Famous Missourians: Mark Twain and Harry Truman (Courtesy photo) Louis as well as at Warm Springs Ranch, the 120-hectare Clydesdale breeding farm located near Boonville, Missouri. Check out their gilded stables at the Anheuser-Busch brewery in St. Missouri is home to one of the world’s most famous teams of horses: the Budweiser Clydesdales. The famed Budweiser Clydesdales (Courtesy photo) Also in Branson: Dolly Parton’s Dixie Stampede dinner theater, which includes 32 horses and riders doing trick riding. Like Vegas, Branson has a “strip,” but here it has developed to be more welcoming to children, with Silver Dollar City, an 1800s-themed amusement park. A little bit country and wholesome fun (Courtesy photo)īranson, in southwest Missouri, is known as the family-friendly alternative to Las Vegas, as the town has nearly 100 live music shows. Joplin, an African-American composer and pianist, wasn’t born in Sedalia, but he did attend college there and met the musical influences that would shape him and this genre of music. Ragtime music is celebrated every June during the weeklong Scott Joplin Ragtime Festival in Sedalia.
During the day it’s part of the American Jazz Museum, located in the historic 18th & Vine Jazz District in Kansas City. All that jazz (Courtesy photo)įour nights a week, the Blue Room looks like a 1930s nightclub and resonates with the sounds of Kansas City jazz. The Missouri River meets the Mississippi River about 15 miles north of the arch.
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The Mississippi River flows directly below the east windows of the arch. Made of steel and concrete, the arch stands 630 feet tall, which is 63 stories or 192 meters. Visitors can ride a tram to the top of the Gateway Arch. Ride to the top of the arch (Courtesy photo) Between both of those cities is Jefferson City, the state capital. Louis is on Missouri’s eastern border with Illinois. Kansas also has a Kansas City - that city is much smaller and lies four miles away from Kansas City, Missouri.
Kansas City is Missouri’s largest city, on the state’s western edge straddling the border with Kansas. You have got to show me.” However the slogan originated, it has come to represent what Missourians describe as their “noncredulous character.” The expression is usually attributed to Missouri Congressman Willard Duncan Vandiver, who in 1898 said, “I am from Missouri. We can’t wait to see where you’ll take Flat Sasha.Missouri is called the Show Me State. It will also support Kidsave’s efforts to rebuild Ukraine by training volunteers and staff on trauma therapy and our family connection models, furthering our work to find forever families for orphans and older children in care. Your donation will provide Ukrainian children and families with food, medicine, shelter, fuel, and counseling services. Share your photos of #FlatSasha on social media to raise awareness for the continued support needed in Ukraine and help make a difference to a child’s life by donating now. Once you’ve created your Flat Sasha, we encourage you to hang them up in your school, office, home, car, or bring them along with you on a brand new adventure. Flat Sasha can be printed out, colored in and decorated. To promote awareness of the hardships being faced by Ukrainian children and help raise much needed funds, Kidsave is launching the #FlatSasha project to support its ongoing work in Ukraine.įlat Sasha represents a 12-year-old orphan displaced from their home in Mykolaiv due to the war, like so many other children in the country.
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