Photographer and long time friend Don House (right) prepares notes Monday, May 10, 2021, as Janet Parsch, fellow hiker and long time friend, places a microphone on Ken Smith, an original member of the Ozark Society and author of The Buffalo River Country, published in 1967, before an interview of Smith inside the Ritter-McDonald Cabin on the grounds of the Shiloh Museum of Ozark History in Springdale. The video will be part of an exhibit starting at the museum in January about Smith and his...
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Photographer and long time friend Don House (right) prepares notes Monday, May 10, 2021, as Janet Parsch, fellow hiker and long time friend, places a microphone on Ken Smith, an original member of the Ozark Society and author of The Buffalo River Country, published in 1967, before an interview of Smith inside the Ritter-McDonald Cabin on the grounds of the Shiloh Museum of Ozark History in Springdale. The video will be part of an exhibit starting at the museum in January about Smith and his 1964-65 expedition into the Buffalo River Valley that led to his book. The book was part of the larger effort to save the Buffalo River. The year 2022 marks the 50th anniversary of the river that is the first river designated as a national river. Check out nwaonline.com/210511Daily/ and nwadg.com/photos for a photo gallery.
(NWA Democrat-Gazette/David Gottschalk)
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