J.K. Ross, the Garber correspondent for the Taney County Republican newspaper, had this to say on December 3, 1906, regarding the November 29 event. This is just beautiful. 

Showing dozens of rare photos, many by photographer George Hall from the years 1908 through 1915, Sypult went into deep discussion showing rare photography of the railway in Branson and took everyone on a photographic look of the thirty miles between Branson and Crane.

Alfred Alexander was born in 1898 in Jackson County, Missouri, to Thomas and Mary Patterson Alexander. 

Carolina was born Helen Hagstrom in Cash, Arkansas, October 20, 1925. Her parents, Fred and Helen were peanut and cotton farmers.

Kay stated that what he had just said would be a good title for a new song, so he sat on the edge of the bed and wrote the verse and melody. 

It just so happens that today would have been Marty's 100th birthday, born on September 26, 1925.

Honestly at that very moment, everything froze. I slightly choked up and still managed to give him my answer, "absolutely, Sir," I stated. 

In late 2010 going into 2011 we started taking the Roy Rogers Jr. and the High Riders performances out on the road for occasional dates. There were several that were an absolute hoot.

In November 1994, I got to see Tommy onstage for the first time since 1988, and we traveled a long way to catch him and all the SOP...

he Sons of the Pioneers were scheduled for nightly performances, September 17 to October 19, 1984. The crowds were beyond what anyone could have imagined, and Ken asked the group to perform through the end of October. 

He was our Sons of the Pioneers Trail Boss, only the fourth in the group's 91-year history as well as the group's fourth lead guitarist.

There are loads of columns that gave news of the happenings here in our Garber neighborhood.

It's not known how and when Gussie took up the fiddle, but it's very evident that he played at a number of parties and dances for several years. 

Settling in a cabin just to the south of Roark Creek in 1888, their official homestead patent date came on February 12, 1892.

Cooley's musical influence was his father John, a talented fiddler, who often played local dances.

A total of five tunnels were constructed, and there were 284 bridges built as well.

The Native Americans had a presence here for generations hunting and then came the arrival of the early white man and explorers. 

   Each community in Taney County had a weekly correspondent who would give their area news and happenings, and here in Garber, J.K. Ross (of Old Matt fame) wrote weekly for 22 years...

 Stuart would become California based, and his music career would take off in the Los Angeles area in the early 1930s.