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

Enjoy and share widely.]]>enHistoryCopyright KKFI Community Podcastshttps://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/cfc2bf4ac4a9c0ca2e569f35ec4686c4.jpghttps://www.spreaker.com/show/mo-curiousWed, 10 Apr 2024 18:28:20 +0000KKFI Community PodcastsKKFI Community Podcastsfeeds@spreaker.comThe 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...
Each episode affords the hungry listener with a minor education in some noteworthy or forgotten piece of Missouri arcana.

Enjoy and share widely.]]>falseepisodichttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/mo-curious-a-recent-history-of-bosnians-in-st-louis--53838857http://recollectionagency.com/?p=3794Fri, 12 May 2023 21:31:38 +0000KKFI Community PodcastsThe Bosnian diaspora in St. Louis is preserving their culture while learning The American Way.1741falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/mo-curious-arriving-as-refugees-bosnians-in-st-louis-are-rebuilding-their-lost-community--53361089http://recollectionagency.com/?p=3478Tue, 28 Mar 2023 00:09:58 +0000KKFI Community PodcastsSt. Louis Bosnian population is influencing the region's religious life, building economic and civic organizations and partaking in recreation. (Think soccer.)1740falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/mo-curious-saving-the-hidden-stories-of-a-vanishing-rural-lifestyle--51875132http://recollectionagency.com/?p=2786Sun, 13 Nov 2022 03:10:44 +0000KKFI Community PodcastsIn 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...2029falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/mo-curious-the-living-legacy-of-missouri-s-dramatic-1939-sharecroppers-strike-part-ii--50766576They were tired of hard work, being poor and living in shacks.
This podcast explores what that strike means today to one Missouri community.]]>http://recollectionagency.com/?p=2360Sun, 31 Jul 2022 19:40:58 +0000KKFI Community PodcastsOn 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.They were tired of hard work, being poor and living in shacks.
This podcast explores what that strike means today to one Missouri community.]]>1829falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/mo-curious-the-living-legacy-of-missouri-s-dramatic-1939-sharecroppers-strike-part-1--51194252http://recollectionagency.com/?p=1999Sat, 23 Apr 2022 03:07:05 +0000KKFI Community PodcastsBack 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...1799falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/mo-curious-preserving-the-disappearing-memory-of-missouri-s-little-tuskegee--51194255http://recollectionagency.com/?p=1851Wed, 26 Jan 2022 18:48:59 +0000KKFI Community PodcastsMadelyn 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...1820falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/mo-curious-there-is-a-better-way--51195475http://recollectionagency.com/?p=1618Tue, 05 Oct 2021 22:10:22 +0000KKFI Community PodcastsMissouri's cooperative culture is alive and well in Scotland County.1770falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/mo-curious-that-american-ideal--51199385http://recollectionagency.com/?p=1529Wed, 11 Aug 2021 17:35:32 +0000KKFI Community PodcastsAlmost 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...1740falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/mo-curious-missouri-rocks--51199387Find out how old and how they came to be in this episode.]]>http://recollectionagency.com/?p=1466Tue, 29 Jun 2021 18:14:49 +0000KKFI Community PodcastsThe stones that make up Missouri are old. Find out how old and how they came to be in this episode.Find out how old and how they came to be in this episode.]]>1741falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/mo-curious-4-the-view-from-beacon-hill--43277473http://recollectionagency.com/?p=1218Thu, 04 Feb 2021 01:50:58 +0000KKFI Community PodcastsMo’ 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.1784falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/mo-curious-3-the-hawk-s-origin--42906298http://recollectionagency.com/?p=1033Tue, 24 Nov 2020 16:43:25 +0000KKFI Community Podcasts1797falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/mo-curious-2-start-your-engines--42906295http://recollectionagency.com/?p=1029Tue, 24 Nov 2020 16:43:23 +0000KKFI Community Podcasts1740falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/mo-curious-1-digging-deep--42906297http://recollectionagency.com/?p=1004Tue, 24 Nov 2020 16:43:18 +0000KKFI Community Podcasts1741falsefull