Calico Rock Museum
Everyday Living
The life of a family in steamboat times
was far different than that of a family
living during the railroad boom. Both
lifestyles are vastly different from
families living today.
In the frontier days, country doctors
rode horses to communities
throughout the region to provide
medical care. Today, the community is
blessed with a state-of-the-art medical
facility that serves as a trauma center
for the region. Country schools in
every community gave way through
consolidation to the state-of-the-art
school we have today. People used to
hold camp meetings before modern
churches began to develop with
congregations. Boys played baseball
in leagues that traveled to little towns
all around. These circuits helps
prepare Elwin "Preacher" Roe for his
turn at the Major Leagues.
The everyday tasks such as growing a
garden, raising livestock, doing
laundry, making your own soap and
butter, and getting from one place to
another has changed over time. Life
in the Ozarks has been captured
seriously and satiracly in a myriad of
ways from the book Life in the
Leatherwoods to the movie The
Bootleggers. The museum will tell the
story of the ordinary lives of everyday
people.
was far different than that of a family
living during the railroad boom. Both
lifestyles are vastly different from
families living today.
In the frontier days, country doctors
rode horses to communities
throughout the region to provide
medical care. Today, the community is
blessed with a state-of-the-art medical
facility that serves as a trauma center
for the region. Country schools in
every community gave way through
consolidation to the state-of-the-art
school we have today. People used to
hold camp meetings before modern
churches began to develop with
congregations. Boys played baseball
in leagues that traveled to little towns
all around. These circuits helps
prepare Elwin "Preacher" Roe for his
turn at the Major Leagues.
The everyday tasks such as growing a
garden, raising livestock, doing
laundry, making your own soap and
butter, and getting from one place to
another has changed over time. Life
in the Ozarks has been captured
seriously and satiracly in a myriad of
ways from the book Life in the
Leatherwoods to the movie The
Bootleggers. The museum will tell the
story of the ordinary lives of everyday
people.
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