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        <description><![CDATA[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.”]]></description>
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    <title>All Covered with Heavy Timber: The Vanished Forest of the Southeast Lowlands</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[In 1869, the lawyer and future railroad entrepreneur and historian Louis Houck rode the court circuit to Kennett with other lawyers and court officials. Upon reaching a point south of Bloomfield, as he later wrote, “I sat down on a hillside on the left of where Dexter now stands, looking over a vast forest of timber on all sides, greatly impressed; not a single farm in sight or opening in the vast woods except at the foot of the hill, an open place known as Miller’s Farm. Going south for miles we traveled along the edge of what was known as the East Swamp, all covered with heavy timber.”]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 11:05:00 -0600</pubDate>
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    <itunes:title>All Covered with Heavy Timber: The Vanished Forest of the Southeast Lowlands</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[In 1869, the lawyer and future railroad entrepreneur and historian Louis Houck rode the court circuit to Kennett with other lawyers and court officials. Upon reaching a point south of Bloomfield, as he later wrote, “I sat down on a hillside on the left of where Dexter now stands, looking over a vast forest of timber on all sides, greatly impressed; not a single farm in sight or opening in the vast woods except at the foot of the hill, an open place known as Miller’s Farm. Going south for miles we traveled along the edge of what was known as the East Swamp, all covered with heavy timber.”]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[In 1869, the lawyer and future railroad entrepreneur and historian Louis Houck…]]></itunes:subtitle>
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    <title>When the Bubble Burst: The Panic of 1837 in Eastern Missouri</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Economic conditions boomed in Missouri and the country in 1835. The cotton market and prices increased throughout the South, resulting in increased land purchases and growing demand for enslaved workers. Across the Lead Belt of southeast Missouri, rising lead production and increased demand for furs fueled the boom conditions.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2026 11:03:00 -0600</pubDate>
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    <itunes:title>When the Bubble Burst: The Panic of 1837 in Eastern Missouri</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Economic conditions boomed in Missouri and the country in 1835. The cotton market and prices increased throughout the South, resulting in increased land purchases and growing demand for enslaved workers. Across the Lead Belt of southeast Missouri, rising lead production and increased demand for furs fueled the boom conditions.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Economic conditions boomed in Missouri and the country in 1835. The cotton…]]></itunes:subtitle>
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    <title>William A. Bacon’s Service in Southeast Missouri and on the Plains</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[On a summer’s day in July 1926, a reporter for the Cape Girardeau Southeast Missourian noticed an old man sitting in Courthouse Park across the street from the newspaper. The reporter greeted the man, who introduced himself as William A. Bacon, a Union Civil War veteran who had just celebrated his 80th birthday.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2026 11:03:00 -0600</pubDate>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[On a summer’s day in July 1926, a reporter for the Cape Girardeau Southeast Missourian noticed an old man sitting in Courthouse Park across the street from the newspaper. The reporter greeted the man, who introduced himself as William A. Bacon, a Union Civil War veteran who had just celebrated his 80th birthday.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[On a summer’s day in July 1926, a reporter for the Cape Girardeau Southeast…]]></itunes:subtitle>
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    <title>&quot;A Place Where People Are Uplifted Spiritually&quot; — The Tale of Epworth Among the Hills</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[The area around Arcadia in Iron County first became known to many young people of the mid and late 20th Century as a place to go to summer camp. Many of these camps were church camps and remain, although they are not as popular as they once were.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2026 11:05:00 -0600</pubDate>
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    <itunes:title>&quot;A Place Where People Are Uplifted Spiritually&quot; — The Tale of Epworth Among the Hills</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The area around Arcadia in Iron County first became known to many young people of the mid and late 20th Century as a place to go to summer camp. Many of these camps were church camps and remain, although they are not as popular as they once were.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[The area around Arcadia in Iron County first became known to many young people…]]></itunes:subtitle>
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<itunes:duration>238</itunes:duration>






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    <title>A Merry Christmas in 1872: Reports from Southeast Missouri Towns</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Not that long ago, a frequent practice of local newspapers was to have a representative of communities in their circulation area report on happenings in those smaller towns. Some of the reports give valuable insight into local history, while others border on gossip.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2025 11:10:00 -0600</pubDate>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Not that long ago, a frequent practice of local newspapers was to have a representative of communities in their circulation area report on happenings in those smaller towns. Some of the reports give valuable insight into local history, while others border on gossip.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Not that long ago, a frequent practice of local newspapers was to have a…]]></itunes:subtitle>
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    <title>Pilot Training in the Bootheel: The Malden Army Airfield</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[When the U. S. declared war on Japan and Germany at the end of 1941, mobilization of the armed forces began immediately. An acute need for fighter pilots required that training had to begin as soon as possible. The War Department acquired several new sites for airfields, including 2900-acre site four miles north of Malden in Dunklin County.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2025 11:22:00 -0600</pubDate>
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<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[When the U. S. declared war on Japan and Germany at the end of 1941,…]]></itunes:subtitle>
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    <title>Nearly 100 Years of Brewing in Old Appleton</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[One of the longest-running local breweries in southeast Missouri, Old Appleton Brewery, started with a German immigrant, Caspar Ludwig.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2025 11:02:00 -0600</pubDate>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[One of the longest-running local breweries in southeast Missouri, Old Appleton Brewery, started with a German immigrant, Caspar Ludwig.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[One of the longest-running local breweries in southeast Missouri, Old Appleton…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Dr. Bill Eddleman</itunes:author>
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    <title>St. Francois County’s Oldest Settlement: Big River Mills</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[One of the first American settlements in the Ste. Genevieve District was at a cluster of land grants on the west side of Rivere Grande, or Big River, in present-day St. Francois County.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2025 11:10:00 -0600</pubDate>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[One of the first American settlements in the Ste. Genevieve District was at a cluster of land grants on the west side of Rivere Grande, or Big River, in present-day St. Francois County.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[One of the first American settlements in the Ste. Genevieve District was at a…]]></itunes:subtitle>
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    <title>The Unquiet Grave of Nathan Watson</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Among all the stories in Southeast Missouri history that have sparked tales of ghosts and hauntings is one that should have but has not.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2025 11:31:00 -0500</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.krcu.org/2025-10-22/the-unquiet-grave-of-nathan-watson</link>
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    <itunes:title>The Unquiet Grave of Nathan Watson</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Among all the stories in Southeast Missouri history that have sparked tales of ghosts and hauntings is one that should have but has not.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Among all the stories in Southeast Missouri history that have sparked tales of…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Dr. Bill Eddleman</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>231</itunes:duration>






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    <title>The Bowie Family in Southeast Missouri – Before the Bowie Knife</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Few people realize that the family of James, or Jim, Bowie, who made the Bowie Knife famous and later died at The Alamo, spent time in Southeast Missouri at the beginning of the 19th Century.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2025 11:04:00 -0500</pubDate>
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    <itunes:title>The Bowie Family in Southeast Missouri – Before the Bowie Knife</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Few people realize that the family of James, or Jim, Bowie, who made the Bowie Knife famous and later died at The Alamo, spent time in Southeast Missouri at the beginning of the 19th Century.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Few people realize that the family of James, or Jim, Bowie, who made the Bowie…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Dr. Bill Eddleman</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>236</itunes:duration>






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    <title>Samuel Scism: A Stoddard County Unionist’s Civil War Tale</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Samuel Scism’s story is a common one among Civil War soldiers who survived prison camps. Vegetables in their diets might have prevented many cases of chronic dysentery. The state of medical care of the time meant that the malady was untreatable and subject to recurrence.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2025 11:35:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Samuel Scism’s story is a common one among Civil War soldiers who survived prison camps. Vegetables in their diets might have prevented many cases of chronic dysentery. The state of medical care of the time meant that the malady was untreatable and subject to recurrence.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Samuel Scism’s story is a common one among Civil War soldiers who survived…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Dr. Bill Eddleman</itunes:author>
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    <title>Disaster in Chicopee: The Burning of the Jesse Gunn Store</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[The quiet of the early evening of March 26, 1912, Chicopee on the Current River in Carter County would soon be broken by a catastrophe.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2025 11:26:00 -0500</pubDate>
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    <itunes:title>Disaster in Chicopee: The Burning of the Jesse Gunn Store</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The quiet of the early evening of March 26, 1912, Chicopee on the Current River in Carter County would soon be broken by a catastrophe.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[The quiet of the early evening of March 26, 1912, Chicopee on the Current River…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Dr. Bill Eddleman</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>239</itunes:duration>






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    <title>The Many Moves of Aaron Pinson Jr.</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Sometimes we underestimate the mobility of the early generations of European settlers in what became the U. S.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2025 11:01:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Sometimes we underestimate the mobility of the early generations of European settlers in what became the U. S.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Sometimes we underestimate the mobility of the early generations of European…]]></itunes:subtitle>
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<itunes:duration>250</itunes:duration>






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    <title>A Biological Storm: Passenger Pigeons in Eastern Missouri</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[A traveler from southeastern New York, Christian Schultz, descended the Ohio River in 1807. He stopped at the mouth of the Ohio River on the Missouri side on October 24, 1807, and noticed a strange phenomenon.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2025 11:03:00 -0500</pubDate>
    <link>https://www.krcu.org/2025-08-13/a-biological-storm-passenger-pigeons-in-eastern-missouri</link>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[A traveler from southeastern New York, Christian Schultz, descended the Ohio River in 1807. He stopped at the mouth of the Ohio River on the Missouri side on October 24, 1807, and noticed a strange phenomenon.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[A traveler from southeastern New York, Christian Schultz, descended the Ohio…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Dr. Bill Eddleman</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>239</itunes:duration>






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    <title>The Tangled Web of Clacy T. Kinder</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[The morning of November 15, 1923, was out of the ordinary at the Bank of Patterson in Wayne County. The cashier, Clacy T. Kinder, failed to appear.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2025 11:39:00 -0500</pubDate>
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    <itunes:title>The Tangled Web of Clacy T. Kinder</itunes:title>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The morning of November 15, 1923, was out of the ordinary at the Bank of Patterson in Wayne County. The cashier, Clacy T. Kinder, failed to appear.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[The morning of November 15, 1923, was out of the ordinary at the Bank of…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Dr. Bill Eddleman</itunes:author>
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    <title>The St. Michael Flood of 1814</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Heavy rains fell in late spring and early summer of 1814 in the eastern part of Missouri Territory.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2025 11:08:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Heavy rains fell in late spring and early summer of 1814 in the eastern part of Missouri Territory.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Heavy rains fell in late spring and early summer of 1814 in the eastern part of…]]></itunes:subtitle>
<itunes:author>Dr. Bill Eddleman</itunes:author>
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    <title>The Grassy Towersite and Fire Towers in Southeast Missouri’s Past</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[A short drive down County Road 508 in Bollinger County leads to the quiet site of the former location of the Grassy Towersite.]]></description>
    
    <pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2025 11:08:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[In early 1882, three would-be entrepreneurs from Illinois, Dr. Henry Clay Fish,…]]></itunes:subtitle>
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<itunes:summary><![CDATA[The road to getting federal land into private hands through purchase was often complicated in the early 1800s.]]></itunes:summary>
<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[The road to getting federal land into private hands through purchase was often…]]></itunes:subtitle>
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