Marideth Sisco
Marideth is a Missouri storyteller, veteran journalist, teacher, author, musician and student of folklore focusing on stories relevant to Ozarks culture and history. Each month, she’s the voice behind "These Ozarks Hills.” Sisco spent 20 years as an investigative and environmental writer for the West Plains Quill and was well known for her gardening column, “Crosspatch,” on which her new book is based. Sisco was a music consultant and featured singer in the 2010 award-winning feature film “Winter's Bone.”
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This is Marideth Sisco for These Ozarks Hills. Try as I might, although I always yearn for Autumn, I cannot await its coming without realizing that it...
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In this segment of These Ozarks Hills, storyteller and musician Marideth Sisco shares her personal observation of the history of naming Hurricanes, and...
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In this month's segment of our series These Ozarks Hills, master storyteller Marideth Sisco evaluates her own family history and subliminal psychology...
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In this segment of These Ozarks hills, storyteller and Ozarks native Marideth Sisco reflects on tornadic Ozarks storms past, present and future after...
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In this segmet of These Ozarks Hills, storyteller and Ozarks native Marideth Sisco is on her way back from a cousin's funeral, where she was reminded of...
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This is Marideth Sisco for These Ozarks Hills. In this week of wacky weather I was looking really hard for a metaphor and maybe a song to describe the...
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In this segment of These Ozarks Hills, longtime storyteller, musician and folklorist Marideth Sisco talks about the disruptions that Ozarks weather...
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In this month's These Ozarks Hills, we revisit a December essay from years gone by, in which Marideth Sisco reflects on those who may need to lean on...
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This is Marideth Sisco for These Ozarks Hills. As Autumn graces us with one last splash of splendor this week before the rains finish stripping the...
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This is Marideth Sisco for These Ozarks Hills. I wonder how many of us are aware that we have a clock for tracking the progression of the seasons...