My friend loves to snoop around in old graveyards and consequently, she wrote the book on cemeteries in Maries County. She told me that her husband said, “You know, they’re burying people behind you.” It was a circuitous path she had taken, trying to keep track of the tombstones in the county. In ...
Bonnie and Clyde in Joplin
After watching the Netflix movie “The Highwaymen” last spring, I embarked on a self-guided course to learn more about the notorious criminals from the 1930s, Bonnie and Clyde. The movie portrayed a few things incorrectly. Several authors of biographies surrounding the infamous pair embellished the ...
Artist Mary Lou Corn’s Sculpture Garden
This is a retro Ozarkian, from 2003, when I worked as managing editor at the weekly newspaper in St. James, Missouri, and interviewed popular watercolor artist Mary Lou Corn. Imagine my delight, now in 2019, to discover that she is still painting. Local watercolor artist Mary Lou Corn stands with ...
A Visit to Alley Mill and Spring
Alley Spring Mill is located 6 miles west of Eminence on State Route 106. It’s a place you’ll want to take visitors when they come to the Missouri Ozarks, and belongs in the treasure trove called the Ozark National Scenic Riverways. If you have never been to the this place, the most-photographed ...
Bats in the Devil’s Icebox
There may be bats in the belfry somewhere in the Ozarks, but the Devil’s got bats in his icebox. In my quest to visit the sites in the Ozarks named after the Devil, I went to Rock Bridge Memorial State Park. The Devil’s Icebox is actually a sinkhole, part of a cave system running for several miles ...
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