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