Day: June 16, 2022

Fifty years ago this summer, a major Hollywood film company arrived in mid-Missouri for a nine-week shooting schedule to film a widescreen musical adaptation of Mark Twain’s classic 1876 book, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.

Have you seen the newest mural at Hannibal's Dutch Country General Store? As a group of WW2 airplanes soars over the country landscape, can you make out Old Glory’s stars and stripes reaching out onto the horizon?

On this date in Missouri history, the University of Missouri-Columbia baseball team won the national championship and the College World Series.