Trixie Belden and the Mystery at Bob-White Cave. Kathryn Kenny, 1963, 11th in the girls’ mystery series. Trixie and the members of her secret society, the Bob-Whites of the Glen, visit their Uncle Andrew in the Ozarks, go caving, find Ozark cavefish, and solve the mystery of a missing man all at the same time. I read this book at age 10 or 11, entirely forgot about it until in 1989 I was crawling around the second level (below the jeeps) in Fantastic Caverns looking for Ozark cavefish myself at the same time as I had gone back to read the entire series because I had a student wanting to write girls series fiction. It was deja vu all over again.

I’ll have some more titles in a few days. Of course, part of the difficulty is defining where a “windy” leaves off, and fiction begins. I’ve written some Ozark fiction myself, too, and lots of Ozark-themed poetry.

Best to you, and hi to Jody.
Jo