Guest Post by Jody McDowell
The annual Farmington Fall Festival is happening downtown this Saturday, the 24th, from 9:00 to 3:00. West Columbia street will be lined with festive booths featuring handmade arts and crafts from local artists, and delicious eats.
There is sure to be something for everyone! Animal lovers can attend Pet Fest at the [...]
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While St. Louis, Missouri has been hit with a combination of freezing rain, sleet, and thundersnow, those of us a little bit further south have been hit with nothing but [...]  If you didn’t grow up in a small Midwestern town, it might be tough to understand the relative significance of being the cheerleader who could do backflips or the running back who was interviewed on the local radio station on Saturday mornings after big games. Two years ago I dreamed of having my writing published in magazines, and today I was published in the fourth magazine in twelve months*. Insider573 Magazine, a photo-rich, high-gloss, high-end magazine owned by a Farmington, Missouri family approached me this summer to ask if I was interested in writing for them. Knob Lick, Missouri is a tiny unincorporated community in St. Francois County Missouri between Farmington and Fredericktown. The thing the town is best known for is Knob Lick Tower, an old Missouri Conservation Department fire-watch tower that teenagers like to climb late at night. I discovered a treasure on Saturday. Somewhere roughly halfway between Farmington and Fredericktown, Missouri on Highway OO (just south of the intersection of Highway DD) lie forty acres of blueberries. Liberty Farms sells pick-’em-yourself blackberries and blueberries at seriously reasonable rates. I bought just over three pounds of blueberries for less than nine dollars. If you’re having [...] After four straight weeks of 6-day workweeks at my day job, I was due for an unplugged weekend. My boyfriend and I decided to escape into St. Joe State Park in Park Hills, Missouri to pitch our tent and hide in the woods for a day or two. I experienced a bathroom in Missouri this week that was, um…notable. Chat dumps are where mining waste goes when it dies. Erm, I mean chat dumps are the huge heaps of mining waste. When we were kids, we’d call these sand mountains, and we’d beg our parents to let us play on them. |
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