Ozarks Voices: Marideth Sisco, October 7, 2019

Interview with folklorist and musician Marideth Sisco by Craig Amason of Missouri State University Libraries. Interview took place in the Conference Room of the Duane G. Meyer Library at Missouri State University in Springfield, Missouri, on October 7, 2019.
Topics discussed include her childhood in Butterfield, Missouri, and other locations including southern California; her years as a young adult in the 1960s in San Francisco, Santa Cruz, and Los Angeles; encountering Charles Manson; singing at the Wild Side West Club; Pat Ramseyer and Nancy White; meeting and lifelong friendship with Mashelle Boswell; meeting and lifelong musical collaboration with Robin Frederick; moving to Utah and then resettling in Missouri; writing the song “These Ozark Hills;” participation in the music and promotion of the motion picture “Winter’s Bone;” studying journalism at Southwest Missouri State University (Missouri State University); working at the “The Quill” newspaper in West Plains, Missouri; teaching journalism classes; artistic inspiration of the Ozarks; socio-economic conditions, education, inequality, racism, and diversity in the Ozarks; recent changes in the region; future personal creative projects