Stories, articles and poems from Callawegians throughout the county, written to celebrate the rich diversity of life in the past 200 years of the KIngdom of Callaway. Memories of Burre blacksmith shop, Lynwood Dairy farm, Auxvasse telephone exchange, one-room schools, log churches, hidden caves along Stinson Creek, mule trading, rodeo riding, nuclear plants and much more . Other articles tell the story of the centuries old London Church of St. Mary Aldermanbury and how it was reconstructed in Fulton as America's National Winston Churchill Musuem. Fully illustrated with wonderful vintage photographs from the archives of the Kingdom of Callaway Historical Society, who produced "It Happened in Callaway" along with the Daniel Boone Regional Library and the Callaway Writers Group.

William Nash Moore was born near Cote San Dessein in 1831 and lived all his life in the area. He was seventy-two years old in 1903 when Earle Hodges, editor of the Mokane Herald-Post, asked him to write down his memories of the people and places of South Callaway. His articles were published in every issue of the weekly newspaper for several months. More was writing from memory and may have never seen some of these names in print. He spelled names the way he thought they should be. He was a man with strong opinions and didn't hestitate[sic] to say what he thought of his neighbors. Readers may not always agree, but we can all be grateful for this rare record of early Callaway County.