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Issue Ten is Here

2020 October 4 by pdh513


Issue Ten is Here.

It’s a whopper of a double issue–290 pages and color images.

I am busy sending out contributor copies, and Elder 7-10 can be purchased on line at Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, and other booksellers.

Below is the Table of Contents for Issue Ten.

Table of Contents
Editor’s Note / 8

Fiction
John Mort
The First Day / 9

Steve Wiegenstein
Magic Kids / 24

D. Matt McGowan
Sucker Flats / 47

Steve Yates
Casey Strong / 162

Non-Fiction
Faith Collins
The Future of Beekeeping in the Missouri Ozarks: Lack of Forage and the Proliferation of Pests and Pesticides / 12

Brian Hardman
Remembering Yonder Mountain: Storytelling as Cultural Survival / 32

Denise Henderson Vaughn
The West Plains Sewage Lagoon Drama, 1978: A Lesson on Infrastructure Failure in a Karst Landscape / 66

Steven Wiegenstein
The Lure of the Ozarks: What’s the Bait, and Who’s the Fish?
/ 109

Charity Gibson
The Telling of the Dee Dee and Gypsy Blanchard Case:
Reifying Negative Imaginings of Ozarks Mothers / 125

Kimberly D. Harper
When Hollywood Came to the Ozarks: The Making of Jesse James / 148

Phillip Howerton
“Bank on the Old Blood Every Time”: Native Inferiority in The Shepherd of the Hills / 180

Jim Vandergriff
Memories of the Old Cannon Trail: A Civil War Battle in the Ozarks / 191

Henry Hughes
Life and Loss on the Eleven Point / 208

Molly Bess Rector
Interview with Missouri Poet Laureate, Karen Craigo / 214

Lynn Morrow
The Vernacular Ozark(s): Our Placename Revisited / 223

Victoria Howerton
Evenings with Betty Dine / 241

Benjamin G. Rader
People Living There Even Drank Rainwater from Cisterns / 248
Born in a Veil / 250

Jim Hamilton
The Last of the Good ‘Ol Days / 252
Turn Right at Mohawk / 254

Poetry
C. D. Albin
Artifacts of Absence / 20
Origin Stories / 22

Featured Poet: Susan Powell
Introduction and Interview by Gerry Sloan / 57
The Blue Moon Café / 60
Awakening / 61
What He Must Have Been Thinking / 62
Words / 64
Blue / 65

Robert Lee Mahon
Cleaning Bluegill / 120
The Altar / 121
Fin Rot / 122
The Closing / 124

Douglas Stevens
The Farm Youth’s Companion / 160

Mark Spitzer
Wampus Conundrum / 188

Gerry Sloan
The Passing of All Things with Time / 220
Daybreak / 221
Cemetery Plums / 222

Amy Wright Vollmar
Swallowhole / 236
Smallin Cave / 237
On the Greenway / 238
Traverse / 239

Paulette Guerin
House Hunting, Bee Branch, Arkansas / 245
Mountain Air / 246
Owl / 247

Photography
Anonymous
The Present Past: Loft Barns / 42

Reviews
D. Matt McGowan on Brooks Blevins’s A History of the Ozarks, Volume
2: The Conflicted Ozarks / 257

Mark Spitzer on Donald Harington and Brian Walter’s The Guestroom
Novelist / 260

C. D. Albin on Amy Wright Vollmar’s Follow / 265

Henry Hughes on Mark Spitzer’s Beautifully Grotesque Fish of the
American West / 267

Steve Wiegenstein on Jim Hamilton’s Ozarks RFD: Selected Essays,
2010-2015 / 270

Terrell Tebbetts on James Fowler’s The Pain Trader / 271

Tim Nutt on Jared Phillips’s Hipbillies / 275

Jason McCollom on Andrew J. Milson’s Arkansas Travelers / 276

Contributors / 280

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