WANDERING THE OZARKS : Goshen earns award for farm, community improvements

BY VELDA BROTHERTON vebrotherton@gmail.com www.authorsden.com/veldabrotherton

For quite some time I've wanted to do a story about Goshen, but haven't been able to locate much information on the small town 7.5 miles east of Fayetteville on Highway 45. Or, if you go to Tuttle on Highway 74 out of Elkins, like we do, you can take a beautiful scenic drive north into the heart of this small, active community.. Still, most of what I have doesn't date back to the beginnings of this town, but the farther into the 21st century we go, the more we must consider the 20th century part of our history. It's occurred to me that I myself have become one of those old-timers others talk to about history. It's my early years they are interested in. So when a friend gave me some information on Goshen from the 1950s I decided to go with that. I want to start with what little I've learned about the settlement of Goshen From 1874 to 1876 the community was College Grove. A post office opened in 1876 under the name of Goshen and the name remains today. - Thursday, January 1, 2009

Olde hill country 'sayins'

After writing last week's column telling of the hill folks who settled the Ozarks region, I decided to share a few of the old sayings they brought with them from the old country, which can still be heard in rural areas. A lady much like "Queen of the Hillbillies," May Kennedy McCord, I talked about last week was a favorite of school teachers of mine years ago. Pauline Steele grew up near West Fork and was an authority on local history. She wrote a book, "Hill Country Sayins' and Ozark Folklore." Let me share a few of the "sayins" she recorded. Some of these sayings had more than one meaning. I'll give the ones she gave. You may remember using them in some other way. Here they are: "Acts like a fish out of water" -- a person who does not know what to do next. "At the end of my rope" -- don't know what to do next. "Anti-goglin" -- also kitty or catty cornered. Going from one corner to another in a slanting line or direction. "A drop in the bucket" -- trying to measure what you have done by the amount someone el - Thursday, January 1, 2009