Mo' Curious

Trevor Harris
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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. Enjoy and share widely.

Episodes

  1. 08/11/2025

    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 […]

    31 min

  2. 06/01/2025

    Mo’ Curious: A Fifty-Year Homesteading Journey

    In 1976, Barbara and Tom Johnson moved from California to Missouri. In the past nearly 50 years, they built a home and had a family. As the Johnson kids grew up they realized there really was something to this homesteading thing. This episode of the Mo’ Curious podcast happens in two-parts. This first half of […]

    32 min

  3. 01/10/2025

    Mo’ Curious: Restoring Missouri’s Mined Landscapes

    Webb City's large-scale compost project is rebuilding soil denuded by long-gone lead and zinc interests. Birds like it, too.

    30 min

  4. 06/06/2024

    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

    25 min

  5. 01/06/2024

    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.

    29 min

  6. 10/27/2023

    Mo’ Curious: Memories From the Left End of the Dial

    Sustaining community radio in Columbia has been, well, a community effort

    30 min

  7. 05/12/2023

    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.

    29 min

  8. 03/28/2023

    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.)

    29 min

  9. 11/13/2022

    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 […]

    34 min

  10. 07/31/2022

    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.

    30 min
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About

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. Enjoy and share widely.

Information

  • Creator
    Trevor Harris
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2025
  • Episodes
    10
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © The Recollection Agency
  • Show Website
    Mo' Curious