True faith, true light : the devotional art of Ed Stilley /

In 1979, Ed Stilley was leading a simple life as a farmer and singer of religious hymns in Hogscald Hollow, a tiny Ozark community south of Eureka Springs, Arkansas. Life was filled with hard work and making do for Ed, his wife Eliza, and their five children, who lived in many ways as if the second...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mulhollan, Kelly (Author)
Other Authors: Lanier, Kirk (Photographer)
Format: Government Document Book
Language:English
Published: Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, 2015
Series:Arkansas character
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