Made It: Quimby Pipe Organs
Quimby Pipe Organs preserve timeless tradition in sound. Those who have attended a church service, wedding, or funeral are likely familiar with the sonorous strains of organ music that often…
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Sally Oxenhandler
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Made It: Ortmann Pens
Ortmann Pens crafts wood products for a global market. Most people are wary when the government calls. But for Jon and Debbie Ortmann, the call catapulted their part-time woodworking venture…
Made It: Blacksmith Distillery
Small batch spirits and a family recipe leads a local distillery to success. Most people have their favorite go-to family recipes. For the Broker family, a recipe for corn whiskey…
Made It: Honeysuckle Acres
One couple’s beekeeping hobby leads to sweet success. A family camping trip to a friend’s farm led Nick Kauffman and his wife, Renee, to a successful and fulfilling career making…
Made It: Silvey Soaps
Silvey Soaps offers good, clean fun. For years, Kim Silvey has loved to can the home-grown produce she and her family grow on their farm in California, Missouri. It was…
Where Are They Now: News Anchor Kim Carrigan
Kim Carrigan’s Midwestern roots take her to award-winning heights Kim Carrigan isn’t best known for being a tour guide at the Missouri State Capitol nor for being a former Jefferson…
Made It: Karviva
Prebiotic Karviva drinks offerwellness in every sip. What happens when ancient Chinese healing art philosophies are embraced by a pathologist who is passionate about healthy living? In Angela Zeng’s case,…
What’s the Story?: A Champion for Corrections
Mark Schreiber helps capture Missouri State Penitentiary history. Mark Schreiber, a longtime Missouri Department of Corrections employee turned penitentiary historian and author, will forever be connected with the Missouri State…
What’s the Story?: From Horrible to Harrowing
MSP tour guide Randy Walters shares the story of Carl Austin Hall and Bonnie Brown Heady. Hanging on the wall in the Missouri State Penitentiary’s gas chamber, the photos of…
The Tough Guys: Stories From Within the Missouri State Penitentiary
Bill Green shares how two prisoners sealed their fates while being incarcerated at Missouri State Penitentiary. You don’t know what tough is until you get behind the walls of that…