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Mo' Curious

  • Mo' Curious: A Recent History of Bosnians in St. Louis

    12 MAY 2023 · The Bosnian diaspora in St. Louis is preserving their culture while learning The American Way.
    29m
  • Mo' Curious: Arriving As Refugees, Bosnians in St. Louis are Rebuilding Their Lost Community

    28 MAR 2023 · St. Louis Bosnian population is influencing the region's religious life, building economic and civic organizations and partaking in recreation. (Think soccer.)
    28m 59s
  • Mo' Curious: Saving the Hidden Stories of a Vanishing Rural Lifestyle

    13 NOV 2022 · In this episode, we listen to the oral histories of Margot McMillan. We hear from a river boat captain, a train engineer and an independent woman. These and several dozen other Missourians were the subjects of Margot's late 1970s oral history recordings. At that time, Margot was a young mother of two, a graduate student […]
    33m 48s
  • Mo' Curious: The Living Legacy of Missouri's Dramatic 1939 Sharecroppers' Strike (part II)

    31 JUL 2022 · On January 1, 1939, 1,500 Missourians went on strike. They were tired of hard work, being poor and living in shacks. This podcast explores what that strike means today to one Missouri community.
    30m 28s
  • Mo' Curious: The living legacy of Missouri's dramatic 1939 sharecroppers' strike (part 1)

    23 APR 2022 · Back in 1939, the world was a different place. For one thing, there were a lot more people involved in farming. In Missouri's Bootheel region, this meant bodies were needed to grow cotton. Under the sharecropper model, those Missourians who grew cotton had no guarantees of a wage. They could be evicted anytime from the […]
    29m 58s
  • Mo' Curious: Preserving the Disappearing Memory of Missouri's Little Tuskegee

    26 JAN 2022 · Madelyn Paine remembers getting weighed at the Dalton elevator. Diane Pippens feels her light skin helped her pass for white or Mexican when she integrated her town’s high school. William Payne recalls the town’s annual reunion where he met his future wife. It was at Dalton, Missouri’s annual reunion in 2021 that I did my […]
    30m 19s
  • Mo' Curious: ‘There is a better way'

    5 OCT 2021 · Missouri's cooperative culture is alive and well in Scotland County.
    29m 29s
  • Mo' Curious: ‘That American Ideal'

    11 AUG 2021 · Almost as long as there has been a Missouri, there have been idealists in our midst. In 1844, "Doctor" Wilhelm Keil and his followers established the German Communal Society of Bethel in Northeast Missouri. They were followed by an Icarian outpost in 1858 near St. Louis. In this episode of Mo' Curious, you'll learn about […]
    28m 59s
  • Mo' Curious: Missouri Rocks!

    29 JUN 2021 · The stones that make up Missouri are old. Find out how old and how they came to be in this episode.
    29m
  • Mo’ Curious #4: The View from Beacon Hill

    4 FEB 2021 · Mo’ Curious #4 draws on recent oral histories from a trio of long-time Kansas Citians. The episode is a cultural memory of Beacon Hill, an urban neighborhood in transition.
    29m 43s

The Recollection Agency is based in Missouri, a state with a wide and deep history. Having lived almost all of his years in the state, Trevor Harris remains inquisitive about...

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The Recollection Agency is based in Missouri, a state with a wide and deep history. Having lived almost all of his years in the state, Trevor Harris remains inquisitive about the 24th state. As a way to marry that wonderment and the history all around him. Trevor started the Mo’ Curious podcast in 2020.

Each episode affords the hungry listener with a minor education in some noteworthy or forgotten piece of Missouri arcana.

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