A blog about the history of the Ozarks and the people who have lived in the region from the earliest recorded history to today.
![Pumping Water](https://shilohmuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/2006-132-151-featured.jpg)
Pumping Water
Tom Farish and an identified worker at a irrigation pond in Lowell (Benton County), July 1946. . . .
![Restroom Recuerdos](https://shilohmuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/guitar.jpg)
Restroom Recuerdos
Working in and around museums for well over twenty years has jaded me somewhat. Considering all the cool and different . . .
![Pillow Sham](https://shilohmuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/pillow-sham-featured.jpg)
Pillow Sham
During World War II, souvenir pillow shams were popular gifts sent from soldiers to family and friends back home. This sham boasts a golden castle in the upper left hand corner, the symbol . . .
![Frisco Coaling Tower](https://shilohmuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/88-156-11-featured.jpg)
Frisco Coaling Tower
Frisco Railroad coaling tower at Fayette Junction, a switchyard that was located in present-day south Fayetteville . . .
![Dinner with the Ladies](https://shilohmuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/87-127-25-109346_1000x675.jpg)
Dinner with the Ladies
A bountiful table was set for an elegant dinner at the W. H. Cecil home in Boone County, circa 1905. . . .
![Bustle](https://shilohmuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/bustle-featured.jpg)
Bustle
Bustles were used mainly in the mid-to-late nineteenth century to expand and support the back of a woman’s dress. This “Taylor’s Cushion No. 2” woven wire bustle dates from the early 1900s . . .
![Emerson “Patriot” Radio](https://shilohmuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/emerson-radio-featured.jpg)
Emerson “Patriot” Radio
In 1940, with U.S. involvement in World War II on everyone’s mind, Emerson Radio and Phonograph Company and industrial designer Norman Bel Geddes created the “Patriot”. . .
![Taste of Tontitown](https://shilohmuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Fern-recipe-900x675.jpg)
Taste of Tontitown
Ravioli was on my mind during a phone conversation with Nova Jean Fiori Watson. That’s not why I called her, but as we finished our business . . .
![Highway 12 Bridge](https://shilohmuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/86-124-38-24-featured.jpg)
Highway 12 Bridge
Bobby Smitherman (from left), with Debbie, Greg, and Mike Mohney, take a look at the new Highway 12 bridge spanning . . .
![Pencil Box](https://shilohmuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/pencil-box-F.jpg)
Pencil Box
This pencil box belonged to Claud McCuistion of Rogers, who died in November 1919 at the age of thirteen due to injuries sustained in a runaway wagon accident. . . .