Missouri seems to confuse a lot of people. For instance, the 45th "president" of the United States got all worked up when the Kansas City Chiefs won the Super Bowl, and splashed all over social media telling the people of Kansas they should be super proud of their team. Apparently his knowledge of geography did not include learning that Kansas City, where the Chiefs and the Royals play, is in Missouri. There is a Kansas City, Kansas, but there is no there there.
Also, playwright Thomas Lanier Williams, who was born in Mississippi and grew up in St. Louis, Missouri, moved to New Orleans at age 28 and changed his name to "Tennessee" Williams for reasons that neither you nor I will ever understand. First, we have to figure out why the New Orleans Jazz basketball team moved to Utah and kept the team name, since Jazz has as much to do with Utah as Tennessee Williams had to do with Tennessee.
Other notables from the "Show Me" State include Yogi Berra, Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd, Dick Gregory, Porter Wagoner, Chuck Berry, Bob Barker, Harry Caray, and Emmett Kelly. And if you'd like to join that throng as an honorary Missourian...
Here's a unique way to go.
There is a property up for sale there. It used to be a tourist attraction, the "attraction" being that it was a chance to walk around a town from the 1800s. Included in your prize package, if the price is right, are two cabins, a grist mill, a schoolhouse, a general store, a tavern, a blacksmith's shop and a jail.
Marion Shipman's family started building all this in the town of Warsaw in the 1960s. They opened up for tourism in 1979.
It's never easy to get Leon away from the bars.
Mr Shipman said he and his family used to keep the park interesting by tearing down a building over the winter and re-purposing the materials to build something new, Shipman told KTVI-TV. "So, every year, we had this little circle of locals that would come at the beginning of every season to see what new thing we had built."
The place went under in 1995, but Shipman and his family moved into the house that was built for the park superintendent, and if you have never lived in a theme park, you've missed out on a lot!
Warsaw is just 120 miles from Branson, MO, so one possible sales pitch would be to try to attract people heading for Big Foot Fun World and Xtreme Racing Branson to do a side trip.
Now, Mr Shipman wants to move on and find someone who will buy the park and restore its luster. He tried to sell it in 1989, so now seems like the time to try again.
"We listed it and never had a single person to come and look at it, not a single one," he said.
They're asking $295,000 but I am sure you could talk them down to 289, easy.
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