by Adrienne Brown | Sep 25, 2026 | Featured, Stories
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by Adrienne Brown | Sep 16, 2026 | Featured, Stories
Before a personal watercraft was a thing, gearheads and guys with the need for speed — and a healthy dab of courage — simply built their own. by John Andrew Reed, with edits by Shore Magazine In 1965 if you wanted anything that resembled today’s “Jet Ski” you had to...
by Adrienne Brown | Sep 14, 2026 | Featured, Stories
Volumes could be written about the steamboat days on the Osage River during the 19th century. Those boats, mostly stern-wheelers, did a valuable service during that period of time following the close of the Civil War up until the year of 1910. — Miller County...
by Adrienne Brown | Sep 9, 2026 | Featured, Stories
The remnants of an abandoned shoreline prison camp can still be glimpsed from Lake of the Ozarks by Tegan Pasley Lake of the Ozarks State Park is a summer hotspot, known for its scenic trails and public access to the nation’s most popular recreational lake. But...
by Adrienne Brown | Aug 21, 2026 | Featured, Stories
During a once-in-a-lifetime upgrade, Ameren invited a few of us inside the dam for a rare sight. by Nathan Bechtold Bagnell Dam, which creates Lake of the Ozarks by impounding the Osage River, is creeping up on its 100th birthday. And in 2025 Ameren — the utility...
by Adrienne Brown | Aug 7, 2026 | Featured, Stories
A failed project from the outset, the first-ever dam on the Osage River was built 130 years ago, and it’s still causing problems. Introduction by Nathan Bechtold; article republished with permission from Damming the Osage Not every notion to “build something” is a...
