Dr. Robert S. Emmett, author and humanities scholar, will guide us through “The Man Who Planted Trees” as we consider how a timeless classic can be a parable to modern times and how fiction can influence the way we think about the environment. We will examine the themes in this book by way of a special edition that brings this tale close to home! Accompanied by the original text and woodcut illustrations, Magnificent Missouri’s edition includes a foreword and afterword written by local conservationists and highlights native tree-planting efforts along the Katy Trail.

Join us on July 13th, 2021 at 6:30 P.M. to learn how this French fable is inspiring a community of tree planters right here in Missouri.

Program participants will not need any prior knowledge about the book.

Registration is required.

Our keynote address will feature Major General Byron Bagby (U.S. Army. Retired) and his presentation “The Black Phalanx: USCT Regiments at the Siege of Petersburg.”

Presented by Missouri Humanities, National U.S. Grant Trail Association, and Soldiers Memorial Military Museum, in partnership with Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site, Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library, Missouri Athletic Club, and Campbell House Museum.

We've received quite a few submissions for our upcoming oral history project with St. Louis-Stuttgart Sister Cities and the City of Stuttgart, Germany, but we're on the hunt for more!

The goal of the project is to collect oral histories from Germans and Missourians alike who have a connection to St. Louis’s German sister city, Stuttgart, including (but not limited to) people who have immigrated from Stuttgart, St. Louisans/Missourians who have visited Stuttgart, and members of the military who perhaps were stationed there.

If you have a connection to Stuttgart and wish to tell your story,

we’d love to hear from you!

Visit mohumanities.org/videos to view any of our past programs.