Introduction
Published in University of Illinois Press eBooks • Nov 15, 2021
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Authors:
Brooks Blevins
Abstract
A fancy banquet hall in a swanky hotel seems an unlikely venue to kick off the first regionwide folk festival in the Ozarks—unless, that is, none of the folk are actually there. When festival organizers and local dignitaries gathered in the Crystal Room of Springfield’s Kentwood Arms on the evening ...