For the past 10 years, editors of Missouri State University-West Plains’ (MSU-WP) Elder Mountain: A Journal of Ozarks Studies have shared an array of masterfully written pieces and beautifully framed images touting the unique characteristics of this region we call home. Some of the pieces that have painted the most vivid verbal pictures, however, have been those written by the … [Read more...] about Area’s natural beauty inspires writer’s work for ‘Elder Mountain’