Show Me The State

Show Me The State

Missouri has had a curious history, with many iterations and incarnations powered by changes in its political, cultural and religious climate. Show Me The State explores Missouri’s strange and misunderstood past as it relates to the present. Each episode focuses on one particular piece of folklore and investigates what really happened, why did it happen and how has that shaped the state today? The Show Me The State team looks at ghost stories, legendary political maneuvers and hometown heroes across the state. Host Kristofor Husted sits down with the people who know the story best to get as close to a first-hand account as we can.

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Show Me The State: The Disappearance Of Paw Paw French

February 22, 2021 • 25 mins
French settlers colonized southeast Missouri over 200 years ago. And with them came the French language and culture.
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Show Me The State: Which State Saved The Wine Industry?

February 9, 2021 • 24 mins
About 150 years ago in the vineyards of southern France, winemakers start to notice their vineyards aren’t looking healthy. They rack their brains but can’t figure out what is devouring the crops. Samples are taken, scientific investigations mounted and letters for help are sent out across the globe.
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Show Me The State: Barbara Papish

January 25, 2021 • 23 mins
In 1969, graduate student Barbara Papish hands out an underground newspaper on the University of Missouri Columbia campus. The Free Press Underground issue features a cartoon on the cover depicting police officers raping the Statue of Liberty and Lady Justice. The words “With Liberty and Justice For All” encircle the image.
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Show Me The State: The Fulton Flash

December 27, 2020 • 29 mins
Helen Stephens starts high school in Fulton in 1931. She’s a gangly, gravelly-voiced farm girl dressed in homemade clothes. Her classmates tease her with the unfortunate moniker “Popeye.” Helen takes it in stride with humor, attempting to own her identity - a feat for any teenager.
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Show Me The State: Percy Green

December 15, 2020 • 24 mins
When the St. Louis Arch was being built in 1964, no Black workers had been hired for the construction crew.
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Show Me The State: Laura Ingalls Wilder

October 28, 2019 • 28 mins
Laura Ingalls Wilder’s journey to becoming a worldwide author is interlaced with pure hardship.
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Show Me The State: Lake Of The Ozarks

October 21, 2019 • 27 mins
Today, on a map, Lake of the Ozarks looks like a sprouting, twisting tree root that covers 86 square miles. The over 1000 miles of shoreline are dotted with resorts and cabins.
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Show Me The State: Sunken Steamboats Of The Missouri River

October 9, 2019 • 27 mins
In the steamboat’s glory days right before the Civil War, there would be on average, 60 boats traveling through different ports along the Missouri River each day. Cargo of agricultural products, furs and settlers would move up and down the river. From St. Louis to Montana.
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Show Me The State: The Gay Purge

October 1, 2019 • 28 mins
In the 1940s and ‘50s, designated police officers and university administrators were on the lookout for gay students and faculty.
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Show Me The State: The Lost Disney Park

September 22, 2019 • 28 mins
Walt Disney famously spent a good chunk of his youth growing up in Missouri. Just ask the residents of Marceline, Walt’s boyhood town.
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Show Me The State: Jim The Wonder Dog

March 25, 2019 • 25 mins
How many tricks can your dog do? Sit? Stay? Rollover?
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Show Me The State: The Honey War

March 11, 2019 • 25 mins
Did you know Missouri and Iowa almost went to war in the 1800s? Each claimed ownership over a strip of land along the border and believed it had the right to tax the people living there.
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Show Me The State: Missourah? Or Missouree? Who's right?

February 25, 2019 • 25 mins
How do you pronounce Missouri? And why do you say it that way?
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Show Me The State: Sedalia Tries To Steal The Capital

February 11, 2019 • 29 mins
What would the state look like today if the capital wasn't Jefferson City? But Sedalia?
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Show Me The State: The Legend Of Doc Annie

January 28, 2019 • 23 mins
If you grew up in 1970s Poplar Bluff, you likely heard of the story of Doc Annie. Legend has it, Doc Annie was a witch-like woman who operated a haunted hospital in the woods. She kept fetuses in jars of formaldehyde there. She also would throw babies into an old well called “the pit.”
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