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More than a century into history, Missouri's show caves still draw visitors for unique features (opens the original)
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J.A. Truitt was known as Cave Man of the Ozarks. In the early 1900s, he developed a half-dozen or so show caves in southwest Missouri. As a book about him put it, Truitt discovered “gold in our vast subterranean corridors and it was not sealed in a weathered chest. It came, and comes annually, from the thousands of tourists who beat paths to the mouths of many caves that he discovered and developed for sight-seeing.” That book – titled "From the Cradle to the Cave" – was published in 1954. Even
Wooden coffins made by local hands, carrying on tradition (opens the original)
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Handmade wooden coffins are buried in Ozarks history. Just a few short decades ago, they were the work of rural neighbors. When someone died, locals often came together to build a coffin and dig the grave, taking care of many details for the departed together. Culture has changed, but there are still a few people in the region who are making wooden coffins by hand. One of them is John Meyer, a young bluegrass musician who builds coffins at his rural Webster County home. “I think people that have
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