Officials with the Ozarks Heritage Research Center (OHRC) at Missouri State University-West Plains (MSU-WP) will host a presentation, "Lucile and Betty, the Ozarks’ Fearless Female Journalists" at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, March 10, 2026, at OHRC, which is located inside MSU-WP’s Garnett Library, 304 W. Trish Knight St., in West Plains. Free and open to all, this event is sponsored … [Read more...] about OHRC to host presentation on “Lucile and Betty – The Ozarks’ Fearless Female Journalists” March 10.
The November meeting of the Friends of the Garnett Library will be held on Friday, November 14, from noon to 1 p.m. This meeting will be at the Historic Post Office located at 204 E. Main, West Plains, Missouri. Kathleen Morrissey, president of the West Plains Council on the Arts, and Dr. Jason McCollom, associate professor of history at MSU-WP, will present the program … [Read more...] about Semiquincentennial grant topic of Nov. 14 Friends of the Garnett Library meeting
Officials with Ozark Heritage Research Center (OHRC) at Missouri State University-West Plains (MSU-WP) will host a presentation on "The Cherokee Nation,” at 6 p.m. at Garnett Library on Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2025. Refreshments provided. Guest speaker, Carol Silvey, emeritus professor of history at MSU-WP, will present the topic about the Cherokee nation from 16th to the 21st … [Read more...] about OHRC to host “The Cherokee Nation” Nov. 11
Officials with the Ozarks Heritage Research Center (OHRC) at Missouri State University-West Plains (MSU-WP) will host a presentation about “Fire in the Ozarks” at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 21, at the OHRC. The center is inside MSU-WP’s Garnett Library, 304 W. Trish Knight St., in West Plains. The presentation will be given by Denise Henderson Vaughn. Vaughn is an independent … [Read more...] about OHRC to host presentation about ‘Fire in the Ozarks’ Jan. 21
The response of Missouri college presidents to desegregation in 1950 will be the topic of a Black History Month presentation Feb. 27 hosted by the Ozarks Heritage Research Center (OHRC) at Missouri State University-West Plains (MSU-WP). The presentation by Larry Gragg, a Curators’ Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus of history at Missouri University of Science and … [Read more...] about OHRC to host Black History Month presentation Feb. 27