Water & Waterways

This episode features host Sean Rost discussing the National Humane Alliance and its efforts to distribute and construct multiple Ensign Fountains in Missouri in the early 20th Century.

This episode features a conversation with Andrew Olden about Civilian Conservation Corps Company 1743, an African American unit based at Washington State Park along the banks of the Big River near De Soto, Missouri, in the mid-1930s.

Alex Primm joins us to talk about his new book, Ozark Voices: Oral Histories from the Heartland, and his 40+ year career alongside the rivers, gravel bars, forests, and people of the Missouri Ozarks.

Amahia Mallea joins us to talk about her book, A River in the City of Fountains, and the complex history of the great river known as the "Big Muddy."

University of East Anglia,'s Thomas Ruys Smith discusses the cultural life of the Mississippi River and one of its most notable residents, Mark Twain.

Susan Sundermeyer discussing the book and exhibit, Farmhouses: Before the Great Flood of 1993 - Life in the Chamois and Morrison Missouri River Bottoms.

Loring Bullard from the James River Basin Partnership discusses the historical significance of spring water in the lives and health of Missourians.

Bonnie Stepenoff, professor emerita of history at Southeast Missouri State University, discusses Big Spring, Thad Snow, and life and work along the Mississippi River.