The Recollection Agency is based in Missouri, a state with a wide and deep history. Having lived almost all of his years in the state, Trevor Harris remains inquisitive about the 24th state. As a way to marry that wonderment and the history all around him. Trevor started the Mo’ Curious podcast in 2020.
Each episode affords the hungry listener with a minor education in some noteworthy or forgotten piece of Missouri arcana.
Enjoy and share widely.
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 subjects of Margot’s late 1970s oral history recordings. At that time, Margot was a young mother of two, a graduate student […]
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.
Mo’ Curious: The living legacy of Missouri’s dramatic 1939 sharecroppers’ strike (part 1)
Back in 1939, the world was a different place. For one thing, there were a lot more people involved in farming. In Missouri’s Bootheel region, this meant bodies were needed to grow cotton. Under the sharecropper model, those Missourians who grew cotton had no guarantees of a wage. They could be evicted anytime from the […]
Mo’ Curious: Preserving the Disappearing Memory of Missouri’s Little Tuskegee
Madelyn Paine remembers getting weighed at the Dalton elevator. Diane Pippens feels her light skin helped her pass for white or Mexican when she integrated her town’s high school. William Payne recalls the town’s annual reunion where he met his future wife. It was at Dalton, Missouri’s annual reunion in 2021 that I did my […]
Mo’ Curious: ‘There is a better way’
Missouri’s cooperative culture is alive and well in Scotland County.
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