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Elder Mountain: A Journal of Ozarks Studies

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Elder Mountain 11 Release

2022 September 21 by pdh513

Major funding for issue 11 of Elder Mountain was provided by Lynn Morrow. Thank you, Lynn!

Issue 11 of Elder Mountain is now available through Amazon, Barnes &Noble, and numerous on-line sellers.

Cover price is $10.00, (although Amazon may temporary inflate the price).

Faith Collins served as the general editor of this issue.

The table of contents and editor’s note appear below.

 

Table of Contents

Editor’s Note / 7

 

Poetry

Wilson Allen

Peele’s Barn / 9

Black Cemetery Outside of Town / 10

 

Amy Wright Vollmar

Fly-Up-the-Creek / 18

Abandon / 19

Byway / 21

 

Terrell Tebbetts

The Idea of Order in Arkansas / 38

 

Jenny Crews

The Crossing / 60

At the Table / 61

Vinyl / 62

 

Marcus Cafagña

For the Man about to Lose His Job at Dillons / 81

 

Paulette Guerin

Childhood / 97

Buying the House / 97

 

Gerry Sloan

Come Again, Carolina Wren / 115

Tuning the Melon / 116

 

Mike Kaminski

The Intersection of Time and Place / 129

Hold Fast / 130

 

Fiction

John Mort

Dirty Old Man / 11

 

Michelle Collins Anderson

Extra Innings / 39

 

C. D. Albin

Green Grass of Home / 98

 

Nonfiction

Cathie English

Ecology of the Ozarks: Framing a Critical Place Conscious Pedagogy through Ecological Literacy / 22

 

Lynn Morrow

Who is Loyal? / 64

 

John J. Han

Doctrinally Unbound, Closer to Christ: Harold Bell Wright’s The Calling of Dan Matthews / 88

 

Jim Hamilton

Those Little Brown Cows / 117

Remembering the River of Used to Be / 120

Before We had Duct Tape / 122

Before the Lakes Came In / 124

Summer Silence Enwraps the Old Farm / 127

 

Phillip Howerton

Zero the Hero; or, From Factory Worker to Superhero in Sixty Days / 131

 

Photography

The Present Past / 82

 

 Reviews

Phillip Howerton on Gerry Sloan’s Fractals / 140

C. D. Albin on James Fowler’s Field Trip / 142

N. S. Boone on Paulette Guerin’s Wading through Lethe / 145

Rocky Macy on Dwight Pogue’s 1961 Ozark Breakaway: The Year McDonald County Seceded from Missouri / 150

C. D. Albin on Steve Wiegenstein’s Scattered Lights / 153

Paulette Guerin on Dave Malone’s Tornado Drill / 156

Tim G. Nutt on Sara K. Eskridge’s Rube Tube: CBS and Rural Comedy in the Sixties / 159

Gerry Sloan on Greg Zeck’s LOST & FOUND: Poems Found All Around / 161

C. D. Albin on John Mort’s Oklahoma Odyssey / 163

Leigh Adams on Mary Kennedy McCord’s Queen of the Hillbillies / 166

 

Contributors / 168

 

Editor’s Note

Welcome to Issue 11 of Elder Mountain: A Journal of Ozark Studies! Everything changes, and the Ozarks is a changing place. Although some changes are welcome, they are often accompanied by a sense of loss. In fact, a sense of place and an attachment to a region are almost always linked with a sense of loss, and a connection between change and loss run through this issue of Elder Mountain.

Regional change is evident in much of this work as the contributors consider the past, present, and future of this region. Reflecting on the past, Wilson Allen and Jim Hamilton consider some of what the region might have lost in so-called progress. In the present, John Mort and Michelle Collins Anderson examine change in relationships between people. And looking to the future, Cathie English examines the possibilities of creating, examining, and sustaining a sense of place.

Some authors focus their work on change but use the feeling of loss to move the reader back in time. Others touch on losses with some humor and remark that some things needed to be lost, and still others give their work a subtle feeling of loss that grows almost imperceptibly until the final word is reached. Jenny Crews, Jim Hamilton, and Marcus Cafagña all engage some level and sense of loss.

This issue presents sixteen poems, three short stories, nine essays, and ten book reviews —the work of twenty writers. I would like to thank all these contributors and the readers for their interest in Ozark studies and for supporting Elder Mountain. I also wish to thank Dr. Howerton for inviting me to serve as editor. I have enjoyed learning about the Ozarks and connecting with the amazing people involved in Ozarks studies.

 

Faith Collins

 

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