ties that bind

Outside of Marshall, Missouri there’s a strip of gravel called Kittyhawk Avenue. The unpaved road leads to family farms, pastures and a town formed by a…

Located eight miles outside of Marshall, Mo., is a church that is all that remains of Pennytown. Started by a freed slave in 1871, Pennytown was one of…

For Loretta Moss, no work was as stable or as satisfying than that of a postal carrier. Her grandpa, uncle, father and mother were all postal carriers at…

Growing up on the farm his father bought in the 1950s, John Schupp would be the first to admit that there’s no better place than home.Schupp had numerous…

After 51 years of marriage, Philip and Aleta Miller can still recall the day it all began. They were sophomores in college and were married soon after…