by sarah | Apr 28, 2026 | This is the Ozarks
Nobody mourns a highway. Except this one. One hundred years ago, Route 66 was stitched together from dirt paths and farm roads by the communities it would connect. Town by town. Mile by mile. Designed to run through the front door of every place it touched. Not around...
by sarah | Apr 28, 2026 | Partners
There are things on Route 66 still worth stopping for. Walk into Dowd’s Catfish & BBQ and you know exactly where you are. Fishing gear on the walls, the smell of something good, and the kind of welcome that doesn’t have to try. This is the...
by sarah | Apr 28, 2026 | Partners
When you walk in here, you can feel what it was like in 1927. The counter isn’t the original. But it feels like it could be. The craftsmanship. The attention to detail. The way the space makes you slow down for a second. Back then, you came here because you trusted...
by sarah | Apr 28, 2026 | This is the Ozarks
This is what’s at the bottom of the Lake of the Ozarks. Linn Creek, Missouri. A courthouse. A hotel. A lumber yard. A grocery store where men gathered on a sunny afternoon the way people do in a town where everyone knows you. For nearly a hundred years, families had...
by sarah | Apr 28, 2026 | Partners
Few people in the Ozarks know his name. But he helped build this nation. Jacob Blickensderfer came to the Ozarks to retire. He planted an orchard, built a mansion with an astronomical dome, and put down roots the way a man does when he intends to stay. But before the...
