I think sometimes we avoid the subject of death because it is unpleasant to think of the inescapable fact that we are all just treading water here until the day we go under. However, the old Ozark hillman was obsessed, in my personal opinion, with the subject. Ozark folklorist Vance Randolph recorded quite a number…
One of the advantages of writing and tower talking is that the information becomes a two way street. Articles are written and stories told and often answers and tales come back. You may remember I wrote a series of fire tower articles for the River Hills Traveler last year. One of them was on “tower…
I have a standing curiosity about ancient cultures. I have a gnawing suspicion that without technology, they mentally developed wisdom. Learning to live without conveniences enhanced their naturally-endowed coping mechanisms, I think. It has always interested me that ancient languages have been found to have very long words with many syllables with complex vowel and…
December 21, 2017, marked the winter solstice. For me, this is the time I start to think and plan for the upcoming year as our days will become longer. As many of you may have heard, for the 2018 camping season, we are looking for a new concessionaire to operate Loggers Lake Campground. If you…
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I was telling someone the other day that Missouri’s state conservation program really does seem to be top notch. This rings especially true when one considers how Missouri has rebuilt its whitetailed deer population from critical status to one where there are now generous bag limits. In 1925, Missouri’s deer population was estimated to be…
“Come, said the wind, to the leaves one day. Come o’re the meadows, and we will play!” This children’s song from the latter part of the 19th century reminds me of just some of the joys of this season called Fall. French novelist Albert Camus noted that “Autumn is a second spring when every leaf…
