Just an announcement letting readers know that my blog will be moving to my website Ozark Healing Traditions. This website houses all of my entries, including all of the new ones and the ones I archived. There’s a lot of information there, so I hope you all enjoy and find it useful. Thank you to all my supporters and I look forward to many more adventures with you in the future ..read more

Here in Fayetteville, Arkansas, there’s an otherwise unassuming Victorian home over in the Historic District that some know as the “Stringfellow House” but few are aware of the full tale of the Stringfellow family. More information about the family can be found in Stephen Chism’s book, The Afterlife of Leslie Stringfellow: A Nineteenth-Century Southern Family’s Experiences with Spiritualism. It’s a fascinating story that I was very surprised to read when I found Chism’s book in the library one day. I will try and get the details as close to accurate as possible. The Stringfellow family was ..read more

First off, thank you to everyone who has helped me over the years to bring workshops, hikes, and healing sessions to Northwest Arkansas and beyond.  Ozark Healing Traditions started off as a blog called Mountain Man Healing about seven years ago. Back then I was participating in a project where I would write about Ozark folk magic and medicine every day for an entire year. Many of those posts can still be found on my website .  Soon the blog turned into giving lectures on Ozark history and folk medicine at several local conferences. Then the news spread and I went from just writing and o ..read more