Our Missouri Podcast

In the next episode of the "Origins" series, Linda Carol Jones joins host Sean Rost to discuss her book, The Shattered Cross: French Catholic Missionaries on the Mississippi River, 1698-1725.

Episode Image: Steeple of Ste. Genevieve Catholic Church, date unknown [Missouri Postcard Collection (P0032), SHSMO]

Banner Image: Sunset over the Mississippi River, date unknown [Charles Trefts Photographs (P0034), SHSMO]

In this episode for the "Origins" series, Mark Walczynski joins us to talk about his new book, Jolliet and Marquette: A New History of the 1673 Expedition.

Episode Image: Tower Rock in the Mississippi River, ca. 1960 [Missouri Postcard Collection (P0032), SHSMO]

Banner Image: Confluence of the Missouri River with the Mississippi River, date unknown [Gerald R. Massie Photographs (P0016), SHSMO]

Next up in the "Origins" series, Patricia Cleary joins host Sean Rost to talk about her award-winning book, Mound City: The Place of the Indigenous Past and Present in St. Louis.

Episode Image: Monk’s Mound, 1987 [James Stebbings Photograph Collection (S0811), SHSMO]

Banner Image: Map of the Harbor of St. Louis, 1837 [State Historical Society of Missouri Map Collection]

Continuing the "Origins" series, John Hagermann from the Missouri Department of Natural Resources discusses Missouri’s American Indian Cultural Center at Annie and Abel Van Meter State Park.

Episode Image: Mealy Mounds, Callaway County, date unknown [Missouri Department of Natural Resources Photographs (P0136)]

Banner Image: Miami Bend of the Missouri River, ca. 1910 [James T. Thorp Scrapbooks (C1429)]

If you are a frequent listener of the Our Missouri, you might remember the 2021 series “Bicentennial Book Club” that coincided with the state’s 200th birthday and looked at influential books and authors focused on Missouri history.

To conclude the "Cave State" series, Anthony Orazio, superintendent of Rock Bridge Memorial State Park, joins host Sean Rost to discuss Rock Bridge Memorial State Park and the uniquely named Devil’s Icebox.

Episode Image: Devil’s Icebox at Rock Bridge Memorial State Park [Image courtesy of Sean Rost]

Banner Image: Rock Bridge, Boone County, ca. 1927 [Roy T. King Photograph Collection (P0099), SHSMO]

Next in the Cave State series, Murphy Kindoll, Natural Resource Ecologist at Missouri State Parks, talks with host Sean Rost about Roaring River State Park.

Episode Image: A group relaxing near the entrance to Roaring River Spring Cave, 1956 [Gerald R. Massie Photographs (P0016), SHSMO]

Banner Image: A fisherman and other visitors along Roaring River Spring, 1952 [Missouri Ruralist Photographs (P0030), SHSMO]

In this episode, Ed Schott, superintendent of Meramec State Park, joins Sean Rost to discuss Fisher Cave and Meramec State Park.

Episode Image: Stalactites in Fisher Cave, date unknown [John F. Bradbury, Jr. Postcard Collection (R1551), SHSMO]

Banner Image:  Entrance to Fisher Cave in Meramec State Park, ca. 1931 [John F. Bradbury, Jr. Postcard Collection (R1551), SHSMO]

In this episode, Sean Rost talks with Nick Kromrie of Missouri State Parks about Grand Gulf State Park.

Episode Image: A person gazes out at Grand Gulf [Gerald R. Massie Photographs (P0016), SHSMO]

Banner Image: A person stands beside a spring in Oregon County [Gerald R. Massie Photographs (P0016), SHSMO]

In this episode, Sean Rost talks with Tasha Gabel, senior naturalist for the Missouri Department of Natural Resources, about Onondaga Cave State Park.

Episode Image: Two teenage girls look at cave formations in Onondaga Cave, 1959 [Missouri Ruralist Photographs (P0030), SHSMO]

Banner Image: Interior view of Onondaga Cave, ca. 1945 [Mr. and Mrs. Walter Williams Photograph Collection (P0535), SHSMO]