Daniel Woodrell has died of pancreatic cancer at age 72 in West Plains. Woodrell was born in Springfield but lived in West Plains. Three of his novels, Tomato Red, Ride with the Devil, and Winter’s Bone, were turned into movies. His last novel, The Maid’s Version, was about an explosion at a dance hall in …
Vote on the classic country song playing on the radio in Clint’s Ford Mustang!
NOTE: This is a later chapter. Mykel is asked to help with a remote at a boat show. They needed a girl to model a swimsuit and Sherry volunteers. As with many radio remotes, things go wrong. We meet Lovable Lance’s rival from country radio station K-B-U-B, Cousin Clyde. Also pay close attention to the little boy. Comment if you pick up anything about him.
It may get redundant, as you read the first chapters of the novel, but one thing 1966 was remembered for, was the horrible winter. Bitter cold temperatures in the teens, harsh winds, snow that closed the Springfield schools (unfortunately, I’m from Lebanon which really didn’t have snow days until I started attending school in the …
Most of the characters that inhabit Mykel’s life in the radio business were either modeled after someone I worked with or are a composite of people I have worked with in the radio industry. The two exceptions would be Saul Ketner, Mykel’s boss, who had been an actor during the Golden Age of Radio. He …
WIP: DYNAMIC DUO OF THE OZARKS 