Family, bluegrass and the open road
Lindley Creek exports Ozarks bluegrass to the nation Music has always been a foundation for the Greer family. The three kids would sing along to country music on the radio while their dad, John Rob, drove around Dallas County. “One day our youngest son, Jase, came...
Courthouse Cruise
Jack Snelling drove 4,347 Missouri miles to see all 115 courthouses in 10 days In May, Jack Snelling hit two milestones. First, he graduated from the University of Missouri with a bachelor’s degree of music in composition. Second, he completed an epic road trip that...
We are a team
This summer Mizzou Football Head Coach Eli Drinkwitz offered to talk to our electric cooperative managers from across Missouri.
Hayride Eats
Dark Chocolate Cereal Bars 4 tablespoons butter 10 ounces marshmallows 1/2 cup peanut butter 6 cups toasted oats cereal 4 ounces milk chocolate, melted 4 ounces dark chocolate, melted Heat saucepan over low heat. Add butter, marshmallows and peanut butter; stir to...
From pioneer days to modern ways
Hootin an Hollarin celebrates six decades of the Ozarks In downtown Gainesville, every fall for 62 years, the sights, sounds and smells of the Ozarks have taken center stage for a festival known as Hootin an Hollarin. You can taste homemade apple butter on a slice of...
Big league portraits
Jackson man uses artistic skill to paint for the pros Listening to the baritone voices of John Rooney and Ricky Horton smoothly dictate the action inside Busch Stadium on the radio, the artist is in his happy place. The baseball radio announcer’s job is to paint a...
Operation BBQ Relief
Milliions of meals served by Missouri-based organization The old empty mall parking lot isn’t a quiet place today. A long line of cars stretches across the pavement, waiting to reach the tents up ahead where a group of volunteers have been grilling since daybreak. The...
CYCLE
Co-ops train Show-Me State's best and brightest Thinking about her summer vacation, Jazmine LePage didn’t see herself spending part of it in Jefferson City. But when her counselor at Thomas W. Kelly High School in Benton told Jazmine about the Cooperative Youth...
The Rolling Pin Bakery
The pastry chef has been cooking for as long as he can remember. Growing up, Jeremy Sayler would enlist his older brother, Michael, to turn on the burners to the stove; at just 6 years old, he couldn’t reach back that far. “I just cooked what I liked to eat back...
The Lion Still Roars
by Kenneth L. Kieser | info@ruralmissouri.coop America’s Churchill Museum ties world history to Missouri Westminster College in Fulton set the stage for an important moment in history as a warning of the approaching Cold War. Today the college has a museum dedicated...