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  • Episode 78: Part One: Jason Harmon's Wild Ride with Marijuana Moonshiner, Dave McElyea

    Episode 78: Part One: Jason Harmon's Wild Ride with Marijuana Moonshiner, Dave McElyea
    2025/07/16
    Author, journalist, and historian Jason Harmon wrote When Money Grew On Trees in collaboration with David McElyea, a Michigan transplant to the Ozarks in 1980 whose goal was to create a marijuana farm. After he was busted by local enforcement, Dave formed a relationship with the local sheriff, and together they colluded in a venture that would make them thousands of dollars. And that's back when a thousand dollars meant something. Curtis and Hayden made the jaunt to Buffalo City, Arkansas, to talk with Jason, and we hope you'll join us for an episode that's profane and preposterous, and even impressive in a demented, outlaw kind of way!

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    1 時間 8 分
  • Episode 77: The Story of the Scots Irish Settlers in the Ozarks: A Conversation with Todd Wilkinson and Champ Herren

    Episode 77: The Story of the Scots Irish Settlers in the Ozarks: A Conversation with Todd Wilkinson and Champ Herren
    2025/07/09
    Champ Herren and Todd Wilkinson share a deep love of our Ozarks hills. As far back as their time at MSU (then SMSU), they read everything by Vance Randolph they could get their hands on, and for some years, they presented these stories around campfires to various groups. Now Todd and Champ are together again in this podcast about the Scots Irish immigration to the States, first to Appalachia and the deep South and then to the Ozarks. From folklore to folk magic, the influence of the Scots Irish can still be felt in Ozarks culture today. Knowledgeable and entertaining, Todd and Champ will re-introduce you to the hardscrabble folks who carved out their homesteads in the Ozarks.

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    1 時間 21 分
  • Episode 76: Meet the Pilgrims: Loving the Land, Preserving the Culture, and Raising a Family in the Ozarks

    Episode 76: Meet the Pilgrims: Loving the Land, Preserving the Culture, and Raising a Family in the Ozarks
    2025/07/02
    Roy and Aviva Pilgrim were invited to participate in the Smithsonian Folklife Festival because of their talented musicianship and authentic life in the Ozarks. Roy is a logger who cares about sustainable forestry, and Aviva is a luthier, gardener, and artist who cares about preserving the best of Ozarks culture. Their life and livelihood could serve as a model for those who want "to walk gently on the earth." Some folks dream of living close to the land, and others actually do it. The Pilgrims are doing it.

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    48 分
  • Episode 75: Photographer Henry O. Head talks about his new book and coming of age in the Ozarks

    Episode 75: Photographer Henry O. Head talks about his new book and coming of age in the Ozarks
    2025/06/25
    Henry O. Head has taught workshops on photography in the US, Greece, and Ireland and his photos have been exhibited in places as diverse as South Korea and Rogers, Arkansas. Some of his recent photos were featured in the Guardian. His masterpiece, however, is his debut book Twelve Acres, a photographic exploration of coming of age in the Ozarks and the depths of teenage friendship. Henry's work both preserves and advances the unique culture of the Ozarks hills, and his perspectives on art, friendship, travel, and nature are inspiring and challenging. Join us for this exciting and provocative episode; we know you'll enjoy it!

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    1 時間 4 分
  • Episode 74: Todd Wilkinson and the Magic of Montauk

    Episode 74: Todd Wilkinson and the Magic of Montauk
    2025/06/18
    Curtis and Hayden travel to Dent County, Missouri, to talk with their good friend, Todd Wilkinson, about Montauk Spring, the headwaters of the Current River, and the state park that bears its name. Todd is the Assistant Superintendent of Montauk State Park and has a passionate for the rivers and streams of the Ozarks, having taught canoeing, kayaking, and river conservation for many years. He is also a master storyteller with a remarkable memory, and after listening to the history of this beautiful park, you will be packing your bags and heading to Montauk!

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    57 分
  • Episode 73: The Bizarre Case of Adam God

    Episode 73: The Bizarre Case of Adam God
    2025/06/10
    The Ozarkian Folk Chronicles posts its very first episode, "The Strange Case of Adam God," a story recorded by Vance Randolph in Haldeman-Julius's Little Blue Books and confirmed by contemporary newspapers. From the Call he received while plowing his field to parading naked through the streets of Oklahoma City to his hardy old age, James Sharp, aka Adam God, is one of those strange figures who is the very stuff of folktales! Even more strange is the ongoing relevance of such stories to our own bewildering age, over a hundred years later.

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    54 分
  • Episode 72: Rose O'Neill, Renegade of Folk

    Episode 72: Rose O'Neill, Renegade of Folk
    2025/06/04
    Famous for her creation of the Kewpies, Rose O'Neill was much more than an illustrator of children's cartoons. Rose was a daring woman in an era of male domination, and her courage in forging her own path remains an inspiration. She traveled to Europe several times and spent time in London, studied painting in Paris, and hobnobbed with the likes of Booth Tarkington on the Isle of Capris. She owned homes in Connecticut, Greenwich Village, Capri, and, of course, the Ozarks; in fact, Bonniebrook was her favorite home, and as she said, she did her best work there. Find out more about this remarkable woman and why she qualifies as a Renegade of Folk!

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    1 時間 6 分
  • Episode 71: Todd Parnell and the fight to save Ozarks rivers

    Episode 71: Todd Parnell and the fight to save Ozarks rivers
    2025/05/28
    Todd Parnell, former bank president, president of Drury University, and advocate for our Ozarks environment, talks about floating the entirety of the Buffalo River twice and the remarkable influence of the Buffalo on him and his sons. Todd has served on the boards of various organizations whose mission is the preservation of clean water and pristine rivers in Missouri. Perhaps most important, Todd has turned his outrage at corporate abuses of the natural beauty of the Ozarks into his own brand of imaginative and compelling fiction in over a dozen books. Todd's roots go deep in the red clay of the hills, and his passion for the Ozarks is inspiring. The threat to our environment is a recurring one, and Todd is an excellent guide to help us save what's left.

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    1 時間 1 分