Ozark Voices

Alex Sandy Primm has worked for 40 years interviewing people across the Ozark Mountains. He has also served as a correspondent in Vietnam, ran the Ozark Agriculture Museum, produced award-winning regional videos and taught oral history in mainland China. He lives in Springfield, Missouri.

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Foreword: Collecting Recollections by C. Ray Brassieur
Preface: A Wagonload of Fire
Introduction: Backwoods Interviewing
Part I: My First Ozark River Oral Histories: Headwaters—Setting Forth in Oral History
1. King of the Ozark Rivers: Ralph "Treehouse" Brown
2. Taking Care of His Creek: George Langenberg
3. Highlights of Ozark Rivers Oral History
Memoir: At Trails End Camp
Part II: Working with the U.S. Forest Service: Techniques—Beginning in Oral History
4. Palmer, Missouri: In the Valley of the Ghosts
5. Grasshopper Hollow: Fieldwork in the Ozark's Largest Fen
6. Establishing a Farm and Hunting Fox: Amel Martin
Sidebar: Alford Forest Wins New Lease on Life
Memoir: Adirondack and Ozark Ancient Forests
Part III: U.S. Geological Survey of Gravel and the River: Fieldwork—Researching Downstream and Up
7. Gardening for a Life of Abundance: Ted and Kay Berger
8. Gravelbars and a Thief at the Corn Crib: Rev. Cecil King
9. "We are losing this river…": Jack Toll
Memoir: Almost a Great Job for an Oral Historian
Part IV: Marching with the Military Again: Enlistment—Public Service Interviewing in the Ozarks
10. Hogs and Midwives: Interviews with Ft. Wood's Early Settlers
11. The Lady with the Bull Dick Cane on TV: Aileen Hatch
12. Missouri Moonshining Days: George Lane, Waynesville, MO
Sidebar: Ambrosia on the Piney
13. The Cadillac Mayor of Crocker, Missouri: Norma Lea Mihalevich
Memoir: Dancing with the Spirit of Vietnam, May 2014
Part V: Journalism into History: Deadline—Every Day a New Story
14. Two Special Parents for Special Children: The Earl Adamses
15. Bass Fishing Tournament: Basil Bacon
16. Area Inventor Looking for Business Partner: Louis Moore
Sidebar: Fine Art from White Oak Forests
17. Local Prophet Carves Wide Swath: Rev. Joseph Jeffers
18. From Birch Tree to the Battle of the Bulge and Back: Bill and Trudy Reed
19. Exposé from a Newbie Election Judge
20. A Day with the Rainbow Family: Ted Berger and Ronnie Jones
Memoir: Holding the Feather: Reflections on the Rainbow Family
Part VI: Making It as a Freelancer: Gigging—Community Culture from Diverse Angles
21. La Guignolée—Fiddling in the New Year: Kent Beaulne
22. Good Sports: A Burnham Sunday Tradition: Gini Webb Scudder
23. A Visit with Bob Holt and Venae Heier
24. View to the East: Country Folks Will Wave
25. Route 66: African American History Along the Mother Road
Sidebar: Hard Traveling in the Ozarks
26. Celebrating the Ozark Highlands Viticulture: Mary Codemo
27. Visit with an Ozark Swamp Queen: The Nature Conservancy
28. Video with Ralph "Treehouse" Brown and Others
29. Voice as Fast as a Fiddle: Dancing at a Country Music Club
30. Deliberate Lives: A Celebration of Three Missouri Masters
Memoir: Hillbillies and Black Helicopters
Part VII: Profiles, Portraits and Champions: Likeness—Capturing an Essence
31. Healing the Waters on an Ozark Frontier
32. Organic More Than a Century: Frances "Nana" Yeary
Sidebar: Is It True?
33. Visiting Moondog in Manhattan
34. Magic Quartz Near Mount Ida
35. Selling Ties in an Early Blizzard
36. A Man Who Loved Copperheads: Ken Carey
37. An Ozarker in His New Kentucky Home: George Marshall Smith
38. Clyde and the Recycled Chairs
39. Woodcarvers: Harold and Elaine Enlow
Memoir: Portrait of my Father as an Eminent Hillbilly: A Cautionary Tale
Part VIII: Ethics, Activists and Timber: Hillbilly Ethics—Truth-tellin' and Rural Rapport
40. The Sweetest Fiddler in All of Arkansas: Violet Hensley
41. This Is the Ozark Earth: A Conversation with a River Conservationist
Sidebar: Rex Harrel's Best Story
42. In Search of Commonwealth: In Memory of Doug Wixson
43. Plonked in Nowheresville: Tristen Russ
Memoir: From China's Skuzziest City—Teaching Oral History
Epilogue: Bedrock, Paradox and Petroforms
Appendix 1: A Brief Guide to Doing Oral History Interviews
Appendix 2: Oral History Projects and Related Contributions
Appendix 3: Oral and Community History Bibliography
Appendix 4: Schedule of Questions: Oral History of Land Use in the Ozarks
Notes
Index