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2018 Festival Guide
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what’s inside
4 - Full festival schedule 5 - About the cover 6 - Festival welcome 7 - Live music lineup 13 - Morey Sullivan’s music memories 14 - Square dance musicians 17 - H&H Queen pageant 18 - H&H’s past royalty 21 - Citizens of the Year 23 - Horseshoe pitching 24 - Quilt show 25 - Quilt raffle 26 - For the kids 27 - Old-fashioned kids’ games, and terrapin races 28 - Lil Cedar Pete and Lil Miss Addie Lee 28 - Princess pageants 29 - Free rag doll making booth 30 - Hillbilly 5K run/walk 32 - Gun and archery shoot 34 - Bed races 35 - Outhouse races 38 - H&H planning committee 40 - Costume parade 43 - Pet show 45 - Pie contest 46 - Big parade 50 - Parade Marshal 53 - Our historic festival 57 - Vendors and demonstrators 58 - Festival food and treats 59 - Vendor booth map 63 - Calling contests 64 - Bathroom information
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Jerry Beasley,
Nine-time Hootin an Hollarin costume parade winner from age 4 to 13
Thursday, Sept. 20 5:30 Festival welcome by Mayor Gail Reich p.m. Main stage, east side of the square 5:35 Music by Modern August p.m. Main stage, east side of the square
Saturday, Sept. 22 9:00 a.m.
H&H 5K run/walk sponsored by Shelter Insurance Register at 8:30 by Gainesville City Hall Shotgun- and archery-shooting competition Across Highway 160 at Barney Douglas Bridge, east side
10:30 Music by Morey Sullivan Band a.m. Main stage, east side of the square
10:00 Pet show (register by 9:45 a.m., east side of square) a.m. Main stage, east side of the square Horseshoe pitching contest Parking lot across the street from Guffey Motors on 3rd Street and Harlin Drive west of square. 11:00 Pie contest with prizes a.m. In Shelter Insurance office, Third Street west of square Terrapin races (cash prizes) and games Near City Hall, northwest corner of the square Music by Trennedy Reese Garner Main stage, east side of the square 11:20 Music by Casey Ritchie a.m. Main stage, east side of the square
11:00 Terrapin races (cash prizes) and kids games a.m. Near City Hall, northwest corner of the square
11:40 Music by Michia Jenkins a.m. Main stage, east side of the square
11:30 Music by Debra Lane a.m. Main stage, east side of square
12:00 Music by Bennett Creek Band p.m. Main stage, east side of the square
12:30 Music by Casey Ritchie p.m. Main stage, east side of the square
12:45 p.m.
6:15 Music by Kattie Laney Project p.m. Main stage, east side of the square 7:30 Hootin an Hollarin Queen pageant p.m. Main stage, east side of the square; Parade Marshal & Citizens of the Year recognized during vote tally; 2017 Queen Payton Hubbard farewell speech 9:00 Square dancing with live music** p.m. Main stage and dance platform, east side of the square
Friday, Sept. 21
Music by Jericho Gospel Quartet Main stage, east side of the square
12:50 Music by Gracyn Blackburn p.m. Main stage, east side of the square
1:30 Pride & Joy Cloggers p.m. In front of the main stage, east side of the square
1 p.m. Music by Bethany Caudill Main stage, east side of the square
2:00 Big Parade p.m. First Street, Main Street and around the square
1:30 Century Farms and 2018 Farm Family recognized p.m. Main stage, east side of the square
3:30 Music by Jericho Gospel Quartet p.m. Main stage, east side of the square
2:00 Costume parade (sign-up starts at 1:30 p.m.) p.m. Begins near City Hall, northwest corner of the square
4:30 Calling contests (pig, cow, turkey, husband) p.m. Main stage, east side of the square Old-fashioned kids games In the parking lot across from City Hall, northwest corner 5:00 Music by Casey Ritchie, Gracyn Blackburn and p.m. Michia Jenkins Main stage, east side of the square
3:15 Lil Cedar Pete and Lil Miss Addie Lee contest p.m. For kids ages 4 to 5; main stage, east side of the square. Sign up beside or behind stage at 3 p.m. 3:30 p.m. Shadetree pickin’ session Northwest corner of courthouse lawn or gazebo
3:45 Princess pageants - (sign up deadline is Sept. 14) p.m. For girls in 1st through 6th grade, main stage, east side 4:30 p.m. Music by The Bad and the Ugly Main stage, east side of the square
5:00 Bed Races (call 989-1282 for information) p.m. West side of the square 5:10 Music by Trennedy Reese Garner p.m. Main stage, east side of the square
5:30 p.m.
Music by Fiddle & Banjo Main stage, east side of the square Outhouse Races (call 989-1282 for information) West side of the square
6:30 Music by Rabun Sisters p.m. Main stage, east side of square 7:30 Music by Ozark Highballers p.m. Main stage, east side of the square 9:00 Square dancing with live music** p.m. Dance platforms, east side of the square
6:00 Raffle winners announced on stage p.m. Main stage, east side of the square
6:15 p.m.
Music by Backyard Bluegrass Main stage, east side of the square
7:30 p.m.
Music by Local Connection Bluegrass Main stage, east side of the square
9:00 Square dancing with live music** p.m. Main stage and dance platform, east side of the square
Throughout the 3-day festival Ozark County Historium open
West side of square; 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. each day
Ozark County Volunteer Library booth
North side of square, will offer books for sale at special prices and a section where kids can sit and read or color. Annual Hootin an Hollarin quilt show
At The Meeting Place, on Third Street west of of the square (former license bureau building. 5-7 p.m. Thurs., 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Fri., 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Sat.
**Square dance music by Ashley Hull Forrest, Kim Lansford, David Scrivner and Nathan McAlister
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About the cover: Jeremiah Paul Hamm and Miss Pinky One of Gainesville’s youngest farmers, Jeremiah Paul Hamm, then 4, and his cowgirl-costumed red hen, Miss Pinky, walked away with the Most Unusual Pet Award in the 2017 Hootin an Hollarin pet show. Times photographer Jessi Dreckman snapped this photo of the award-winning pair backstage right after the popular Saturday morning event. Jeremiah, son of Paul and Joy Hamm and grandson of Burl and Linda Hamm, all of Gainesville, had a wide selection of farm animals to choose from for the pet show, but he was confident in his choice of Miss Pinky. “I asked him what he’d like to bring. I told him, ‘We’ve got goats, baby sheep, lots of animals that would be cute,’” Joy told the Times. “But he chose that chicken. A chicken! I couldn’t believe it.” Miss Pinky, an extra-gentle hen, was a good sport, allowing Joy and Jeremiah to strap the miniature cowboy hat to her head with a rubber band, fit a turquoise bandana around her neck and put her on a leash for the big event. She was patient and calm throughout the pet show, even when having to wait next to a gang of dog contestants and other larger animals. Miss Pinky, who had been with the Hamm family for nearly as long as Jeremiah, got her name after Jeremiah decided to spray-paint her tail feathers pink one day. “I asked him why he did it, and he told me that way we knew she was a girl,” Joy said, laughing. Sadly, Miss Pinky has died since her prize-winning pet-show appearance, but a shadow box with her eye-catching hat and bandana and the Times newspaper clipping announcing her title as Most Unusual Pet hangs on the wall of the Hamm home as a reminder of her special day. Jeremiah, now 5, is already looking forward to returning to this year’s pet show, Joy said. He hasn’t picked which pet he’ll bring. But, she says, he’s still crazy about his little flock of chickens, and his barred rock hen Barb Wire is a strong contender.
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2018 Festival Guide
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Hootin an Hollarin! Welcome to
Welcome to the 58th celebration of Hootin an Hollarin, always my favorite festival in my favorite little hometown. This year’s theme is “Fun from the Old School,” and that kind of fun is something I’m very familiar with. You see, my mama, Edith Gaulding, taught in “old schools” – the one-room schools of Ozark County – for more than 20 years before she moved into town to teach at the “big” schools in Gainesville and later at Lutie. Early in her teaching days, Mama rode her horse Topsy to the Nottinghill schoolhouse – and picked up a few kids on her way, sometimes with one kid in front of her on the horse and two in back. She was the Nottinghill schoolbus – and I’ll bet they had fun on the way to school! After I was born, I went along with Mama to those one-room
schools for 10 years – quite a feat when you remember they were for first- through eighth-graders. What happened was, when I was born, Mama took two years off to stay home with me. Then she went back to teaching and my daddy, Horace Gaulding, was my babysitter for a year. After that, it was off to school for me every day with Mama, wherever she was teaching – Nottinghill, Pine View, Oak Dale, Rockbridge (Brixey) and Hammond (Turkey Creek). There was a little desk for me right up front. And let me tell you, old school was fun. During recess, we played games like Board on Deck. It used a rubber ball and a flat board whittled out at one end for a handle. Mama played with us, and she was good at it, much better than me. I was usually one of the last ones chosen, and my nickname was Tater Digger,
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which says a lot about my ability. If you struck out, you went to the base and waited until someone hit the ball and you ran to the stump. To get a player out, you hit them with the rubber ball. And let me tell you, Mama could burn a blister on you when she hit you with that ball! We also played Anthony Over, where you threw a ball back and forth over the schoolhouse roof. (At other schools, it was called Annie Over, but we weren’t high class enough to play the Annie version.) Out in the woods around the school, we built playhouses. We swept the dirt floor and made rooms and put little rocks around the edges. Even today, when I see a pretty little mossy place in the woods, I think, “That would be a good place for a playhouse.” Fridays were our favorite days. That’s when we had ciphering and geography matches. Oh, they were fun! When Mama taught at Pine View school, she and I came in a pickup, and we had to cross Lick Creek, which ran right by the school. All the other students walked trails through the woods – they didn’t have to cross the creek to get there. Mama knew when it rained real heavy, the creek would come down and we couldn’t get home. So, whenever it was pouring down rain, one kid would be posted to watch out the window to see when the creek was coming down. When it did, Mama would dismiss school real quick, and she and I would run to the pickup lickety-split so we could cross the creek before it got big. I can remember looking out the pickup window one time and seeing the creek coming down right as we crossed. Also at Pine View, two boys were assigned to bring a bucket of water each day from Scott Price’s
spring, and everyone but me drank from it with a dipper. (I had my own cup; Mama was the original anti-germ person.) One winter, it snowed and the hill to the spring was icy. Mama parked the pickup at the top of the hill above the spring so we could get home if it got slick. Then, when we were heading home, Mama slipped on that ice and broke her leg. Honestly, I don’t remember how we got home after that, but when we did, she told Daddy to go back to the school and write on the blackboard, “There will be no school for two weeks.” (None of us country people had phones back then.) Except for Mama’s broken leg, those old-school days were some of my favorites, and this year we’re planning that same kind of old-school, old-time fun at Hootin an Hollarin. Wherever you come from and whatever your age, we hope you have a lot of fun while you’re here!
Nancy Walker Hootin an Hollarin committee chairperson “for who knows how long”
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Hootin an Hollarin music H&H live music schedule All music is on mthe ain stage unless otherwise noted. The schedule is subject to change. Thursday 5:35 p.m. - Modern August 6:15 p.m. - Kattie Laney Project 9 p.m. - Square dancing with live music** Friday 10:30 a.m. - Morey Sullivan Band 11:30 a.m. - Debra Lane 12:30 p.m. - Casey Ritchie 12:50 p.m. - Gracyn Blackburn 1 p.m. - Bethany Caudill 3:30 p.m. - Gazebo shadetree pickin’ (north side of the courthouse lawn) 4:30 p.m. - The Bad and the Ugly 5:10 p.m. - Trennedy Reese Garner 5:30 p.m. - Fiddle & Banjo 6:30 p.m. - Rabun Sisters 7:30 p.m. - Ozark Highballers 9 p.m. - Square dancing with live music** Saturday 11 a.m. - Trennedy Reese Garner 11:20 p.m. - Casey Ritchie 11:40 a.m. - Michia Jenkins 12 p.m. - Bennett Creek Band 12:45 p.m. - Jericho Gospel Quartet 1:30 p.m. - Pride & Joy Cloggers 3:30 p.m. - Jericho Gospel Quartet 5 p.m. - Casey Ritchie, Gracyn Blackburn and Michia Jenkins 6:15 p.m. - Backyard Bluegrass 7:30 p.m. - Local Connection Bluegrass 9 p.m. - Square dancing with live music** **Square dance music by Ashley Hull Forrest, Kim Lansford, David Scrivner and Nathan McAlister
Modern August
Modern August kicks off the 2018 Hootin an Hollarin live music schedule at 5:35 p.m. Thursday. Modern August’s Wes Whittaker is a singer/songwriter and one-man-band covering a wide variety of music styles from classic rock, pop and country to modern sounds.
Kattie Laney Project
The Kattie Laney Project takes the stage at 6:15 p.m. Thursday, just before the Hootin an Hollarin queen pageant. The Kattie Laney Project is a five-member band from the Twin Lakes Area consisting of Kattie Laney on lead vocals, Mike Beam on bass, Bob Harris on drums, Paul Marion on guitar and Dave Fornes on guitar, keyboards and vocals. They play a wide variety of Billboard’s top hits ranging from the 1960s to present day, including Fleetwood Mac, Billy Joel, Aerosmith, Adele and Bruno Mars.
Morey Sullivan Band
Hootin an Hollarin emcee Morey Sullivan and his band kick off the main stage live music lineup Friday with a 10:30 a.m. performance. Morey and his musicmakers have been pleasing Hootin an Hollarin crowds for decades.
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Debra Lane
Debra Lane, a singer and guitar player with deep roots in the Mississippi Delta and Memphis areas, will bring her unique sound to the Hootin an Hollarin stage at 11:30 a.m. Friday. Debra said her music will lean toward the bluegrass roots Hootin an Hollarin is known for – with a little Americana, blues and rockabilly thrown in.
Casey Ritchie
Casey Ritchie, a classical violinist and bluegrass fiddler, will take the stage as a solo act at 12:30 p.m. Friday and again at 11:20 a.m. Saturday. She will also appear at 5 p.m. Saturday evening with fellow Gracyn musicians Blackburn and Michia Jenkins. Now a college music major, Casey has been wowing Hootin an Hollarin crowds for several years now.
Gracyn Blackburn
Gracyn Blackburn, a popular local singer, performs her solo act at 12:50 p.m. Friday and returns to the stage at 5 p.m. Saturday to join Casey Ritchie and Michia Jenkins. Gracyn sings a variety of music styles including contemporary Christian, country and pop.
Bethany Caudill
Singer and songwriter Bethany Caudill spends part of her time as a Wynnonna Judd impersonator in Nashville. At 1 p.m. Friday, she’ll perform classic country, classic rock, blues, bluegrass and gospel music on the Hootin an Hollarin stage.
Shadetree Pickin’
Ready for some down-home, homemade country music? There's usually a drop-in group going in the shade on the north side of the courthouse lawn (behind the booths) or in the gazebo. A scheduled shadetree pickin’ session, organized by square dance musician Kim Lansford, will be held at 3:30 p.m. Friday. Bring your instrument (and a lawn chair) and join in – or just start playing, and others may stop by to join you.
The Bad and the Ugly
Local brothers trio Jacob Overturf, Sam Overtuf and Weston Turner entertain the Hootin an Hollarin audience at 4:30 p.m. Friday, performing as The Bad and the Ugly and creating a set of “good, old country music you can dance to.” Make sure you wear your groove shoes for this one!
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Trennedy Reese Garner
Trennedy Reese Garner, a 12-year-old country singer from Mountain Home, Arkansas, will perform two 20-minute sets on the main stage at 5:10 p.m. Friday and again at 11 a.m. Saturday. She sings country with a little gospel thrown in and plays the guitar, ukelele and piano by ear.
Fiddle & Banjo
Roger Matthews and Michael Smartt, who make up the group aptly named Fiddle & Banjo, take the stage at 5:30 p.m. Friday evening. They perform traditional and bluegrass tunes passed down for generations.
Rabun sisters
The Rabun sisters, a group of five girls from Hartshorn, a small town near Summersville, will make their Hootin an Hollarin debut at 6:30 p.m. Friday. Their music, a blend of traditional bluegrass and gospel, is “what I think Hootin an Hollarin is all about,” says Hootin an Hollarin chairperson Nancy Walker.
Ozark Highballers
The Ozark Highballers, a four-piece string band from Fayetteville, Arkansas, will perform at 7:30 p.m. Friday. This old-fashioned musical group features the rollicking chords and bass runs of Aviva Steigmeyer on guitar, the rhythmically intricate string tickling of Clarke Buehling on finger-style banjo, the dynamic melody duo of Seth Shumate on harmonica and Roy Pilgrim on the fiddle. Their music reflects the spirit and drive of the rural string bands of the 1920s and 30s, particularly those of the Arkansas Ozarks.
Michia Jenkins
Michia Jenkins will take the stage as a solo act at 11:40 a.m. Saturday and again at 5 p.m. Saturday accompanied by Casey Ritchie and Gracyn Blackburn. Michia plans to sing a mixture of contemporary Christian music and secular music. Her set will be highlighted by a Christian version of the “cup song,” an a capella song that is accompanied by the beat of a cup.
Bennett Creek Band
The Bennett Creek Band performs at noon Saturday, serving up an appealing mix of rock, country and bluegrass music. The Bennett Creek Band consists of Steve Cole, Cindy Cole, Bill Talley, Alan Moss, Elisha Moss, Jim Dutton, Jeff Martin and Tom Bower with guest appearances occasionally by Coleman Smith.
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Jericho Gospel Quartet
Jericho, a gospel quartet, will perform its popular line-up of southern country tunes at 12:45 p.m. Saturday, after the Bennett Creek Band, and again at 3:30 p.m., after the Big Parade.
Pride and Joy Cloggers
The Pride & Joy Cloggers from Ozark will perform in front of the main stage at 1:30 p.m. Saturday just before the Big Parade.
Backyard Bluegrass
Backyard Bluegrass takes the stage at 6:15 p.m. Saturday. The band, which hales from Ava, performs all over southern Missouri and northern Arkansas. Band members D.J. Shumate, Dennis Shumate, Eula Lakey, Terry Howerton and Montana Howerton are familar faces at Hootin an Hollarin, having performed at the festival and other events over the past several years.
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By Morey Sullivan, Hootin an Hollarin emcee Wow! Who is that skinny kid in these pictures? I look different now—it couldn’t be age! It’s been quite a few years since I began playing music on stage at Hootin an Hollarin. That festival stage is one of the earliest places where I played in front of a crowd. The music was simpler then. The music industry didn’t have recording software that can make the music “perfect.” The music we played – and have always played at Morey Sullivan Hootin an Hollarin Long-time Hootin an Hollarin – is real music, misemcee in a 1976 photo takes and all. But that’s what Hootin an Hollarin is about, isn’t it? A real expression of the Ozarks. The pictures shared here show some of the performers who played a part in making some good music and pleasing Hootin an Hollarin crowds in years past. Jim and Silvia Parks (center photo) played on stage for many years in the 1960s and 70s. Hobie Schelp (top photo) played many times during the 70s. Jim, Silvia and Hobie were all from the Kansas City area. Lou Vargas and Rob Simmons (bottom photo) were from the Bartlesville, Oklahoma, area. Not pictured but also a part of many years of onstage Hootin an Hollarin music-making are John Wehmeyer and J.D. Walters, both from Oklahoma. Since those first pictures were taken at Hootin an Hollarin years ago, I’ve been honored to play in most major Las Vegas casinos, in Lincoln Center in New York, in the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, in concert halls in Russia, on cruise ships and in countless other venues, but I always love coming back to play at Hootin an Hollarin. It’s always been special, not only to me but to the Sullivan family. Enjoy another year of a great celebration, Ozark style: Hootin an Hollarin!
From left: An undated photo of former Hootin an Hollarin emcee Don Sullivan, center, with Hobie Schelp, left, and Don’s son Morey, who stepped into the emcee role after Don’s death.
Morey Sullivan, right, in a photo we think was taken in 1968. Also pictured, from left: Jim Parks, Don Sullivan, Silvia Parks and Gene (last name unknown).
Morey Sullivan and his dad, Don Sullivan, right, with Louis Vargas, left, and Rob Simmons. It’s thought this photo is from 1976.
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Square dance musicians
Musicians Kim Lansford, left, Ashley Hull Forrest, Nathan McAlister and David Scrivner (not shown) will accompany the square dancers every night, starting at 9.
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Square dancing with live music 9 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday
You’d be hard-pressed to find a way to embrace the heart of the Hootin an Hollarin spirit more than getting out on one of the old wooden platforms under the starry September sky and dancing the night away. Every night from 9 p.m. to midnight, Hootin an Hollarin turns its focus to one of its most fun and festive features – square dancing. Want to join the fun? Here’s how Hootin an Hollarin square-dance regulars recommend you get your start: Usually there’s a big group of youngish square dancers on the south platform, the one farthest from the stage. It’s generally accepted that everyone is welcome on that dance floor, and those young whippersnappers are good at teaching novices of all ages the basics of how to step, twirl and allemande through the caller’s commands. When you’re ready to join the more experienced dancers on one of the platforms closer to the stage, wait til they’re taking a break between songs and then ask one of the dancers if you might join their square for a song or two. You’ll soon be do-si-doing with the best of ’em (literally!), and having a great time doing it. It’s what Hootin an Hollarin is all about.
This Hootin an Hollarin square dance photo, taken sometime between 1980 and 1983, shows, from left, Allen and Glenda Douglas, Joe and Nikki McFarland (backs to camera), Pat Crawford and Jerry Crawford, and Barbara and Don Luna.
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The Queen Pageant 7:30 p.m. Thursday
The 2018 Hootin an Hollarin queen candidates include, clockwise from left, (front row) Jaima DeVries, Gracie Johnston, Abby Mahan; (middle row) Kayla Lee, Kaitlyn Morse, Libby Pansano, Haley Mack, Ruthanne Doebler; (back row) Star Janes, A’Aisha Sykes, Hunter McCullough, Lily Parker, Sarah Jennings and Hannah See. Not pictured, Branetta McNece. Hootin an Hollarin opens Thursday evening with music from Modern August and the Kattie Laney Project followed by the annual queen pageant at 7:30 p.m., when a big crowd gathers on the east side of the square to cheer for some of Ozark County’s most talented and charming teenage girls competing for the honor of being 2018 Hootin an Hollarin queen. At press time, 16 girls had signed up to compete in the 2018 event. There will be contestants from Gainesville, Bakersfield Thornfield and Lutie, and a good mix of returning queen candidates and new participants. They’ll be donning their old-timey dresses and joining emcee Ray Gross at the microphone, one by one, to answer questions designed to let them show their creativity and imagination. While the judges’ scores are tallied, this year’s Hootin an Hollarin parade
marshal, William Walrath, will be recognized (see page 50), along with this year’s recipients of the Barney Douglas Citizen of the Year award, Wayne and Doris Sayles (see page 20). The pageant’s co-directors are Pamela Cramm and Becki Strong; other pageant committee members include Jerri Sue Crawford and Nancy Walker, who help the girls find dresses and transportation to rehearsals. Marilyn Tilley decorates the stage. Each year’s pageant also includes the naming of Miss Sweetie Pie, the girl chosen by the contestants themselves as their favorite. As always, this year’s contestants represent every corner of Ozark County, and they’re sure to give this year’s judges a real challenge in choosing the 2018 queen of Hootin an Hollarin. She’ll be crowned by 2017 queen Payton Hubbard.
2017 Hootin an Hollarin queen pageant contestant Hannah See gives a big smile to the audience during last year’s pageant. The annual event kicks off at 7:30 p.m. Saturday
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Hootin an Hollarin royalty since 1964
The 1968 Hootin an Hollarin queen and her court: from left, Johnna Luna Morgan, Martha Exline Gregory, queen Karen Dancy Stewart, Sue Ann Luna Jones, Beverly Smith and Katherine Sims Coffman.
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Each year’s Hootin an Hollarin queen pageant showcases Ozark County girls’ personality and charm. It’s a tradition that carries on a legacy of more than half a century of hillbilly royalty. Ozark County girls, some of whom are now grandmothers, who have held the title as Hootin an Hollarin queen beginning with the first pageant are 1964 Pam Carter Hutchinson, 1965 Barbara Mahan Sutherland, 1966 Glenda Evans Douglas, 1967 Karen Flanagan Barton and then Delores Smith James when Karen and her family moved away, 1968 Karen Dancy Stewart, 1969 Beth Taber Peters. 1970 Charlene Sweet, 1971 Loretta Terry Walker (deceased), 1972 Sidney Duncan Casey, 1973 Sheila Parsley Jefferis, 1974 Jane Ewing, 1975 Connie Horn, 1976 Marsha Watson Evans, 1977 Carol Land Ebrite, 1978 Kimberly Terry Kinney, 1979 Kathy Laughlin Morrison. 1980 Pam Morrison McGlynn, 1981 Brenda White Warren, 1982 Shana Long Continued, page 19
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Zahn, 1983 Melanie Forrest Deweese, 1984 Kim Dillsaver Liss, 1985 Jolene McFarland Cunningham, 1986 Susan Ledbetter Ewing, 1987 April Clark, 1988 Tammy Strain Doebler, 1989 Cathy Grant. 1990 Kelli Kyle Humphries, 1991 Cari Lewis McMahon, 1992 Shelly Uchtman Finley, 1993 Angela Smith Broomer, 1994 Jade Tetrick, 1995 Katie Huggins, 1996 Alma Squires Reder, 1997 Mary Marley, 1998 Kristin Lawson, 1999 Kristian Richison Wallace. 2000 Kara Smith Henson, 2001 Ashley Adamson Leppert, 2002 Jessica Long Dreckman, 2003 Melissa Young, 2004 Kristin Crawford Solomko, 2005 Misti Campbell, 2006 Charley Haskins, 2007 Tyne Rose Burns, 2008 Delaney Ross, 2009 Jamie Turner, 2010 Darian Amyx Clayton, 2011 Hannah Childress Collins, 2012 Kursten Suter, 2013 Kendra Tetrick, 2014 Sunni Amyx, 2015 Andrea Belt Fowler, 2016 Ryia Hoversen and 2017 Payton Hubbard.
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2018 Citizens of the Year Wayne and Doris Sayles are this year’s recipients of the Barney Douglas Citizen of the Year Award Wayne and Doris Sayles, this year’s honorees as the 2018 Barney Douglas Citizens of the Year, have done a lot of good things for their adopted hometown. And it all began in 1993 with the most casual and unplanned of life-changing decisions. After retiring from the Air Force, Wayne returned to his home state of Wisconsin, earned a master’s degree in art history and founded an international magazine for students and collectors of ancient art. On a whim, he decided to drive south – to Fort Smith, Arkansas, as far as he thought he could make it in one day. He was on his way, traveling west on I-44, planning to head south on Highway 65 at Springfield, when, as he approached the Highway 5 exit near Lebanon, he heard a voice saying, “This is your turn.” Recalling that moment, Wayne said, “There was nobody else in the car, but I heard that voice. I pulled off the road, thinking my mind was playing tricks on me. I started to pull back on the road, but I heard that same voice saying, ‘This is your turn.’ I stopped again, got out my map, and decided to go down Highway 5 to 160, turn right and go to 65 to get to Fort Smith.” He made his way down Highway 5, and when he got to the intersection of Highways 5 and 160 in Gainesville, Wayne saw Lee Taylor’s sign for Ozark Investment Realty. Out of curiosity, he stopped at the office. “Lee and I hit it off right away,” Wayne said. “I asked, ‘What kind of property do you sell?’ and Lee said, ‘What kind do you like?’ I told him that I like hills, rocks and water, to which Lee replied, ‘We have some of that.’” Lee took Wayne out in his Jeep, and Wayne liked the first place they visited. In fact, he went right back to the office with Lee and bought it. That night, Wayne slept in his car on his newly acquired 20-acre property. The next morning, he walked around his land and saw a clearing just past an old, downed fence. He felt inexplicably drawn to the site just beyond the fence. “I walked to that clearing, and I knew at that moment this was the spot. It was the place I belong, that spot on the hill,” he said. Wayne asked Lee Taylor about the property that adjoined his, the clearing with the spectacular view. Lee told him Don Rackley owned it. By the end of his second day here, Wayne owned two 20-acres parcels. He returned home to Wisconsin but visited his Ozark County land whenever he could. In 1995, he reconnected with Doris Tobalske, someone he had known during his Air Force career when he and Doris’ husband had worked together. By the time Wayne discovered Ozark County, both Wayne and his wife, and Doris and her husband, had divorced. A Christmas card from Doris, who was then working for Armed Forces Insurance in Lansing, Kansas, “prompted a dialogue,” said Wayne. That dialogue eventually led to marriage – and later, a new life together in Ozark County. They were married on the land Wayne had bought a few years earlier – at a house they had started building together. Ninety-five guests celebrated with them, most of them friends
Doris and Wayne Sayles who came from coast-to-coast. One couple even came from France. Jimmy Kyle officiated at the ceremony, and Ron Yarger sang the “Wedding Song” as Doris’s two sons, Bret and Bart Tobalske, walked her down the aisle. Big Creek Bluegrass Band entertained at the reception as the VFW post in Isabella catered a meal of pulled pork and all the fixings. There is much more to the Sayleses’ story than we have space to share here. But here’s a quick summary of the fruit of their 20plus years in Ozark County: With the help of Wayne’s son, Scott, they have restored and renovated seven Gainesville buildings, including the former City Hall building at Harlin Drive and Fourth Street that now houses the 416th Bomb Group Archive, which honors four squadrons of veterans who served in World War II. The service records, stories and memorabilia of many of the veterans who served in the 416th are preserved in the archive, which has hosted several reunions of the surviving members and their families and also hosts local school-group visits. (See more about the archive at 416th.com.) Doris and Wayne have also become close and supportive friends with Ozark County’s current West Point cadet, Taylor Brooks from Dora. They have restored the old stone jail next door to the archive on Harlin Drive, and they also renovated a duplex across the street from the jail, which now serves as rental property. For a couple of years, Doris operated a tea room, “Tea Time with Doris” in a house they renovated across the street from the Gainesville post office. When health issues forced her to close the tea room, she reopened the site as the House of Angels and
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Christmas Corner store, offering angelic decor and creative Christmas items. That store has now moved into another building they have renovated on the southwest corner of the square – across Third Street from three other storefront buildings they also own and have renovated to serve as office and meeting spaces for rent. They are active members of the Gainesville Lions Club, and Doris serves as treasurer of the Ozark County LongTerm Recovery Committee, which helps those impacted by catastrophic loss, including the floods of 2017. Wayne donated his time to help the committee obtain recognition as a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization. Wayne and Doris say they’re honored to be named the Barney Douglas Citizens of the Year, and they express thanks to all who made it possible. “If you look back at the list of people who’ve been honored with this award, going back to Barney Douglas, the depth of their accomplishments is amazing,” Wayne said. “When I look at that list, I don’t know how we got on it.” They are at home here, well known and respected by all who know their good deeds. “Wayne won’t go shopping with me because I know too many people and stop to chat,” Doris said. Wayne adds, “I do feel this is home. I never have the slightest desire to find a different place to live.”
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10 a.m. Saturday • Parking lot across from Guffey Motors on Third St at Harlin Drive The 2018 edition of Hootin an Hollarin will feature an event that has been dormant for a few years, the horseshoe pitching competition. This year’s competition will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday morning in the parking lot across from Guffey Motors at Third Street and Harlin drive west of the square. The event, which was last held in 2014, is making a comeback this year under the direction of Gainesville resident Heath Treat. Treat says the competition will be split into four divisions: men, women, juniors (12 and under) and teams. Pitchers are welcome to join in both the appropriate singles division and the team division. Teams consist of two pitchers of any age. Trophies will be awarded to the first place winners in each category. Second place winners will also earn an award. The event is free, and everyone is invited to join in – or come to watch. A lack of experience is not a problem, Treat says. Those wishing to participate are asked to show up at the event about 10 minutes early to register. For more information, call Treat at 417-989-0144.
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Hootin an Hollarin quilt show
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Lou Arta Gaddy Corbin’s black-and-white, music-themed quilt won Best of Show at last year’s Hootin an Hollarin quilt show.
This year’s Hootin an Hollarin quilt show, sponsored as always by the Friendly Neighbors Extension Club, will be held in The Meeting Place, a storefront building on Third Street just west of the square, the former site of the Gainesville License Office. Lily Branco, one of the show’s organizers, says the quilt show, always one of the highlights of the festival, exhibits “awesome quilts created by ladies, men and children, sometimes as old as 90 and as young as 10, who spend many hours creating works of art in cloth.” Quilts to be judged need to be brought to the show site between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 19, to be entered. Ribbons are awarded in several categories, including People’s Choice and one for this year’s festival theme, “Fun from the Old School.”
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Quilt show raffle prize Friendly Neighbors Extension Club members Lily Branco, left, and Lynn Bentele show the quilt that will be the prize in this year’s Hootin an Hollarin quilt show raffle. The 80 x 101-inch hand-quilted Dresden Plate quilt was donated by Julie Pippen, who won it in another raffle a few years ago. Tickets may be purchased at the quilt show, which is being held this year at The Meeting Place on Third Street west of the square. Raffle tickets are $1 each or six tickets for $5. The winning ticket will be drawn on Saturday night during Hootin an Hollarin. Participants do not need to be present to win. Friendly Neighbors Extension Club distributes money raised in the raffle back into the community: to The Center’s home-delivered meals program, the Ozark County Toy Drive at Christmastime, the Ministerial Alliance, DOW Camp and as gifts for nursing home residents, Christmas baskets for shut-ins, to help support its Hootin and Hollarin quilt show and more. New club members are always welcome. For more information contact Lynn Bentele in Zanoni, 679-9234; Caroline Tauphaeus in Theodosia, 273-2262; Wynona Hughes in Pontiac, 712-4113; and Lily Branco in Gainesville, 679-3163.
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Hootin an Hollarin is a delightful time for everyone, but through the eyes of a child, the festival is pure magic. Funnel cakes and other kid-appealing treats, costumeparade make-believe, barrel-train rides, terrapin races, oldfashioned games, pageants, a candy-scattering Big Parade and time with friends and family make Hootin an Hollarin a fall favorite for the young’uns. The Ozark County Volunteer Library’s booth on the north side of the square includes a spot where kids age 10 and younger can sit and color a Hootin an Hollarin masterpiece while their accompanying adults shop the book bargains. Other booths sell handmade or old-fashioned toys and games. Check the schedule on page 4 to find fun things for youngsters to do at Hootin an Hollarin.
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Old-fashioned kids’ games 4:30 p.m. • near City Hall, northwest corner of the square
A young competitor gives his finest effort to win the 2017 watermelon seed spitting title. The watermelon seed spitting contest is a popular event during the free old-fashioned kids’ games on Saturday.
Take advantage of some free fun for the kiddos at this year’s Hootin an Hollarin oldfashioned kids games. Volunteer Kerrie Zubrod will be heading up a whole mess of “Fun from the old school”-style games and competitions at 4:30 p.m. Saturday in the parking lot of the Amyx building, across the street from Gainesville City Hall off the northwest corner of the square. (Register at 4 p.m.) There’s no entry fee and no need to pre-register; all equipment will be provided. Just show up ready for a little silliness and a whole lot of fun. Kids, 10 and under, are welcome to participate in any or all games. The line-up changes from year to year but usually includes hula-hoop contests, a stick horse race, kids (not frogs) frog-jumping races, rubber band gun shoots, a seed-spitting contest and a “nosey ring” contest, where contestants attempt to swing a ring tied to a rope onto a carved man’s nose.
Terrapin races & kids games 11 a.m. Friday and Saturday • near City Hall, northwest corner of the square
Terrapin races Terrapin, turtle, tortoise... whatever you want to call the hard-shelled reptile is just fine, just round one up and haul it to the square for your chance at this long-standing Hootin an Hollarin event title. The terrapin races, under the direction of Pamela Sisney this year, will be held at 11 a.m. Friday and Saturday near City Hall on the northwest corner of the square. All competitor terrapins will be placed within an area in the center of a circle and released. The first one to make it to the edge of the outer circle is the winner! Cash prizes will be awarded to first, second and third place winners each day. Contestants should bring their own terrapin and arrive 10 minutes early. The races will begin promptly at 11 a.m. Free kids games Other free kids games held just after the terrapin race will include the tin can ball throw, a game in which kids toss a ball and try to knock down a stack of tin cans, a hillbilly candy walk (operated like it’s cake-walk cousin) with candy prizes and a corn digging tub in which younger kids can hop into a big grain bin full of corn and search for their own treasure prizes. The free kids games will be set up and available from 11 a.m. to noon Friday and Saturday.
Photo above: Tena (Walrath) McKinzie, left, and brother Joe Walrath, far right, along with Patty Blackburn, center, were winners in the 1976 terrapin races. Tena, who won first place, said she and Joe (third place) would scan the roads on their way home from the family farm Sundays about a month before Hootin an Hollarin. When they would find a speedy-looking turtle, they’d ask their dad stop and pick it up. They let the terrapins loose in the family basement and fed them and worked with them every day. Tena said, “Sometimes we would get a little panicked if we couldn’t find them right away. Good memories!” Tena said this photo sat on the living room shelf of the Walrath house for quite a few years.
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Children’s celebrity competitions Right after the costume parade on Friday of Hootin an Hollarin, the youngest festival-goers happily compete for celebrity honors, charming the crowd with their smiles and youthful insights in a series of title competitions.
Lil Cedar Pete and Lil Miss Addie Lee 3:15 p.m. Friday for boys and girls ages 4 and 5
Hudson Friend, son of Davin and Kasey Friend, wore a coon-skin cap during his Lil Cedar Pete performance last year.
The Lil Cedar Pete and Lil Miss Addie Lee contest leads the lineup of children’s celebrity competitions, beginning at 3:15 p.m. Friday on the main stage. (Sign-up beside or behind the stage right after the costume contest.) Sponsored by the Ozark County Chamber of Commerce, the contest, for boys and girls ages 4 and 5, commemorates two of the founders of Hootin an Hollarin. Addie Lee Lister, known as the “First Lady of Hootin an Hollarin,” credited artistic woodworker Ed Petterson with thinking up the name Hootin an Hollarin. He also designed the whimsical hillbilly character Cedar Pete, who served as the first logo for the festival. Youngsters will be interviewed on stage by emcee April Klineline Luna, who will gently ask them all the same questions, usually about things like their favorite color, family animals and pets, and then asking if they’d like to share anything else – a song, joke or story. (April will meet the contestants backstage before the judging to tell them what she’ll be asking and to encourage them to have fun.) Oldtime costume is optional.
Hootin an Hollarin Princess Pageants 3:45 p.m. Friday for first- through sixth-grade girls
The Hootin an Hollarin princess contests, which begin at 3:45 p.m. Friday on the main stage, feature Ozark County girls sharing their most adorable Hootin an Hollarin personalities. The categories are Lil Princess, open to first and second graders; Lil Miss, open to third and fourth graders; and Junior Princess, open to fifth and sixth graders. All contestants must pre-register. The deadline for signing up is Friday, Sept. 14. To register, call Janette McDaniel at 417-255-3312 and leave a message in her voice mail or text her with this information: the girl’s name, grade and three interests or hobbies. Judging (by outof-state judges) will be based on 25 points: 5 for appearance, 10 for personality and 10 for poise. All contestants are welcome to ride on the princess float in the Big Parade on Saturday afternoon.
Lil Princess 2017 Lil Princess winners were, from left, first runner-up Moxie Similkier, Lil Princess Lola Wade, and second runner-up Cami Strain.
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Free rag doll making This year’s festival will include a new bit of free olden-day fun for the kiddos! Volunteer Jamie Green Kingsolver is heading up a free rag doll making booth on the inside row of the west side of the square, across from the school booths. All supplies will be provided, free of charge. Jamie says the dolls are very simple to make and take about 15 minutes to complete. This photo shows a girl doll, but a boy doll can also be made by braiding together the strips of cloth to make legs. The dolls, which are somewhat crude, are fashioned after years past when money was scarce, and children’s toys were made from scrap material left over from sewing projects. Jamie says her “Grandma Green” made her several rag dolls from her quilt scraps. Now, she’s carrying on the tradition by sharing the skills with Hootin an Hollarian children and parents by helping them to make their own doll. The booth will be open Friday, and likely sometime Saturday. A finalized schedule will be posted at the booth during Hootin an Hollarin. The booth, sponsored by the Hootin an Hollarin committee, was added this year to help demonstrate old time crafts.
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Runners and walkers are invited to participate in Ozark County’s oldest 5k, set for 9 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 22. The race is a pet-friendly event, according to organizers. Participants can register between 8 and 9 a.m. next to Gainesville City Hall, or they can pre-register by mail. Pick up a registration form at Shelter Insurance, which is sponsoring the event, or the Ozark County Times office. Mail the completed form to Doug Hawkins, Shelter Insurance, P.O. Box 115, Gainesville. Pre-registration is $20. Registration the day of the event is $25. All participants receive a commemorative T-shirt. This year, all proceeds from the race go to the Ozark County Health Department’s program that provides free school supplies for Ozark County students who need them.
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Shotgun and archery
9 a.m. Saturday • Across Highway 160 from the square in grassy area near the Barney Douglas Bridge Hootin an Hollarin sportsmen and sportswomen can show off their shooting skills at the annual Hootin an Hollarin gun and archery shoot, which begins at 9 a.m. Saturday. The event, sometimes referred to as the “turkey shoot,” is always well attended by spectators as well as participants. It’s held across Highway 160 from the Gainesville square in the grassy area near the Barney Douglas Bridge. The event, managed by Missouri Department of Conservation agents Jerry Kiger and Tom Leeker, features shooting competitions in shotgun and archery categories. In the shotgun competition, shooters test their skill by taking aim at paper targets. For the archery portion, competitors shoot 3D targets (generally three different animals and one block target). Multiple matches in each category will be held to involve all participants who want to compete. Competitors can choose to compete in one or both categories. Those wishing to participate should register just before 9 a.m. at the competition site. Participants in the archery category should bring their own bow and at least four arrows. Participants in the shotgun competition should bring their own firearm; shotgun ammunition will be provided. The event generally takes less than an hour to complete.
Three archers watch as MDC agent Tom Leeker, right, works to remove arrows from a deer target during the 2017 Hootin an Hollarin archery competition.
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Robert Merriman and a group of other competitors prepare to take their shot at a target during the 2017 Hootin an Hollarin shotgun shoot as MDC agent Jerry Kiger watches.
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Some of the early Hootin an Hollarin festivals included coon-dog field trials, and James Whisnant, shown here with his dog, was one of the enthusiastic participants.
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H&H bed race 5 p.m. Friday • West side of the square • sign up in front of Molly’s Curl Up and Dye salon
The GHS marching band bed-racing team was decked out in their band uniforms during their run in the Hootin an Hollarin bed race title. Race team members included Jacob Overturf, Dyllon Mathews, Golda Biby, Gavin Phelan and Eli Howard.
The Big Bang Theory bed-racing team in last year’s competition were aiming for the best-dressed award. Team members included Cole Hershberger, Zack Botts-Papke, Erin Lowder, Max Seals and Tyler Tabor.
With Ma in her kerchief and Pa in his... running shoes (?)... they must be gearing up for the famous Hootin an Hollarin bed races! This sleep-defying spectacle, sponsored by the Gainesville PTO, begins at 5 p.m. Friday on the west side of the square, when dream teams show their high-performance bed-pushing techniques. Teams consist of five members (four pushers and a rider); the high-speed, super-sport racing bed is provided. No house slippers please! Organizers suggest participants wear tennis shoes. Teams start their nap, er, lap in front of Molly’s Curl Up & Dye salon, and zoom down the south side of the square to the finish line in front of city hall. Cash prizes are given for first-, second- and third-place teams in the timed event, and another prize is awarded to the best-dressed team (for those who prefer to saunter down the street in style rather than run lickety-split). Teams can choose to prioritize speed or to ham it up with costumes, dances and skits in the middle of their run to keep things lively and the crowd entertained. The more original, the better! Pre-registration (Paula Rose, 9891282) is appreciated but not mandatory. The entry fee is $10 per team. Last-minute entries are welcome. Teams should gather on the southwest corner of the square in front of Molly’s Curl Up and Dye salon at 4:30 p.m. Friday before the 5 p.m. starting time. After the bed race, teams are encouraged to stick around and enter another signature Hootin an Hollarin speed event, the outhouse races! (See page 35.)
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The great outhouse race 5:30 p.m. Friday • West side of the square • Sign up in front of Molly’s Curl Up and Dye salon
Elizabeth Morse, part of the 2017 Gainesville FCCLA outhouse race team, was the “rider” as the team headed toward the finish line. Other team members were Branetta McNece, Ryan Acklin, Tim Loach and adviser Betsy Ritchie.
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For those who really need to go, the Hootin an Hollarin outhouse races fill a thrilling need. This one-of-a kind competition, which combines athleticism and laugh-invoking urgency, can be especially thrilling, given that spectators line the race course, and this racing vehicle, the ultimate in “portable” potties, has no brakes and no steering wheel! The runs start in front of City Hall. Teams head to stop sign on the opposite of the square (making sure to “drive” past it), make a quick change of riders, and they bring ’er home for the victory. Or not. The 2018 race will be held right after the 5 p.m. bed races, and teams are encouraged to participate in both events. The outhouse races are expected to start around 5:30 p.m., and teams are asked to gather as the bed races are finishing. There’s no entry fee. Teams can be made up of school, community or business groups, families, friends or strangers. You just need four pushers and a rider agile enough to hop off the pot halfway through the race and swap places with a pusher. Sturdy running shoes are recommended, as are creative team names – but race coordinator Paula Rose reminds teams their name “must be something that can be announced to the crowd.” For details, call Paula at 989-1282 or meet her on the west side of the square in front of Molly’s Curl Up and Dye salon. Cash prizes and trophies will be awarded to the winners.
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2018 Hootin an Hollarin festival-planning committee
These hard-working members of the 2018 Hootin an Hollarin planning committee devote many hours to make the festival fun for everyone. Seated, from left: pet show chair Konnie Plumlee, publicity chair Linda Harlin, parade cochair Heather Bushner, queen pageant co-chair Becki Strong (with co-chair Pam Cramm, not pictured), and festival chair and queen pageant committee member Nancy Walker. Standing, from left: old-fashioned kids’ games and parade co-chair Kerrie Zubrod, princess contest co-chairs Janette McDaniel and Mollie Smart, stage decorations chair Marilyn Tilley, vendors co-chair Lavese Ericksen (with co-chair Barbara Luna, not pictured, who also arranges for school fund-raiser booths), queen pageant committee member Jerri Sue Crawford. Others not pictured: quilt show chairperson Lily Branco, costume parade chairperson Karen Brantingham, fundraising chairperson Chris Harlin, bed race and outhouse race chairperson Paula Rose, music and sound chairperson Bill Talley, horseshoe competition chairperson Heath Treat, terrapin race and kids game chairperson Pamela Sisney. Tax-deductible donations are needed to keep Hootin an Hollarin going. Make checks payable to Hootin an Hollarin and send to Chris Harlin, Century Bank of the Ozarks, P.O. Box 68, Gainesville, MO 65655.
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The star and the hostesses
TV star Bob Cummings, center, was the celebrity guest at the 1965 Hootin an Hollarin queen pageant, which at that time was the second of two pageants held to choose a queen. At the first event, held in August, 32 teenage girls competed, and these 10 were selected by out-of-town judges as the hostesses. Cummings came in September to choose the queen who would be announced later at Hootin an Hollarin. At the end of the pageant Cummings and the girls joined hands and sang “Auld Lange Signe,” according to the Sept. 23, 1965, edition of the Times. From left: Mary Robbins (Kyle), Catherine Walker (Wade), Patricia Hambelton (Jarman), Becky Heriford, Barbara Mahan (Sutherland), 1964 queen Pamela Carter (Hutchinson), Cummings, Jane Wade (Reynolds), Linda Winton (Wallace), Clara Mae Kaufman, Debbie Landers and Jackie Farmer. Barbara Mahan would later be crowned as the 1965 queen.
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Costume parade
2 p.m. Friday • Sign up next to City Hall • Judging is in front of the main stage One of everyone’s favorite Hootin an Hollarin events is the Friday afternoon costume parade and contest, when folks young and old – and sometimes whole families – dress up in old-fashioned costumes to wow the spectators and judges. Costumed participates sign up across from City Hall on the northwest corner of the square beginning at 1:30 p.m. Friday. At 2 p.m., the costumed participatns parade around the square to the main stage on the east side. Each costume-clad contestant has an opportunity to step onto the platform before the judges and give ’em his or her best smile. Children and adults of all ages are welcome to join in on the fun and enter the competition, which is broken down into the many different categories listed below.
• Judges’ choice • Large group (4 or more) • Small group (4 or fewer) • Girls age 0-3 • Boys age 0-3 • Girls age 4-7 • Boys age 4-7
• Girls age 8-12 • Boys age 8-12 • Girls age 13 and older • Boys age 13 and older • New dress • Old dress
Colt Greeley Suter, son of Kursten Suter and Brad Hamm, was dressed in his hillbilly best for the 2017 Hootin an Hollarin costume parade.
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Cars were still allowed to park on the square when this undated photo was taken of the Hootin an Hollarin costume parade coming around the square.
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The Hootin an Hollarin pet show 10 a.m. Saturday • Main stage, east side of the square All different types of pets are welcome in the fun, lighthearted Hootin an Hollarin pet show directed each year by veterinarian Konnie Plumlee. Contestants and their owners are asked to sign up in front of the main stage on the east side of the square between 9:30 and 9:45 a.m. before the show starts at 10. Some pets come in costume, some show off fancy tricks and others wow the judges simply by being adorable. Bring your companion of any species, show the crowd and the judges what it can do, and share in all the fun and animal love. Pet show judges are quite imaginative in creating categories and awards so that all contestants win a ribbon and a title of some kind. Past categories have included hardest working, best behaved, best wagger, most unusual, best costume, best personality, most talented, friendliest and best in show. Who knows what title your pet might win! All animals must be restrained. Konnie also emphasizes that temperatures inside vehicles quickly reach dangerous levels, and pets should not be left inside before or after the show. A container of water is provided for pets at the show if it’s needed.
All pets welcome! Above: Mollie Spencer and dachshund Ellie won the Best Costume award in the 2017 Hootin an Hollarin pet show. Left: Kaitlyn Morgan and her bulldog Gracie took home the Best in Show award in last year’s pet show competition.
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Members of the Young Homemakers Club demonstrated “A woman’s work is never done” on their float in the 1964 Hootin an Hollarin Big Parade. Nancy Walker remembers that the late Betty Jo Evans “was up there milking a goat. We heard a feller standing out in the crowd say, ‘She’s not really milkin’ that goat,’ and when Betty Jo heard that she just turned that teat up and sprayed goat milk at him. It got all over the toes of his black polished shoes. Oh, we laughed about that!”
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The 2018 Hootin an Hollarin pie contest will be held at 11 a.m. in the Shelter Insurance office on Third Street just west of the square. Area bakers are invited to show off their pie-baking skills, but they’re reminded that only pies that don’t require refrigeration may be entered in the competition. A ribbon and a gift will be awarded to the Judge’s Choice winner. Ribbons will also be handed out for first, second and third place winners. Betsy Ritchie is coordinating this year’s pie-baking contest. She asks pie bakers to bring their entries to the Shelter office between 10 and 11 a.m. Saturday of Hootin an Hollarin. For more information contact Betsy at 951-704-6735 or betsy6925. br@gmail.com.
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Pie contest coordinator Betsy Ritchie poses with the array of pies submitted for the 2017 Hootin an Hollarin pie contest.
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The Big Parade
2 p.m. Saturday • up Main Street, around the square and down Third Street Gainesville’s population swells from a few hundred to a few thousand on Saturday afternoon of Hootin an Hollarin as spectators line the streets when the Big Parade steps off at 2 p.m. This year’s lineup promises to be another crowd pleaser, with marching bands, floats, antique cars and all sorts of other entries. Parade chairpersons Kerrie Zubrod and Heather Bushner say more parade floats are still needed. Keeping in mind this year’s festival theme – “Fun from the Old School,” – area organizations, families and individuals are encouraged to round up friends and neighbors, grab some creativity and build a float on a pickup bed or flat-top trailer to join the parade. There is a good chance your float will win prize money! The prize money (not to mention the fun of waving to all those smiling faces) makes floats worth the effort: $150 grand prize, $100 first place, $75 second place, $50 third place and $25 fourth place. Floats must be available for judging at 12:30 p.m. Saturday at the MoDOT maintenance shed on Highway MM behind and just west of the Dollar General store near Highways 160 and 5 north). It will open at 8 a.m. for float decorators. Line-up begins there at 1 p.m. with stepoff an hour later. The Shriners’ zany TR3s are scheduled to appear this year as well as a traffic jam of antique cars and a roaringgood assortment of other vehicles and contraptions, maybe even some hot-rod lawn mowers! These vehicles are welcome to line up on Highway MM just west of the entrance to the MoDOT shed (allowing room for the floats to come out). Horse riders can wait in the grassy area near O’Reilly Auto Parts for their turn to enter the parade lineup. Also joining the fun-loving parade will be the 2018 Hootin an Hollarin queen and her court, the 2018 junior princesses, the 2018 Lil Cedar Pete and Lil Miss Addie Lee, the 2017 Mr. and Miss Merry Christmas and, of course, the winners of Friday afternoon’s costume parade (they gather at Clinkingbeard Funeral Home to walk in the parade from that point). The parade route proceeds east from Highways 5 and MM up First Street, turning onto Main Street in front of Town & Country Supermarket and entering the southwest corner of the square, going around it and then exiting the square onto Third Street and dispersing from there. This year’s parade marshal is William Walrath (see page 50). He’ll be joined by a host of other folks waving from all sorts of vehicles, including the winners of the Lions Club’s Barney Douglas Citizen of the Year award, Wayne and Doris Sayles (see page 20).
A lineup of antique tractors is a fun addition to the floats, cars and other entries in each year’s H&H parade.
You might see a friendly face or two, like newspaper columnist Jerry Crownover, left, and 155th District Rep. Lyle Rowland, who rode in a side-by-side ATV in the 2017 parade.
The parade usually ends with a line of horses and riders (and a poop scooper!) from the Gainesville Saddle Club.
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The Hootin an Hollarin queen and her court ride in a float each year during the Hootin an Hollarin parade Saturday afternoon.
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Sweethearts under the brush arbor Mary and William T. "Bill" Herd rest under the Hootin an Hollarin brush arbor in 1962. The caption accompanying this photo in the Oct. 10, 1962, edition of the Times said Bill was 96, and Mary was 95. The paper called them “the oldest couple attending Hootin an Hollarin. The Herds had celebrated their 75th anniversary on Aug. 14. They lived off of NN Highway in Theodosia, according to their great-granddaughter Marilynn Peet, who said last week that Bill "built fences in daytime and worked his farm in the evening when his family was young." They had 12 children, 10 of whom were still living when this photo was taken, including one son, Walter, who had the mill and store at the original Theodosia before Bull Shoals Lake went in. Another son, Everett Herd, was Ozark County Superintendent of Schools for many years until his death in 1963. A national magazine – friends can't remember if it was Life or Look – once published a photo of Mary taking biscuits out of a wood-burning cookstove. Their other children were Allie Mahan, Lonnie Herd, Otis Herd, Ida Hart, Annie Baker, Nettie Mahan, Ernest Herd and Flossie Reich. Bill died three months after this photo was taken, in January 1963. Mary died in 1971. Eunice Herd McClelland is at right, and Doin Pitchford is standing at left.
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Marching up Main Street 1972
Susan Hicks, left, and Charlotte Sullivan Wood carry the banner as the Gainesville Bulldogs Band marches in the 1972 Hootin an Hollarin parade. Twirlers Patty Rackley (Donley) and Peggy Rackley (Johnson) follow the banner. The photo not only shows the band members from 46 years ago, it also shows the 1972 North Main Street businesses: Luna Tire Shop, Town & Country Supermarket and, under the tall roof in the back, right, Merle’s Tire Shop.
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Gainesville city maintenance supervisor William Walrath is the 2018 Hootin an Hollarin Parade Marshal William Walrath, the 2018 Hootin an Hollarin Parade Marshal, has seen a lot of changes since he first started working for the city of Gainesville in July 1975. Reminiscing recently, William, now Gainesville’s maintenance supervisor, said he’s worked for “a bunch of mayors and fill-ins,” including Ray Q. Smith, Frank McClendon, Bob Kruse, Kent Hannaford, Don Luna, current mayor Gail Reich and several others. He’s also attended more than 500 monthly city council meetings during his more than four decades with the city. “I haven’t missed many,” he says with a laugh. Two years after William began working for the city, after then water commissioner J. O. Wood died, he also took over the responsibility for keeping the city’s water system, including four wells, in good repair. Now the city is building a sewage treatment plant to replace the two sewage lagoons that have handled the job since William began his career with the city. He will work with maintenance worker Connelly Dunnerman to manage the new system. City Hall has operated in several different buildings in William’s 44 years, including what is now the Lions Club building, upstairs in the old hotel building on the northwest corner of the square, the basement of the courthouse, the building at Harlin Drive and Fourth Street that now serves as the 416th Bomb Wing Archive and finally in its current location in the former Amyx building. Another change is that the city limits have moved outward, expanding along Highway 181 and west on Highways 160/5 to include the Gainesville Medical Clinic and Gainesville Health Care Center. Most notably, perhaps, when William started working in Gainesville’s maintenance department in 1975, “the city didn’t even own a pickup. I had to use my own,” he said. Later, the city had a Ford 2000 tractor. “That’s all I had to do anything with,” he said. When it snowed, he used the tractor with a 5-foot blade to plow the few streets that got cleared. Now, he said, the city has pickups, trucks and tractors, a backhoe and two snowplows. And, since City Hall is now in the former Amyx Ford building, all the equipment is stored inside, a big improvement over the outside-parking days, he said. Not only has William worked for Gainesville most of his life, in 1953 he was also born right here in Gainesville in Dr. M. J. Hoerman’s office, now the home of the Ozark County Health Department. He was youngest of the 10 children – five girls, five boys – of Richard and Opal Walrath. He left school before graduating and began a career of hard physical work, first running a bushhog to clear land for the late Benton Breeding and cutting cordwood with his dad. Then he worked with Chester and Lester Strong doing carpenter work and later lived and worked at a sawmill for about a year in northern Missouri In 1972, William married Jeannie Burks, an Arkansas native he met through mutual relatives. They have one daughter, Lisa Walrath, and two grandchildren, Austin, 25, and Ashley, 18. For several years, Jeannie has worked as the secretary at Mammoth Assembly of God, and – no surprise – Williams helps there
Gainesville maintenance supervisor William Walrath, 2018 Hootin an Hollarin Parade Marshal, spreads salt on Gainesville sidewalks during a 2011 snowstorm. when needed, mowing the yard, changing light bulbs and “doing different things,” he said. He has also driven the church van for more than 30 years.
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Continued from page 50 Now 65, William often gets asked, “When are you going to retire?” but just as frequently, people tell him he can’t retire because too many Gainesville residents rely on him. Gainesville mayor Gail Reich said, “You can’t replace the wealth of knowledge William has about everything that keeps Gainesville going. I don’t know how we’ll ever replace him when he retires.” City clerk Lisa Goodnight added, “When you think of the city of Gainesville, it’s only natural to think of William. There are few of us who dedicate as many years to a job as William has. I believe he tries every day to give the town his very best.” Former mayor Don Luna said William knows the city water and sewer system so well because he was there when both were installed. “He can take you to any site and knows just about where the pipes are located,” Luna said. “He does his work during the day but is also on call nights and weekends if there’s a water leak.” Luna’s wife, Barbara, appreciates William’s skill in operating the city’s front-end loader. When a city water line broke at their house, “We watched William operate the front end loader very carefully around a flowering Rose of Sharon tree. He said he might not be able to avoid hitting it, but it still blooms today.” With 44 years of service to the city, William isn’t ready to retire – to residents’ relief. He says one of the things he likes about the job is, “You never know, when you start of a morning, what you’ll do that day,” he said. “We try to keep everything fixed.”
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Addie Lee Lister, 1917-2017 The woman known as the “First Lady of Hootin an Hollarin,” Addie Lee Lister, died Aug. 23, 2017, at the age of 100 in Prairie Village, Kansas. She was born July 4, 1917, in Calvert, Texas, and grew up in Fayetteville, Arkansas. She taught elementary school in Winslow, Arkansas, which was located near a CCC Camp (now Devil’s Den State Park). There she met a CCC worker, Roy Lister. They were married Dec. 29, 1939. Roy was drafted into World War II while attending pharmacy school and spent three years in the South Pacific. After the war, he completed pharmacy school, and in 1952 the Listers moved to Gainesville and opened Lister Drug Store and, later, Terry’s Dime Store. In Gainesville, Addie Lee was active in the Christian Church, Eastern Star and several other organizations. She was actively involved in the local and state PTA and was a charter member of PEO Chapter JP. She was involved in community betterment programs as well as 4-H Club leadership. Most notably, she helped conceive and organize Hootin an Hollarin (see story, page 53.). Her role as a founder of the longstanding festival is commemorated each year when a young girl is named “Lil Miss Addie Lee.” Mrs. Lister is survived by her son, Terry Lister and wife Charlotte, granddaughter Sarah Venable, and four great-grandchildren, all of Overland Park, Kansas; and many friends. She was preceded in death by her parents and her husband. Memorial contributions may be made to Friends of Devil’s Den State Park, P.O. Box 623, West Fork, AR 72774-0623, or devilsden.org.
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Our Historic Festival A week after Gainesville’s first Hootin an Hollarin in 1961, the Ozark County Times reported, “Ozark County festival draws largest crowds in years; may become annual event.” That was Nov. 2, 1961, and Hootin an Hollarin has been drawing large crowds to the Gainesville square every fall since then. The festival came about when local Extension agent Fred Oehring and the county agent for community affairs, Doyle Sanders, organized a meeting to bring together three distinctive factions of Ozark Countians – country folks, townspeople and resort owners – around a common “community interest.” Two hundred people attended that first meeting, and among the ideas shared was Addie Lee Lister’s idea of holding a special day with booths to demonstrate early homemaking skills and other crafts. Addie Lee credits the late Ed Petterson, an artistic woodworker, with creating the name Hootin an Hollarin. The first festival was held the last weekend in October with Springfield radio entertainer Loyd Evans serving as master of ceremonies and Rex Ebrite and J. J. Pace serving as announcers.
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In the early years, area blacksmiths, including Isaac Doss, shown here in an undated photo, would sometimes set up their anvils, forges and other blacksmithing equipment on the Gainesville square to demonstrate the old-time ways.
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The schedule was filled with demonstrations by local residents making lye soap, hominy, sorghum, shingle shakes and other old-time items. A horse-drawn haywagon took customers on a moonlight ride to the ballpark and back, and blacksmith Henry Hubbard of Brixey brought in his forge and shod six horses during the event. (see photo, page 62) . The Pontiac Area Association (now incorporated into the Theodosia Chamber of Commerce) served charcoal-grilled hamburgers and other delicious choices, and on Saturday a “basket dinner” was served on the courthouse lawn, open to everyone. The Times reported that the food for the dinner was contributed by the Lions Club and local residents. Servers listed were Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Pace, Lyndell Strong, Dorcas Rackley, Betty Rackley, Mrs. G. R. Crisp, Mrs. G. W. Rogers, Mrs. Loren Taylor, Helen Marie Luna, Frances Johnson and Lou Anna Wade. To serve as a landmark for the event, a cabin, someone’s former smokehouse, was moved to the southwest corner of the square by “Roy Smith, who hauled it in almost intact,” the Times reported. “He was aided by Mel Hambelton, M. L. Kirkpatrick, O’Dean Evans, John Dodson and others. Elbert Owen of Dora supplied a cornshuck mop and Mrs. G. R. Crisp a gourd dipper for atmosphere. Gordon Archie of Theodosia and Nick Salst of Ocie brought in rails for a stake-and-rider fence.” A moonshine still – or parts of one –stood next to the cabin. Several years ago, Addie Lee Lister (see tribute, page 52) recounted how it came to be there: “What I really wanted was a still. I knew it couldn’t actually be a working still, but I thought we could have parts of one to make a display. I asked around town if Addie Lee List wished for a still to display anyone knew anyone who had a still, and of course everyone insisted they’d never at Hootin an Hollarin, and in 1963, she heard of anybody having one. But then one morning I stepped out on the front porch woke up one morning to find this one on of our house in Gainesville, and here was all this stuff - metal parts and things. It the porch of her Gainesville home. was a still,” she said.
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This photo was published in the Oct. 10, 1963, Times with a caption that pointed out the “fine example of rail fencing” and identified the costumed-clad group as, from left, Diane Dreckman (White), Bobbie Shaw, Felicia Ann Sparks, Dana Crisp, Carma Rose and Faunlee Breeding (Harle).
Addie Lee hauled all the parts down to the square and deposited them by the cabin. As she tried to set it up she was watched by “the loafers,” as she called the old men who sat on the courthouse lawn benches, whittling and talking. “They were hollering that I was doing it wrong,” she said. “But when I said, ‘Well, come over here and show me how it goes,’ they claimed they didn’t know how it went together – they just knew I was doing it wrong.” The first festival featured coon-dog trials, greased-pig scrambles, a best-decorated hat contest, cake walks and contests judging turkey and cow calling, fox horn blowing, archery, horseshoes, fiddling, square dancing and other skills. Nighttime entertainment was furnished by local musicians and out-of-towners too, including Randolph Hutchison, Grant Wallace, Everett Wallace, Hoy Shaw, Leonard Croney, Bobby Sullivan, Theodore Shipley, Willard Cobb, Phyllis Wood. Loyd Evans, Rusty and Vera Cline, Curt Williams, Terry and Jerry Gott and Ezra Hawkins. Now, more than 50 years later, today’s Hootin an Hollarin still draws large crowds to the Gainesville square. Each year’s theme and lineup change while the focus remains the same. The emphasis is still on Ozark County people and their traditions, on having fun and commemorating the past while enjoying great country music and reconnecting with friends and family.
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Peddlers of pioneer goods Black-felt short-brim hats were popular Hootin an Hollarin items in the festival’s early days. In this 1968 photo, Violet Morrison, left, and Dyana Crawford operate the information and souvenir table as several shoppers, including Ola Herd, look over the merchandise.
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Vendors and demonstrators Vendor and booth chairpersons LaVese Ericksen and Barbara Luna say the Hootin an Hollarin committee has had their ears open to suggestions from past festival-goers. In response, this year’s event will include 12 new vendors! Crafts and handmade items As always, handmade items and craft booths will be plentiful at this year’s Hootin an Hollarin festival. Some items that will be offered for sale include clever and unique handmade pottery items, handcarved canes, hiking sticks and log jewelry from the Rose Family Wood Product booth, Steve and Carye Miller’s popular leather goods, stained-glass windows by Debbie Jordan and honey and other bee-related items. Dozens of other booths will offer a wide variety of items such as handmade wooden toys, wire wrapped jewelry, lawn ornaments and “redneck gifts.” See the vendor booth map on page 59 for a listing of all booths and their products. VFD raffles and Farm Bureau’s raffle Brixey/Rockbridge, Lick Creek, Wasola and Tecumseh VFDs are scheduled to set up at their usual spots for their annual gun raffles. Timber Knob VFD is raffling off a BBQ grill at their booth, and Farm Bureau has also appeared on this year’s vendor map for a raffle fundraiser. Demonstrations and activities In addition to their gun raffle, Brixey/Rockbridge VFD will have a dunking booth, ready for patrons to try their hand at hitting the target and plunging a firefighter or other volunteer into the icy water tank below. The Missouri Department of Conservation is planning to operate an educational booth with a wildlife display. It’s unclear what wildlife will make an appearance, but the taxidermy wild hog they brought last year was a big hit with young and old festival-goers! The Ozark County Volunteer Library booth will include a book sale
and free kids’ coloring station, and a free ragdoll making station will offer kids another fun option (see page 29 for more information). Homemade bread and homemade butter will be available for a nominal fee at the information check-in booth just to the right of the main stage on the east side of the square. Quilting, knitting, crocheting and spinning demonstrations can also be seen there. Games and other fun Grab your cowboy hat and test out your rodeo skills at a new mechanical bull ride that will provide some fun this year for all ages in a booth in the Century Bank parking lot. The fun just keeps coming if you continue around the square to the west side where several local school groups will have game fundraisers ready for participant action. The GHS junior class booth will host a bean bag toss game, the GHS seniors will have their popular dart booth and wheel of fortune and the GHS band will host a ring toss. After many years of operating the Hootin an Hollarin barrel train, long a favorite feature for many toddlers, the Dora High School FFA is donating the train to the Hootin an Hollarin committee, which is seeking another operator. Organizers say at some point during the festival there will be free barrel train rides, but they were unable to provide a schedule at press time. Any updates will be posted on the Ozark County Times Facebook page. Festival goers can also check in at the Hootin an Hollarin festival information booth next to the main stage during the festival to ask when the free rides will be offered. For free fun, kids should check out the terrapin races and kids’ games at 11 a.m. Friday and Saturday in front of City Hall. Another round of free old-fashioned kids’ games will be held at 4:30 p.m. Saturday in the Amyx lot just off the northwest side of the square (across from City Hall). See pages 26 and 27 for more information on these free options.
The Ava Art Guild members’ elaborately painted gourds are popular items each year in their Hootin an Hollarin booth.
The Rose Family Wood Products booth will feature these beautiful log jewelry boxes for purchase.
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Festival food and treats (See page 59 for a map detailing vendors locations.) One of the best things about any festival is the food, and Hootin an Hollarin is no exception. This year's lineup will include main dishes from a variety of different merchants including a new vendor, Running Wild BBQ from Garden City Missouri. Situated just at the end of the school booths on the west side of the square, they'll be serving up roasted whole turkey legs, barbecued chicken, beef and pork. One of their most popular items, signature loaded fries, feature a generous serving of crispy french fries topped with smoked BBQ meat and sharp cheese. If that description doesn't seem to satisfy your taste buds, ask to have your loaded fries served "Ozark style," and you'll get a helping of coleslaw and baked beans right on top of it all. Also serving up their famous barbecued smoked meats is the popular Mom and Pop's BBQ booth, located just off the southeast side of the square, near Highway 160. They return to this year's festival with their tasty ribs, pulled pork and barbecued chicken. For those in the traditional hillbilly mood, the Victory Family Worship Center is the spot for homemade beans and cornbread, followed by one of Hootin an Hollarin's historic funnel cakes. If your mood leans more toward a fiesta, try out Gainesville's own Fried & Frozen food truck, making a return this year with their delectable tacos, nachos, burritos, french fries, ice cream and other frosty treats. Trinity Worship Center's Cornerstone Cookery booth will be selling their signature cookery, a tasty skillet-cooked mixture of potatoes, veggies and sausage. The Theodosia Chamber of Commerce will have their highly-anticipated hamburgers, hotdogs and frito pies at their booth on the southeast corner of the square. The Nut Wagon plans to serve up corn dogs, brats and their famous roasted nuts this year. Kettle corn, pork rinds and funnel cakes will be available from the longtime Hootin an Hollarin vendor, Mountain Home Kettle Corn, located on the northwest side of the square, across from City Hall. And don't forget your sweet tooth! Billy Jack's Root Beer will be offering homemade root beer and root beer floats, Cascading Sweets is serving up chocolate covered fruit, ice cream and nachos, the Sweet Home Lemonade booth can quench your thirst and the Tropical Sno booth has a variety of shaved ice options. Take a stroll through the school booth row, located on the west side of the square, and you'll find grilled corn and caramel apples at the GHS project grad booth, cotton candy at the GHS Junior class booth, cheesecake bites at the GHS band booth, baked goods at the GHS baseball booth and potatoes on a stick, hotdogs and walking tacos from the Lutie senior/ junior and FFA booth. Local restaurants The Antler, Deb & Lou’s, MO Dawgs food truck and Subway will also be open during the festival. Call for information on open times and menus.
The Theodosia Chamber of Commerce’s hamburger, cheeseburger, hotdog and frito pie booth is a favorite of many Hootin an Hollarin festival goers including Marty Morrison, pictured left, with volunteer Melissa Myers in this 2016 photo.
Running Wild BBQ, a new vendor at Hootin an Hollarin this year, is serving up whole roasted turkey legs, smoked beef, chicken and pork and their signature loaded fries (served with sharp cheese and your choice of meat). If you want to really do it up good, ask for your loaded fries to be served “Ozark style,” and you’ll get a healthy topping of coleslaw and baked beans right on top.
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MFA Gas
Pending
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Missouri Conservation
Jewelry, Fan Pull
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Homemade Root Beer & Floats
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Ulla Farrow
Brixey/Rockbridge VFD—Gun Raffle, Dunking Booth
Toys, Pictures, Yard Ornaments
Fried & Frozen
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Custom T’s, Seat Covers, Hair Bows, Wooden Signs
Information Check-in Booth #3
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Amy Williams
Quilting, Knitting Crocheting, Spinning, Bread Making
Handmade Porcelain Ornaments. Sewn
#3 A & B Demonstrations
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Century Bank Parking Lot
Trey Scott
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Bleachers
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Food Crafts
Community Info/Fund Raiser
School/ DemonGames strations
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Leather Goods
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Dean Henry
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Steve & Carye Miller
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Pulled Pork, Chicken, Ribs
160 Highway
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Mechanical Bull
Sweet Home Lemonade
Nancy Wallace
39
Randy Longwell
83
Sonya Thaning Tacos, nachos, burritos, fries, ice cream
Knit, crochet, embroid.
38 Mom & Pop’s BBQ
Ozark Co. Ambulance First Aid
Fire Pit/Guns Raffle
Afghans, Towels, Scrubbers
MO Pickles & Jellies
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Elohi Spirit Gourds Gourds, Beaded Art
Raffle Fundraiser
36
Kathryn Yost
Wasola VFD
Fabric items, Wahoo
Tecumseh VFD
Pickle Me
80
Fire Pit/Guns Raffle
Gene Mace
35
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Debbie Lloyd
82
Carole Brown
Stage Area
Wasola VFD
Wire wrapped jewelry, gemstone candles
Crafts Fundraiser
Pouring Out Joy Upcycle/recycle iitems, jewelry
Honey, bee cream
Olga Kravchenko
Caney VFD
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Backstage Area Do Not Block
Billy Jack’s Root Beer
Books for Sale
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Amanda Newton
potato on a stick, hot dogs, walking tacos, mums, raffle
Pending
Judie Dresch
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Wooden Keyrings, Name/Pic Mats
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37 Pending
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10
Repurposed glass lawn ornaments, wire spool tables, auto decals
Bob—Mary Paul Fishing poles +
33
Family Worship Center Beans & Cornbread, Drinks, Funnel Cakes
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Tim Stout
Stone Penguin Pottery
Ozark County Library
Toys, kids’ items redneck gifts, bird feeders
Pending
Century Bank
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32 Street
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31 Victory
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Lutie Seniors, Juniors, FFA
GHS Band
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Sound Truck
Street
Planter Judy Evans
Wooden toys
5
Square Dance Platforms
50 DayStar Shirts
12 Jim & C. Carr
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Court House & Courtyard
28
Alley
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Wildlife Display
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Races 76a Terrapin & Kids’ Games
Indian Jewelry
26
Cody Kendall
52 Debbie Jordan
15
Quilt Show Located in “The Meeting Place” on 3rd Street 3rd St.
25
29
Timber Knob VFD—Raffle-Grill
16
24
Skillet Cookery
Wood Work
Chocolate-covered Fruit, Ice Cream, Nachos
Belts, Wallets, Misc. items
Turkey Legs, Chicken, Beef, Pork
Handmade Ceramics
Gaye Lowery
Trinity Worship
17
Sidewalk
54 Cascading Sweets
Leather Shop
Running Wild BBQ
Denise Barber
Art Guild 55 Ava Art & Crafts
Jan Hillhouse quilts, tutus,bows
Street
Hannah Mozingo 56 Soaps, Salts, Journals
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Tom & Rose Combs
Canes, hiking sticks, log jewelry
48 Blondies’
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Studio 160
Cedar Creek Rustic—Wood Furniture
Wood Products
Painted Glass Windows, Towels, Pillows
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Bonnets, aprons, market bags, totes
The Nut Wagon Roasted Nuts, Brats, Corn Dogs
Wood Art Plaques, Dream Catchers
58 Rose Family
51
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Biscuit Snatchers
60 CE Woodworks
Kids—Make a Ragdoll for FREE
Work, Walking stick
Beadwork, Paint on Wood
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Jeanine James—Hair accessories, jewelry
Marion Belt
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Jim Raley Wood -
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GHS Baseball
Cheesecake Bites, Ring Toss
Wheel Fortune
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Bags, Santas, Snowmen
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Street
Carroll Wise
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Baked Goods
Planter
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GHS Seniors Dart Booth
Cotton Candy, Sodas
GHS Juniors
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City Hall
Bean Bag Toss
66
Bleachers
GHS Proj. Grad Grilled CornCaramel apples
65 GHS Juniors
64
Planter
Scented Hot Pads, Potato Bags, Kool Ties, Rings
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Saturday 4 p.m. Games for Kids Amyx Parking Lot
School Fundraising Booths
63b Wendy Wimmer 63a
N. Main Street Ball Fields
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Quilt Show 3rd St. Town & Country S. Main
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Festival Arts and Crafts fair 1964
The Ozark County Arts and Crafts Association operated a marketplace in the former A. D. McDonald store (now the Ozark County Historium) to sell their hand-crafted creations during the 1964 and 1965 Hootin an Hollarins. A photo in the Oct. 14, 1964, edition of the Times identified members of the association as Jessi Rose, Delphia Carter, Cathering Jessup, Hilda Stanley, Rose Ranck, Mable Baker, Mildred Shipley, Bessie Freeman, Helen Osborn and Lude Cole.
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What is the Historium?
Besides being the place to discover your personal Ozark County history it is...
...where you can learn traditional crafts such as basketmaking (and also quilting and knitting and more...
... where you can enjoy hearing and learning about traditional Ozarks-style music...
The Historium is where volunteers make a difference in our community (please join us!), and it’s where friends, old and new, find common ground and those with a connection can find one another. And it’s where we all learn more about our area. Join us at 10 a.m. Oct. 4 for Prof. Brooks Belvins’ presentation about his new book series “A History of the Ozarks.”
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Saluting the flag Hootin an Hollarin visitors stand and salute as the Ozark County Honor Guard carries the flags in the 2017 Big Parade.
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The Calling Contests Cow, pig, turkey and husband calling categories
4:30 p.m. Saturday • Main Stage, east side of the square Come on down to the square around 4 p.m. Saturday, and you might be surprised by the crazy sounds coming from the main stage. Don’t be alarmed. It’s Hootin an Hollarin’s famous calling contests! Enjoy the fun as contestants yip, yell, yelp and (of course!) hoot and hollar to bring home the herd, flock or husband – and also a trophy. Four calling categories include cow, pig, turkey and husband. Those who wish to participate should sign up behind the main stage just prior to the show. Then, when your turn comes, step out there on stage and let the audience hear – and see – your best call.
Cynthia Thompson gives a chuckle after giving her best husbandcall in the 2017 competition.
Olivia Vega had a little moral support from her pug dog during Zane Hardin gave his most seriher time on stage in the 2017 calling contests. ous cow call.
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Tonie Jenkins, broom-maker
The Oct. 14, 1965, Ozark County Times pictured Tonie Jenkins of Pontiac demonstrating broom making on equipment once owned by his father, the late J. G. Jenkins, who had come to Ozark County in 1892. At first the senior Jenkins used homemade equipment then bought this set in 1915 and used it until his death in 1942. Tonie had helped his father for about 20 years and continued to make brooms after his father's death, using broom corn he had grown himself. He told the Times in 1965 that the next year, he planned to plant more broom corn and have a supply of brooms to sell as, he said, he could have sold many more than he was able to make during his demonstrations.
1961 Hootin an Hollarin: Six horses were shod Henry Hubbard brought his forge and set up an outdoor blacksmith shop on the square for the first Hootin an Hollarin in October 1961. The Times reported in its Nov. 2 edition that "Six owners took advantage of the shop and had their horses shod" during the festival. Here, Jack Campbell, at the anvil, uses Hubbard’s blacksmith outfit on the courthouse lawn while Times owner and publisher Fred Robins turns the bellows.
Do you need to GO? The Ozark County courthouse will be open from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Thursday and Friday so festival patrons may use the restrooms inside. Portable toilets will be available for festival guests to use throughout the festival and when the courthouse is closed. They can be found behind Century Bank, near City Hall, near Town & Country Supermarket and other locations. A handicap accessible portable toilet is available near City Hall on the northwest side of the square.
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Celebrating the first Hootin an Hollarin Springfield News-Leader Betty Love took this 1961 photo of Alice Bayless, left, holding a gourd dipper, and Ozark County Times publisher Ruby Robins, with a corn-shuck mop, in front of the Hootin an Hollarin cabin, a former smokehouse that had been brought to the square for the first Hootin an Hollarin by Roy Smith and erected by Smith with help from Mel Hambelton, M. L. Kirkpatrick, O'Dean Evans, John Dodson and others, according to the Nov. 2, 1961, edition of the Times, which also reported that Elbert Owen had supplied the corn shuck mop and Mrs. G. R. Crisp the gourd dipper.
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