Abstract

Book containing six essays by Marguerite Lyon on Ozark culture and folklife.

Scope and Content Note Strange Scenes in the Ozarks is a handmade book comprising silk-screen prints. Up to eight handmade inks are used on each page, each applied with a separate stencil. The images and quaint lettering depict wild animals, log structures, scenes, primitive machinery, and other aspects of Ozark life. Oliver produced a limited run of 400 copies of Strange Scenes in the Ozarks. The book is not bound, strictly speaking, but rather the loose sheets are held together with brass fasteners inside a...

Scope and Content Note The collection consists primarily of Roy Edwin Thomas' oral history interview projects, writings, and research materials. Between 1970 and 1994, Thomas conducted more than a thousand oral history interviews, primarily with "old-timers" (those born circa 1870-1910) across Arkansas, the Ozarks, and Appalachia. Notably among these interviewees is musician Jimmy Driftwood. The collection includes audiocassette tapes with Thomas' recordings of these interviews, as well as Thomas' transcriptions,...