Plate 1 (above). Tulip-like ice rose detail. Ice roses are also called Frost Flowers throughout the Ozarks region. Ice Rose Gallery by Joshua Heston Finely spun threads of ice, wrapped layer upon layer until the forms resemble cold, glistening imitations of roses, tulips, random features like blown glass or ribbon candy, ice roses defy our everyday…
Osage History by Joshua Heston A summer rain is coming. Clouds gathering over dusty streets, the old brick buildings of downtown and the white Moorish spires and porticos of the Coleman Theatre — a lavish movie palace built by mining dollars back in 1929. The wind dies and main street is still, save for the…
Branson Window Painting Kim Cooper One of Kim’s many passions is window painting, which she began in Las Vegas (she loves to paint Christmas windows but paints all seasons). Using her 25+ years of experience as an artist (Minneapolis College of Art and Design graduate), business sign designer, window art, Kim also launched her own…
Blue Eye Creative Woodcraft Chris Boyd Chris Boyd uses a variety of tools and techniques (including scroll saw, Dremel tools, planer, and sandpaper) to craft three-dimensional wood carvings. He uses colorful woods from around the world — and most amazingly, no paints are used in his creations. Chris’ works include barns, farm themes, birds, trees,…
PLATE 1. U.S. MARINES WITH COMBAT LOGISTICS BATTALION 22, 22ND MARINE EXPEDITIONARY UNIT WAIT FOR A CH-53E SUPER STALLION HELICOPTER, APRIL 25, 2014. Yankee Whiskey, Mike by Lauren Hembree I wrote a poem once. It was about you and how you had decided to run off to the military instead of marry my cousin (or…
Artwork above courtesy of Raine Clotfelter, Branson, Missouri US Navy Swift Boat PCF 43 by Joshua Heston The mission was code-named Silver Mace II. The day was April 12, 1969, and the United States was at war in the mangrove swamps and rice paddies of Vietnam. Songs like Hey Jude by The Beatles and Mrs.…
Great Pumpkin Sheet Cake “The Great Pumpkin Sheet Cake showed up at a family Thanksgiving meal decades ago. I believe my sister was the one who baked it. I asked for the recipe and then immediately tweaked it to make it my own. Now, I don’t remember exactly what I did to make it mine.…
Remember Me by Joshua Heston There ain’t no such thing. No such thing at all. That’s what I kept telling myself, sitting on the third floor of the old, boarded-up mill. It was deep winter and night besides. The white limbs of the old sycamore showed like a skeleton’s bones in the bright moonlight, moonlight…
James’ Footprints by Joshua Heston I still remember it awful well. That old hot summer had kind of given up — fitful-like — to become a fall that just couldn’t seem to make up its mind about what it would grow up to be. And it hadn’t been a good summer either. My cousin James…
Turkey Creek Art by T. Adkins The Meeting by T. Adkins Lawlessness prevailed after the Civil War with no legal protection for the settlers of the area. This need for law and order brought the citizens together to form a vigilante group to drive the criminal element from the area. This group of law-abiding men…