ShareOld Fish Hawk (4 audio CD set)
Written and narrated by Mitch Jayne
There is something eerie about hearing the dead speak, even in this modern age when we take audio and video for granted. Considering the theme of the late Mitch Jayne’s audio rendition of his novel Old Fish Hawk, that eeriness is trebled and sent [...]

Share25 Years Ago – September 1986
What to do when bass don’t bite? Why, you target gar, of course. Bob Todd told the story of his day chasing gar with George Webster.
Onondaga Cave celebrated its centennial in September. Traveler recounted the history of the cave’s discovery [...]

ShareLocal Automotive Technician and Engine Machinist
Receive Recognition
Eminence, MO – Park Superintendent Reed E. Detring recognized Jeff and Karen Wade, owners of Elm Street Garage in Mountain View, Missouri for their dedicated efforts to restore the mill in operating condition during the Alley Mill Grand Opening Event on Friday, May 6, 2011.

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ShareTraveler, and many of its readers, have a fondness for home-made Missouri music when it is good, (or at least the kind where playing for the love of it pays a large part in its making). Seeing as home-made music is an Ozark and rural Missouri tradition, it’s not unusual that news of jam sessions, [...]

ShareFloods are nothing new, as anyone familiar with the Bible story of Noah will tell you. Twenty-five years ago, high water took one southeast Missouri landmark but spared another. With plans for an intentional flood of the Meramec River valley blocked after a bitter public battle, property acquired for the failed lake project went up [...]

ShareTraveler writer Bill Cooper found this link to a story about modern day coon hunting.
We (and Trav) like it: By the Light of a Kerosene Lamp.

ShareFor the next year, the Lutheran Heritage Center in Altenburg will feature an exhibit called “Medicine in East Perry County” with photographs, information, old medical equipment and other artifacts from the work and personal collections of Dr. Theodore Fischer, Dr. Gotthils Palisch, and dentist Dr. Edward Lottes.
Dr. Fischer was an East Perry County obstetrician [...]

ShareThe Beautiful and Enduring Ozarks
Leland Payton
ISBN 0-9673925-0-0 1999 80 pages. $19.95
See The Ozarks: The Touristic Image
Leland and Crystal Payton
ISBN 0-9673925-1-9 2003 $24.95
Mystery of the Irish Wilderness
Leland and Crystal Payton
ISBN 978-9673925-4-7 2008 $18.95
A trio of books, two by Leland and Crystal Payton, and one by Leland himself, showed up on request at [...]

ShareThrough the years in Traveler: 25, 10 and 1 year ago
Every monthly print issue of Traveler has a “Through the Years” column telling what we were writing about 25, 10 and one year ago. It’s interesting how many subjects have staying power through the decades. History may not repeat itself but it hums a familiar [...]

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What?
My eye caught these words as I was reading an article in the Jan. 10 issue of  The New Yorker. The words appeared in a poem called “Rain” on the same page. The poet is Frederick Seidel, born in St. Louis in 1936. The poem refers to events of the spring of 2010, “The coldest spring [...]