Most people know French dialects exist in the state of Louisiana, but few know there are French dialects native to Midwestern states, including Missouri. Old Mines, Mo., an unincorporated village in ...

OLD MINES, Mo. (AP) — A small circle of history researchers is racing to capture the last remnants of a little-known French dialect that endures in some old Missouri mining towns before the few ...

Scores of cultures developed along the banks of the Mississippi River. Dennis Stroughmatt learned appreciation of the fiddle in the historically French Creole community of Old Mines, near Ste.

A small circle of history researchers is racing to capture the last remnants of a little-known French dialect that endures in a handful of Missouri towns before the few remaining native speakers ...

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OLD MINES, Mo. — A small circle of history researchers is racing to capture the last remnants of a little-known French dialect that endures in some old Missouri mining towns before the few remaining ...

ROLLA, MO – Dr. Audra Merfeld-Langston of Missouri S&T has been honored as a chevalier in the French Republic’s Ordre des Palmes Académiques (Order of the French Academic Palms). Dr. Merfeld-Langston ...

PEORIA — Though Dennis Stroughmatt estimates that there are only about 15 people alive who still speak the French dialect spoken by Illinois and Missouri’s earliest non-native settlers, sometimes he ...

(Missourinet)– After about two decades in the making, St. Genevieve in southeast Missouri has officially become the state’s first-ever National Historical Park. The town – dating back to the early ...

Scores of cultures developed along the banks of the Mississippi River. Dennis Stroughmatt learned appreciation of the fiddle in the historically French Creole community of Old Mines, near Ste.