Table of Contents
Introduction 3
1 The Ozarks and Dixie: Considering a Region's Southernness 7
2 Fireworking Down South 25
3 The South According to Andy 47
4 Where Everything New Is Old Again: Southern Gospel Singing Schools 59
5 Against the Current: Landowners and the Fight for Ozarks Streams 75
6 The Country Store: In Search of Mercantiles and Memories in the Ozarks 101
7 Rethinking the Scots-Irish Ozarks: Diversity and Demographics in Regional History 121
8 Revisiting Race Relations in the Upland South: LaCrosse, Arkansas 135
9 The Spruills: Who and Why? 155
10 Collectors of the Ozarks: Folklore and Regional Image 171
11 The Ordinary Days of Extraordinary Minnie: Diaries of a Life on the Margins 187
12 A Time Zone Away and a Generation Behind: Appalachia and the Ozarks 211
13 Back to the Land: Academe, the Agrarian Ideal, and a Sense of Place 223
Notes 235