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Scenes along the Mississippi 1848 and 2017
Hogan describes the scenery along the river as the tug pulls the clipper ship slowly toward New Orleans, 107 miles distant.
Once I looked out over the shipās bulwarks and saw we were between what seemed to be two long, low earth-mounds, one on either side of the river; there was a bend in the river at the place. These mounds, on which there were trees and houses and gardens and people, were theā¦
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#Fort Jackson#Fort St. Philip#Irish Wilderness#John Joseph Hogan#National Register of HIstoric Places#Passe A Loutre#Plaquemines Parish
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"Alas! No help for me now; I am on the Mississippi, and must go it."
The Berlin was picked up by aptly named ātugā boats, that tugged it through sandy shallows to the deeper water of the main channel. Then one tug headed back out for another incoming ship and one ābegan its hard task, towing us up against the current to New Orleans, 107 miles distant.ā
My 2017 exploration was a reverse course ā downriver from Baton Rouge to meet my guide, Richie Blink (Deltaā¦
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#Delta Discovery Tours#Fifty Years Ago: A Memoir#John Joseph Hogan#Mississippi River#On the Mission in Missouri#Richie Blink
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"The Mouths of the Mississippi"
Thursday, December 14, 1848, Hoganās ship approached the continent. As the outflow of the Mississippi River reached the Berlin, he wrote:
To a person from the British Isles, the United States, as seen at the mouths of the Mississippi, is a mockery of sublime anticipations.
This is possibly my favorite sentence of all the sentences in both memoirs. Encapsulated in those five words (āa mockery ofā¦
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#Baton Rouge#Bird&039;s Foot#Center for River Studies#Elizabeth Kolbert#Fifty Years Ago: A Memoir#Louisiana State University#Mississippi River#On the Mission in Missouri#Plaquemines Parish
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Clipper ship Berlin, north from the Dry Tortugas
A brick lighthouse replaced the original in 1858 ā about the time Hogan was making land claims in the Ozarks. The Dry Tortugas lighthouse, along with the Garden Key lighthouse at Fort Jefferson, were the only lights on the Gulf coast that stayed in full operation throughout the American Civil War. It was decommissioned in December 2015.
Having passed Key West, the next landmark was the Tortugas.ā¦
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COMPETING OZARK TOURISM ICONS: Old Mattās Cabin vs. Bagnell Dam
The two biggest tourist centers of the Ozarks are Branson and Lake of the Ozarks. While graphics used to promote travel do not necessarily accurately or honestly represent those places, they can betray the character and history of places. Such is the case with the imagery used to advertise and decorate souvenirs of these two attractions.
Souvenirs from the Shepherd of the Hills Country (Branson).ā¦
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#Bagnell Dam#Branson#Harold Bell Wright#Lake of the Ozarks#Old Matt&039;s Cabin#Shepherd of the Hills country#Union Electric
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John Hogan's Journey to America - Part 2: Liverpool to the Florida Keys
We left young John Hogan in Liverpool a week (and 175 years) ago. After his arrival from Dublin, he walked the docks and scanned the ships waiting for cargo and preparing to sail. There among them was the Forfarshire, on which he had already engaged his passage to New Orleans. The sight of it was a let-down:
She was a wide, large, dirty, heavy-looking ship. Her sails were anything but snow white,ā¦
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#Azores#clipper ship#Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph#Florida Keys#Liverpool#nautical distances#Tortugas
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CAN YOU TOP THESE? Moving ads for Lake of the Ozarks Recreation
Painted aluminum license plate topper, 1940s. Aluminum replaced steel in almost everything due to the World War 2 war effort. As aluminum didnāt rust it continued to be used post war. Below it is a less detailed image of the icon of Lake of the Ozarks, Bagnell Dam. Painted steel. Possibly in the late 1930s.
When Americans took to the highways for family vacations, license plate toppers wereā¦
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#Bagnell Dam#Branson#Harold Bell Wright#hillbilly#Lake of the Ozarks#Osage River#Ozarks Studies Institute#See the Ozarks#Shepherd of the Hills#souvenirs#Union Electric#Vernon Company
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COMPETING OZARK TOURISM ICONS: Old Mattās Cabin vs. Bagnell Dam
The two biggest tourist centers of the Ozarks are Branson and Lake of the Ozarks. While graphics used to promote travel do not necessarily accurately or honestly represent those places, they can betray the character and history of places. Such is the case with the imagery used to advertise and decorate souvenirs of these two attractions.
Souvenirs from the Shepherd of the Hills Country (Branson).ā¦
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#Bagnell Dam#Branson#Harold Bell Wright#Lake of the Ozarks#Old Matt&039;s Cabin#Osage River#Shepherd of the Hills#Union Electric
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WHERE MISFITS FIT: Counterculture and influence in the Ozarks
A while back Leland reviewed an intriguing new book by Thomas Michael Kersen looking at a very different, non-traditional side of our Ozarks. Read the review:
The saga of young anti-moderns settling in a region renowned for its pre-modern image is the subject of an intriguing new book, āWHERE MISFITS FIT: COUNTERCULTURE AND INFLUENCE IN THE OZARKSā
Ā Ā Available at the University Press ofā¦
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John Joseph Hoganās Missionary Life Begins - 175 years ago
One hundred seventy-five (175) years ago today, October 24, 1848, John Joseph Hogan, age 19, departed from his family home in Cahirguillamore, County Limerick, to travel to St. Louis to study for the priesthood. Not the traditional path to holy order perhaps, but his chosen path to fulfill his desire to become a missionary on the plains of the still-new country in America.
Young John Hogan wasā¦
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#Book of Tobit#County Limerick#Fifty Years Ago: A Memoir#John Joseph Hogan#On the Mission in Missouri#St. Raphael the Archangel
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Springfield āa Gem of a Cityā
John T. Woodruff and the Chamber of Commerce had encouraged private companies in the 1920s and ā30s to harness the hydropower from Ozark streams. When they didnāt and the Army Corps of Engineers embarked on their massive White River multi-purpose dam campaign, Woodruff and packs of Springfield leaders traveled to Washington, DC, to testify before Congress on behalf of these projects.
An anonymousā¦
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#Army Corps of Engineers#James Fork of the White#John T. Woodruff#Springfield#Springfield Chamber of Commerce#White River
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A True Ozark Icon: the Hillbilly
Controversy over viewing the Ozarks as a refuge of degenerate primitives has a long history. This symbol of profound rusticity upset promoters and businessmen like John Woodruff but defenders of the premodern Ozarks rushed to defend even the stereotypical hillbilly. On March 27, 1934, The Springfield Leader and Press reprinted highlights of the disastrous meeting of the Springfield Folk Festivalā¦
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BALANCING THE HILLBILLY AND PROGRESSIVE OZARKS: The saga of a forthright newspaperwoman
Like the pioneer newspaperwomanās prose, this is well researched and very readable. Itās in the Ozarks Studies Series, edited by Prof. Brooks Blevins. It is footnoted and indexed but does not have an academic tone. The author credits Dr. Blevins encouragement and acknowledges Lynn Morrow for āsetting me straight innumerable times.ā Morrow also knew and admired Lucille. Newspaperwoman of theā¦
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Chamber of Commerce President Incensed by Violent Obscene Novel of the Ozark Hills
āMountain Music Lovers On March To Springfield; Chamber of Commerce Looks Askance at Hill Billy Antics; Old Fiddlers Will Torture Ears of Progressive Ozark City,ā read a headline from The Jefferson City Post-Tribune:
āThe new broadside was fired by John T. Woodruff, president of the Chamber, who told sponsors of the Ozarks folk festival across the table last night that writers on Ozarkianā¦
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#hill-billy#hillbilly#John T. Woodruff#May Kennedy McCord#Thames Williamson#The Wood&039;s Colt#Vance Randolph
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Paul Holland, "Hillbilly Artist" of Springfield
These attractive maps promoting rusticated leisure near Springfield were designed by Paul Holland.
Paul Holland was the owner of Holland Engraving Company and a weekend painter active in the Ozarksā Artists Guild in the 1930s. Holland was a lifelong defender of the Ozarks as a fit subject for art. āOzarks Treat Artists Betterā read the title of a July 25, 1930 Springfield Leader article aboutā¦
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#Branson#Holland Engraving Company#Lake Taneycomo#Missouri State University Libraries#Ozark Studies Institute#Ozarks Artists Guild#Paul Holland#Presbyterian Hill#Springfield Leader
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Woodruff Believed Springfield's 1934 Folk Festival was āa lot of freaksā
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Ā The committee for the first Springfield Folk Festival, held in 1933. Vance Randolph is third from left, and Sarah Gertrude Knott, the woman he was attracted to, is on the far right. Bascom Lamar Lunsford, who also fancied Miss Knott, is the gent with the bow tie. May Kennedy McCord is fifth from the left.
In the spring of 1934, the Springfield Chamber of Commerce was presented with a veryā¦
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#Bascom Lamar Lunsford#Hillbilly Heartbeats#John T. Woodruff#May Kennedy McCord#Sarah Gertrude Knott#Springfield Chamber of Commerce#Vance Randolph
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FIRST Lead Mine in Missouri was on the James River
Lead mine along Pearson Creek, circa 1900. Commercial extraction of lead here began in the 1840s and ended around 1920. Remnants of lead diggings can be seen in the hills along lower Pearson Creek.
In Schoolcraftās 1819 account, A View of the Lead Mines of Missouri, he wrote, āOn the immediate banks of James River are situated some valuable lead mines, which have been known to the Osage Indiansā¦
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#A View of the Lead Mines of Missouri#Dr. Robert T. Pavlowsky#Henry Rowe Schoolcraft#James River#Missouri State University#Osage Indians#Ozark Environmental and Water Resources#Ozarks#Pearson Creek#White River
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