Next years MI trip!

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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

Dear dear Sandy-there is something seriously wrong with you
PS-RV place???