History takes up a lot of space. Many thousands of pages in hundreds of books have been written to cover Missouri’s history. The Mississippi River Tales Mural on the Cape Girardeau flood wall covers ...

Small towns across Kansas and Missouri have been shrinking and dying for decades, with businesses closing up shop and their residents moving away.One town in northern Missouri has bucked that trend ...

Jenny Doan is nibbling on a plate of andouille pumpkin penne at Blue Sage, a restaurant with soft lighting and black cloth napkins. Once a bankrupt California housewife, she’s lunching with four of ...

HAMILTON, Mo. — A small idea in a small town has made a huge impact. Quilting turned the northern Missouri town of Hamilton into a thriving tourist destination. Jenny Doan is the woman behind the ...

You may think quilting is just something your old Aunt Bettie does to keep herself occupied in her golden years, but you’d be sorely mistaken. Quilting’s adherents number in the hundreds of thousands ...

After a Mid-Missouri quilt shop owner put around a year of work into a quilt that won an award at the State Fair, she said she has no plans to part with it. Teresa Cuno, owner of Rooster Creek ...

LICKING, Mo. (KCTV) - A Missouri prison is getting national attention for the joy it continues to sew into the state. The documentary “The Quilters” follows a group of men at South Central ...

A brother-sister team who created a “quilting destination” in Hamilton, Mo., has been named the National Small Business Persons of the Year by the U.S. Small Business Administration. Alan Doan and his ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — If there’s one thing Jenny Doan knows about people who quilt, it’s that they care about people. “Mr. Rogers says, ‘Look for the helpers.’ Quilters are helpers. Almost all of what ...