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Shiloh Museum Teaches Youngsters Traditional Ozark Ballads

J. Froelich
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Ozarker ballad singers, left to right, Richard Whitaker, Fiona Davis, Elizabeth Davis, mother Stacy Davis, Kyla Cross and Jack Davis inside Shiloh General Store.

A collective of talented home-schoolers spends Tuesday mornings in a nineteenth century dry goods store on the Shiloh Museum of Ozark History grounds learning old Ozarker ballads. Their instructor, traditional Ozark song scholar, Lyle Sparkman, is passionate about his calling.

Jacqueline Froelich is an investigative reporter and news producer for Ozarks at Large.
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