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![Father Peter Joseph Dunne. [Rev. J. W. Gormley, History of Father Dunne’s News Boys Home and Protectorate]](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2025-12/1.-father-dunne.jpg?itok=ICHjPe3k "Father Peter Joseph Dunne. [Rev. J. W. Gormley, History of Father Dunne’s News Boys Home and Protectorate]")
Peter Joseph Dunne (1870–1939)
Fighting Father Dunne, an RKO film, premiered in St. Louis on May 11, 1948. The black-and-white movie depicted the life of Peter Joseph Dunne, a local priest, who founded the St.
Joan Stack
Joan Stack is the curator of art collections at the State Historical Society of Missouri.
![Naomi Brooks. [Hayti (Missouri) Central High School Yearbook, 1958, via Ancestry.com]](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2025-12/1.-brooks-v.-moberly.jpg?itok=lc1yrtCI "Naomi Brooks. [Hayti (Missouri) Central High School Yearbook, 1958, via Ancestry.com]")
Joseph R. Nichols Jr.
Joseph R. Nichols Jr. is an associate professor of education and affiliated researcher with the PRiME Center at Saint Louis University.
![Josephine Winslow Johnson. [Simon and Schuster, photo provided by the Johnson Estate]](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2025-12/1.-josephine-johnson.jpg?itok=e_SAvm5O "Josephine Winslow Johnson. [Simon and Schuster, photo provided by the Johnson Estate]")
Josephine Winslow Johnson (1910–1990)
St. Louis writer and naturalist Josephine Johnson became the youngest winner of the Pulitzer Prize in fiction in 1935 for her book Now in November, set on a Missouri farm during the Great Depression.
Beth Pike
Beth Pike is the assistant director, communications and education outreach, for the State Historical Society of Missouri.
![Henry J. Childers (left) and his children Bonnie, Bernice, Elbert, and Raymond help a customer at the family’s shop in Clementine, Missouri. [Phelps County Historical Society, Elbert I Childers Collection]](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2025-08/1.-basketville.jpg?itok=usNpkqVW "Henry J. Childers (left) and his children Bonnie, Bernice, Elbert, and Raymond help a customer at the family’s shop in Clementine, Missouri. [Phelps County Historical Society, Elbert I Childers Collection]")
Basketville on Route 66
Route 66 was fully paved across Missouri by 1931.
Ashley Weaver
Ashley Weaver is an archivist at the State Historical Society of Missouri’s Rolla Research Center.
![Pippin Place. [State Historical Society of Missouri, John F. Bradbury Jr. Postcard Collection, R1551]](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2025-08/1.-pippin-place.jpg?itok=Qg4cBHV4 "Pippin Place. [State Historical Society of Missouri, John F. Bradbury Jr. Postcard Collection, R1551]")
Pippin Place
Pippin Place was a legendary Gasconade River resort in the Missouri Ozarks.