Back Yonder: An Ozark Chronicle, by Wayman Hogue (1932, 2016)

In a way, Back Yonder is a standard story of growing up in the backwoods of the Ozarks before the roads were good and the REA brought electricity. It covers what you’d expect: the crops for a subsistence lifestyle, home life in simple log or clapboard structures, what passed for schooling,  courtship rituals, wild goings-on … Continue reading Back Yonder: An Ozark Chronicle, by Wayman Hogue (1932, 2016)

Remote Access: Small Public Libraries in Arkansas (2021), by Sabine Schmidt and Don House

My first memory of a library is from the summer of 1951, when I was four. My parents had bought a small farm south of Cabool, Missouri. The farm would hardly have supported a family in good times, but we scraped by with Dad’s earnings as an electrician. In 1952, we sold out at auction. … Continue reading Remote Access: Small Public Libraries in Arkansas (2021), by Sabine Schmidt and Don House