Constance Wagner is a short story writer and novelist. Her latest novel,
“Sycamore,” came from the press in 1950. Dr. Bonnie Lela Crump writes
feature stories and has published a number of booklets. Morris Hull
specializes on confession and human interest stories and contributes to
the leading magazines in this field. He is the author of the novel,
“Cannery Annie,” published several years ago. Bill Dierkes of the
Dierkes Press is author of three books of poetry: “Gold Nuggets,”
(1928); “The Man from Vermont,” (1935); and “Emerge with the Swallow,”
(1944).
I began writing about the Ozarks in 1925 and have written and published
about one million words on the history and folklore of the region. My
books, to date, are: “An Ozarker Looks at Life,” (1927); “Dream Dust,”
(1924); “Roadside Chats,” (1939); and “Ozark Country” of the American
Folkways Series (1941). Most of my writing has been for magazines and
newspapers and for my own Ozarkian publications: “Ozark Life,”
(1925-30), “Arcadian Magazine,” (1931-32), “Arcadian Life Magazine,”
(1933-42), and “Rayburn’s Ozark Guide,” (1942 to the present time).
In addition to the authors who have produced books, there are a score or
more of writers in Eureka Springs who write for magazines and
newspapers. Some of them are professionals, others write for their own
pleasure. If all the stories, articles and poems produced in this town
were assembled into books and placed alongside the volumes already
published, it would make a sizeable library. Not many communities can
boast of such a literary output.
Eureka Springs has been a mecca for artists for many years. Several
years ago, Louis and Elsie Freund bought Hatchet Hall, the old home of
Carry A. Nation, and made it into an art center. For several years they
conducted a summer art school. Other Eureka Springs artists, whose works
I have observed are: William Farnum, Fred Swedlun, Glenn Swedlun, Lester
M. Exley, W. F. Von Telligan, Mr. and Mrs. L. V. Orsinger, Verne
Stanley, Virginia Tyler, Art Foster and Bonnie Lela Crump. I am sure
there are others who deserve mention but I have not seen their work.
Most of the above are professional artists who work with oils and water
colors. Some do pen sketches. Thousands of paintings and drawings have
been made of the scenery and quaintness of Eureka Springs during its
seventy-five years of history. If all of these creative products could
be placed on exhibition at one time it would make a row of pictures
miles long.
XXXIII
THE OLD AND THE NEW
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