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.
Enjoy and share widely.
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.
Enjoy and share widely.
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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.
Enjoy and share widely.
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.
Enjoy and share widely.
read more
read less
St. Louis Bosnian population is influencing the region's religious life, building economic and civic organizations and partaking in recreation. (Think soccer.)
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 […]
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.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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