Built as a luxury getaway for the most wealthy, this four-story building was also a college for women and most infamously Dr. Norman Baker’s hospital for cancer patients.
Drury’s campus has the only, known artifact of the Great Cobra Scare of 1953. Sitting on a professor’s desk is a glass jar with one of the 11 cobras who were loose on the streets of Springfield.
Sometimes a coach might learn a little something too. Villa explains, when you understand someone’s culture that helps explain why a person does something that seems odd or frustrating to others.
“When I get off work,” Amanda says, “I’m thinking about what I can do to help people more and what I can do to improve the trades and you know, help them get the benefits that they deserve.”
Before she had the freedom to play golf at various clubs across the nation, she was helping our nation with its fight to remain free during World War II. She joined the Naval Reserves’ women’s program, the WAVES, at the age of 20.
To fight off the nervous energy, Laurie began crafting bracelets at home. Once she learned the cancer did not spread to her lymph nodes, Emily started thinking about her life and what to do with all of her bracelets.
In 1957, when Chevrolet's had fins Nixa started an event with fins. Sucker Day was the dream of barber Finis Gold who reeled in the residents to feast on the fish.
On the second Monday of each month, We&CO brings in a specific, related-market of professionals to network, brain storm, and help each other through challenges.
Women Helping Women. That's the goal of Suit Yourself Boutique, and Daniel Posey shows you around this downtown Springfield nonprofit and what it has to offer.
Some of Woody’s latest paintings include the Old Mill along the Finley River in Ozark, and Hawks Bill Crag in Arkansas. Not bad for someone who taught himself how to paint in his native China.
Since 1957, Grandel is the first teacher in the Springfield area to receive the Missouri Teacher of the Year award, and one of four from southwest Missouri. School of the Osage’s Laurie L. Sybert won it in 1999, Neosho’s Robin Montz won the award in 1988 and Donald Heaton from Jasper won it in 1977.
It’s one of the Natural State’s most-popular hiking trails. Taking a stroll through Lost Valley near the Buffalo National River, visitors will feel like they’ve stepped back in time.
