"Robert Neathery's vignettes, enriched with evocative illustrations, comprise a legacy that demonstrates biography as the lifeblood of cultural memory. Neathery shows that the best thing about Ozarks history is its people. Let one of our premier storytellers introduce you to a past that will not come again, and to a full life lived with good-natured optimism."
Lynn Morrow, Historian
Missouri State Archives
Office of Missouri Secretary of State



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"West Plains As I Knew It"
is a 395 page book from Elder Mountain Press, West Plains, MO

Robert Neathery was a veteran broadcaster and radio pioneer, who brought radio and cable television to south central Missouri. This book contains his recollections of life and business in small town America, and details his prodigious memories of virtually all of the happenings, noteworthy or not, of 20th century life in West Plains, Missouri.

Marideth Sisco is an award-winning journalist. She teaches English composition at Southwest Missouri State University-West Plains, and literature and Ozarks folklore studies at Drury University, Cabool, Missouri.

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