While I was never a Girl Scout, I can appreciate the efforts supporters are making to retain Camp Cherokee Ridge as a resident Girl Scout camp. Members of the board of directors of Missouri Heartland Girl Scouts voted in September to close the Wayne County camp Dec. 16 and sell the property...

Among the thousands of unidentified negatives Garland D. Fronabarger delivered to the Missourian after his retirement in 1986 was one for the image below, which we have teasingly referred to as "Cape's first drive-through cleaner."...

Cape Girardeau's Carnegie library opened its doors in 1922 and served as the public library until a new facility was built on Clark Avenue in 1980. This photograph was taken before the 1959 addition obscured the original appearance of the structure. (G.D. Fronabarger ~ Southeast Missourian archive)...

I frequently get telephone calls asking me for historical information, such as when something was built or who owned a certain piece of property. Recently, a caller asked me to supply the name of a physician who practiced medicine in Moccasin Springs...

In this November 1968 photograph, M. Charles Rhinehart, right, chats with Gustav F. and Hazel Goetsch, who were the guest artists for the annual Missourian Art Show that year. Rhinehart had served in the same capacity in 1966 and did so again in 1971. (Southeast Missourian archive)...

Anyone keeping up with the news of the day knows that Cape Girardeau will play host to President Donald Trump on Thursday at the Show Me Center. Trump will be the fourth chief executive to visit our fair city while a still in office. The others were William Howard Taft in 1909, Ronald Reagan in 1988 and Bill Clinton in 1996. ...

The grotto on the grounds of historic St. Vincent's College can be seen in this November 1960 photograph. (G.D. Fronabarger ~ Southeast Missourian)...

Christ Episcopal Church is at the northwest corner of Fountain and Themis streets in Cape Girardeau. (Sharon Sanders ~ ssanders@missourian.com)...

Two of my great uncles — Cyril Stehr and Frank Glaus — were both barbers, but not in the same shop. While Frank clipped hair and pumped gasoline in Commerce, Missouri, Cyril plied his tonsorial trade among what family lore says were underworld figures in St. Louis...

In March 1962 the Cape Girardeau Country Club hired a married couple -- Fred and Murle Lindstrom -- as golf pros, after several years of having no one in that position. Three months later, Murle Lindstrom headed for Florida and the U.S. Women's Open golf championship, intending it to be her last tournament. She came home with an unexpected first-place finish...

Kent Library has graced the campus of Southeast Missouri State University since the Depression era of 1939. But in the building-happy days of the Dr. Mark Scully administration, Kent was expanded and redressed, eliminating any semblance of the original structure. Fifty years ago this month, workers were putting the finishing touches on the project...

Tucked away in my office closet at the Missourian is a stack of scrapbooks. Most were compiled by Missourian staffers long gone. Others were donated by readers, who asked us to preserve the stories and photos contained within the books, donating them to the Missourian's archive...

The old bandstand in Ivers Square received a face lift in March 1956. The top of the structure was deemed unsafe, as the upper timbers had decayed. The old top was removed and a new one installed. (G.D. Fronabarger ~ Southeast Missourian archive)...

William Ezra Parlow, who went by "W.E.," isn't the most well known of Cape Girardeau's architects. Perhaps that's because he was only a resident of our fair river town for such a short time. He opened a solo office in the First National Bank building on Main Street in September 1913 and continued his labors here until his death in the summer of 1920...

In 1949, The Southeast Missourian published a series of aerial photographs it called "From the Air" featuring area towns. While many of these features included articles about the towns, the one for Leemon, published Oct. 25, consisted only of the photo above and this brief description: "A few families gathered at various sports in Cape County many years ago and set up small villages. ...

In 1953, the S0utheast Missourian published a story about a Texas-style ranch nestled near the Mississippi River in Cape Girardeau County. Bainbridge Ranch was located at Bainbridge and was home to a herd of cattle raised by the C.C. McSpadden family...

August Shivelbine's Arcade Saloon at Main and Themis streets may have been the "wettest" spot in Cape Girardeau, but the Star Bar at the northeast corner of Good Hope and Sprigg streets was the luckiest. At least that's what was reported when the building was razed in 1923...

A small, yellowed photograph that came to me through the late Katherine Cochran provides an image of Maj. James Francis Brooks, a man I had heard of, but had never seen before...

Tucked away among the photographs that came to me from the late historian Katherine Cochran was this gem, taken at the Schumer Springs health resort hotel...

(Southeast Missourian archive) EDITOR'S NOTE: I received a note from Rick Bohn of Scott City, who helped identify the photograph above. Ricky shared: "Sharon, I'm fairly certain that the recent photo published regarding Father Lilly was misidentified. ...