Culture

Watercolor USA 2025 opened at the Spiva Center for the Arts last week. It includes 103 works from 29 states.

The mural will honor Gordon Parks and his love for his boyhood home.

A Page 618 Walking Dragline, a unique piece of coal mining equipment, will be moved this fall from Cherokee County to Franklin, where it will be preserved by the Miners Hall Museum. The museum held a program on July 26 for attendees to learn more about the machine.

Over 100 years after bison were eradicated in Missouri, a small herd was reintroduced to Prairie State Park in the 1980s. Today, it’s one of the two herds accessible to the public throughout the state. Approximately 50 bison freely roam three-quarters of the park’s land, and once a month, visitors have a unique opportunity to see them.

Frontenac has never had a public library or its own museum. Soon, the town will have both.

Across the country, music lovers open their homes to small artists in what are known as house concerts. Rob Poole and Carol Puckett are some of these people, hosting house concerts at their home in Pittsburg and giving their neighbors and fellow community members access to music they might not hear otherwise.

Bob Wolfe started Always Buying Books in 2001 with $6,000 and approximately 4,000 books. Now with 40,000 used and new books on the shelves, Wolfe and store manager Alyse Foley work to continue their success and help out in the community.

The Rats and People Motion Picture Orchestra will be at the Cornell Complex on April 12, performing their original scores for the Buster Keaton silent films “The High Sign” and “Sherlock Jr.”

Anderson will perform songs from her new album, “Get to Somewhere,” which is inspired by her experience growing up in Pittsburg.

Each piece of art featured was created by a community member and is meant to showcase what the Midwest is to the artist. The theme of the exhibit was chosen to coincide with the book for Joplin Public Library’s Joplin Reads Together program, “The Lager Queen of Minnesota.”