Parenting: Heather and Mark Mayhew, biological and international adoptive parents
Babies start out blank, clean, new, and parents get to be the ones who expose them to whatever they will know and how they will know it. Lik...
Artist Spotlight: Hannah March Sanders
Hannah March Sanders didn’t initially want to be an artist (both of her parents are artists). She didn’t want to marry an artist. She di...
Vacation-themed reads
Curated by: Kayla Thompson, Adult Services, Cape Girardeau Public Library The month of August signals a lot of things, but mostly it reminds...
meet along the way: Becky Brown
By Amanda Flinn This story was first published in the August 2023 issue of “The Best Years” as “Faces of Southeast Missour...
meet along the way: Shirley K. Davis
This story was originally published as “The Pie Angel: Local woman blesses people with homemade food and hospitality” in the May...
meet along the way: Taffy McMullin
By Jasmine Jones This story was originally published as “Community Cookbook: Barbecue Brisket, by Taffy McMullin from The Church of Je...
A good read in the great outdoors
Curated by: Kayla Thompson, Adult Services, Cape Girardeau Public Library July is National Picnic Month! So, in celebration, here are a few ...
Stories of kindness, friendship, and community
Curated by: Kayla Thompson, Adult Services, Cape Girardeau Public Library June symbolizes the start of the library’s Summer Reading Progra...
Eating Foods from Childhood Again: A v. sophisticated taste test
Kids of the ‘60s, ‘70s, ‘80s, ‘90s and ‘00s, unite: We grew up in the heyday of pre-packaged foods advertised to children — espe...