Get excited, quilting fans: Jenny Doan is taking her talents to the bookshelves! On Tuesday, the famous quilter and founder of the Missouri Star Quilt Company released her new book, How to Stitch an ...

About 45 miles north of Kansas City, Mo., a motorist trying to find his way back to Central Illinois can jump on U.S. 36 and breeze east in the summer sunshine. Open road. Light traffic. Clear sailing ...

For a long time Hamilton, Missouri was known for being the boyhood home of J.C. Penney, and really not much else. But today this small farming community has a new claim to fame: It's the Disneyland of ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — If there’s one thing Jenny Doan knows about people who quilt, it’s that they care about people. “Mr. Rogers says, ‘Look for the helpers.’ Quilters are helpers. Almost all of what ...

HAMILTON, Mo. — A small idea in a small town has made a huge impact. Quilting turned the northern Missouri town of Hamilton into a thriving tourist destination. Jenny Doan is the woman behind the ...

Small towns across Kansas and Missouri have been shrinking and dying for decades, with businesses closing up shop and their residents moving away.One town in northern Missouri has bucked that trend ...