The Calling of Dan Matthews

The Calling of Dan Matthews

The Ozarks has always had its own way of taking care of people. More than a century ago, a minister living in Lebanon wrote a novel about a town like ours. The hills were our hills. The streets were our streets. And the people — well — they were us. The book was The...
The Orphan Train

The Orphan Train

In late December 1909, twelve children stepped off the Frisco and onto a platform they had never seen before. They had traveled from New York. Some still had living parents. Some had known more loss than most adults ever will. All of them were stepping into the...