John Joseph Hogan’s Missionary Life Begins – 175 years ago
One hundred seventy-five (175) years ago today, October 24, 1848, John Joseph Hogan, age 19, departed from his family home…
Springfield “a Gem of a City”
John T. Woodruff and the Chamber of Commerce had encouraged private companies in the 1920s and ’30s to harness the…
A True Ozark Icon: the Hillbilly
Controversy over viewing the Ozarks as a refuge of degenerate primitives has a long history. This symbol of profound rusticity…
BALANCING THE HILLBILLY AND PROGRESSIVE OZARKS: The saga of a forthright newspaperwoman
by Leland Payton The Life and Times of Lucile Morris Upton reads the subtitle of Newspaperwoman of the Ozarks, a…