Amason to Speak at West Plains Symposium
Craig Amason will be presenting a paper on Saturday morning, September 24 at the annual Ozarks Studies Symposium at the Civic Center in West Plains, organized and produced by Missouri State University – West Plains. “The Impact of Immigration in McDonald County in the 21st Century” will chronicle the significant increase in ethnic diversity in the county’s population over the last 25 years. Immigrants and refugees from Central and South America, Somalia, Sudan, Micronesia, and Myanmar have settled into the county,…