This is one of my favorite stories of fishing at Bennett Spring on a Tuesday. “We should form the Tuesday Fishing Club,” I said, “and we’d go fishing every Tuesday whenever possible.” The others in the group – my husband, and Jesse and Nancy Zink – nodded, grunted (for they had fuzzy ...
Author Grace Bacon Ferrier and Life in the Ozarks
“I’ll make this short, girls. I won’t give you all the details, but that was Grandpa Bacon’s stove. That was Grandpa’s bed and that thing down there, that’s a zither … and he was a carpenter and a bricklayer and a stonemason and he helped to build that ironworks in St. James.” And so it went, on a ...
Exploring the Huzzah Conservation Area
Back in the day, especially when we had a lot of kids and not a lot of money, we spent time finding fun and free things to do. Exploring the Huzzah Conservation Area was one of those things, and we struck out in the late winter and found not only some lovely streams, but also, something else. ...
Julia Johannesmeyer: On Midwifery in the Ozarks
I recently learned that a dear woman who greatly influenced me, Julia Johannesmeyer, especially in the early days of this journey to become a travel writer, passed away. I last saw her and "hugged her neck" a few years ago, inside her little rock home in Freeburg, Missouri. She was 95 and leaves ...
Ozarks Dog Show
As so often happens, I found an Ozarks dog show while looking for a sinking creek. This happened back in 2002, when I wrote this column for Missouri newspapers -- but it could happen again, any day. Always be on the lookout! ~bb Last weekend, my husband and I couldn’t find a natural geological ...
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