Why Cape Girardeau? Why Poplar Bluff? Why Canton? Why Richfield? WHY? Like many of you, the hunt for a COVID-19 vaccine has taken my husband, Bill Milligan, and me to far-flung areas of the state.
Even...
During a thunderstorm in February 1911, lightning struck the Missouri Capitol dome. The ensuing fire destroyed much of the building.
When the Capitol building was reconstructed, the decorating committee...
Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, was reading the newspaper after his brother died and was shocked by the obituary: The story was mistakenly about Nobel himself and read, “The merchant of death...
I’ve never been happier to see a year end, but 2020 certainly deserves a new edition of “‘Twas the Night Before Christmas,” which was written by Clement Clarke Moore and originally titled “A...
December! The days grow shorter and colder. As a child I lived in a coal mining camp in Alaska where the temperatures dropped to the negative double digits and the days were very short.
It was...
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He came home from football practice complaining of feeling unwell. During the evening he got progressively worse and the doctor was called. The diagnosis was polio.
He was rushed to the hospital...
I walk out to the mailbox looking for the Call’s weekly mailed edition. As publisher, I know the pandemic has forced a reduced mailing schedule, but habit has made me forget it’s a partial mail week...
This has been a trying year for every local business, including a local community newspaper like the St. Louis Call. Although readership is up, advertising revenues are down due to the pandemic and stay-at-home...
Labor Day and September always mark the end of summer. A new beginning.
When I was young, a new school year began the day after Labor Day.
One of my granddaughters is in eighth grade. I tell her to study...
South County has been singled out this month as a coronavirus hotspot by the St. Louis Metropolitan Pandemic Task Force, at the same time schools are attempting to open.
It’s a shame that five months...
