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The society has, at the century mark, its largest membership in history, a well-trafficked website that includes a growing repository of studies and documents (Missouri Folklore Studies) and a journal now well past the quarter-century mark. [citation needed] In 2021, the Missouri Folklore Society published volumes 40 and 41: Emerging Folklorists.
In 1982, the Missouri Cultural Heritage Center was established at the University of Missouri and directed by Howard Wight Marshall, a professor in the Department of Art History and Archaeology. The Center found its permanent home in 1986 at the University of Missouri’s historic Sanford F. Conley House . [ 5 ]
The hill where they first met, Snapp's Bald, is located just north of Kirbyville, Missouri. An article in the October 5, 1898 issue of Springfield, Missouri's The Leader-Democrat states: Henry Westmoreland is in from Beaver County, Oklahoma, which was formerly a part of the strip known as No-Man's-Land. He says grass is in abundance and cattle ...
Belden had planned a publication of Missouri folk song but his plans were disrupted by World War I and the energies of the Missouri Folklore Society slowed down in the 1920s and 1930s. [1] Belden's Ballads and Songs Collected by the Missouri Folk-Lore Society was finally published in 1940. [6]
The Society engages in a number of outreach programs to bring Missouri's history to the public. Such programs are the Missouri History in Performance theatre, the Missouri History Speakers' Bureau, and the Missouri Conference on History. The collection of the Society, concerning pamphlets, books, and state publications, is over 460,000 items.
The Springfield History Museum is open from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Thursday through Sunday, with extended hours on First Fridays. Admission is free. Miranda Cyr reports on education for The Register-Guard.
The following are approximate tallies of current listings by county. These counts are based on entries in the National Register Information Database as of March 13, 2009 [2] and new weekly listings posted since then on the National Register of Historic Places web site. [3]
With the sale of the existing alumni center in downtown Springfield to the Community Foundation of the Ozarks — a pact made public Thursday — the foundation is ready to take the next step.