Episodes

  • Charlotte Wolpers Craig: “Southeast Missouri has long been a tremendously underserved area in terms of rescues for animals."

    Charlotte Wolpers Craig: “Southeast Missouri has long been a tremendously underserved area in terms of rescues for animals."
    Dec 26 2022
    Charlotte Wolpers Craig spoke with the Missouri on Mic team at the Margaret Harwell Art Museum in Poplar Bluff in July. She spoke about growing up in the area, and one of her lifelong passions – helping animals. She helped found the Animal Welfare Alliance of Southeast Missouri, which opened a no kill shelter earlier this year.
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    4 mins
  • Mike Shane: “The newspaper – they wanted weekly articles about museum exhibits, and so, I got voted to write those articles."

    Mike Shane: “The newspaper – they wanted weekly articles about museum exhibits, and so, I got voted to write those articles."
    Dec 19 2022
    Mike Shane spoke with the Missouri on Mic team at the Margaret Harwell Art Museum in Poplar Bluff in July. He's a writer and spoke about some of the stories from his book, “Tall Tales: Stories from the Poplar Bluff Museum.”
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    4 mins
  • Sue Crites Szostak: “As I grew up, I found out that books were my passion because they took me anywhere I wanted to go.”

    Sue Crites Szostak: “As I grew up, I found out that books were my passion because they took me anywhere I wanted to go.”
    Dec 12 2022
    Sue Crites Szostak spoke with the Missouri on Mic team at the Poplar Bluff Municipal Library in July. She's the director there and spoke about how books have shaped her life.
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    4 mins
  • John Stanard: "The Daily American Republic’ is the successor after many, many names of the first newspaper in Butler County.”

    John Stanard: "The Daily American Republic’ is the successor after many, many names of the first newspaper in Butler County.”
    Dec 5 2022
    John Stanard spoke with the Missouri on Mic team at the Margaret Harwell Art Museum in Poplar Bluff in July. He spoke about his family’s long history with the newspaper industry in the area.
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    4 mins
  • Diana Moxon: “As a child, I always felt like the world was this huge and exciting place… and that my adventure lay far beyond the borders of the town.”

    Diana Moxon: “As a child, I always felt like the world was this huge and exciting place… and that my adventure lay far beyond the borders of the town.”
    Nov 28 2022
    Diana Moxon lives in Columbia and spoke with the Missouri on Mic team at the Unbound Book Festival last April, she hosts a weekly radio program called “Speaking of the Arts.” She spoke about how she ended up in Columbia, and about some of her lesser-known passions.
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    4 mins
  • J.R. Patterson: “You can do whatever you want… ideas can be endless.”

    J.R. Patterson: “You can do whatever you want… ideas can be endless.”
    Nov 21 2022
    J.R. Patterson spoke with the Missouri On Mic team at the Margaret Harwell Art Museum in Poplar Bluff in July. He’s eight and from St. Louis., He spoke about his love of comics and making stop motion films. You can check out his work on YouTube as “ultimate_stop_motions.”
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    4 mins
  • Cheryl Huffman: "Really the crazy jellies didn't really come around til probably this season."

    Cheryl Huffman: "Really the crazy jellies didn't really come around til probably this season."
    Nov 14 2022
    Cheryl Huffman spoke with the Missouri On Mic team at the Downtown Poplar Bluff Farmers Market in July. She’s from Doniphan, and spoke about how the need for extra income led her to revisiting a craft she learned as a child.
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    4 mins
  • Kate Sandefur: "We wanted to start getting together again with kids, other children, and we felt like the safest place to do it was outside.”

    Kate Sandefur: "We wanted to start getting together again with kids, other children, and we felt like the safest place to do it was outside.”
    Nov 7 2022
    Kate Sandefur spoke with the Missouri on Mic team at the Adair County Public Library in May. She’s a librarian and a former pre-school teacher and spoke about how the pandemic led to her and some other local parents starting Prairie Song Academy, a Kirksville area Montessori-based school.
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    4 mins