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

    Episode 90: Killer Carl and Mayhem in Taney County: Tammy Morton and Angel Wolf Return to the Chronicles!
    2025/10/08
    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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    53 分
  • Episode 89: Waiting for the End of the World: The Incoming Kingdom Missionary Unit

    Episode 89: Waiting for the End of the World: The Incoming Kingdom Missionary Unit
    2025/10/01
    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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    51 分
  • Episode 88: The First Lady of the Ozarks, Kaitlyn McConnell, is on the Chronicles!

    Episode 88: The First Lady of the Ozarks, Kaitlyn McConnell, is on the Chronicles!
    2025/09/24

    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 時間 6 分
  • Episode 87: Ozarks Icon Phyllis Speer: Ready and Loaded for Bear!

    Episode 87: Ozarks Icon Phyllis Speer: Ready and Loaded for Bear!
    2025/09/17
    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 時間 14 分
  • Episode 86: Arming for Armageddon: Vincent Anderson and the Covenant, Sword, and Arm of the Lord

    Episode 86: Arming for Armageddon: Vincent Anderson and the Covenant, Sword, and Arm of the Lord
    2025/09/10
    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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    1 時間 24 分
  • Episode 85: From Coven to Christianity: The True Story of a Contemporary Ozarks Witch

    Episode 85: From Coven to Christianity: The True Story of a Contemporary Ozarks Witch
    2025/09/03
    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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    1 時間 10 分
  • Episode 84: Ozarks Religious Movements on the Margins: A Conversation with Dr. John Schmalzbauer

    Episode 84: Ozarks Religious Movements on the Margins: A Conversation with Dr. John Schmalzbauer
    2025/08/27
    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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    49 分
  • Episode 83: Thomas Hart Benton, Ozarks Artist and Renegade of Folk

    Episode 83: Thomas Hart Benton, Ozarks Artist and Renegade of Folk
    2025/08/20
    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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    44 分