The Architecture of the Arkansas Ozarks

While in the Ozark region of Arkansas, the shy Jacob Ingledew meets the native Indian Fanshaw, who lives in the bigeminal house.

The pair of them become friends, and they spend time together philosophizing on matters including the existence of God or Wahkontah.

Lizzie Swain and her fourteen children settle near the Ingledew brothers into a home that Jacob helps build out of trees.

But then a string of unfortunate events occur; Jacob contracts the frakes and the people of Stay More suffer through a drought.

The clock peddler Eli Willard struggles to sell his grooming aids to the Stay Morons, despite how idiotic he thinks them to be.

Around the early 1900s Willis Ingledew buys a Ford Model T. Jealous of his brother’s new car, John decides to build a bank so that he can later take money from the bank to pay for his own Model Ford T. Around the same time a constitutional amendment is added that bans the sale and possession of alcoholic drinks.

- Columbus Dispatch "Harington is well-known in the Ozarks for his novels that are set in Newton County, Arkansas, around the community he called Staymore.

One branch of my ancestry, led by Ezekiel and Talitha Shaddox, homesteaded in Newton County in the 1850s, just below Pruitt, where Mill Creek spills into the Buffalo River.

Harington's ability to evoke what Newton County was like in times past adds color and detail to my own mental pictures of the lives and surroundings of my forebears."