Lynchings and Racial Terror in Pre-Civil War Washington County, Arkansas J. B. Hogan   After the Civil War, lynchings, primarily of African Americans and typically done by mobs of white people, were common. From 1877-1950, nearly four thousand African Americans were lynched in the United States, some five hundred taking place in Arkansas.[1] It is somewhat … [Read more...] about Lynchings and Racial Terror in Pre-Civil War Washington County, Arkansas

    Michelle Collins Anderson grew up on a registered Angus cattle farm outside of West Plains, Missouri — a place and a way of life that has shaped her writing. She has a journalism degree from the University of Missouri and an MFA from Warren Wilson College. Her stories have appeared in Nimrod International Journal, Midwestern Gothic, bosque, Literal … [Read more...] about The Flower Sisters (Fiction: An Excerpt)

1961 Ozark Breakaway: The Year McDonald County Seceded from Missouri. By Dwight Pogue. (Independently Published, 2021, Pp. 186) Reviewed by Rocky Macy Rocky Macy grew up in the small tourist town of Noel in the Missouri Ozarks. He is a retired public school educator, state child protection worker, and a licensed clinical civilian social worker with the US military. … [Read more...] about Book Review: 1961 Ozark Breakaway: The Year McDonald County Seceded from Missouri