell on hard times and eventually closed, later reopening as a retail flower and gift shop.

Then two local families—Dan and Phyllis Cassette and Rick and Heidi Wunderlich—seized the opportunity in 2010 to restore a community gathering place and provide a modern hotel for the downtown area. The

locally sourced ingredients as much as possible, such as sausage from William

Wunderlichs’ son, Ben, who has a background in restaurant management,

Brothers Meat Market, a popular Washington meat company. Desserts are

returned to Washington to run the restaurant.

made from scratch daily by resident baker Charlotte Valley.

The beer menu boasts more than 50 different microbrews, making it a huge

At the Old Dutch Hotel & Tavern, the motto is “eat.drink.sleep.” With 15

draw for beer aficionados. The food menu doesn’t disappoint, either. The lunch

beautifully decorated and modern rooms, you’ll find the hotel to be the perfect

and dinner items range from appetizers and salads to sandwiches and main

way to finish up an evening of good food and fun. —Barbara Gibbs Ostmann

courses such as crab cakes, scallops, pork chops, steaks, chicken, eggplant, and

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drinks along with a distinctly European

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UNCORK HISTORY Try Indian Creek Winery's flagship wines at Monroe City.

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WHEN CUSTOMERS buy Indian Creek wine, they are buying more than a sweet white or a dry red; they are buying history.

John and the late Sheila Osbourne began Indian Creek Winery in 2005 in Monroe City, about 20 minutes west of Hannibal. It was Sheila who decided to open Indian Creek Winery. She already had a catering business and bakery, so she had the skill set for running her own business. She had also worked for the U.S. Department of Agriculture. This, along with a background in chemistry, meant running a winery would be a natural fit.

In March of 2010, John and Sheila purchased 30 acres of the former Robey property, a property with history to spare. The Robey Home was to become Indian Creek Winery’s tasting room, and they had plans to use the barn as the winery. Though it’s unknown when the Robey Home was built, the Monroe City News reported on November 20, 1917, that the large 12-room brick home belonging to owner W.R.P. Jackson of Monroe City caught fire, destroying most of the home’s second floor. The Jackson family rebuilt the home some time after.

In 1928, the Jackson estate was sold at a sheriff’s sale on the steps of the Monroe City courthouse to John D. Robey, co-founder of a prominent lumber company. The home passed through several hands of the Robey family before the Osbournes purchased it in 2010.

Today, the Robey Home is a quaint, warm tasting room for Indian Creek Winery, with colorful rugs on wooden floors and a brick fireplace.

The winery’s property is equally appealing, with a red barn, small windmill, and a delightful country setting.

And although Sheila passed away in 2011, her legacy lives on through the community built around Indian Creek Winery.

“Our winery is a winery that’s local to the community, and if you’re looking for a winery that has its roots in the Missouri heartland, that’s what we offer,” says Geoffrey Preckshot, sales and business director.

Indian Creek Winery finds ways to stand apart. Take, for instance, its custom-made bottles. Though the majority of the winery’s products are served in the traditional longneck bottle, some offerings come in other shapes. There is both a Christmas tree bottle around the holidays and a heart-shaped bottle around Valentine’s Day. The winery’s Pirate’s Gold is offered in a bottle in the shape of a pirate ship.

Although Indian Creek offers a variety of tastes and bottles throughout the year, it also has its flagship wines, such as four fruit wines—blackberry, strawberry, sweet cherry, and peach—a Norton, and a Riesling.

And two years ago, the winery won first place in the Governor’s Cup for its Vignoles.

The property Indian Creek sits on has come a long way since the Robey family cultivated the farmland, but it is still richly tied to the Monroe City and Hannibal experience, Geoffrey says. To make a weekend out of visiting the winery, he suggests spending time in the nearby river town, exploring Mark Twain’s Boyhood Home, the Mark Twain Cave, or a boat ride down the Mississippi.

Afterward, a bottle of Indian Creek wine will be waiting. www.indiancreekwine.com

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THE APPLE TREE OF LIBERTY

ILLUSTRATION BY TOM SULLIVAN

BY RON MARR

THREE TINY apple trees cling tenaciously to life in my west yard, survivors of the worst drought to hit Missouri in more than a half century. Aside from a green patch at the base of each tree, the yard is desolation personified.

My little trees were planted last April when there was nary a hint that summer would consist of an endless loop of bone-dry, 108-degree days. The trees are beyond exhausted, ready to drop.

They would have succumbed months ago had I not spent endless hours dragging hoses, watering thrice weekly. I’m obsessed with keeping these trees alive.

Partly it’s because I refuse to let months of work go to waste. Mostly it’s because I consider their battle symbolic.

Common sense and the concept of rugged individualism still exist in our society, but the traits hang by cracked fingernails. These attributes, once seen as the most admirable of characteristics, have more and more come to be viewed as archaic.

The ethos of taking care of one’s self is perceived as an oddity, the prime indicator of a potentially unstable mind.

Common sense and rugged individualism have largely been replaced. In their stead sit dependency, political correctness, and a bizarre form of “tolerance” that is utterly intolerant of any voice or thought that strays from conventional wisdom. Conventional wisdom, sadly, is presently defined as the self-serving, self-aggrandizing ramblings of the entertainment industry, government agencies, and the “monkey see, monkey do” world of social media.

The founders of America intended this country to be a place where individual rights took precedence above all else, where individual freedom was paramount. The federal government was supposed to play a minor role (hence the Constitutional mandate setting forth enumerated powers). Each state was to function in a nearly autonomous manner; states were expected to allow local communities to deal with local issues. They knew without question that an all-powerful central government inherently construes freedom and individuality as RON MARR detrimental to its own best interests.

And what do we have now? We currently reside in a system that encourages and applauds class warfare, a system that seeks to punish those who have succeeded in achieving the American dream. We exist in a culture where citizens give up freedoms, bit by tiny bit, in exchange for handouts that amount to something less than last week’s moldy table scraps.

We are supposedly all “connected” in a national/global family by the Internet and social media, but in reality we have never been farther apart. America is politically and philosophically divided at roughly a 50/50 ratio.

True, most people are connected, but the connection is akin to that of a lamp and a wall socket. Online friendship is based on fictional commonality, something that happens when you click the “Like” button on Facebook; quality and intimacy have been bartered for quantity and efficiency.

And yet, I do not blame government, politicians, the entertainment conglomerates, or even the silicon gurus of social media for what we have become. These groups cannot by themselves steal freedom. It has to be voluntarily relinquished. A politician does not obtain office without being voted in. The skewed rants of celebrities mean nothing until people forego the work of thinking for themselves and come to believe fame trumps intelligence. A person has to purposely abdicate his distinctive qualities, embrace the group mentality and capitulate to the peer pressure of social media in order for his intellectual singularity to wither and rot.

Three tiny apple trees cling tenaciously to life in my west yard. To me, their contest for survival has been symbolic. They represent the hardwon virtues of individuality, freedom, and liberty that were the bedrock of American exceptionalism. They are virtues powerful yet fragile; virtues increasingly scrutinized with a hint of disdain and mockery; virtues successively discarded in the name of illusive harmony and mendacious abundance.

One tree will sprout new buds and green leaves, but the odds are good that two will die before the return of spring.

At least my trees put up a fight.

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This photo of Laclede’s Landing, taken by Notley Hawkins, inspired St. Louis-native Eric Wilkinson to co-write and produce a movie filmed in St. Louis.

A AnLANDMARK FILM upcoming thriller film encapsulates St. Louis.

BY KELLY MOFFITT

initially rejected offers to become the film’s director, she came on board and co-wrote another script with Eric after being taken with the story. when Chevy Chase didn’t stop to get directions by it?” is the question That script is today’s A Fall From Grace. on producer and St. Louis-native Eric Wilkinson’s mind.

While Eric grew up around St. Louis and had He’s right: movies filmed on location in the parents he describes as movie buffs, it wasn’t state’s largest metropolitan area generally get until he left and came back from a stint in the a punch-line kind of treatment as in National U.S. Marine Corps that he felt a haunting urge Lampoon’s Vacation or Planes, Trains, and Autoto write about it cinematically. mobiles. Sometimes films like 2009’s Up in the “When I was younger, I took the city for Air actually feature city landmarks in a pleasant what it was. It’s easy to get in trouble here,” sort of manner, but rarely do movies set in St. Eric says. “I’ve fallen in love with the city again.

Louis encapsulate the city as though it were a I visited the Old Chain of Rocks Bridge and character in the film itself. was fascinated. I got chills and couldn’t put my Eric wants to change that with the film he cofinger on why I was drawn to it, maybe somewrote, A Fall From Grace. thing to do with the old Route 66. Only later The movie is set to begin filming this fall and I connected it with the Kerry sisters murders will envelop itself in St. Louis history and culture. Director Jennifer Lynch, Boxing Helena and Jennifer Lynch directs scenes for the teaser trailer for that took place there.”

In 1991, two sisters, Julie and Robin Kerry, Hisss, became enamored with the city after Eric A Fall From Grace, which begins filming this fall. were raped and killed after being pushed from urged her to get involved with his script for an oldthe Old Chain of Rocks Bridge into the Mississippi River below. er version of A Fall From Grace entitled Down by the Water, which was Their cousin, Thomas Cummins, jumped from the bridge after bemore closely based on mysteries around the Old Chain of Rocks Bridge. ing threatened by the murderers and survived the fall. The murders Though the famed daughter of cult movie director David Lynch

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The Chain of Rocks Bridge marks where Route 66 crosses the Mississippi River in St. Louis. The film, A Fall From Grace, was inspired by the bridge’s dark history.

left an indelible mark on the bridge and St. Louis’s history.

Jeanine Cummins, the sister of Thomas, wrote a famous memoir, A Rip in Heaven, about the aftermath of the murders for her family. Eric initially started adapting the book but found Jeanine resistant to reopening old wounds. That’s where the loosely based Down by the Water came from and why the more-evolved A Fall From Grace echoes the haunting energy of the bridge.

A Fall From Grace, in its last iteration, is a dark thriller about Detective Michael Tabb, played by Tim Roth (Pulp Fiction), who gets pulled under by the dark side of St. Louis crime that he is trying to wade through. While the bodies of drowned girls keep washing ashore from the Mississippi River, his only chance of solving these serial murders is to succumb to the darkness. Also set to star in the film are Daryl Hannah (Kill Bill: Volume 1 and 2) and Vincent D’Onofrio (Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Full Metal Jacket).

Both the city of St. Louis and the Mississippi River that runs through it are metaphors in the film.

“What’s on the surface and what’s underneath?” Eric says. “The city is light during the day, but what the heck is going on at night? That to me is St. Louis.”

Eric also speaks to some of the disparate forces of the town as being inspiration—he looks especially to the wealth and grandeur of the Central West End, where you can go from mansions to burned out remains in a matter of a few minutes’ drive.

Other areas that will play a big part in the film are the area’s bridges (such as the Martin Luther King bridge), the Cathedral Basilica, and the

banks of the Mississippi in downtown St. Louis.

The crew plans to begin filming this fall when the light of the season will best enhance St. Louis’s historic exteriors and buildings. One of the reasons the production team is so drawn to St. Louis is because it has a wealth of untapped historical sites for use on film.

Unlike Chicago or Los Angeles, a lot of original infrastructure is well maintained in the city.

“Cobblestone streets, 100-year-old homes, Soulard, the Loop, Laclede’s Landing,” Eric says. “These are all places you don’t fully appreciate when you grow up here, but after being away, you have a whole different connection to.” That untapped potential, Eric believes, will draw other filmmakers to the area after they see what the city could look like on film.

“Missouri could be the next Louisiana for filmmaking,” Eric says.

“Louisiana makes movies like crazy because they get huge tax breaks.

There’s so much money here and so many people who are behind us.

I’m not a politician, but we’re making it part of our job to help this state be more friendly to filmmaking.”

Eric points to actors and hometown heroes who are also interested in seeing St. Louis succeed: Cedric the Entertainer (who recently signed on to play the coroner in A Fall From Grace), John Goodman, Jon Hamm, and Kevin Kline.

No matter the outcome of the film’s political movements, Eric guarantees that Missourians will not be disappointed with the film’s homage to St. Louis.

“The first page of the script, you open it up, you know St. Louis is it right through the gate,” Eric says. “The first shot will be an aerial over the Martin Luther King and Eads bridges. You’ll see the Gateway Arch.”

To see a teaser trailer for the film, visit www.MissouriLife.com.

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HICKS FROM THE STICKS

BY JAMES LEON COMBS

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At 6′5 1/2″ and with a 7’ wingspan, prep All American David Combs was the other half of the famous “Combs Boys.” If a team doubled David, cousin Lonnie would score 30 to 40 points and vice versa.

ntil 1952, the school at Bradleyville, Missouri had no gym. The Eagles basketball team practiced on a muddy, snowy, icy, or dusty outdoor court featuring homemade rims mounted on a homemade backboard. They played all games away and lost every one.

How bad were they? Branson beat Bradleyville in the state tournament in 1951, 64-6 while playing second and third string players. In 1952, the school board spent $2,000 and constructed a gym with a tile floor and showers with no hot water. The Eagles won a game in 1953, two in ’54, then began to improve, but they were still easy prey for most schools.

Ray Gibson became coach in the fall of 1961.

He knew Bradleyville had the reputation of a loser, but observed the team when coaching against them the previous year. The Eagles were surprised at first practice—there wasn’t a basketball. They were accustomed to shooting around on their own, calling it practice. Coach Gibson talked, then ran them around the gym, then talked more. He spoke about sportsmanship, positive thinking, about practicing until they got it right. He saw big rawboned, strong, athletic boys and knew they should be winning more games.

He talked about fundamentals and winning, about the sweet taste of victory, and then ran them some more.

He listened in on the boy’s conversations.

Coon hunting occupied their thoughts more than basketball. He went coon hunting with Leon Boyd and Darrell Paul and almost collapsed from running all night, chasing dogs through the woods. The boys were in better shape than he thought.

They won their first game. Boyd dribbled like a Harlem Globetrotter; freshman Paul hit 25-foot jump shots almost every time he shot. The Eagles beat Chadwick in their second game and Forsyth in their third. Winning was a new thing. Crowds

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HALL OF FAME UPCOMING EVENTS Oct. 2: Kansas City Celebrity Golf Classic Oct. 12: First Annual Sporting Clays Shoot Oct. 16: Football Kick Off Luncheon with Dick Vermeil, Trent Green and Mike Jones For details, visit: www.mosportshalloffame.com Lonnie Combs, 34, guarded by three Salem High School players in the Springfield Blue & Gold tournament. The Salem Tigers were coached

by Charlie Spoonhour, who went on to college coaching fame. Bradleyville won the game.

filled the once empty gym. They entered the Hartville tournament and won. They played and won their tenth game — more games won in one year than Bradleyville had won since becoming a four-year high school in 1942.

Roy Combs was known as the Iceman.

Gibson said he would rather be one point behind with 10 seconds to go with the ball in Roy’s hands than to be one point ahead with the other team in possession. Roy was dependable and proved it at the old Brewer Field House in Columbia when he hit the winning shot to beat North Harrison High School for the 1962 Class A state championship.

Most citizens of Bradleyville drove to Columbia to watch the Eagles and followed them back the next day in a caravan featuring pickups with gun racks in the back windows.

The Springfield News-Leader photographed the entire K-12 school, about 140 kids, and ran it on the front page. During the year, Bradleyville, with 65 high school students, had beaten schools 20 times larger.

Coach Gibson left at the end of the year,

taking a job at a larger school. Argil Ellison, fresh out of college, took his first coaching job at Bradleyville. The Eagles won almost every game during the next four years, failing only at the end of the first season to get to the state semifinals. Ellison felt especially good about his team going into the fall of 1966.

Bradleyville met the 2,000-student Springfield Parkview High School in the Blue and Gold tournament during the Christmas break. The Blue and Gold tournament drew large crowds when small schools had the opportunity to play large schools.

David Combs, Bradleyville’s 6′5″ prep All American center, complained to coach Ellison, “You are calling too many time outs. We’re never goin’ to get out of here. Me and Rex Maggard are goin’ coon huntin’ tonight, if this is ever over.”

Bradleyville proceeded to beat the unbeaten Parkview Vikings.

After losing a game early in the season, the Eagles from the tiny village in the hills were undefeated the rest of the year, downing Archie High School to win another state championship.

Every opponent was gunning for Bradleyville, ranked number one at the beginning of the ’67-’68 season, but David, his cousin Lonnie Combs, Duane Maggard, Garlin Pellham and Kenny Newton methodically hammered all comers. They won every tournament they entered, including the Blue and Gold for the second consecutive year, winning 63 games in a row over two years.

On March 2, 1968, the Eagles faced a formidable foe in the state championship game.

The Howardville Hawks was a powerhouse African-American school from southeast Missouri. The Hawks featured two 6′6″ men and two lightning-fast guards, one 5′5″ and the other 5′7″. The Eagles and Hawks fought a great battle. Howardville led by two with 10 seconds left in regulation. Ellison called time out, reminding his players that 10 seconds was plenty of time. Lonnie inbounded the ball, Duane got it to David down under, and David tied the score with his famous jump shot, ending regulation in a tie. The teams played four overtimes, setting a state record for the longest game in playoff history. Bradleyville pulled out the win in the final seconds, its 64th consecutive win, a record that stands today.

This true story is based on a book, Bradleyville Basketball, The Hicks from the Sticks, by James Leon Combs, a bestseller in the process of being made into a feature-length movie. The book is available on Amazon.com.

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OWL BUTTERFLY FLIGHTS Oct. 1-31, Chesterfield > Come see nearly 2,000 owl butterflies and enjoy a presentation on butterfly biology. Sophia M. Sachs Butterfly House.

9 AM-4 PM (closed Mon. Open until 7 PM Tues.). $4-$6. 636-530-0076, www.butterflyhouse.org

AUGUSTA BOTTOMS BEER FEST Oct. 6, Augusta > Beer tasting, live music, and commemorative glass. Ball field and Augusta Brewing Co. Noon-5 PM. $20-$27. 636-482-2337, www.augustabottomsbeerfest.com

NATURE PHOTOGRAPHY IS EASY Oct. 6, Kirksville > Bring your digital camera or phone and learn tips and tricks on how to create a masterpiece. Then go outside and try out your new skills. Thousand Hills State Park. 2-3 PM. Free. 660-665-6995, www.mostateparks.com/ park/thousand-hills-state-park

BEST OF MISSOURI MARKET Oct. 6-7, St. Louis > More than 120 Missouri food producers and artisans, Kidâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Corner, and entertainment. Missouri Botanical Garden. 9 AM-5 PM. $5-$12. 314-577-9400, www.mobot.org

BLACK POWDER SHOOT

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Oct. 6-7, St. Louis > Reenactors; 1800s mountain man encampment; black-powder shooting matches; archery, knife, and hawk throwing; and artisans. Sioux Passage Park. 9 AM-4 PM Sat.; 9 AM-2 PM Sun. $2 per vehicle. 314-615-8841, www.stlouisco.com/parks

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Oct. 6-28 (Sat.-Sun.), Hermann > Live music, traditional German food, arts, crafts, artists of wine country, cemetery walk, exhibits, bier garten, winery tours, and tastings. Throughout town. 8:30 AM-7:30 PM Sat.; 10 AM-6:30 PM Sun. Free. 800-909-9463, www.visithermann.com These listings are chosen by our editors and are not paid for by sponsors.

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FALL HARVEST FESTIVAL

SPIRITS OF THE PAST

Oct. 13, De Soto > Craft fair with local Missouri artisans and crafters, concert, hay rides, Halloween program, and trick or treat activities at the campground. Washington State Park. 10 AM-10 PM. Free. 636-586-5768, www.mostateparks. com/park/washington-state-park

Oct. 20, Defiance > Walk the lantern-lit paths, explore the village, and learn why the 1800s were filled with superstition. Historic Daniel Boone Home and Boonefield Village. Tours begin at 6 PM and run until 9 PM. $6-$10. 636-7982005, www.danielboonehome.com

ARTS AND CRAFTS FESTIVAL

DOGTOBERFEST

Oct. 13-14, Hermann > Exhibition and sale of fine art and handcrafted items. Middle School.

9 AM-5 PM Sat.; 10 AM-4 PM Sun. $1 donation.

573-486-2633, www.visithermann.com

Oct. 20, St. Charles > Pet vendors with products, parade, animal adoption, and microchipping. Dusable Dog Park. 11 AM-3 PM. Free. 636949-3395, www.historicstcharles.com

MODEL TRAIN SHOW

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Oct. 13-14, Kirkwood > Award-winning model train layouts and all scales of model trains including a city module with neon signs and working stoplights. Community Center. 10 AM5 PM Sat.; 11 AM-4 PM Sun. $5 (children are free).

314-822-5859, www.seetrains.com

Oct. 20, Sullivan > Trick or treat around the campground, bonfire with s’mores, scary outdoor movie, and campsite decoration and Jacko’-lantern contests. Meramec State Park. 4-9:30 PM. Free. 573-468-6072, www.mostateparks. com/park/meramec-state-park

REAL GEORGE WASHINGTON

FOLKLIFE FESTIVAL

Oct. 19-Jan. 20, 2013, St. Louis > Display of 100 original objects associated with George Washington including the only surviving set of his famous dentures. Missouri History Museum.

10 AM-5 PM (8 PM on Tues.). $4-$10. 314-7464599, www.mohistory.org

Oct. 20-21, Hannibal > Artisans and crafters demonstrate and sell handmade traditional arts and fine crafts, musicians, children’s area, and Farmer’s Market. Historic Main Street. 10 AM5 PM Sat.; 10 AM-4 PM Sun. Free. 573-221-6545, www.hannibalarts.com

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GUMBO FLATS PUMPKIN RUN Oct. 27, Chesterfield > 5K/10K run/ walk and children’s run with costumes encouraged for everyone. Towne Center at Chesterfield Valley. 6:30 AM registration; 8 AM race starts. Free for spectators ($15-$30 to participate). 636-532-3399, www.chesterfieldmochamber.com

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Oct. 20-21, Hermann > Self-guided walking tour to galleries, garden, and museums; Project People Paint, a public art project on a large brick wall; and visit with local award-winning artists.

Start at the Gasconade County Historical Society. 10 AM-5 PM Sat.; 11 AM-4 PM Sun. Free. 573486-2444, www.artistsofwinecountry.org

Oct. 27, St. Louis > Hayrides, marshmallow roast, crafts, pumpkin races, scavenger hunt, and costume contest. North County Recreation Complex. 6-9 PM. Free. 314-615-8841, www. stlouisco.com/parks

CLYBOURNE PARK Oct. 24-Nov. 11, St. Louis > Pulitzer Prize winning wickedly funny new play about the volatile intersection of race and real estate. Repertory Theatre of St. Louis. 7 PM Tues.; 8 PM Wed.-Fri.; 5 PM Sat. (9 PM selected Sat.); 2 and 7 PM Sun. $39$60. 314-968-4925, www.repstl.org

HOLIDAY BAZAAR Oct. 27, New Haven > Local and regional artists and craftspeople display and sell their wares.

Old New Haven School. 8 AM-3:30 PM. Free. 573237-5001, www.newhavenmo.com

CEMETERY BIKE TOUR Oct. 27, St. Louis > Six-mile bicycle tour to visit the graves of prominent people including bishops, slaves, a playwright, and the first St. Louisan. Calvary Cemetery. 12:30 PM. $3-$5. 314436-1324. ext. 111, www.trailnet.org

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IMAGINOCEAN Oct. 27-28, St. Louis > Live black-light musical puppet show about three friends who happen to be fish and their remarkable journey of discovery. Founders’ Theatre at COCA. 2 and 5 PM Sat.; 1:30 and 3:30 PM Sun. $16-$20. 314-7256555, www.cocastl.org

HOLIDAY FARE WINE TRAIL Nov. 17-18, Hermann > Follow the trail to local wineries and taste holiday dishes paired with each winery’s wine. Seven local wineries. 10 AM-5 PM Sat.; 11 AM-5 PM Sun. $30. 314-795-9770, www.hermannwinetrail.com

ANTIQUE AMERICAN GLASS Nov. 17-18, St. Charles > Depression, elegant, carnival, early American Pattern Glass, art pottery, and dinnerware on display and for sale. The Heart of St. Charles Hall. 10 AM-5 PM Sat.; 11 AM-4 PM Sun. $5 for both days. 636-257-0567, www. robertsauctionandrealestate.com

Oct. 1-31, Independence > Display of royal memorabilia. Bingham-Waggoner Estate. 10 AM-4 PM Mon.-Sat.; 1-4 PM Sun. $3-$6. 816-4613491, www.bwestate.org

GHOST TOURS Oct. 5-26 (Fridays), Independence > Covered wagon tour including the 1859 Jail and Marshal’s Home and Museum. Independence Square. 7, 8, and 9 PM. $12-$18. Reservations. 816-461-0065, www.theindependencesquare.com

LIBERTY GREEN FAIR Oct. 6, Liberty > More than 25 green vendors, Farmer’s Market, and children’s activities. Historic Liberty Square. 7 AM-noon. Free. 816-7925454, www.libertygreenfair.com

APPLES, ARTS, AND ANTIQUES Oct. 6-7, Lexington > Apples, art, and antiques.

Main St. 9 AM-5 PM Sat.; 11 AM-4 PM Sun. Free.

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Upcoming Events Oct. 12: Kathy Brink and Mike Coultas 5-8 PM Oct. 19: Bill Morrison 5-8 PM Oct. 20: Folklife After Party live music 5-8 PM Oct. 26: Live Comedy 5-8 PM Nov. 3 and 4: 50 Miles of Art 11 AM to 5 PM (All events free!)

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PUMPKIN FESTIVAL Oct. 6-7, 13-14, and 20-21, Liberty > Hayrides, pig races, mining camp, slides, tractor trikes, music, and Little Bud’s railroad. Carolyn’s Country Cousins. 10 AM-7 PM. $10. 816-781-9196, www.carolynscountrycousins.com

APPLEFEST Oct. 6-7, Weston > Hometown parade, lost art demonstrations, arts, crafts, children’s activities, and apple desserts including famous apple dumplings. Main Street. 10 AM-6 PM Sat.; 11 AM-5 PM Sun. with 7 AM breakfast. Free (except special events).

816-640-2909, www.westonmo.com

IRISH FEST

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Oct. 12-14, Weston > Celebrate Irish beer, music, and food. O’Malley’s Courtyard. 5 PM-1:30 AM Fri.; 11 AM-1:30 AM Sat.; noon-11 PM Sun. $10. 816640-5235, www.westonirish.com

OCTOBERFEST Oct. 12-13, Smithville > Two stages of entertainment, bands, parade, more than 100 vendors, dog and jog, carnival, pedal tractor pull, quilt show, baking contest, and beer tent/Chamber Garden. Main Street. 5 PM-midnight Fri.; 10 AM-midnight Sat. Free ($5 for beer tent). 816532-0946, www.smithvillechamber.org

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PECAN FESTIVAL Oct. 5-6, Brunswick > Nutty Parade, pie and pecans in a cluster contests, bingo (on Fri.), crafts, pie auction, gospel singing, and pet contest. Downtown. 6:30-10 PM Fri.; 9 AM-8 PM Sat.; 9 AM-2 PM Sun. Free (except bingo). 660-651-0828, www.brunswickpecanfestival.com

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PUMPKINFEST Oct. 12-14, St. Joseph > Arts festival featuring live entertainment, fine and folk art, children’s costume parade, rides, crafts, and the lighting of the Great Pumpkin Mountain on Fri. night. Pony Express Museum grounds. 5-9 PM Fri.; 10 AM-9 PM Sat.; 11 AM-5 PM Sun. Free. 816-279-5059, www.ponyexpress.org

MACHPELAH CEMETERY TOUR

COURTESY THE THE ALBRECHT-KEMPER MUSEUM OF ART

Oct. 13, Lexington > Walking tour where costumed interpreters portray famous people.

Leave from Battle of Lexington State Historic Site. 4:30-8:30 PM (tour every half hour). $6-$10.

660-259-3082, www.visitlexingtonmo.com

HERITAGE CRAFT FESTIVAL Oct. 13-14, Arrow Rock > Heritage craft demonstrations, vendors, modern crafts, live entertainment, and pumpkins. Throughout town. 10 AM5 PM. $1. 660-837-3307, www.arrowrock.org

SUPER COWGIRL AND MIGHTY MIRACLE Oct. 16, Chillicothe > See the adventures of a feisty 6-year-old, a grandma with a toothache and a pile of bills to pay, and a stray dog. Gary Dickinson Performing Arts Center. 6:30 PM. $3-$7.

660-646-1173, www.chillicothemo.com/arts.htm

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SUGARPLUM FESTIVAL Nov. 8-10, St. Joseph > Vendors with holiday items, decoration ideas, wine tasting on Sat. at 5:30 PM, and a Preview Party on Thurs. Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art. 5:30-8 PM Thurs.; 10 AM-8 PM Fri.; 10 AM-4 PM Sat. $10-$35. 816-233-7003, www.albrecht-kemper.org

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Oct. 18-21, Trenton > Marching band festival, crafts, car show, spear throwing, flea market, dance on Fri., and a huge parade with more than 30 marching bands. Eastside Park and CF Russel Stadium. 6 PM Thurs.; 7-10 PM Fri.; 9 AM-6 PM Sat.; 10 AM-4 PM Sun. Free (except special events).

660-359-4324, www.trentonmochamber.com

Oct. 25, St. Joseph > Tour the cemetery and hear the historic tales. Catch the bus at Wyeth-Tootle Mansion. 6:30 PM Fri.; 7:30 PM Sat. $15. Reservations. 816-232-8471, www. stjosephmuseum.org

Nov. 16, Lee’s Summit > Join the mayor as he lights up downtown with 100,000 lights. Plus a choir performance and Santa. Howard Station Park. 6:30 PM. Free. www.downtownls.org

FALL FUN EVENT Oct. 20, Cameron > Guided trail hike, Find the Pumpkin trail hunt, live owl presentation, and campsite decorating contest. Wallace State Park. 10 AM-7:30 PM. Free. 816-632-3745, www. mostateparks.com/park/wallace-state-park

MYSTIC PUMPKIN FESTIVAL Oct. 20, Independence > Costume contests, pumpkin decorating, haunted fire truck rides, children’s activities, entertainment, and vendors. Englewood Station. 2-9 PM. Free. 816-8861478, www.englewoodstation.com

GHOSTS OF INDEPENDENCE Oct. 21, Independence > Cemetery tour including costumed interpreters portraying individuals from the area’s most formative era. Woodlawn Cemetery. 1-4 PM. $5-$10. 816-325-7575, www. frontiertrailsmuseum.org

SHAMAN’S FIRE Oct. 27, Kansas City > Fire spinners. St. John Community Gardens. 7 and 8:15 PM. Free. 816483-6964, www.northeastartskc.org

FALL MUSTER Oct. 27, Sibley > Reenactors portray the preparations for the War of 1812. Fort Osage National Historic Landmark. 9 AM-4:30 PM. $3-$7. 816503-4860, www.jacksongov.org/fortosage

CHRISTMAS, PIONEER STYLE

BEST LITTLE ARTS AND CRAFTS Nov. 16-17, Independence > More than 120 booths with original crafts, Christmas trees, folk art, jewelry, and knit items. Sermon Community Center. 10 AM-7 PM Fri.; 10 AM-6 PM Sat. Free.

816-325-7370, www.ci.independence.mo.us

NUNSET BOULEVARD Nov. 17, St. Joseph > Follow the exploits of The Little Sisters of Hoboken starring Cindy Williams.

Missouri Theatre. 8-10 PM. $12-$47. 816-2791225, www.saintjosephperformingarts.org

Nov. 3, Independence > Create art like the pioneers did. National Frontier Trails Museum.

10 AM-noon. $10. Reservations. 816-325-7575, www.frontiertrailsmuseum.org

MAYOR’S TREE LIGHTING

ALUMNI BIG BAND

FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS

Nov. 4, Chillicothe > Jim Gai and his 20-piece band perform hits from the 1940s. Gary Dickinson Performing Arts Center. 3 PM. $7-$16. 660646-1173, www.chillicothemo.com/arts.htm

Nov. 30, Lexington > Parade of lighted entries, Santa on the Square, and the crowning of the Lexington Scrooge. Downtown. 7 PM. Free. 660259-2215, www.visitlexingtonmo.com

Nov. 23, Kansas City > Lighting of the 100-foot tree. Crown Center Square. 5:30 PM. Free. 816274-8444, www.crowncenter.com

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SOUTHEAST TOUR DE CAPE Oct. 6, Cape Girardeau > Charity bicycle rides from 15-, 30-, 65-, and 100-miles to benefit Mississippi Valley Therapeutic Horsemanship Program. Starts at Boardman Pavilion. 8 AM. $25 to ride. 573-382-0364, www.tourdecape.com

Oct. 6, Leasburg > Led by a knowledgeable association member, guests will be enchanted by characters from Onondaga’s past on their lantern-lit tour highlighting the history of the cave. Onondaga Cave State Park. 7-9 PM. $12$22. Advanced reservations (this tour is geared toward an adult audience). 573-245-6576, ext.

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MOUNTAIN MUSIC FESTIVAL Oct. 19-21, Ironton > Bluegrass music, arts, crafts, parade, fiddle contest, Civil War music, and demonstrations. Court House Square. 6-8 PM Fri.; 10 AM-6 PM Sat.; noon-4 PM Sun. Free. 573-546-1441, www.mountainmusicfestival.net

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2D AND 3D MIXED MEDIA Oct. 6-28, Poplar Bluff > Art and literature combine to create whimsical mixed media by Missouri artist Kay Foley. Margaret Harwell Art Museum. Noon-4 PM Tues.-Fri.; 1-4 PM Sat.-Sun. Free. 573-686-8002, www.mham.org

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GHOST TOURS Oct. 12-13, 19-20, and 26-27, New Madrid > Ninety-minute walking tour and ghost hunt with a paranormal investigation team. Starts at the New Madrid Chamber of Commerce. 7 and 9 PM. $10. Reservations. 877-748-5300, www. wix.com/newmadrid/hauntedtour

GHOST STORYTELLING Oct. 13, Cape Girardeau > Join some of the best storytellers for some spooky tales. Bedell Performance Hall. 2 and 7 PM. $10-$12.50. 573-3351631, www.capestorytelling.com

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Oct. 13, Leasburg > Guided night tour of Cathedral Cave. Onondaga Cave State Park. 10 PMmidnight. $7-$8. 573-245-6576, www.mostateparks.com/park/onondaga-cave-state-park

CIVIL WAR BOOT CAMP Oct. 13, New Madrid > Children ages 9-12 learn about the daily life of the Civil War soldier by taking part in activities such as enlisting, learning basic drills, snacking on hardtack, taking part in pay call, and mustering out. Hunter-Dawson State Historic Site. 10 AM-noon. Free. Reservations.

573-748-5340, www.mostateparks.com/park/ hunter-dawson-state-historic-site

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OLD IRON WORKS DAY Oct. 13-14, St. James > More than 40 crafts, demonstrations and displays, bluegrass bands, cloggers, trout fishing, crosscut sawing, and children’s games. Maramec Spring Park. Noon-5 PM. $15 per carload for parking. 573-265-7124, www.stjameschamber.net

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ARTS AND CRAFTS FESTIVAL Oct. 13, Rolla > More than 75 food and craft booths. Downtown. 9 AM-4 PM. Free. 573-3643577, www.visitrolla.com

SHOW-ME FEAR Oct. 13, 19, 20, 26, and 27, Sikeston > Three fearful attractions. Highway U. Dusk-10 PM. $15$25. 573-471-3879, www.showmefear.com

SHOW ME JUSTICE FILM FEST Oct. 17-30, Warrensburg > Through the art of film this festival inspires collective action against social injustice and includes feature films, workshops, live performances, and awards. University of Central Missouri campus. 6-11 PM Wed.; 8:30 AM-10 PM Thurs.; 11 AM-11 PM Fri.-Sat. $5-$10.

660-543-4364, www.ucmo.edu/filmfest/

Oct. 19, Burfordville > Bring a blanket or lawn chair and enjoy a storyteller known for her verbal imagery. Bollinger Mill State Historic Site. 7-8:30 PM. Free. 573-243-4591, www.mostateparks. com/park/bollinger-mill-state-historic-site

FALL ROCKS Oct. 20, Park Hills > Twelve educational activity and game stations related to mining and minerals in the Old Lead Belt and refreshments served. Missouri Mines State Historical Site. 5-9 PM. Free. 573-431-6226, www.mostateparks. com/park/missouri-mines-state-historic-site

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KING’S DAUGHTERS HOLIDAY FESTIVAL Nov. 9-11, Columbia > More than 85 vendors featuring a wide variety of items perfect for holiday gifts including handmade items and homemade foods. Proceeds benefit Dental Aid and the King’s Daughters’ Retirement Home. Columbia Expo Center. 5:30-8:30 PM Fri.; 8 AM-5 PM Sat.; 11 AM-4 PM Sun. $3-$6. 573-424-7115, www.kdholidayfestival.com

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FRIDAY ART WALK Oct. 26 and Nov. 23, Ste. Genevieve > Open studio and gallery walk. Historic Downtown. 6-9 PM. Free. 800-373-7007, www.artstegen.org

CHILI COOK-OFF Oct. 27, Perryville > Chili cook-off; taste samples of chili, chicken wings, and salsa; and entertainment. Downtown Square. 10 AM-3 PM. $2 to taste. 573-547-6062, www.perryvillemo.com

DÉJÀ VU SPIRIT REUNION Oct. 27, Ste. Genevieve > Take a lantern light tour and meet more than 20 spirits clad in period dress. Memorial Cemetery. 5-8 PM. $2.50-$5.

573-883-9622, www.historicstegen.org

ARTS CRAFTS EXTRAVAGANZA Nov. 17-18, Cape Girardeau > Handmade crafts including holiday items. Show Me Center and Osage Center. 10 AM-5 PM Sat.; 10 AM-4 PM Sun. $3-$5. 573-334-9233, www.capearts.org

PARADE OF LIGHTS Nov. 25, Cape Girardeau > Parade features lighted floats and festive music. From Capaha Park to historic downtown. Dusk. Free. 573-3348085, www.oldtowncape.org

100 YEARS OF FIREFIGHTING Oct. 4-7, Jefferson City > Celebrate the Fire Department centennial with a Gala Ball, street festival, parade with more than 100 fire engines, presentations, bagpipers concert, pipe and drum Bands, 5K run/walk, and fire service demonstrations. Firefighters will serve Centennial cake and ice cream. Various venues throughout town. 7 PM Thurs. (Gala Ball $75); 6-10 PM Fri.; 10 AM-3 PM Sat.; 1-4 PM (run/walk 9 AM) Sun. Free. 573-634-6551, www.visitjeffersoncity.com

AVIATION CLASSIC Oct. 4-7, Warrensburg > Visual and educational event featuring Experimental and Light Sport aircraft, classes, aviation vendors with products and services, pub crawl, silent auction, and hangar dance with a live jazz band. Skyhaven Airport. 9 AM-5 PM Thurs.-Sat.; 9 AM-noon. Free.

816-282-8635, www.sportaviationclassic.com

A HAUNTING RIDE Oct. 5-6 and 12-13, Blackwater > One-mile lighted tour on a wagon through the woods with live actors and spooky scenes (some walking trails). Wildcliff Wood. 8-10 PM. $12. Reservations.

660-888-2300, www.blackwater-mo.com

Oct. 6, Hatton > Three buildings full of more than 175 exhibitors with handmade items for sale. Downtown. 9 AM-4 PM. Free. 573-529-1541, www.visitfulton.com

FROGTOBER FEST Oct. 6, Waynesville > Celebrate the 15th anniversary of W.H. Croaker, the famous frog rock with a cake walk, frog race, Native American dance demonstrations, children’s games, and frog legs. City Park. 10 AM-4 PM. Free. 573-7743050, www.waynesville-strobertchamber.com

HOMETOWN HARVEST FEST Oct. 13, Richland > Crafts, music, Kids’ Zone, race, antique cars, and demonstrations. Downtown. 9 AM-2 PM. Free. 573-765-5966, www.visitpulaskicounty.org

FOOD FAIR AND TRADE SHOW Oct. 16, Sedalia > Silent auction, food samples, booths, and door prizes. Agricultural Building at the State Fair Grounds. 5:30-8 pm. $10-$12.

660-826-2222, www.visitsedaliamo.com

A CHUNK OF MONK Oct. 17, Columbia > Concert celebrates the birthday of one of jazz’s most important modern figures, Thelonious Sphere Monk. Missouri Theatre. 7 PM (doors 6 PM). $19-$35. 573-449-3001, www.wealwaysswing.org

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Oct. 19-20, Linn Creek > Crafters, craft demonstrations, chili supper, quilt raffle, and homemade apple pies and apple butter for sale.

Camden County Museum. 9 am-5 pm. Free. 573346-7191, www.camdencountymuseum.com

Oct. 20-21, Warsaw > 1800s demonstrations showcase the area’s heritage and include quilting, lace making, log cabin making, pottery, and more than 225 modern day craft booths. Harry S. Truman Dam Visitors area and Drake Harbor.

9 am-5 pm Sat.; 9 am-4 pm Sun. $3-$5 for a twoday pass and bus ride between venues. 660438-5922, www.warsawheritagedays.com

Oct. 27, Columbia > Twenty-mile bike ride on the Katy Trail with costume contests, dance parties, and music along the way. Shuttle ride back is available. Katy Trail from Columbia to Rocheport. 9 am-5 pm. $35 to ride; free to spectators.

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Citizen JAne Film FestivAl Oct. 19-21, Columbia > Celebrate films made by women, meet the filmmakers, view a variety of films, and attend discussions and parties.

Missouri Theatre, Ragtag Cinema, and Stephens College. Times vary. $6-$100. 573-876-5263, www.citizenjanefilm.org

multiCulturAl FestivAl Oct. 20, Jefferson City > Entertainment, food, arts, crafts, storytellers, and information booths on the diverse cultures of the area. Downtown.

10 am-3 pm. Free. 573-291-3524, www.downtownjeffersoncity.com

route 66 Fest Oct. 20, Waynesville > Live music, karaoke contest, crafts at the Old Stagecoach stop, children’s activities including bounce house and face painting, and a wide variety of vendors.

Downtown Square. 11 am-5 pm. Free. 573-7743001, www.waynesville-strobertchamber.com

sympHony At tHe lAke Oct. 21, Osage Beach > Classical and pop concert performance by the young musicians of the Symphony at the Lake and their guests. Osage High School. 3 pm. $29. 573-365-1605, www. symphonyofthelake.com

The Rocky hoRRoR Show Oct. 25-Nov. 11, Columbia > British horror comedy musical. Columbia Entertainment Company Theatre. 7:30 pm Thurs.-Sat.; 2 pm Sun. $10-$12.

573-474-3699, www.cectheatre.org

HA HA HAunt Oct. 26, Camdenton > Walk the jack-o’-lantern trail to the mill shelter for treats, a craft, and activities. Ha Ha Tonka State Park. 5-8 pm. Free. 573346-2986, www.mostateparks.com/park/ha-hatonka-state-park

HArvest FestivAl Oct. 27, Lincoln > Craft booths, pumpkin carving, silent auction with seasonal crafts and baked goods, and children’s games. Heit’s Point Ministries at the Lake of the Ozarks. 10 am-4 pm.

Free. 660-668-2363, www.heitspoint.com

olD-time Quilter’s Fest Oct. 27, Linn Creek > Vendors with quilt notions and techniques, demonstrations, and drawings.

Camden County Museum. 9 am-4 pm. Free. 573346-7191, www.camdencountymuseum.com

pumpkins in tHe pArk Oct. 30-31, Fulton > Carved-pumpkin contest with awards. Come out to see the lighting of the pumpkins on Stinson Creek Trail at 6:30 pm Tues. and the pumpkins stay on exhibit until Wed. Memorial Park. 6:30 pm-midnight Tues.; 6 am-midnight Wed. Free. 573-592-3190, www.fultonmo. org/departments/parksnrec

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MISSOURI—THE CAVE STATE Nov. 2, Jefferson City > Explore and learn about cave features in the Resources Hall and cave related hands-on activities. Missouri State Museum. 6-9 PM. Free. 573-751-4127, www.mostateparks.com/park/missouri-state-museum

TURKEY TROT 5K RUN/WALK Nov. 17, Fulton > 5K run/walk where winners receive a Thanksgiving turkey. Stinson Creek Walking Trail. 9:30 AM $5-$10 (free for spectators). 573-592-3190, www.fultonmo.org

LIGHTING OF THE SQUARE Nov. 23, Clinton > Lighted Christmas parade, Santa, lighting of the square. Downtown. 6 PM. Free. 660-885-8166, www.clintonmo.com

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Nov. 25, Pilot Grove > Fifty vendors with crafts and products. Pilot Grove School. 9 AM-3 PM. Free. 660-834-4678, www.pilotgrovemo.org

FLAMING FALL REVUE Oct. 21, Ava > Church service, live music, exhibits, pumpkin painting, dessert auction, turkey calling, scarecrow-making contest, amazing views of the fall colors, and food.

Caney Mountain Picnic Area. 10:30 AM-2:30 PM. Free (except food). 417-683-4594, www.avachamber.org

USO CAMP SHOW AND DANCE Nov. 30, Fulton > Celebrate Winston Churchill’s birthday with a 1940s USO show with a variety show, appetizers, music, and dancing. National Churchill Museum. 6-10 PM. $35-$60. 573-5926242, www.nationalchurchillmuseum.org

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SOUTHWEST WOW OUTDOOR SCHOOL Oct. 5-7, Cassville > Outdoor skill classes including caving, rappelling, canoeing, shooting sports, fishing, primitive camping, Dutch oven cooking, outdoor photography, and stargazing. Roaring River State Park. 8:30 AM-noon and 1:30-5 PM. $60. 417-847-3742, www.mostateparks.com/ park/roaring-river-state-park

ARTS AND CRAFTS FESTIVAL Oct. 5-7, Ozark > Outdoor event with a variety of arts and crafts. Finley River Park. 9 AM-6 PM Fri.-Sat.; 9 AM-4 PM Sun. Free. 417-581-4545, www.ozarkcraftfair.com

TASTE OF SPRINGFIELD Oct. 6, Springfield > Samples from restaurants, music, children’s activities, and beer garden.

Downtown. Noon-4 PM. $10 for samples booklet.

417-831-6200, www.itsalldowntown.com

MAPLE LEAF QUILT SHOW Oct. 7-30 Carthage > Display of historic quilts collected from around the Ozarks and two 19281930s handpainted bedroom suites. Powers Museum. 10:30 AM-4:30 PM Tues.-Sat.; 12:304:30 PM Sun. Donations accepted. 417-2370456, www.powersmuseum.com

ANTIQUE SHOW AND SALE Oct. 12-13, Springfield > Variety of antiques and collectibles, 120-year-old collection of Native American art and artifacts on display, and antique appraisals on Sat. for $5 per item. Remington’s. 10 AM-5 PM. $5. 417-864-6683, www. springfieldmosymphony.org

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THRILLER ON C-STREET Oct. 27, Springfield > Street theatre and dance performance with hundreds of zombies dancing to Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” followed by costume party and dance at the Savoy Ballroom. Historic Commercial Street. 4:30 and 7:30 PM shows (dance party until midnight). Free. 417-869-6789, www.cstreetzombiecorps.com

WILD AREA HIKE

FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS

Oct. 27, Cassville > Take a four-mile hike through a portion of the 2,075 acres during the height of the fall colors. Roaring River State Park.

9 AM. Free. 417-847-3742, www.mostateparks. com/park/roaring-river-state-park

Nov. 1-Jan. 2, 2013, Branson > One-mile drive along a path illuminated with more than 175 displays for the holidays. Shepherd of the Hills Expressway and Roark Valley Road. Dusk-11 PM. $12-$55. 800-296-0463, www.explorebranson.com

CARRIE UNDERWOOD Oct. 28, Springfield > Five-time Grammy Award winner performs with special guest Hunter Hayes. JQH Arena. 7:30 PM. $40.50-$60.50. 888476-7849, www.missouristatetix.com

ART IN THE PARK Oct. 13-14, Springfield > Fine art and contemporary craft show and sale; meet the artists. Sequiota Park. 10 AM-4:30 PM. Free. 417-859-4532, www.artcraftguild.org

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REGIONAL ART COMPETITION Oct. 13-21, Neosho > Art competition and exhibit with artists from four states. Longwell Museum at Crowder College. 2-5 PM Sat. Oct. 13 for awards and reception; exhibit hours 9 AM-4 PM Mon.-Fri.; 1-4 PM Sat.-Sun. Free. 417-489-3041, www.southwestmissouriartalliance.webs.com

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STRAIGHT NO CHASER Nov. 8, Springfield > A capella sensation performs modern pop songs in perfect harmony.

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CUP O’ CHEER HOMES TOUR Nov. 16, Springfield > Tour six homes and the Ronald McDonald House—all decorated for the holidays—and a silent auction. Throughout town. 10 AM-7:30 PM. $25. 417-875-3522, www. springfieldmo.org

SWEENY TODD THE MUSICAL Nov. 29-Dec. 2, Springfield > Sophisticated, macabre humor put to music. Craig Hall Coger Theatre. 7:30 pM Thurs.-Sat.; 2 PM Sun. $22. 417-8364644, www.theatreanddance.missouristate.edu

CHRISTMAS TOUR OF HOMES

HOMESTEAD DAYS

Nov. 30-Dec. 1, Kimberling City > Explore decorated homes around Table Rock Lake and shop at the Gifts and Glitz Gallery. Start from the Kimberling Area Library. 10 AM-4 PM. $15. 417-7792090, www.hometour.nftrl.org

Oct. 20-21, Ash Grove > Living history, craft demonstrations, and live music. Nathan Boone Homestead State Historic Site. 10 AM-4 PM. Free. 417-751-3266, www.mostateparks.com/park/nathan-boonehomestead-state-historic-site

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Cheesecakes•Ice Cream•Sandwiches•Deli Unique & Affordable Gifts, Extraordinary Period Antiques ...

Bucksnort Trading Company A STORE AS UNIQUE AS ITS NAME Saloon and Living History Museum, Civil War, Native American and Old West Clothing and Accessories, Turquoise Jewelry, Pottery and more.

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ARROW ROCK ANTIQUES c & MERCANTILE c One Unforgettable Shop on the Boardwalk in Arrow Rock, MO

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Pumpkins, Garden Produce & Fall Ornamentals!

New crop pecans available by Nov. 1 - taking orders now! The family collection of antique CASE tractors is a landmark and not to be missed. Roadside stand with garden produce grown in the heart of Missouri Mon.-Sat 9-5, Sun. 12:30-5

4 miles east on Hwy 24, Brunswick, MO 660-548-3972 • www.kinghillpecans.com

Limrick’s fine things

Boutique apparel, accessories, & jewelry for real women!

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Missouriana Trivia JUST FOR FUN

Last tidbits on bears, the Arch, and pie.

BLACK BEARS WERE NEARLY GONE FROM

BY LAUREN SCHAD

We couldnthave said it better!

MISSOURI BY THE 1890s DUE TO SETTLERS AND A LOSS IN FOREST HABITAT. IN THE PAST 50 YEARS, BEARS HAVE BEEN RECOLONIZING THE STATE.

“Cut my pie into four pieces, I don’t think I could eat eight.”

—Yogi Berra, raised in St. Louis

Master Chief Steward Harry Hightower served a USS MISSOURI Buttermilk Pie to President Harry Truman. When President Truman requested the recipe, the chief steward refused. When he RETIRED, Harry Hightower finally decided to share his famous recipe.

ILLUSTRATIONS BY TOM SULLIVAN

Did you know this?

The Jefferson National Expansion MEMORIAL in St. Louis (better known as the Gateway Arch), is the tallest monument in America.

At 630 FEET, it is more than twice as tall as the Statue of Liberty.

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Mediterranean Back Ribs with Pomegranate Sauce

Fire up the grill and get ready for a taste sensation. These pork back ribs are sweet, saucy and — yes — amazing. Discover your next great grilling idea at PorkBeInspired.com

©2012 National Pork Board, Des Moines, IA USA. This message funded by America’s Pork Producers and the Pork Checkoff.

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