About nine months after the nostalgic Kindall Store’s reopening, visitors have worn a path to the door in search of something they won’t find on its shelves. It’s not gas and groceries – they don’t sell them these days – nor is it necessarily the local goods they have for sale. Instead, it’s an…
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Worlds of change are seen between the bustling four-way stop in Ash Grove and the Nathan and Olive Boone Homestead State Historic Site, a quiet, secluded patch of 370 acres where an Ozarks pioneer and his family arrived the decade after Missouri became a state. Nathan Boone was the son of legendary…
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It’s about the food, but really, it’s about something greater at Millsap Farms, a place where passion grows on a 20-acre plot of land in northeastern Greene County. The hands helping turn the dirt belong to Curtis and Sarah Millsap, a husband and wife who took a former nursery and transformed it…
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When the contents of the wooden Wommack Mill were sold at auction in April 1970, the sale bill sounded like the end of an era. It signified the conclusion of the nearly century-old mill’s working days, a good-bye that came with the death of its owner and a world where such landmarks were fast fading…
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As one walks to the counter to pay for freshly grilled burger, breakfast or must-have snack, it might seem that what you see is what you get at the Kad-E-Korner, a small, white-hued store in rural Greene County that has been there since the end of World War II. There’s more than meets the eye…
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