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The New York Minute

I used to listen to The Eagles often.
The lyrics of the last stanza of the song, “New York Minute” say,
What the head makes cloudy
The heart makes very clear
The days were so much brighter
In the time when she was here
But I know there’s somebody somewhere
Make these dark clouds disappear
Until that day, I have to believe
I believe, [...]

Small Town Missouri & BBQ

Baylee Jo’s BBQ & Grill is quite possibly some of the best food I’ve had since moving home. I had a bbq pork sandwich and curly fries. I expected the sandwich to be pulled pork, but it wasn’t. It was sliced pork, and it was really, really good.
My friends got BBQ beef, baked pototos, stuffed [...]

Oldest Presbyterian Church West of the Mississippi

The oldest Presbyterian church west of the Mississippi River is in Caledonia, Missouri, one block away from the main street that I wrote about yesterday.
Founded in 1816, the church isn’t currently open to the public, but it’s in remarkably good condition on the outside.
There is no parking lot, just a big patch of grass. But [...]

Caledonia, Missouri Pt. II

Caledonia, Misosuri
Population 158
The entire downtown of Caledonia, which straddles Missouri State Highway 21, is approximately three blocks long. Most of the buildings in Caledonia are dated from the mid-1800s.
Parking in Caledonia means pulling onto the shoulder of the highway. This photo shows the bulk of downtown…
I took this shot standing in the middle of State [...]

SmallTownGirl’s Many Hats

I visited Caledonia, Missouri, population 158, this afternoon.
The weather, a muggy 113 degree heat index, was stereotypical of a Missouri summer afternoon. I parked my car along the side of the road and stepped out into a blanket of heat.
My first stop was Old Village Mercantile. Dated “Post-1909″, the Mercantile building is among the many [...]

Caledonia, Missouri

If all goes as planned, I will leave my office at 1:30 tomorrow afternoon and drive to Caledonia, Missouri, a village of less than 200 people, located on Hwy 21 south of Potosi, Missouri.
In researching Caledonia tonight, it seems like I’ll find more to explore and photograph than I’d originally expected.
Turns out, Caledonia, celebrating its [...]

St. Joe State Park Bicycle Trail

St. Joe State Park is one of Missouri’s largest state parks, boasting more than 8,000 acres of property and a 14-mile concrete trail for walking, jogging, rollerblading or biking. The best part? This park is really close to my small town.
I jogged on the trail a few times in high school, and took my mountain [...]

Showers of the Rainy and the Baby Varieties

One of my favorite things in the whole world is a good thunderstorm, and since I’ve been back in Missouri, there has been no shortage of good ones. Nearly every day, storms have blown through our area.
Missouri’s spring showers have been a welcome home, of sorts, after ten years away, missing the storms that Missouri [...]

Blowing Up He-Man

It’s the time of year in Small Town, Missouri when tents are pitched under which bottle rockets and Roman candles and sparklers and M-60s are sold to kids who save their allowances for weeks in order to blow things up on the nation’s anniversary.
Like most kids, my brother and I liked to blow things up. [...]

Family in Small Town, Missouri

For the first time in ten years, I live close enough to the family farm (GrandPaGFunk’s homestead, as it were) to see family when they visit from out of town.
I’m the youngest of the seven cousins, and most of my cousins’ kids (my second cousins) are closer in age to me than my cousins are.
Six [...]

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