Friday, January 22, 2010

Missouri

Missouri
Diamond ?
George Washington Carver's Home

Hannibal
Cardiff Hill
Mark Twain Dinette (home-made root beer
Mark Twain Cave
Mark Twain Boyhood Home
Mark Twain Museum
Becky Thatcher Home
Rockcliff Mansion
Molly Brown Museum

Hannibal?
National Fence Painting Contest (age 10-13; based on costume, speed, accuracy; July 4 weekend)

Hermann
Rhineland village

Independence
Hair Museum (hair products)

Kansas City
Arthur Bryant’s (barbecue)
Fritz’s Railroad Restaurant (by small elevated trains; hashbrown burger)
Mama's (corned beef hash)3
Arthur Bryant's (since 1940s; smoked barbecue)
National World War I Museum at Liberty Memorial (largest collection of WWI items outside Europe)
City Market (shops and fresh produce)
American Jazz Museum
Negro Leagues Baseball Museum
Hotel Phillips (art deco lobby)
Fiorella's Jack Stack Barbecue (burnt ends of beef brisket, beans cooked in meat drippings)
Winstead's

Steelville
Huzzah Creek

Sedalia
State Fair (mid-Aug)

Sikeston
Rodeo (local police randomly "kidnap" family off highway to participate)
Lambert's Cafe (side dish "pass arounds: macaroni, fried okra, black-eyed peas, fried potatoes, tomatoes; chicken fried steak, hog jowl, meatloaf, sweet potato, roll with sorghum; the only home of throwed rolls--literally)3

St Louis
Ted Drewes (frozen custard called concrete)
Park Ave Mansion B&B
Iron Barley (gourmet tavern: seafood paella, shellfish, spaetzel, schnitzel, oak-roasted pork, zarzeula--Spanish seafood stew)3
Sweetie Pie's (soul food: pork, mac n' cheese)

?
White Cliffs (Upper Missouri)
Johnson’s Shut-ins (Reynolds County, rock towers create small pools on East Fork of Black River)
Taum Sauk Mountain State Park (slim passage thru volcanic rhyolite)
Marvel Cave
Meramec Caverns
Memoryville USA
Red Oak II (faux town)
Rock in the House (literally, on Mississippi River)

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