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Cushaw Pumpkins

#HillbillyHistory, #OzarkEditorial, #OzarksHistory, #OzarksKitchen, #SOTOarchive, #SOTOfeature, CookingBy Josh HestonJune 15, 2020Leave a comment

Plate 1. Shmoo In The Cradle (Jonathan’s Pumpkin or White Cushaw), February 5, 2008. As a side note, this particular cushaw weighed in at 20.5 pounds. Now that’s prolific! — the editor Cushaw by Donny Heston Unsuspectingly, I took a packet of Jere Gettle’s white cushaw seeds and planted four hills, each a hoe-handle length…

Hillbilly Vegetable Fixin’s

#HillbillyHistory, #OzarkEditorial, #OzarksHistory, #OzarksKitchen, CookingBy Josh HestonJune 15, 2020Leave a comment

Plate 1. Harvest cornucopia. October 11, 2008. Hillbilly Vegetable Fixin’s from How They Lived In The Ozarks by Chick Allen Chick Allen, fourth generation in the Ozarks — of Indian blood — was born in a log cabin on the James River. This is the story of the way the early Indians and white settlers…

Sarah Hebert

PTSD: The Parent of Disease

#OzarkEditorial, #OzarkFineArts, #OzarkWriters, #SOTOarchiveBy Josh HestonApril 20, 2020Leave a comment

PTSD: The Parent of Disease by Jody Johnson Godfrey, FRS (art by Sarah Hebert) For years, I wrote health columns for several publication conglomerates but, of late, I have come to realize that in writing about different diseases, I failed to go “backwards” enough in order to progress “forward.” However, in my defense, there is…

Carla Davidson Artwork Water to Red with Rachel Riutzel

Water to Red by Rachel Riutzel

#OzarkEditorial, #SOTOarchive, #SOTOArtBy Josh HestonApril 10, 2020Leave a comment

Above, original artwork by Carla Davidson, inspired by Water to Red by Rachel Riutzel. Presented during SOTO June 2019 Writers Artists Night. Water to Red by Rachel Riutzel What is it that we refuse to see? Why does the world face the same predicaments Clinging to their history? Society is fuming, mankind up in arms…

Farming Heroes

#HillbillyHistory, #OzarkEditorial, #SOTOarchive, #SustainableOzarksBy Josh HestonFebruary 6, 2020Leave a comment

Farming Heroes by Joshua Heston Truck patches were special things, ripe with humidity, a hard sun and an occasional rattlesnake. Looking like nothing so much as a great big garden patch, truck patches filled with the everyday vegetables of the Ozarks — for picking, eating… and selling. There is cultural heritage — and then there…

Orchards

Orchards

#HillbillyHistory, #OzarkEditorial, #SOTOarchiveBy Josh HestonFebruary 5, 2020Leave a comment

Orchards by Joshua Heston Except for wild plums and black cherries (which don’t exactly grow in orchards anyway), fruit trees were originally imported. Peaches, originally bred in Asia, became a symbol of the Old South…and of Central Missouri as well. More than one summertime tourist to the Ozarks could not pass up the appeal of…

Apples

Growing Food

#HillbillyHistory, #OzarkEditorial, #SOTOarchiveBy Josh HestonFebruary 5, 2020Leave a comment

Growing Food by Joshua Heston Arkansas peaches. Missouri vineyards. Strawberry pickin’. Turnip greens. Summertime tomato canneries. Late fall apples. Think about how much fruits and vegetables are associated with old times, old-fashioned ways, and, of course, the Ozark hills. StateoftheOzarks’ Food Growin’ section is established to remember the old days when we actually knew from…

Joe Benjamin

#OzarkCraftsmanship, #OzarkEditorial, #OzarkFineArts, #SOTOarchiveBy Josh HestonJanuary 14, 20201 Comment

Joe Benjamin by Joshua Heston Pen and ink artist, Joe Benjamin, is not only extraordinarily talented, but also one of the nicest of folks you’ll ever hope to meet. Five of Joe Benjamin’s 17 Silver Dollar City craftsmanship awards. Photo credit: J. Heston He and his wife, Janice, moved to Branson from the Quincy, Illinois,…

Will Mayfield College by Clint Lacy

#HillbillyHistory, #OzarkEditorial, #OzarkWritersBy Josh HestonJanuary 10, 2020Leave a comment

Will Mayfield College by Clint Lacy The Will Mayfield College stands as a symbol of a once prosperous era for Marble Hill, Missouri. The small town of approximately 1500 people serves as the Bollinger County seat which lies in the Eastern Ozark foothills of Southeast Missouri. “The area that would eventually become known as Marble…

Ozark Easter

#OzarkEditorial, #SOTOarchiveBy Josh HestonMarch 15, 2019Leave a comment

Ozark Easter by Dale Grubaugh Howdy folks! It’s Easter and this here is my story: Easter was always a big time at our house when I was a youngin’. All the city kinfolk would come for the weekend. There would be lots of food and fun. We kids would help color the boiled eggs and…

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