by ShowMeOzarksMagazine | Mar 31, 2020 | Featured, Magazine News
By Kathleen Swift • Photo by Artistic Expressions Photography On April 1920, a group of Joplin businessmen organized to serve the community. The group formally became the third Kiwanis Club in Missouri May 17, 1920, joining groups in St. Louis and Kansas City. The...
by ShowMeOzarksMagazine | Mar 2, 2020 | Featured, Magazine News
The 10th annual Nature Photo Contest benefiting the Wildcat Glades Friends group garnered 72 outstanding entries this year. From idyllic landscapes to songbirds, waterfowl to rusty trucks, flowers to insects, nature and her beauty came alive in the photographs. Our...
by ShowMeOzarksMagazine | Feb 13, 2020 | Featured, Magazine News
By Kaitlin Felder Michele and Chris Knight 2000 – present Michele and Chris Knight found each other in 1999, at a club in Joplin, Missouri. Michele was 26 and Chris was 30 when they were going out with their friends at the club. A year later, Michele...
by ShowMeOzarksMagazine | Jan 28, 2020 | Featured, Magazine News
By Kathleen Swift Photos By Artistic Expressions Photography Every morning before many of us are having our first sip of coffee, Carla Crawford and her daughter, Twyla Housh, are making the famous pies for Big R’s Bar-B-Q. They’ll have dozens of homemade rolls rising...
by ShowMeOzarksMagazine | Jan 16, 2020 | Featured, Magazine News
By Kathleen Swift By all accounts, Nicki and Levi’s wedding was a day of fun. Held at the Civil War Ranch Arena in Carthage, Missouri, the couple geared everything about their wedding as a celebration of love. Levi and Nicki went to high school together, but...
by ShowMeOzarksMagazine | Dec 30, 2019 | Featured, Magazine News
By Kathleen Swift Glenna Wallace was elected chief of the Eastern Shawnee in 2006. She is the first woman to serve as chief of the 3,600 enrolled citizens whose nation sits in eastern Oklahoma. The Eastern Shawnee arrived in Indian Territory in 1832. Oklahoma didn’t...
