History Blog 

Elden and Dorothy Larson of near Perry, Mo., were featured on the agriculture page in the Hannibal Courier-Post on Aug. 23, 1950. They...

The Weldon Ross family as they posed for a picture in the front yard of their home in the summer of 1950. Seated on the ground are...

James William Little spent the better part of a century in Marion County, Missouri. When he died in 1938, his passing was noted in a...

Meet Simon F. Taft, who operated the North Missouri Nursery near Hannibal in in 1874. The Sept. 30, 1874 edition of the Hannibal Daily...

Brad Tutor of rural New London, Mo., uses his grandfather's vintage 1930s-era sawmill to cut a white pine cant into two 4x8s.

Jim Tutor, left, removes the cut lumber from the conveyor, after his son, Brad, right, cuts side lumber from a white pine log. Brad is a...

Editor's note: In February 2012, I spent an afternoon with Russ Alexander, who was preparing for an auction to sell off a number of his...

Mike Egloff wrote to me asking about the abandoned New London Cemetery story and Lynne McGee Tutor's research. He wrote: I am a direct...

Lynne McGee Tutor looks over document copies regarding the old New London Cemetery. While long abandoned, she hopes to arrange for the...