The Fall 2018 issue of OzarksWatch Magazine, a publication of the Ozarks Studies Institute, an initiative of the MSU Libraries, is now out. The theme of this issue is “End-of-Life Customs in the Ozarks.”

Article topics include:

• Cemetery symbolism
• Reminiscences of an African-American funeral director
• History of segregation in Springfield’s Hazelwood Cemetery
• Efforts to preserve and record the history of Ozarks cemeteries
• The unorthodox funeral of Rose O’Neill
• Ozark burial customs
• The rural cemetery movement
• Grave dowsing
• The Iberia Academy
• Part III in the series of articles about Art Song in the Ozarks
• A beautiful photographic essay about frost flowers
• An excerpt from The Valley Calls, an unpublished work of fiction from the 1940s
• Six book reviews

The themes for the Spring 2019 issue of OzarksWatch Magazine will be the end of Prohibition, Moonshine, and other libations.