![]() I was so startled, I fear that I must have stared at the m. Heard the word foment today uttered by a raggedy, unlettered farmer who had come riding to the packet with his crop. Were it not for the importance of my work and my strong desire to prove my thesis, I believe that I might, with great haste, return to the relative civilization of lower Missouri and the Mississippi river valleys. ![]() As I watched the shoreline we passed, I was awed by its never-ending silence. Monroe Farley comes to the tiny Ozark town of Marrying Stone to research folk music, he encounters more than he had bargained for in the person of Meggie Best, a young woman who dreams of a prince to sweep her off her feet. The Marrying Stone by Pamela Morsi just received an excellent update with Audible narration. These Ozarks are an unkind, primitive wilderness, near hellish in isolation and solitude. The Ediphone, however, survived the treacherous White River crossing intact and for that I am properly grateful. My portmanteau was wetted in the unloading, and I fear my wardrobe may not be the freshest. ![]() The trip was noisy, crowded, unclean, and uncomfortable. ![]() “MONROE FARLEY ApMcBee's Landing, Arkansas Arrived this noon on the steamboat packet Jesse Lazear. ![]()
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