Ozark Saints - Cavner, Howard C
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Ozark Saints describes people, a dog, and values from real and imagined tales that influenced Howard Cavner as he lived in the limestone hills and valleys of the Ozarks. Cavner is proud of his Ozark roots and the moniker, Hillbilly. When he was in graduate school, a fellow student would introduce him to a new student, noting that a hillbilly's legs were often not the same length due to standing all his life on the side of uneven hills in the Ozarks. Little did the new student realize that it was a rehearsed act with Howard already standing there leaning imperceptibly to one side with the…mehr

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Ozark Saints describes people, a dog, and values from real and imagined tales that influenced Howard Cavner as he lived in the limestone hills and valleys of the Ozarks. Cavner is proud of his Ozark roots and the moniker, Hillbilly. When he was in graduate school, a fellow student would introduce him to a new student, noting that a hillbilly's legs were often not the same length due to standing all his life on the side of uneven hills in the Ozarks. Little did the new student realize that it was a rehearsed act with Howard already standing there leaning imperceptibly to one side with the opposite leg dangling loose in the air. The Ozark Saints described in these pages would enjoy the joke. The hillbillies in Howard's life were keen observers of life and generous in times of need. Meet these grand people in the stories of Ozark Saints. You may know them or want to be one of them. You will laugh, tear up, and be inspired.
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Ozark Saints is Howard Cavner's first book of short stories. He considers it a blessing to have lived his childhood and young adult years in Branson, Missouri. He attended school there from kindergarten through high school. His inquisitiveness would lead him to earn a Master of Science in Rural Sociology from the University of Missouri-Columbia and a Master of Divinity from Brite Divinity School at Texas Christian University. An ordained progressive Christian minister, he served as an ecumenical campus minister for thirty-five years before retiring in 2018. During those years, he helped college students build fifty or more Habitat for Humanity houses, was an interfaith advocate, and was fond of asking students this question: "What are you going to do to help the world that God loves?" Growing up in Branson, when it was a quaint small town, allowed Howard to get to know many Ozark characters and be influenced by their common hill values. As a boy, he was in the crowd on the opening day of Silver Dollar City and ran across the swinging bridge, much to his mother's dismay.