My Ozark Home 🏠 The Rainbow Bridge over the White River in Cotter, Arkansas.

 Enjoy the picturesque Rainbow Bridge over the White River in Cotter, Arkansas.

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Ozarks' Bookshelf: Keelboat Age on Western Waters + Steamboats & Ferries on the White River

Old books can be great friends. Discover 2 books at helps deliver the context of early river travel. The White River is an amazing artery carrying those native to the Ozarks and the pioneers who immigrated & settled the river bottoms, hills, barrons & prairies. 

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 The Keelboat Age on Western Waters

Amazon Books: https://amzn.to/3JTSoL2  

268 pages: illustrations, maps, & plates Includes bibliographical references & index

Originally submitted as a doctoral dissertation at the University of Michigan. History - Ohio & Mississippi Rivers. KeelboatAge on Western Waters shows the overwhelming importance of river transportation in the development of the West. The keelboatman and his craft did much to build our nation.

Although the Ozarks & the White River are never mentioned in this book, Baldwin examines the many types of craft in use, the different methods of travel, and the art of navigation on uncharted rivers full of hidden obstacles. Baldwin never loses sight of the picturesque aspects of his subject, especially the boatmen themselves-a tribe of rugged and fearless men whose colorful lives are described in great detail.

Steamboats and Ferries on the White River: A Heritage Revisited

Amazon Books: https://amzn.to/3JTSzGc

Over 120 black-and-white photographs, sketches, and maps illustrate the colorful text. Interwoven with the history of steamboats is that of ferries keelboats, flatboats, and Civil War tinclads, all of which plied the White River in the 1800s and early 1900s. A keenly researched regional study, this book is nonetheless representative of conditions and activities on similar river systems in many parts of America during the same period. Steamboats and Ferries on the White River pays lasting tribute to the golden age of steam travel.

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White River's Anglin Cemetery: Comb or Tent Grave

 This week, we'll be discovering the Anglin Cemetery south of Oakland, Arkansas. The cemetery was relocated to the New Oakland Cemetery on Hwy. 5 No. just south of the Missouri/Arkansas Stateline. 

The source of this video is the U.S Army Corps of Engineers' negatives from the construction phase of the Bull Shoals Dam, 1948-1952. We took the Negatives and digitized them & then turned them into positive or Black & White photos. We initially used Artificial Intelligence (AI) software to colorize the photos, and then we went out into the field for color correction. The photos are finished using open source software, GIMP. More cemetery videos to follow! 

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Great books at Amazon for Cemetery Research: 

Gone to the Grave: Burial Customs of the Arkansas Ozarks, 1850-1950. https://amzn.to/3Q9VKvu A 

Shape in Time and Space: The Migration of the Necked Discoid Gravemarker - the Illinois Sample. https://amzn.to/3Qq4EVZ 

Stories in Stone: A Field Guide to Cemetery Symbolism and Iconography. https://amzn.to/3PK1OuG 

 

Gravestone Cleaning Solution: 

D/2 Biological Solution: http://www.gravestonecleaner.com 

 

A.I. Software: 

https://www.colorizephoto.com https://hotpot.ai

 

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Ozarks' History Bookshelf: Gone to the Grave 🪦

We are excited to share our new & additional series, Ozarks' History Bookshelf. Today, we will be highlighting Gone to the Grave. 🪦

Gone to the Grave, one of our favorite books, by Abby Burnett is an excellent resource if you ever chance through a cemetery or enjoy spending time on those sacred grounds. 

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Gone to the Grave, a meticulous autopsy of this now vanished way of life and death, documents mourning and practical rituals through interviews, diaries and reminiscences, obituaries, and a wide variety of other sources. Abby Burnett covers attempts to stave off death; passings that, for various reasons, could not be mourned according to tradition; factors contributing to high maternal and infant mortality; and the ways in which loss was expressed through obituaries and epitaphs. A concluding chapter examines early undertaking practices and the many angles funeral industry professionals worked to convince the public of the need for their services. - from publisher, ‎ University Press of Mississippi

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1948 Bull Shoals Cemetery Relocation Project Overview 🪦

Discover some of the facts & statistics of the Bull Shoals Cemetery Relocation Project
by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in 1948.

This video will be foundational for upcoming videos.

What items were found inside the exhumed graves?

 

A portion of the document listing White River cemeteries to be relocated.

 

 

An envelope in which 4"x 5" negatives are stored.

 

 Also, we have just completed a new small studio to produce many more videos on Ozarks' History.

There is no way to express our thanks & gratitude for all of the encouragement to get this far, but Thank you, anyway.

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Oakland, Arkansas, now under Bull Shoals Lake in 1948. 🪦

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