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KBIA: Black Experience in Columbia
In the run up to Columbia’s 2021 bicentennial, KBIA radio station broadcast a series about the Black experience in Columbia. The series is called You Don’t Say. Here’s is one of the pieces: Rev. David Ballenger and Rev. Clyde Ruffin, “We could see the love, and we were taught love,” broadcast June 4, 2020.
Bicentennial Celebrations
BoCo200 — On Nov. 16, 2020, Boone County will dedicate a monument to mark the 200th anniversary of its founding, according to this Aug. 28, 2020 Columbia Missourian article. A planned July 4th event had to be canceled due to the current pandemic. For more information on Boone County’s bicentennial, check out this BoCo200 website. …
Add your voice to preserve Columbia’s history
You can chime in about how the city’s Historic Preservation can do more for you! The HPC met from 9:45 to 11:45 a.m. today, April 6, 2019, at a public meeting that drew nearly two dozen people. The crowd addressed five questions. You can, too, by contacting Pat Fowler at historypat2021@gmail.com Here are the questions…
Six ways to get involved in Missouri’s bicentennial
This article published Feb. 13 in the California Democrat outlines six ways to get involved in helping Missouri mark its 200th anniversary in 2021. Get quilting! — One quilt block per county will be put together to create a Missouri Bicentennial Quilt. Learn more here. The deadline is Sept. 2. Got pictures? — I know…
Help Boone County celebrate 200 years
Here’s an easy way to get involved in the celebration of Boone County’s 200th anniversary. On Saturday, Feb. 16, local artist Stacy Self will be visiting Ashland to gather information for a mural to highlight the communities in the county. Several sessions throughout Boone County will be held in the next six months, starting with…
Black history is our history
James T. Nunnelly made Columbia a better place to live by taking part in the sit-in at the Minute Inn. Read about the 1960 event in this “The Sit-in at the Minute Inn: A Columbia native and the civil rights protest that shaped him,” published on Nov. 18, 2018 in Vox magazine. As the plaque…
Slave labor part of Stephens Lake’s heritage
If you’ve ever enjoyed Stephens Lake Park, you’ve enjoyed the fruit of the labor of slaves. According to this history of Grindstone Nature Area, the area that is now Stephens Lake Park was cleared by slave labor in 1823. The history of Grindstone Nature Area includes that nature was also owned by the Gordon family as well…
Got questions?
Is there a historical fact or myth about Columbia, Missouri you’d like investigated? Is there a house whose history intrigues you? Did you ever wonder if there is a rhyme or reason to the way our streets are named? If you ask, I’ll try to answer in upcoming blog posts. You can also subscribe to…
CoMo’s hot dog-historic home connection
Columbia’s Oscar Mayer plant’s namesake’s historic home is for sale in Evanston, Illinois.
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