The search for the origins of The Homeplace stories and lives...
As the story in "Back to the Homeplace" was being created it raised questions as to the motivations behind the love Mildred had for the farm land and why it was so important to keep it all together as their wills were being written.
By 'reverse engineering' the family history of Mildred's ancestors, we discovered the story of The Founding of Oak Springs and the Oak Creek valley community back in 1833, not long after Missouri statehood, in the Southern Missouri Ozark Mountains.
These stories, from 1833 to 1876, are collected in this volume for your reading pleasure:
I hope you enjoy reading the short stories collected here as much as I did creating them.
