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Ozarkian Folk Chronicles - Your Podcast About the Ozarks

Ozarkian Folk Chronicles

96 episodes

22 hours ago

Come with us as we dive head first into the titillating tales of Ozarkian folklore and discuss the origins and obscurities of these stories. From Curtis Copeland and Hayden Head, this is Ozarkian Folk Chronicles.

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Come with us as we dive head first into the titillating tales of Ozarkian folklore and discuss the origins and obscurities of these stories. From Curtis Copeland and Hayden Head, this is Ozarkian Folk Chronicles.

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Ozarkian Folk Chronicles - Your Podcast About the Ozarks

Episode 95: Dr. Kris Sutliff introduces May Kennedy McCord, the Queen of the Hillbillies and a Renegade of Folk

May Kennedy McCord is an Ozarker of legendary status, a beloved defender of hillbillies, and a gentle Renegade of Folk. From collecting ballads to sticking up for Vance Randolph to sharing the story of the Ozarks across the country, May Kennedy McCord promoted, protected, and persistently loved all things Ozarks. Dr. Kris Sutliff is well-situated to talk about May because she is co-author with Patty McCord, May's granddaughter, of May's biography: May Kennedy McCord: Queen of the Hillbillies published by the University of Arkansas Press. May was an author, radio personality, and ballad singer, and we know you'll enjoy getting to know her better!

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22 hours ago

55 minutes 2 seconds

Ozarkian Folk Chronicles - Your Podcast About the Ozarks

Episode 94: Making Music the Springfield Way with Brandon Moore

The Chronicles is not only interested in learning about our Ozarks past but also learning about the exciting, creative things Ozarkers are doing today! Brandon Moore is a wonderful example of that creativity; he is a singer, songwriter, and instrumentalist who has poured his life and talent into the "Springfield sound," and in this episode, he brings that talent as well as his open-hearted enthusiasm to the podcast! Rounded out with another "Story about the Storytellers," this is another episode we know you'll enjoy!

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1 week ago

1 hour 29 minutes 21 seconds

Ozarkian Folk Chronicles - Your Podcast About the Ozarks

Episode 93: A Halloween Horror Story--The Vampire Within

Missouri's Old Lead Belt vampire--Orlin Eaton (maybe)--was accused of leaving his grave and poisoning children. While the historical record concerning Orlin was sketchy, the historical context is not: World War I was raging in Europe, child mortality was on the rise in the mining camps, Hungarian immigrants in the Lead Belt were held in suspicion, and the miners needed someone to blame. Out of the subsequent riots emerged a folktale with roots in the blood libel of the Middle Ages, and the Chronicles digs deep to show the continuing relevance of such stories to our own time. History, folklore, and ethnology converge in this episode with disturbing implications for us all.

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2 weeks ago

1 hour 5 minutes 5 seconds

Ozarkian Folk Chronicles - Your Podcast About the Ozarks

Episode 92: The music of Nick and Captain Sibley

Nick Sibley is a highly regarded jingle writer--think O, O, O, O'Reilly . . . auto parts!--and musician who currently is playing back up with Ozark Mountain Daredevils. Captain Sibley, Nick's son, spent his eighteenth year touring with Tony Orlando--Captain plays bass--and now with Lee Greenwood. The Chronicles unites father and son in this special episode featuring the original music of Nick and Captain Sibley. Ozarks music is alive and well, and these gentlemen are the proof! This is a special episode we know you'll enjoy!

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3 weeks ago

1 hour 6 minutes 24 seconds

Ozarkian Folk Chronicles - Your Podcast About the Ozarks

Episode 91: From Russian tyranny to the Ozarks hills, Dr. Mara Cohen Ioannides recalls the tragic story of a nearly forgotten Jewish community

In her book Yellow Jack and Turpentine, Mara Cohen traces the travels and travails of a group of Jewish refugees from Odessa, Russia, to the port city of Hamburg, Germany, to New York City and eventually to the banks of the White River near Newport, Arkansas. The group set out with the intention of becoming a farming community only to find an inhospitable land of poor soil, a flooding river, and disease bearing mosquitoes that would eventually defeat their experiment. "Yellow jack" was the idiom for yellow fever, and turpentine was the ostensible cure, but perseverance characterized their settlement in the Ozarks. Mara's story is one you're sure to enjoy!

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4 weeks ago

1 hour 9 minutes 21 seconds

Ozarkian Folk Chronicles - Your Podcast About the Ozarks

Episode 90: Killer Carl and Mayhem in Taney County: Tammy Morton and Angel Wolf Return to the Chronicles!

In this episode, our own Madams of Murder, Tammy Morton and Angel Wolf, return to tell the outrageous story of Carl Wood. Carl once bragged that he had killed eleven men in the course of his life, and Tammy and Angel convey two of his most public and spectacular killings, one of which took place in a church in Protem, Missouri. Charming, vicious, and elusive, Carl never served time for murder, and he ended his life dying of natural causes in his home in Springfield. Nevertheless, he left a wake of bodies behind him and people who still mourn some eighty years later because justice, they believe, was never served. Another thoroughly documented and carefully told story from Tammy and Angel. You don't want to miss it!

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1 month ago

52 minutes 40 seconds

Ozarkian Folk Chronicles - Your Podcast About the Ozarks

Episode 89: Waiting for the End of the World: The Incoming Kingdom Missionary Unit

The fourth episode in our series, Movements on the Margins, examines the establishment of a cult on the banks of the Buffalo in the early 1920s. John Battenfield, a charismatic preacher and scholar of Hebrew and Greek, moved with a group of his followers to Gilbert, Arkansas, to prepare for a worldwide war between Catholics and Protestants. In short order, they built a community with stores, forges, a church, and perhaps most important, a printing press. When the war failed to materialize, Battenfield tried to a raise a girl from the dead. When that failed to materialize, he had a nervous breakdown, and in 1925 he left for a sanatorium in New York. But the story doesn't end there. In a downward spiral of increasingly bizarre behavior, the group sputtered along until it finally disbanded in 1930. Join the Chronicles for another quirky story about a Movement on the Margins.

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1 month ago

51 minutes 25 seconds

Ozarkian Folk Chronicles - Your Podcast About the Ozarks

Episode 88: The First Lady of the Ozarks, Kaitlyn McConnell, is on the Chronicles!

Kaitlyn McConnell has given her life to preserving the culture and stories of the Ozarks. Her focus is not simply on the past: She is also concerned with the activities and lives of Ozarkers today. Her passion has taken her all over the Ozarks, and in this episode, you'll learn more about Kaitlyn and her online project, Ozarks Alive! We hope you'll join us for this very special episode of the Ozarkian Folk Chronicles.

And don't forget our new addendum: Stories about the Storytellers. This segment introduces Deacon Frank Hembree, fiddler, float fishing guide, and contributor of the title story to Vance's notorious collection of bawdy tales, Pissing in the Snow. You can read about Frank Hembree in "Mildred, Quit Hollering," the final, posthumous collection of folktales by the inimitable Vance Randolph.

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1 month ago

1 hour 6 minutes 7 seconds

Ozarkian Folk Chronicles - Your Podcast About the Ozarks

Episode 87: Ozarks Icon Phyllis Speer: Ready and Loaded for Bear!

Join the Chronicles for a delightful conversation with Phyllis Speer as she talks about her adventures hosting the wild game cooking show, Cooking on the Wildside, with John Philpot; hunting and fishing the beautiful Arkansas Ozarks; and the pleasure (and ethics) of cooking what you kill. Spend an hour with Phyllis, and you'll see why her show ran on the Arkansas Educational Television Network for eighteen years. You'll also find out how bear and bobcat taste--and how eating crow can be more than a cliche. You don't want to miss this special episode of the Ozarkian Folk Chronicles!

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1 month ago

1 hour 14 minutes 28 seconds

Ozarkian Folk Chronicles - Your Podcast About the Ozarks

Episode 86: Arming for Armageddon: Vincent Anderson and the Covenant, Sword, and Arm of the Lord

Vincent Anderson joins the OFC for our third in the series, Ozarks Movements on the Margins, to recall for us one of the most notorious cults ever planted in these hills, the Covenant, Sword, and Arm of the Lord. From the earliest days of Ellison and Noble to the invasion of the compound in 1985, Anderson guides us through the history and aberrant theology of a compound in northern Arkansas that was obsessed with race, eschatology, and a supposed mission to defeat the enemies of God. A scarlet thread of hatred and end times speculation runs through many of these cults, but none exemplifies that thread more clearly than the Covenant, Sword, and Arm of the Lord.

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2 months ago

1 hour 24 minutes 22 seconds

Ozarkian Folk Chronicles - Your Podcast About the Ozarks

Episode 85: From Coven to Christianity: The True Story of a Contemporary Ozarks Witch

The Movements on the Margins series continues with Kimberly, a former Wicca witch who recalls her experiences with the occult. Kimberly not only talks about the attraction of magic and the community that revolves around the practice of witchcraft, but she also recounts the events in her life that led to her conversion to Christianity. Kimberly's journey from darkness to light is unforgettable and a story that you will find inspiring in the end.

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2 months ago

1 hour 10 minutes 13 seconds

Ozarkian Folk Chronicles - Your Podcast About the Ozarks

Episode 84: Ozarks Religious Movements on the Margins: A Conversation with Dr. John Schmalzbauer

Most Ozarkers are familiar with Gerald L.K. Smith, the founder of the Sacred Projects, e.g., The Great Passion Play and the Christ of the Ozarks, in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, but Dr. John Schmalzbauer, the Blanche Gorman Strong Chair in Protestant Studies at Missouri State University, takes us behind the veil to unpack Smith's more heterodox and toxic doctrines. From "British Israelism" to the "Ten Lost Tribes of Israel" to Smith's strident anti-Semitism, John initiates us into the topsy-turvy world of offbeat Ozarks religions. We hope you'll join us for a wild and wooly ride through our new series, "Movements on the Margins: A Survey of Profane, Profound, and Preposterous Religious Groups in the Ozarks."

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2 months ago

49 minutes 24 seconds

Ozarkian Folk Chronicles - Your Podcast About the Ozarks

Episode 83: Thomas Hart Benton, Ozarks Artist and Renegade of Folk

In this episode, the Chronicles celebrate the truly impressive Thomas Hart Benton, Missouri's most famous artist! Curtis and Hayden survey Benton's boyhood in the Ozarks; his education as a young man in Paris, Kansas City, and New York; and his success as a mature artist to create a picture of a true Renegade of Folk. Friend to both Vance Randolph and Rose O'Neill, Benton joined them in their love of the people and landscape of the Ozarks, and he rendered this love in his art. Still regarded as one of the most influential "Regionalists" of the first half of the 20th century, Benton lives on in the color, vivacity, and power of his paintings and murals. Join the Chronicles in celebrating a our own Ozarks Renegade of Folk!

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2 months ago

43 minutes 35 seconds

Ozarkian Folk Chronicles - Your Podcast About the Ozarks

Episode 82: Dr. Jared Phillips Discusses the Pace of the Past and the Wave of the Future in the Ozarks

Dr. Jared Phillips is a multi-generational Ozarker with an intense passion for the hills. He joins the Chronicles to discuss a wide range of topics: From the measured pace of farming with animals to the frenzy of current development, Jared is both a thoughtful custodian of past values, an honest critic of past prejudices, and a citizen concerned about the preservation of Ozarks resources. An expert on the Back to the Land movement of the 70s--he wrote the acclaimed history of the Back-to-the-Landers, Hipbillies--Jared discusses the continued relevance of that movement for the future. You don't want to miss this special episode of the Ozarkian Folk Chronicles!

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3 months ago

1 hour 10 minutes 2 seconds

Ozarkian Folk Chronicles - Your Podcast About the Ozarks

Episode 81: Mike Mills and the Buffalo River

Mike Mills sits down with the Chronicles to talk about canoeing the Buffalo, wearing your life jacket, and sticking with your dreams. From his childhood to his days in college to his first rental business with aluminum canoes, Mike shares his love for the Arkansas Ozarks and some of his favorite river stories, too! Don't miss this episode with Ozarks icon Mike Mills!

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3 months ago

1 hour 5 seconds

Ozarkian Folk Chronicles - Your Podcast About the Ozarks

Episode 80: Didja Hear the One about the Yale Grad Student Who Came to the Ozarks? A Conversation with Christian Badach

Christian Badach, a graduate student in photography at Yale University, has made the rural northwest a subject of his photography for some time now. After researching the Ozarks, he felt drawn to come here to expand his vision of rural America, focusing in particular on the intersection of landscape and culture. With an open mind and heart, Christian offers a refreshing departure from the hillbilly stereotype foisted on Ozarkers.

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3 months ago

1 hour 11 minutes 34 seconds

Ozarkian Folk Chronicles - Your Podcast About the Ozarks

Episode 79: In Part Two of Our Conversation, Jason Harmon Asks, Was Ralph Baker a Lawman, an Outlaw, or Both?

When journalist and author Jason Harmon began digging into the alleged crimes of Sheriff Ralph Baker four years after the lawman's death, his research led Harmon to "marijuana moonshiner" Dave McElyea. In Harmon and McElyea's book When Money Grew on Trees, McElyea describes Baker in great detail as a law officer on the take. Other, more powerful men suspected something similar because the FBI was investigating Baker for corruption at the time of his death.

On the other hand, other powerful men lauded him as an exemplary law officer in Baker's obituary: "The 1998 funeral for Madison County Arkansas Sheriff Ralph Baker was attended by more than 2,000 people of all walks of life; from fellow lawmen to bikers and outlaws, everyone filed past the sheriff's open casket. Even Bill Clinton, a sitting president, sent a letter that was read at the service. 'Ralph Baker was a wonderful person,' the president of the United States wrote. 'I'll never forget the support he's given me since the beginning of my career.' The Rev. Roy Cain asked aloud during the service, 'How can a man be sheriff of Madison County for twenty-five years and have this many people present? This is a miracle! This is a mystery!'

How indeed? Who was Ralph Baker? Listen to this episode of the Chronicles and decide for yourself.

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3 months ago

1 hour

Ozarkian Folk Chronicles - Your Podcast About the Ozarks

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

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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3 months ago

1 hour 8 minutes 24 seconds

Ozarkian Folk Chronicles - Your Podcast About the Ozarks

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

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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4 months ago

1 hour 21 minutes 1 second

Ozarkian Folk Chronicles - Your Podcast About the Ozarks

Episode 76: Meet the Pilgrims: Loving the Land, Preserving the Culture, and Raising a Family in the Ozarks

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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4 months ago

48 minutes 10 seconds