Kimberly Bradshaw makes history as State Tech’s first woman lineworker Kimberly Bradshaw had no idea she was breaking new ground the day she toured State Technical College of Missouri. “I came here and I toured after I got accepted,” she says. “The guide at the end...
Author Mark Meadows shares his memories of the Missouri Hills Anyone can write a memoir, Mark Meadows believes. “But it might not be very interesting,” he says with a laugh. Mark worried about that very thing when he put together the 82 stories that make up his book...
Technology helps make Rett Walters' celestial dreams come true Humans have gazed at the night sky for as long as they’ve walked the Earth. But few have gazed at the stars the way Rett Walters does it. He’s got his own observatory sitting on a hilltop that overlooks...
These athletes are archers It’s practice day at Blair Oaks Middle School in Wardsville and a large group of archers discuss their sport. When two blasts of a whistle from coach Jeremy Tappel sound they grab their bows and head to the line. They stand with bows on toes...
Grid reliability on the agenda as co-ops call on legislators An army of electric cooperative directors, employees and grassroots advocates descended on the Missouri Capitol Jan. 30-31 to discuss issues affecting their members, including the reliability of the electric...
Dams provide affordable and renewable power Electricity generated from hydropower tells an interesting story about today’s energy trends that’s deeper than just water flowing over the dam. It’s a story about a renewable resource that once generated nearly a third of...
Silent courthouse clock will chime once more in Bloomfield Starting in 1909, residents of Bloomfield marked the passage of time by a four-sided clock that ticked off the seconds and boomed out the hours from a tower high above the courthouse. The clock presided over...
Celebrating 75 years telling the story of rural Missouri Editor’s note: As the Rural Missouri staff looks back on 75 years covering the people and places of our great state, here’s an editorial that ran in the inaugural issue in January 1948. Written by Editor Homer...
A look back at 75 years o Rural Missouri On a frosty day in December 1947, the presses at the Drover’s Journal in Kansas City cranked up and didn’t stop until more than 100,000 copies of the first Rural Electric Missourian were printed and headed to mailboxes across...
Rural Missouri’s editors have always used their cameras to tell the story of the people who appeared on the magazine’s pages. Over the years, our talented photojournalists have documented a way of life that in many instances has vanished. This month we share many of...