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In praise of small lives well lived in small places.
Called Home
By Blake Hurst
"There is no reason for Tarkio to exist." So says Dr. Rex Campbell, rural sociologist and leading expert on small Midwestern towns. I'm sitting in his office in Columbia, Missouri, and it's my hometown upon which he has just pronounced a death sentence. He goes on to say that the sort of family agriculture I've grown up with will be gone by the end of my working life.
Tarkio is a small town located right at the corner where Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, and Missouri meet. A local brochure on area history touts our county as having been the northwestern-most outpost of slavery in the U.S. Our failures in marketing go way ...
- Tarkio decides to move to 8-man football
- Newspaper article from: St. Joseph News-Press Ross Martin October 22, 2009 700+ words
...2011 school year, Tarkio will field an 8- man...for one of Northwest Missouri's proudest football...a seven-year lull, Tarkio's dwindling enrollment...enrollment of 126 to the Missouri State High School Activities...number would again place Tarkio among the smallest still...
- Helen G. Graham - Tarkio, Mo.
- Newspaper article from: St. Joseph News-Press Anonymous October 16, 2009 700+ words
TARKIO, Mo. -- Helen Grace (Lester) Graham, 65, Tarkio, passed away Wednesday, October 14, 2009, at her home in Tarkio. Preceded: parents, Leslie Ralph and Carole (Harmon) Lester. Survivors: husband, Cleo Junior Graham; sons...
- Elnor F. Levings - Tarkio, Mo.
- Newspaper article from: St. Joseph News-Press Anonymous August 12, 2009 700+ words
TARKIO, Mo. -- Elnor Fern (Dooley) Levings, 91, Tarkio, passed away Monday, August 10, 2009, at Northview Manor, Tarkio. Preceded: parents, Lighter E. and Audra M. (Snell) Dooley. Survivors: husband, Clint Levings, Tarkio...
- Virginia F. Noland - Tarkio, Mo.
- Newspaper article from: St. Joseph News-Press Anonymous August 20, 2009 700+ words
TARKIO, Mo. -- Virginia Faye (Day) Noland, 86, Tarkio, went to be with her heavenly Savior on Wednesday, Aug...Elmer (Sandy) Noland, Hamburg; Leon (Regina) Noland, Tarkio; daughters: Juanita (Dwayne) Carmichael, Maryville...
- Harry W. Broermann - Tarkio, Mo.
- Newspaper article from: St. Joseph News-Press Anonymous September 6, 2009 700+ words
Tarkio, Mo. -- Harry William Broermann, 93, Tarkio, passed away Thursday, September 3, 2009, at Northview Manor in Tarkio. Preceded in death: parents, Charles W. and Cora (Vette) Broermann; wife, Neva (Alexander) Broermann. Survivors...
- Air show pilot in Tarkio plane crash identified ; Chandy Clanton remembered as...
- Newspaper article from: St. Joseph News-Press Anonymous July 13, 2009 700+ words
TARKIO, Mo. -- The pilot killed when her single-engine plane crashed in a bean field in Tarkio, Mo., Friday was Chandy Clanton, 36...preparation for Saturday's air show in Tarkio when her Edge 540 propeller-driven plane...
- Lee Rucker found not guilty ; Former Tarkio teacher, coach exonerated of sex...
- Newspaper article from: St. Joseph News-Press Andrew Gaug August 1, 2009 700+ words
OREGON, Mo. -- A former Tarkio gym teacher and basketball coach is...to 2008 Mr. Rucker worked for the Tarkio R-I School District, where he taught...stain on Mr. Rucker's reputation. "Tarkio lost a great coach and a great person...
- Plane crashes near Tarkio
- Newspaper article from: St. Joseph News-Press Anonymous July 10, 2009 700+ words
...spokesman for the Wingnuts, which is putting on an air show in Tarkio on Saturday, said the plane had only one occupant and was performing...noted that a flag at the Gould Peterson Municipal Airport in Tarkio was flying at half-staff. Mr. Scott said the Saturday fly...
Source: HighBeam Research, In praise of small lives well lived in small places.