A Portrait of the Ozarks Part I - Shannon County: Home

The first of two 1981 documentaries ("Shannon County: Home" and "Shannon County: Hearts of the Children") composed of footage shot in Shannon County, Missouri, in 1978 and 1979.

Topics include a funeral, fox hunting with dogs, farming, building a brush arbor for a Pentecostal church service, gig fishing, skidding logs, mules, railroad tie hacking, political campaigning, education, square dancing, distilling whiskey, dogs, the town of Eminence, Shannon County's court system, fiddle and guitar music, Memorial Day, deer hunting and butchering, and trading.

Original film located in Special Collections, Meyer Library, Missouri State University. For more information on the Shannon County Film Digitization Project: http://purl.missouristate.edu/library...