It sounds like bluegrass – and looks like it too, given the group with banjos, guitars and fiddles in hand beneath the slowly setting sun – but the music they play isn’t the only point of connection visible at Turners Station. There are also notes of community tucked among the folks lounging in…
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Entering Smallin Cave represents a world of contrasts. Visitors see the cave from light to dark as they enter its mammoth mouth, spanning about 55 high by 100 feet wide, which leads to narrow passages where water frequently flows. The contrasts also extend to its history, which represents both…
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Even though Rose O’Neill has been gone for eight decades, her life lets her live: Across generations, continents and in the Ozarks, where the world-famous artist and Kewpie creator felt most at home. That place is Bonniebrook, a tucked-away oasis in Taney County where O’Neill called home for much…
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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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Guy Mace is driving a dream. To some, that dream might be the Jaguar XKE car he has parked out front, the one he’s chosen to drive this week. To him, though, it’s bigger than that: The dream is a collection of about 75 vintage and celebrity vehicles that today comprise the Route 66 Car Museum. The…
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Joe’s Route 66 Diner refers to a road in its name, but there are many paths that take the hungry to the small Strafford stop that still has a walk-up window and a legacy so well known that it doesn’t matter much that the sign is missing out front. There are families and students – both current and…
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There’s more to the menu at Springfield’s College Street Cafe than what’s printed in black and white. In a literal sense, that’s seen through the “slinger” – a bed of hashbrowns layered with a hamburger patty, two eggs, chili, cheese and a dash of hot sauce – which isn’t a typical option, but they…
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The story of Spencer, Missouri, is found in chapters written by ghosts. There was the Lawrence County community’s start in the late 1800s, when it began with a post office, a flouring mill, a few churches and other signs of local life. After it largely died away, another chapter began in the…
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You don’t need a sleigh or a ticket to the North Pole to see reindeer in the Ozarks. It is as simple as a drive to Prescott Family Reindeer Farm, a destination in rural Douglas County that offers a Christmas experience – complete with real-life, intricately-antlered reindeer – to delight young and…
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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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