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M yson, Jacob, attended public school in NW Arkan.
sas for a short period of time when I first moved to
the Ozarks in the late 1990s. Knowing nothing about Ar-
kansas having any significance at that time and only being
in the fourth grade, he came home from school one day
telling me that while he was sitting in his classroom, a huge
gust of wind blew through a window. The wind caused
most of a thick cardboard map of the
United States on the class- "Over th
room wall to tear away hqve bee~Phstr5 Yeqts th
frem the wall and land in btnqf)y Chrlste we hqve qt we
the bathroom. All that
remained of the map on
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who h';et
Arkqf)Sqs.' ecf to f)otih..e
the wall after the wind was
the entire northwest eorner of Arkan-
sas, part of southwestMissouri, a tiny portion of
southeast Kansas, and a small potion of northeast Okla-
homa. (See above statement from Thea Eroes's booklet concerning
these areas.)
The event was puzzling to him because of the wind's
ability to tear that thick carboard in that manner and he
came home talking about it. He's not one to relay what he
experiences every day so just his telling it made me feel this
could perhaps be something special.
At around that same time, plans were being made to
declare this region a United Nations Biosphere Reserve.