Local lore and legend tells us that an old tree stood at a junction of the Wilderness Road of the Ozarks, an unknown traveler nailed a gate from an abandoned hog pen upon the tree to which local residents, freighters, and merchants, as well as those who journeyed on the old road would leave messages as we do on bulletin boards today. In that sprit we bring to you, our readers and supporters, news from your fellow travelers on the
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Fine Art In The Hills
It's hard to pinpoint the cause, but there seems to be an unique change in the events we attend, perhaps it is the economy, perhaps it is our desire to seek out smaller more intimate venues.............
STORY TELLING IS ALIVE AND WELL IN THE OZARKS
"Do we all enjoy stories these days," you may be asking? "No one listens to old people tell tales anymore, do they?" And I say to you: Do we watch television? Do we rent and buy videos? Do we pay to go to movies? Do we pay to go to seminars and conferences? Do we pay to send our children and our grandchildren to school? Of course we do, we all do, and will continue to do so until the end. "But," you ask, "these aren't stories like Grandpa and Grandma told, are they?" In slightly different clothes, suitable to slightly different times, yes, they surely are.

SOMETIMES SMALLER IS BETTER
Curiously enough, people still have a powerful desire for the small but important things in life. Almost anyone you talk to hopes, one day, to get back to the "simple life," to relax, lie back and just absorb all that surrounds them. Sounds ..........Of course, the big songs, the big stories, the big picture is still highly important in our modern life and times. But, guess what? There has been, for quite some time now, a potent swing to the return of those olden times..........


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