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Tales from Days Gone By

Dr. Bill Eddleman

Behind the big themes, celebrated figures, and dry dates of history are the interesting stories of life in the past and ordinary people. Southeast Missouri has a varied and rich history that you often don’t hear about in history classes. Join Bill Eddleman of the State Historical Society of Missouri to hear about these stories with “Tales from Days Gone By.”

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3:46

A Haunting: The Murder of the Lapine Family

Tales from Days Gone By ·

2023/10/25

Local lore holds that the cemeteries between West High and West Breton streets in Potosi are haunted. What appears to be a single cemetery is three: the City Cemetery, the Old Masonic Cemetery, and the Potosi Presbyterian Cemetery. One of the most gruesome stories behind the tales of haunting involves the murder of five members of the Lapine family, all buried in the City Cemetery.

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4:01

"She Frequently Spoke of the Trip from Virginia...

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2023/09/27

Shady Grove Cemetery, recently listed on the National Register of Historic Places, is the final resting place of over 250 African Americans who lived in and near Cape Girardeau. Many were born enslaved but lived to see emancipation and life into the early 1900s. Among these was Charlotte (Gordon) (Giboney) Cook Holmes, whose remarkable story spanned more than 90 years.

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3:28

“If a Little Good Sense Had Been Used:” President...

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2023/09/13

Academic Hall is the centerpiece of the Southeast Missouri State University campus. The construction of Academic after the destruction of Old Normal by fire did not happen without one unfortunate bump in the road to completion.

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3:22

An Elopement to Cape Girardeau Foiled

Tales from Days Gone By ·

2023/08/23

The construction of the railroad system in Southeast Missouri by entrepreneur Louis Houck and others provided improved transportation. This improvement serves as the background for one tale of a teenage Wayne County couple from 1916.

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3:59

The Decline, Fall, and Return of Missouri’s Pine...

Tales from Days Gone By ·

2023/08/09

Prior to settlement by Europeans, the Missouri Ozarks had vast forests of shortleaf pine, estimated at 6.6 million acres. Pines grew well at drier sites on ridgetops and west and southwest-facing slopes in rocky or sandy soils. Early stories tell of forests so open that a rider could gallop through without striking a branch.

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4:04

The "City of Alton" Steamboat and the Army that...

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2023/07/26

The early days of the Civil War in Missouri in 1861 were chaotic. Union commanders and sympathizers lived in fear of secessionists in eastern Missouri, especially those under the command of Col. M. Jeff Thompson in Southeast Missouri. One of the steamers running on the Mississippi River at this time was often pressed into service in support of Union troop movements.

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3:46

Willard D. Vandiver: A Missouri Legend from the...

Tales from Days Gone By ·

2023/07/12

One of the presidents of Southeast Missouri State has a permanent place in Missouri folklore. Willard D. Vandiver traditionally is credited with the nickname for Missouri—the Show Me State.

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3:40

The Ste. Genevieve Art Colony: Unexpected Gem

Tales from Days Gone By ·

2023/06/21

Artists in the Midwest prior to 1932 had to travel long distances to participate in an art colony. These gatherings were seasonal events, usually providing artists with time at a site with natural beauty or interest at which they could receive education and feel a sense of community with other artists.

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3:56

John Smith T: Frontier Entrepreneur, Scoundrel or Both?

Tales from Days Gone By ·

2023/06/07

Many people who were prominent in the early days of American settlement of Missouri are little known today. One of these early Missourians, John Smith T, was from a family of Virginia gentry who moved to Georgia prior to his birth in 1771. He left home before 1790 to settle in Tennessee during its frontier days.

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4:12

James L. Dalton and the Dalton Adding Machine: Made...

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2023/05/24

Among the many useful inventions developed at the turn of the 20th Century was the adding machine. One of the most widely-used of these was invented in Missouri and initially manufactured in Poplar Bluff—the Dalton Adding Machine.

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3:51

The Third District Normal School Hits its Stride

Tales from Days Gone By ·

2023/05/10

During the early years of the Third District Normal School (1876-1893), three educational leaders held the post of principal. The title was later changed to president.

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