Meeting in a Webb City café, a small group of passionate Missouri Southern students met to discuss how they could bring future female scientists together. Their idea of forming a club began to take shape, with Women in Science (WIS) becoming a registered student...
Sometimes, truth is stranger than fiction. That’s what artist Sean Fitzgibbon discovered back in the early 2000s when he began researching the history of the Crescent Hotel. Located in Eureka Springs, Ark., there are no shortage of spooky stories tied to the hotel,...
Dr. Tracy Wood is focused on expanding his audience … and not just its size. “We don’t want to be middle-class white dudes talking to other middle-class white dudes,” Wood said. An elementary teacher in St. Louis, Mo., Wood is co-host of a faith-based podcast called...
If there’s a common theme in the telling of Jim Goodknight’s story, it’s one about the power of investment … not just as a career, but in other people. Goodknight, who graduated from Joplin Junior College in 1963, has had a storied career with Edward Jones, a Fortune...
When the Joplin Public Library celebrated the start of 2022 with a series of posts about the to circulating books of 2021, a book about the history of the storied Connor Hotel was among the top five in the Adult Non-Fiction category. Published last year by The History...