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Celebrating Silver Dollar City

#HillbillyHistory, #OzarkWriters, #SOTOarchive, #SOTOfeatureBy Josh Heston February 12, 2019 1 Comment

PLATE 1. Vintage murals celebrate Silver Dollar City’s unique heritage. Celebrating Silver Dollar City by Jim Barrett (written spring 2000 in conjunction with Silver Dollar City’s 40th anniversary) I got to seriously thinking about the history of Silver Dollar City and a goodly number of old memories began flooding back. I remembered going over to…

I Was Given — to See — the Trees

#OzarkTrees, #OzarkWriters, #SOTOarchive, #SOTOfeature, #SOTONaturalHeritageBy Josh Heston February 10, 2019 Leave a comment

PLATE 1. Dogwood blossoms, Taney County, Missouri (March 31, 2009). I Was Given — to See — the Trees by Jim Barrett (FROM MY BOOK OF WORD PICTURES) I found myself in a primordial forest of gigantic white oak trees on an Ozark mountaintop ridge line – and I knew that I was looking at…