There’s something about a foggy Ozarks night that stirs the imagination, especially when mysterious lights start dancing across the hills. Barbara Baird, known to readers as The Accidental Ozarkian, has tracked down one of those old legends. The Will o’ the Wisp is a...
Archeologists from Missouri State University were excited to find a plantation site near Springfield from the frontier era in the Ozarks. The Director of the program, Kevin Kupka Head, tells Ashley Byrd about how both the region and the time period are not studied...
Imagine a digital scavenger hunt engaging kids in the outdoors at 9 different places across Missouri. Kind of like “Pokemon Go,” but as Misty Mitchell explains to Ashley Byrd, taking kids from “screen time to green time.”
Who knew that the key to exploring the heart of Missouri is hidden in a guide of Mills across the Ozarks? A new summer adventure awaits in the book Milling Around: Exploring 26 Mills in the Missouri Ozarks by the Accidental Ozarkian, Barbara Baird.