Connect with People From Our Pages.
In the Rural Missouri area of the Missouri Electric Cooperatives building at the Missouri State Fair, you’ll find displays of our favorite stories and our popular “People From Our Pages” demonstrators. Be ready to meet the following fascinating people who we’ve featured:
Aug. 8: Taste the delicious small-batch jams made by Jared’s Jams of Edina.
Aug. 9: Artist Lindsey Rhodes of Theodosia weaves stories and memories into fiber art.
Aug. 10: Watch as New Haven’s Ray Harvey paints a mural and shares his love of large-scale art.
Aug. 11: Higbee’s Eric Van Alstine puts old tools to work making historical leatherwork.
Aug. 12: What is an average day for a lineman? Hear stories and check out the tools of the trade with Laclede Electric Cooperative’s Charley Moore.
Aug. 13: Did you know children in Missouri can receive a free book each month until their fifth birthday, courtesy of the Imagination Library of Missouri? Learn about this amazing program.
Aug. 14: Listen to the Ozark bluegrass sounds of Lindley Creek, which features multiple members of the Greer family of Buffalo.
Aug. 15: Taste and learn all about the powerful elderberry from Emilia Rizzuto with All Things Elderberry.
Aug. 16: Travel to the great beyond with Earl Mullins of the Space Museum in Bonne Terre.
Aug. 17-18: Bobby Walker of Devil’s Backbone Knives shares his hand-forged knives crafted in Dora.