I saw KenRex and spoke with actor/writer John Holden last night, and I will have a lot coming down the pike on this. John’s one-man show portrays 30 characters from Skidmore/Nodaway County, including David Baird, Trena McElroy, the Bowencamps, attorney Richard Gene McFadin, and a very scary, sinister, and evil Ken Rex McElroy. The music score is a staged broadcast of KNIM!
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The original 200-acre college farm (on the northwest side of the campus, mostly south of the Wabash tracks in the high-rise dormitory area). This farm was part of the original massive Faustiana Farm, which stretched around the college on the west and north, as opposed to the later, much smaller Townsend Faustiana, which was mostly south of the highway. It was a working farm providing milk and chickens for the college. Among the livestock were Daisy and Queen, mules used to dig the foundation for Martindale Gymnasium, which opened in 1926. For the record, Northwest adopted the Bearcat mascot in 1916, and Central Missouri adopted the Mule as mascot in 1922. The image is AI colorized/enhanced source image is below.
In 1942-43, Washington High School students painted a mural on the lower level that depicted the school’s history. When the school was torn down in 1999, the mural, as well as plaster pseudo-classical Greek sculptures that adorned the school auditorium, were moved to the Nodaway County Historical Society Museum. Pictured in the photo above, which was AI colorized/enhanced, is longtime Maryville educator Laura B. Hawkins showing the painting to new students in 1951. Below is the story.

