The Ozarks Storyteller by Jim McCarty jmccarty@ruralmissouri.coop Author Mark Meadows shares his memories of the Missouri Hills Above: One reason Mark and Judy Meadows returned to the Ozarks was to have a place to ride horses. This image is the cover for Mark's book " Echoes from the Ozarks. " Right: Clocks play a big role in the book of humorous encounters Mark crafted. He has at least 50 in his collection. 36 RURAL MISSOURI | APRIL 2023 nyone can write a memoir, Mark Meadows believes. " But it might not be very interesting, " he says with a laugh. Mark worried about that very thing when he put together the 82 stories that make up his book " Echoes from the Ozarks: Memories of the Missouri Hills. " Mark sent one story to a friend whose writing abilities he trusts. " I told him I didn't want to include this one because nothing really happens in it, " Mark recalls. " He wrote back and said, 'Don't worry if nothing happens. It's not what happens in the story. The pleasure is the way you take a mundane subject and turn it into something interesting.' " " Echoes from the Ozarks " is one of those books best read in short bursts with a good cup of hot coffee and a piece of chess pie, which Mark explores at length in one of his stories. From the mundane to the memorable, there's plenty here to interest anyone who longs for a time when things moved a little A