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Holiday Brunch
Article by Angela Broockerd | Photography by Janie Jones The holidays are filled with family gatherings. Enjoy these easy, make-ahead recipes to simplify your holiday breakfast and are sure to impress your guests. Hearty Breakfast Casserole Ingredients: 8 eggs 2-3 cups torn bread pieces 3 1/2 cups heavy whipping cream 1 pound breakfast sausage, browned 1 pound bacon, cooked and crumbled 2 cups shredded cheese of choice 1 teaspoon red pepper...
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Life + Culture
The Last Tobacco Farms of Missouri
Every tobacco plant for Missouri's remaining eight tobacco farms starts off in Lennie Callaway's greenhouse Article and Photography by Katie Currid The birth of tobacco farming in Weston is usually recognized as 1894. Many people who settled Weston at this time were from Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia. As they settled the Missouri River Valley, they brought with them the crop they knew best, establishing the only tobacco market west of the Mississippi River throughout the state. Throughout...
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Wild Things
Legends of Bigfoot and other mysterious creatures across the Northland and beyond Article by Diana Lambdin Meyer | Photography by Bruce N. Meyer A mystery hides in the rolling hills of Clay County surrounding Smithville Lake. Clues can be found off County Road W in the little community of Paradise. The footprints in the parking lot. The shadowy figure. And, oh, the smell. The smell, actually, is more of an aroma leading to one of the best hamburgers in the Northland cooking up on the grill...
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Home + Design
A Place For Lost Things
The origin story of Leavenworth’s Krasnesky Manor for Wayward Cats Article by Thad Krasnesky | Photography by Arin Yoon Somewhere not quite over the rainbow, not completely in this state or in that one, with one foot in a town on the Missouri River and one foot perhaps in Narnia or maybe in Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory, sits a Victorian mansion that is beginning to reawaken. For years it was abandoned — lost, in plain sight, as only enchanted things have the capability of being. And as with...
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