Next years MI trip!

[Sandy Navas]

But ya know that if you are born and raised here and you are from the Kansas City side of MissourA but if you are born and raised here and are from the St. Louis side of Missouri but in August and February it is just misery.....

No truer words were ever spoken. Although this August it is usually gorgeous (if we'd get some rain).

Other Missouri people: Bob Barker, J.C. Penney, Walt Disney, Ruth Warwick (she played Phoebe on All MyChildren - and my mother graduated from high school with her).

And:

• Maya Angelou (born 1928), author and poet

• Thomas Hart Benton (1889–1975), painter
• T. S. Eliot (1888–1965), poet, dramatist and literary critic
• Mary Engelbreit (born 1952), graphic artist, children's book illustrator
• Eugene Field (1850–1895), writer and poet
• Joseph Pulitzer (1847–1911), journalist (from Hungary), known for creating St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the prestigious Pulitzer Prize
• Sara Teasdale (1884–1933), poet
• Mark Twain (real name Samuel Clemens, 1835–1910), humorist, writer and lecturer
• Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867–1957), writer and author of the Little House book series
• Tennessee Williams (1911–1983), playwright (born in Mississippi but grown up in St. Louis)

Yogi Berra

• Henry W. Bloch (born 1922), co-founder of H&R Block tax services
• Richard Bloch (1926–2004), co-founder of H&R Block tax services
• Adolphus Busch (1839–1913) Founder of Anheuser-Busch (the world's largest brewer)
• Howard R. Hughes, Sr., (1869–1924), Oil drill bit and tool inventor, father of Howard Hughes, reclusive billionaire.

Frank James (1843–1915), outlaw

• Jesse James (1847–1882), outlaw
• Cole Younger (1844–1916), outlaw
• John Younger, outlaw
• Bob Younger, outlaw
• Jim Younger, outlaw
• Bob Ford, outlaw (gunned down Jesse James)

• Robert Altman (1925–2006), film director
• Ed Asner (born 1929), Emmy Award-winning actor, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Lou Grant.
• Scott Bakula (born 1954), actor, Quantum Leap and Star Trek:Enterprise
• Josephine Baker (1906–1975), dancer, singer, actress
• Wallace Beery (1885–1949), actor, The Champ, Min and Bill
• Linda Blair (born 1959), actress, The Exorcist Airport 1975
• Joan Crawford (1905-1977), Oscar-winning actress, Mildred Pierce
• Robert Cummings (1908–1990), actor, Kings Row, Dial M for Murder
• Walt Disney (1901–1966), film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor and animator
• Betty Grable (1916–1973), actress, singer and World War II pin-up girl
• Robert Guillaume (born 1927), actor, Benson, The Lion King, Sports Night
• Jean Harlow (1911–1937), actress and sex symbol
• Dennis Hopper (1936–2010), actor, filmmaker, artist Easy Rider, Waterworld, Hoosiers
• John Huston (1906–1987), film director, The Maltese Falcon, Key Largo, The African Queen
• Don Johnson (born 1949), actor, Miami Vice, Nash Bridges
• Steve McQueen (1930–1980), actor, The Sand Pebbles, The Great Escape, Bullitt
• Brad Pitt (born 1963), actor, Thelma & Louise, 12 Monkeys
• William Powell (1892–1984), actor, The Thin Man, Life with Father
• Vincent Price (1911–1993), actor, Laura, House of Wax
• Sally Rand (1904–1979), burlesque dancer, actress
• Ginger Rogers (1911–1995), actress, dancer and partner with Fred Astaire
• Kathleen Turner (born 1954), actress, Body Heat, Romancing the Stone
• Dick Van Dyke (born 1925), actor, The Dick Van Dyke Show, Mary Poppins, Diagnosis: Murder
• Jerry Van Dyke (born 1931), actor, Coach
• Dennis Weaver (1924–2006), actor, Gunsmoke, McCloud
• Jane Wyman (1914–2007), actress, former wife of Ronald Reagan

• Redd Foxx (1922–1991), comedian, starred in Sanford and Son
• Dick Gregory (born 1932), comedian, social activist

• Ralph Barton (1891–1931), cartoonist
• George Booth (born 1926), cartoonist for the The New Yorker
• Lee Falk (1911–1999), cartoonist, The Phantom, Mandrake the Magician
• Fred Lasswell (1916–2001), cartoonist, Barney Google and Snuffy Smith
• George McManus (1884–1954), cartoonist, Maggie and Jiggs
• Mike Peters (born 1943), cartoonist, Mother Goose & Grimm
• Mort Walker (born 1923), cartoonist, Beetle Bailey

• Helen Cornelius, (born 1941), country singer best known for duets with Jim Ed Brown
• Rusty Draper (1923–2003) Country and Rockabilly singer/guitarist
• Sara Evans, (born 1971), Country music star
• Ferlin Husky, (1925–2011), Singer and member of the Country Music Hall of Fame.
• Leroy Van Dyke (born 1929) Country singer best known for The Auctioneer and Walk On By
• Darrin Vincent, (born 1970), half of the Grammy nominated bluegrass group Dailey & Vincent, Record producer
• Porter Wagoner, (1927–2007), Grand Ole Opry member and Country Music Hall of Famer

Bob Barker (born 1923), television game show host

• Walter Cronkite (1916–2009), television journalist
• Joe Garagiola, Sr. (born 1926), former MLB catcher, baseball broadcaster, and television host (The Today Show)
• Rush Limbaugh (born 1951), political commentator

• Omar Bradley (1893–1981), World War II general, from Clark, Missouri.
• John C. Fremont (1813–1890), Western explorer, Union Civil War general and first Republican candidate for U.S. President.
• John J. Pershing (1860–1948), soldier, General of the Armies. Born in Laclede, Missouri.

• Calamity Jane (c. 1852–1903), Indian fighter and frontierswoman
• Dale Carnegie (1888–1955), public and motivational speaker
• Emmett Kelly (1898–1979), clown
• Carrie Nation (1846–1911), advocate for the temperance movement
• Dred Scott, slave and litigant in the U.S. Supreme Court Dred Scott Decision