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The Boy Scouts of America (now Scouting America) has always centered on a merit badge system to show young people the value of hard work and the good life it brings. A Scout earns a merit badge by completing a fixed list of requirements with a registered adult counselor (a Scout Leader). There are more than 140 merit badges a Scout can gain, covering everything from Camping, Fir...

Experience a unique Fireside Feast in Perryville, Missouri, with a nine-course dining event. Mary Jane Burgers founder Carisa Stark hosts an event that feels like performance art in collaboration with Brass + Bone co-founder Katie Richardet. Discover the magic of Fireside Feast in Downtown Perryville, Missouri.

Steffie and Cyndy, the passion behind the award-winning Edg-Clif wines. The history of grapes and wine stretches back millennia, intertwining human agriculture, culture, and innovation. Wild grapevines once grew across Eurasia. The earliest clear archaeological evidence of intentional winemaking comes from Neolithic sites in Georgia, dating to about 6000–5800 BCE. Chemical analy...

For hundreds of years, a large Mississippian site called Common Field near Ste. Genevieve existed, but its population declined around 1400–1500. The area became relatively depopulated. French explorers such as Jacques Marquette passed by Ste. Genevieve as they explored the Mississippi Valley in 1673. Around 1735, European settlers were drawn by the rich bottomland and nearby lea...