Life

Boost your cultural IQ and have a great time while doing it at Columbia’s museums.

Recent health trends show that Missourians have challenges when it comes to obesity, smoking, and drug usage. A person’s residence, zip code, and access to healthy options also play a significant role in overall health, leaving some Missourians at more of an advantage than others when they wake up in the morning.

An improbable team of Siberian sled dogs finds love, fun, and new purpose with their Hillsboro musher

Patrick Weston has overcome long odds to survive, live, and thrive throughout his life. This is his story.

An inaugural Veterans Day ceremony will take place November 11 at Missouri’s National Veterans Memorial. The event off˜ers a way to remember those lost or serving in the military by securing a personalized Gold or Blue Star badge to be incorporated into the ceremony as service flags.

For most of the year, life in small-town rural Missouri moves at a quiet pace, but come November these peaceful hamlets transform into prime destinations for those on the hunt for deer.

Females fuel America’s wine industry: women buy 57 percent of the wine consumed in this country. But the ladies are not only buying and drinking wine; they’re making it, too.

“There are deep things you can’t explain in English that you can in Shawnee,” he says. “It’s a spiritual language. Everything means something: the ground, the trees, the relationship of sky, water, rock. My father used to say that if you want help from the Creator, you have to speak with the language you were put here with.”

Liz began her operation with just a few alpacas, and for good reason. Alpacas were $20,000 to $30,000 each during those early years, according to Liz, and the females only have one o–ffspring, called a cria, each year. From those small beginnings, Liz built a herd that, at its largest, numbered 142.

Come out for this festival featuring Missouri-made products you can buy straight from the artists and producers.