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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. The Daily Journal is the primary newspaper in the area. This Daily Journal [...] I just have to tell you how great small town Missouri life has been to me in 2010, and by telling you about all of this, I think you’ll understand why I’ve been posting less often on A Small Town Girl’s Guide – I’ve been out doing so many things this year that it’s hard [...] On my list of things to do before I celebrate my 30th birthday is learn to make martinis. Considering that I love fresh fruit and that I love to make things from scratch, it’s not far-fetched that I’d attempt making my own blueberry-infused vodka to use in blueberry cocktails (martinis included) later this month. I’m fascinated by [...] At the end of a family’s driveway on a stretch of rural highway in Washington County, Missouri is a square white sign that reads, “YOUR FORGIVEN” on one side and “THINK GOD” on the other. Immediately across the road, the neighbor flies a Confederate flag. Sometimes I intentionally take a different route home because I know that my emotional [...] One of my close childhood friends is now a large animal veterinarian assistant, working with cows, horses and other large animals. She lives on her family’s farm, where she’s recently begun bottle feeding a one-month-old, 200-pound calf named Bessie. Farmers don’t usually name cattle, but Bessie’s destiny is greater. Cows have to bottle fed when their mammas die, so [...] Amelia I’ve written in the past about Cuba, Missouri, a central Missouri town with a population that just tops 3,000 people. Cuba is home to the World’s Largest Rocking Chair, which I blogged about in the Summer of 2009. As a fledgling runner and an explorer of all things small town Missouri, I was ecstatic to [...] I spent 18 years living in rural Missouri as a kid and a teenager without every encountering poison ivy, oak or sumac. 2010 has earned its place in my year of “firsts” as the first year I’ve ever contracted poison ivy. [...] Two weekends ago, my boyfriend invited me to join him and his friends in the pits of the I-55 Raceway near Pevely, Missouri. I could imagine few things I’d enjoy less than spending my Saturday night in the middle of a dusty, nasty, loud circle of dirt on which overly-testosteroned rednecks would be driving at ridiculous [...] The strangest thing just happened: I came across a photo of the Brooklyn Bridge by accident, and suddenly I could smell the air in DUMBO (down under the Manhattan and Brooklyn Overpasses) and hear the noises of New York City. As if I were standing at the edge of a high cliff, vertigo swept over me and [...] |
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