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Features 8
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Departments
Comments National and statewide news Columns Hart to heart

Ghosts of the grasslands
Partnership works to return the prairie chicken to Missouri 5

Out of the Way Eats
The Cave Restaurant and Resort provides a naturally unique dining experience

12 Out of the Way Eats The Cave 14 Mail Bag Letters from our readers 23 Hearth and Home That’s peachy keen 24 News Briefs News you can use

Best of Rural Missouri
Our readers pick their regional favorites from across the Show-Me State

What’s old is new again
Heirloom plants bring back the flavors of yesteryear

28 Marketplace Classified ads 30 Around Missouri Missouri happenings 32 Neighbors Look for the dinosaur 34 Just4Kids Fun stuff from Buddy

Missouri’s horse
Fox trotters were bred for the Ozarks

Look for the dinosaur
Stanberry welder has an eye for art

About our cover

or the past 34 years, a kaleidoscope of color has filled the sky above Brookfield as the community celebrates the Great Pershing Balloon Derby on Labor Day weekend, Sept. 2-6 this year. Balloon pilots like Eldon Benus of Keokuk, Iowa, seen on this month’s cover with passengers Jim and Sharon Dice of Davenport, Iowa, come from across Missouri and neighboring states to participate. The floating spectacle began in 1977 as a fundraiser for a museum to commemorate native son Gen. John J. “Black Jack” Pershing, who was born in nearby Laclede and led U.S. military efforts in Europe during World War I. Today, the event — which is the longest-running continuously sanctioned ballooning event in the nation, according to the Balloon Federation of America — features five days of activities. One highlight of the event is Friday night’s “South Main Night Flame,” seen at left, where balloons line Main Street

for a glow. Weather permitting, the first of five planned balloon flights is scheduled for Saturday morning, followed by arts and crafts, music and concessions in East Twin Parks. Flights continue Saturday evening, Sunday morning and evening and Monday morning. Sunday’s activities include a fly-in at the North Central Missouri Regional Airport, followed by a pancake breakfast and free plane rides for kids. Children also will want to stay for the ping-pong ball drop. A plane will swoop down releasing hundreds of the little spheres, some of which will correspond to a prize. Each child will receive a goody bag. Events at the park, airport and downtown are free; admission to the balloon launch site is $2 per person or $6 per vehicle. For more details, call the Brookfield Chamber of Commerce at 660-258-7255 or visit www.pershingballoonderby.com or www.brookfieldmochamber.com/balloons.htm.

Cover and photo at left by Bob McEowen.

To order a print of the photo at left, see page 29.

RURAL MISSOURI

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Custom Sales Book

Custom Sales Book
Contents
Comments
Columns
Ghosts of the Grasslands
Out of the Way Eats
Mail Bag
Best of Rural Missouri
Hearth and Home
News Briefs
What’s Old is New Again
Marketplace
Around Missouri
Missouri’s Horse
Neighbors
Look for the Dinosaur
Just4Kids

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