Even though I have been a professional broadcaster for more than 40 years, I am amazingly not a linguistic expert especially when it comes to confusing town names in Missouri. Things are sometimes said differently here and there are some Missouri places that almost everyone says wrong.
I'm a big fan of lakes. They're great. We need more of them. The same can be said about towns near lakes. There's a new national claim that one of the best lake towns in America is in Missouri. There's only one problem. That town has no lake.
One of the most memorable field trips for me had to have been in maybe fourth or fifth grade. We all got on a bus and we went down to Versailles to see Jacob's Cave.