Rags to riches: Before quilting made her a YouTube star, Jenny Doan says, “I could have written a book on how to feed a family for $50 a week.” Image: Tim Pannell for Forbes Jenny Doan is nibbling on ...

HAMILTON, Mo. — A small idea in a small town has made a huge impact. Quilting turned the northern Missouri town of Hamilton into a thriving tourist destination. Jenny Doan is the woman behind the ...

You may think quilting is just something your old Aunt Bettie does to keep herself occupied in her golden years, but you’d be sorely mistaken. Quilting’s adherents number in the hundreds of thousands ...

History takes up a lot of space. Many thousands of pages in hundreds of books have been written to cover Missouri’s history. The Mississippi River Tales Mural on the Cape Girardeau flood wall covers ...

KANSAS CITY, MO (KCTV) – The brother and sister who started a quilting company in fall of 2008 to help recoup their parents’ lost retiring savings account have received national accolades. Alan Doan ...

Members of the Jubilee Committee led by Councilwoman Eunice Reiter and Councilman Bob Burton traveled to the county seat for the presentation of the Heritage Quilt to the Fort Bend County Museum, ...

Independent filmmaker Jennifer McShane came to Missouri to make her second documentary about prison life, focusing on an unusual group of men at South Central Correctional Center south of St. Louis.

With a quilt exhibit at the History Museum on the Square that opened last week, Springfield began marking Missouri's bicentennial anniversary. Missouri joined the Union as a "slave state" on Aug. 10, ...

The Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. is the nation's treasure house, where visitors to the capitol can see the original Star-Spangled Banner, Dorothy's ruby slippers from "The Wizard of Oz, ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — If there’s one thing Jenny Doan knows about people who quilt, it’s that they care about people. “Mr. Rogers says, ‘Look for the helpers.’ Quilters are helpers. Almost all of what ...

While a video of quilters singing Negro spirituals softly plays in the background, the coal-black and fire-engine red quilt made from scraps of cotton and corduroy hangs still at the Missouri History ...

LICKING, Mo. – In one of Missouri’s highest-security prisons, there’s a group that is having a light shone on them—not for what they’ve done in the past, but for an unexpected shared purpose between ...