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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 [...]

ShareRoadside Geology of Missouri
Charles G. Spencer Mountain Press
978-0-87842-573-0
274 pages $20.00
Reviewed by Jo Schaper
When I heard that Charles Spencer (whom I don’t think I know…maybe I do) had written Roadside Geology of Missouri I had an immediate twinge of regret.
Back in the 1980s I had investigated what it took to write such an addition [...]

ShareGargoyle Country: The Inspiring Geology of Springfield and Green County
Jerry D. Vineyard Watershed Press
No ISBN
137 pages. $24.95 (See text for ordering)
Reviewed by Jo Schaper
The name, “Gargoyle Country” comes from the pockmarked and strangely weathered shapes of local limestone (primarily the Burlington, although similar strata weather into weird shapes as well) seen along the bluffs, [...]

ShareBy Jo Schaper
It’s a tossup who likes maps and road trips better, Traveler readers or geologists. If you are both, well, it’s pretty bad.
I also don’t usually review books that Traveler doesn’t currently carry on its bookshelf. We’re making an exception for these two new publications, because they are about Missouri geology, by [...]

ShareKayaking the Mississippi River
Robert Meyer
ISBN 978-1-57087-760-5 200 p. $18.00
Hard Cover
Professional Press. Chapel Hill, NC 2011
Millions of people have dreamed the Huck Finn dream of traveling downriver, on the Mississippi river’s terms, but only a few, like Robert Meyer, St. Louis, have paddled that dream.
In An Epic Voyage, Meyer, 81, recounts [...]

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 [...]

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Reviewed by Jo Schaper. Usually Traveler reviews only books that we sell. We’re always on the lookout for books about the Missouri outdoors to recommend to our readers, and so much the better if we can carry them too.
Sometimes there is an exception that proves the rule, as is in the case of Show-Me [...]

ShareThere is a time for love and laughter
The days will pass like summer storms
The winter wind will follow after
But there is love and love is warm
“There is a Time”… Lyrics by Rodney Dillard/Mitch Jayne
Mitch Jayne, humorist, bass player for the bluegrass/newgrass band The Dillards, language scholar and Ozark storyteller, passed away August 2, 2010, in [...]

ShareToday’s first order of business: Fess up to a mess up and make amends.
The crossword on the front cover of April’s Traveler is missing some boxes. I found this out when I walked into Holliday Landing’s office at Wappapello Lake and found that owner Rod Howard had written answers off the edges of the puzzle. [...]