Mo' Curious Podcast
1) Mo’ Curious: Building a Modern Homesteader Community
Starting back in the 1960s, growing numbers of young people in these United States of America starting dropping out. Turned off by mainstream society, they turned their backs on career advancement, co...Show More
2) Mo’ Curious: A Fifty-Year Homesteading Journey
In 1976, Barbara and Tom Johnson moved from California to Missouri. In the past nearly 50 years, they built a home and had a family. As the Johnson kids grew up they realized there really was somethin...Show More
3) Mo’ Curious: Restoring Missouri’s Mined Landscapes
Webb City's large-scale compost project is rebuilding soil denuded by long-gone lead and zinc interests. Birds like it, too.
4) Mo’ Curious: Tracing the Underground Railroad in Missouri
A growing number of sites in St. Louis reflect the region's importance to 19th century freedom seekers
5) Mo’ Curious: Black Stories Matter
With roots tracing back to enslaved Missourians, Lucille H. Douglass and Oralee McKinzy are using history to help educate and heal the community.
6) Mo’ Curious: Memories From the Left End of the Dial
Sustaining community radio in Columbia has been, well, a community effort
7) Mo’ Curious: A Recent History of Bosnians in St. Louis
The Bosnian diaspora in St. Louis is preserving their culture while learning The American Way.
8) Mo’ Curious: Arriving As Refugees, Bosnians in St. Louis are Rebuilding Their Lost Community
St. Louis Bosnian population is influencing the region's religious life, building economic and civic organizations and partaking in recreation. (Think soccer.)
9) Mo’ Curious: Saving the Hidden Stories of a Vanishing Rural Lifestyle
In this episode, we listen to the oral histories of Margot McMillen. We hear from a river boat captain, a train engineer and an independent woman. These and several dozen other Missourians were the su...Show More
10) Mo’ Curious: The Living Legacy of Missouri’s Dramatic 1939 Sharecroppers’ Strike (part II)
On January 1, 1939, 1,500 Missourians went on strike. They were tired of hard work, being poor and living in shacks. This podcast explores what that strike means today to one Missouri community.