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 [...]

ShareDr. James E. Price, Chief of Resources Management at Ozark National Scenic Riverways, is hanging up his ranger hat after 11 years of federal service at Ozark National Scenic Riverways.

Share Although we currently (April 24, 3 p.m.) have flood conditions on the Jacks Fork at Alley Spring (over 13 foot) and the Current River at Van Buren (about 17 foot) and the rivers are closed to floating, we’ve got a little better news to report from Ozark National Scenic Riverways in regards to their [...]

ShareSometimes, not having cable (Jo doesn’t) can be a real impediment.
Last night, the Travel Channel featured Anthony Bourdain’s No Reservations in the Ozarks.
Everyone seems to be talking about it this morning. If you missed it (and you get the Travel Channel) it will be repeated Sunday April 3 at 8 p.m. [...]

ShareOn my rounds last month, I came across two contrasting snapshots of modern Ozarks life. You might enjoy a look.
I stay one night a month in Eminence, alternating between Shady Lane Cabins and Riverside Motel. It was Shady Lane’s turn. Proprietor Jim Anderson asked me if I wanted to go with him to a meeting of [...]

ShareBy Emery Styron
Potosi-based Miracle Marine, an all-welded aluminim boat manufacturer, delivered a new, specially designed logging boat to Joe Collins of the History Channel’s Ax Men series during the International Workboat Show in New Orleans this December.
The boat order didn’t just fall out of the sky, according to Miracle Marine owner/design engineer Curtis [...]

ShareMitch Jayne’s love affair with the Ozarks started on the steps of a one-room schoolhouse. He “eloped” and married the last love of his life, Diana, on the schoolhouse steps, and somehow, it was just fitting that the celebration of his life (one could not hardly call it a “wake”) took place under a brilliantly [...]

ShareUsually things from this site are cross-posted to Facebook. Here is one which has come the other direction.
Thanks to “Ranger Bill” O’Donnell of NPS, and real world and Facebook friend, for this little You Tube gem:
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQzsCR5JehI
The singer is Tom Aley, senior hydrologist, and founder of the Ozark Underground Laboratory near Protem, Missouri. [...]

Shareby Jo Schaper
Back in the days before GPS, when a surveyor measured out a parcel of land, he needed to establish the corners of the parcel for the legal description, preferably using some landmark unlikely to move. Various techniques were used, but in forested areas, the most common was the “witness tree.”
The surveyor blazed the [...]

Shareby Jo Schaper
The ladies and gentlemen of Washington, D.C. came out in carriages with picnic lunches to the first major land battle of the Civil War at Manassas Junction, Va., on July 21, 1861 and were horrified to be overrun by the retreating Federal army.
In similar fashion, spectators outnumbered participants by at least [...]