Show Me The State: The Disappearance Of Paw Paw French
French settlers colonized southeast Missouri over 200 years ago. And with them came the French language and culture. They mined the lead belt region a...
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Missouri has had a curious history, with many iterations and incarnations powered by changes in its political, cultural and religious climate. Show Me The State explores Missouri’s strange and misunderstood past as it relates to the present. Each episode focuses on one particular piece of folklore and investigates what really happened, why did it happen and how has that shaped the state today? The Show Me The State team looks at ghost stories, legendary political maneuvers and hometown heroes across the state. Host Kristofor Husted sits down with the people who know the story best to get as close to a first-hand account as we can.
Show Me The State: Which State Saved The Wine Industry?
About 150 years ago in the vineyards of southern France, winemakers start to notice their vineyards aren’t looking healthy. They rack their brains but...
Show Me The State: Barbara Papish
In 1969, graduate student Barbara Papish hands out an underground newspaper on the University of Missouri Columbia campus. The Free Press Underground ...
Show Me The State: Diamond Billy
On some days in the early 1900s, you could walk out to the railroad tracks near the Iowa border and watch rail cars full of horses moving in and out o...
Show Me The State: The Fulton Flash
Helen Stephens starts high school in Fulton in 1931. She’s a gangly, gravelly-voiced farm girl dressed in homemade clothes. Her classmates tease her w...
Show Me The State: The Fulton Flash
Helen Stephens starts high school in Fulton in 1931. She’s a gangly, gravelly-voiced farm girl dressed in homemade clothes. Her classmates tease her w...
Show Me The State: Percy Green
When the St. Louis Arch was being built in 1964, no Black workers had been hired for the construction crew. That didn’t sit well with Black activist P...
Show Me The State: Laura Ingalls Wilder
Laura Ingalls Wilder’s journey to becoming a worldwide author is interlaced with pure hardship. On the morning of July 17, 1894, Laura has gathered to...
Show Me The State: Lake Of The Ozarks
Today, on a map, Lake of the Ozarks looks like a sprouting, twisting tree root that covers 86 square miles. The over 1000 miles of shoreline are dotte...
Show Me The State: Sunken Steamboats Of The Missouri River
In the steamboat’s glory days right before the Civil War, there would be on average, 60 boats traveling through different ports along the Missouri Riv...