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Barbara Baird
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Oct 24, 2026
The Ozarks Tradition of Divining and the People Who Practice It
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1:19Barbara BairdGUEST
I mean, people in the mid the Mideast were using this the system for finding water.
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1:26Barbara BairdGUEST
a long long time ago and they would uh and then throughout the years people would use of course they didn't have coat hangers so they would use peach or witch hazel forked forked branches so to use it you know they would hold the fork part back or the the metal rods you hold it back um like 90 degrees from your elbows and your elbows into your body and then the straight part of course is in front of you so you're holding on the to the two pieces of the forked end of it or you're holding the two rods.
Missouri roadside attractions worth a detour from giant pecans to a giant fork
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8:22Barbara BairdGUEST
But again, your home state of Illinois factors into this story because there was one over there in Casey.
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8:35Barbara BairdGUEST
It was large, and then the one in Missouri, which is in Fanning, which is like a little unincorporated community near Cuba off of I-44.
Take a Route 66 road trip through Lebanon, Missouri and discover these pieces of history
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3:29Bill PollackHOST
I don't want to get off the track here because we're talking about Route 66 history with Barbara Baird, the accidental Ozarkian, the Munger Moss Hotel.
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3:40Barbara BairdGUEST
Isn't that an interesting place? And, you know, that sign, iconic, neon, beautiful, just refurbished.
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3:46Barbara BairdGUEST
And it stood in front and still does of the Mungermoss Motel, which has been there since, well, 1946.
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3:59Barbara BairdGUEST
And recently, just a few years ago, it was given over to the city after the last owner of it had passed away.