Back in the mid-1990s University of Missouri chancellor and history professor Haskell Monroe set his students down with recorders to capture memories from community elders. Those tapes have rarely been heard until now. 

In the spring of 2026, a dozen students and KBIA staff worked to creatively engage with the archival audio. The students' reflections on the recordings touch on topics like baseball on the radio, motherhood at MU, memories of Campus Town and The Shack and lots more.

Reverberations is hosted by Trevor Harris and Kiana Fernandes, and produced by Trevor Harris and Janet Saidi with Professor Claire Syler and her multidisciplinary group of students enrolled in the course “Engaging Columbia’s Past.” Special thanks to our partners at the State Historical Society of Missouri. Reverberations is created with support from Missouri Humanities and the Missouri Humanities Trust Fund.