“Well, Barb, what do you think?” inquired Earline Turner. “Do you think these tombstones fit the description?” She gave me a serious look and waited for the answer. She wanted to know if these stone humanoids in a cemetery near Newburg, Mo., resembled some I'd described in an earlier column. I ...
Piney River Brewing Company 5th Aleiversary
I love a good Mom ‘n’ Pop Story of American entrepreneurism and it doesn’t get much better than this one – the story of the Piney River Brewing Company, and how it came to be celebrating its 5th “Aleiversary.”The brewery is not far from where I live in the Ozarks, and when I saw that it would be ...
The Squeeze Inn: Home of the Squeezeburger
“You gotta try the squeezeburger when you come to Stockton,” said Outdoor Guide writer Bill Seibel, in reference to the nearby Squeeze Inn. Among outdoor communicators, Bill is affectionately known as bsoutdoors, after his e-mail moniker. It seems to fit his nature, too, because he can be verbose at ...
Iberia Academy Educated Hundreds of Missourians
While driving through the town of Iberia last spring, I happened to see a building that resembled an English manor house. “Hey, look at that,” I said to my family, and they all agreed that the place looked like the manor homes we visited while living in England. This one was for sale, too. It ...
A Privy-leged Culture or Privial Pursuits?
Referred to as the backhouse, the outhouse, the John, the Dooley, the W.C. (water closet), the little house, or the privy, these little buildings can still be found tucked in the nooks and crannies of the Ozarks and in your neck of the woods, too. Many are still in use today. Especially at ...
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