The Recollection Agency is based in Missouri, a state with a wide and deep history. Having lived almost all of his years in the state, Trevor Harris remains inquisitive about the 24th state. As a way to marry that wonderment and the history all around him. Trevor started the Mo’ Curious podcast in 2020.
Each episode affords the hungry listener with a minor education in some noteworthy or forgotten piece of Missouri arcana.
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Mo’ Curious: Building a Modern Homesteader Community
Starting back in the 1960s, growing numbers of young people in these United States of America starting dropping out. Turned off by mainstream society, they turned their backs on career advancement, corner offices and getting ahead. Instead, many of these back-to-the-landers opted for buying land, building cabins and growing food. Many set up shop here […]
1 Jun 2025
Mo’ Curious: A Fifty-Year Homesteading Journey
Barbara and Tom Johnson recount their fifty-year homesteading journey in Missouri, highlighting family growth and the rewards of sustainable living in this interview.
Webb City's large-scale compost project is rebuilding soil denuded by long-gone lead and zinc interests. Birds like it, too.
6 Jun 2024
Mo’ Curious: Tracing the Underground Railroad in Missouri
A growing number of sites in St. Louis reflect the region's importance to 19th century freedom seekers
6 Jan 2024
Mo’ Curious: Black Stories Matter
With roots traced back to enslaved Missourians, Lucille H. Douglass and Oralee McKinzy are using history to help educate and heal the community.
27 Oct 2023
Mo’ Curious: Memories From the Left End of the Dial
Sustaining community radio in Columbia has been, well, a community effort
12 May 2023
Mo’ Curious: A Recent History of Bosnians in St. Louis
The Bosnian diaspora in St. Louis is preserving their culture while learning The American Way.
28 Mar 2023
Mo’ Curious: Arriving As Refugees, Bosnians in St. Louis are Rebuilding Their Lost Community
St. Louis Bosnian population is influencing the region's religious life, building economic and civic organizations and partaking in recreation. (Think soccer.)
13 Nov 2022
Mo’ Curious: Saving the Hidden Stories of a Vanishing Rural Lifestyle
In this episode, we listen to the oral histories of Margot McMillen. We hear from a river boat captain, a train engineer and an independent woman. These and several dozen other Missourians were the subjects of Margot’s late 1970s oral history recordings. At that time, Margot was a young mother of two, a graduate student […]
31 Jul 2022
Mo’ Curious: The Living Legacy of Missouri’s Dramatic 1939 Sharecroppers’ Strike (part II)
On January 1, 1939, 1,500 Missourians went on strike.
They were tired of hard work, being poor and living in shacks.
This podcast explores what that strike means today to one Missouri community.
23 Apr 2022
Mo’ Curious: The living legacy of Missouri’s dramatic 1939 sharecroppers’ strike (part 1)
Back in 1939, the world was a different place. For one thing, there were a lot more people involved in farming. In Missouri’s Bootheel region, this meant bodies were needed to grow cotton. Under the sharecropper model, those Missourians who grew cotton had no guarantees of a wage. They could be evicted anytime from the […]
26 Jan 2022
Mo’ Curious: Preserving the Disappearing Memory of Missouri’s Little Tuskegee
Madelyn Paine remembers getting weighed at the Dalton elevator. Diane Pippens feels her light skin helped her pass for white or Mexican when she integrated her town’s high school. William Payne recalls the town’s annual reunion where he met his future wife. It was at Dalton, Missouri’s annual reunion in 2021 that I did my […]
5 Oct 2021
Mo’ Curious: ‘There is a better way’
Missouri's cooperative culture is alive and well in Scotland County.
11 Aug 2021
Mo’ Curious: ‘That American Ideal’
Almost as long as there has been a Missouri, there have been idealists in our midst. In 1844, “Doctor” Wilhelm Keil and his followers established the German Communal Society of Bethel in Northeast Missouri. They were followed by an Icarian outpost in 1858 near St. Louis. In this episode of Mo’ Curious, you’ll learn about […]
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