Blog Marking the Wolf 'Yates Standridge, who recently escaped from the state convict farm, where he was serving what…Travis HoltJuly 1, 2022
Blog Moonshine Moonshine, though often associated with Appalachia, is also an integral part of the Ozarks culture.…Travis HoltJune 15, 2022
Blog This Land is Ours It’s hell, sittin’ here. I grew up in the hills of Newton County, Arkansas, the…Travis HoltMay 24, 2022
Blog The Shadow of Red Rock Anyone who knows me knows I am obsessed with time and place. As far as…Travis HoltMarch 9, 2022
Blog Requiem for Grandma Growing up on ‘Holt Hill’ in Vendor, Arkansas, I was truly blessed. I had a…Travis HoltDecember 30, 2021
Blog Windy Of all the giants that strode through my childhood, some loom larger than others: Some…Travis HoltNovember 26, 2021
Blog Steppin Back The locusts descend upon the land. Not the literal ones, but a kind much worse,…Travis HoltOctober 7, 2021
Blog The Voices We’ve all heard some cliché joke about ‘voices in our head’, usually posted over and…Travis HoltSeptember 23, 2021
Blog The Wild Man At the top of the hill where my great-grandparents lived, there was a dusty, black…Travis HoltJuly 30, 2021
Blog The Happy Land of Cannan The happy land of Caannan may be a Biblical story, but for some of us,…Travis HoltJuly 9, 2021
Blog Requiem for a Hell Raiser We all, as we go through life, encounter people that who deserve to be remembered.…Travis HoltJune 25, 2021
Blog Time “How time changes everything.” This quote came from the lips of a fairly surprised man…Travis HoltMay 28, 2021
Blog The Lord Gives It was a late night in Boone County, Arkansas when me and my newly married…Travis HoltMarch 3, 2021
Blog The Wind I find myself sitting on the bank of a lake, not far from where I…Travis HoltJanuary 25, 2021
Blog A Grandfather’s Love Most all of us who were fortunate enough to know our Grandfather has experienced his…Travis HoltDecember 15, 2020
Blog Less Than Five Miles The life of a man is something that runs deep in all history. Before the…Travis HoltNovember 30, 2020
Blog Hank Williams Was Their Prophet and Tradition Was Their King The story I’m about to tell is one of the many coming from the Ozark…Travis HoltOctober 21, 2020
Blog The Eyes of Our Fathers Coming from a small, truly united community, I have many places that are dear to…Travis HoltOctober 2, 2020
Blog Thirty Pieces of Silver “Do you mean to tell me, Katie Scarlett O'Hara, that Tara, that land, doesn't mean…Travis HoltSeptember 21, 2020
Blog Requiem For A Quiet Man Growing up in the Arkansas Ozarks, I early on found out I had a love…Travis HoltSeptember 1, 2020
Blog The Simple Things I was raised in one of the poorest counties in North West Arkansas, where my…Travis HoltAugust 18, 2020
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