Bloomfield, Missouri - The Missouri Veterans Cemetery will honor veterans on Saturday, November 11, 2017 at 1:00 p.m. with a Veterans Day Program and special speaker.
This year's speaker is Major John P. Myers, USAF.
He is the Information Security Officer at John J. Pershing VA Medical Center in Poplar Bluff, Missouri.
Bloomfield, Missouri - Rose Marie (Robinson) Kinder, a native of Bloomfield, Missouri, authored "The Universe Playing Strings" She is the author of four books, including "Old Time Fiddling: Hall Sappington, Missouri Fiddler."
Her article on Missouri artist Gary Cadwallader was published in the February/March issue of Missouri Life. She is known as a regionalist writer featuring life in small communities in Missouri and in the southwest.
Kinder is currently writing a novel about a ghost house in Missouri and conducted research for that book in Bloomfield.
Her new short story collection, "The Dancer's Son and Other Stories." was a finalist for the 2016 Richard Sullivan Prize in fiction, while her novel, "The Universe Playing Strings," was a finalist for the 2017 Binghamton University John Gardner Fiction Award.
From 1989 to 2002 Kinder was a professor of English at the University of Central Missouri in Warrensburg and is currently living in Warrensburg with her husband.
Bloomfield, Missouri - The Stoddard County Historical Society will have guest speaker, Dr. Courtney Kisat, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of History at Southeast Missouri State University - Cape Girardeau, on Monday, August 28, 2017.
Their meeting will be at the Stars & Stripes Museum beginning at 6:30 p.m.
From 1860 - 1967 individuals were buried in the Stoddard county Poor Farm Cemetery because society deemed them poor both medically or mentally unhealthy. A memorial stands as a permanent reminder of those named individuals and unknown souls who were buried and have a final resting place.
The Stoddard County Historical Society hosts monthly meetings at the Stars and Stripes Museum/Library on the fourth Monday of the month. Meetings begin at 6:30 p.m. with a short presentation on a historical topic. It is open to the public and admission is free.
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