Ep. 242 - The Old Ozarks - Willie French Goes a-Hunting (S2:E6)
Welcome to the Old Ozarks with Dr. Brooks Blevins...
This week, we're a-huntin' and a-fishin' through the diary of a Shannon County farm boy who came of age just as the Ozarks' wildlife paradise was slipping away.
We'll start with "a-prefixing," that old Ozark and Appalachian habit of putting an "a" on the front of a verb — straight out of 18th-century English nursery rhymes like "A-Hunting We Will Go" and "The Twelve Days of Christmas," and still alive in hollers today.
Then it's on to the long sweetenin', the teenage hunting diary of Willie French, who logged every possum, muskrat, and…
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