Mingo

Rare book

Retired weekly newspaper publisher Cletis R. Ellinghouse, the author, born in historic Old Greenville, which was abandoned in the early 1940s to clear the landscape for development of Lake Wappapello, practically grew up in the office of his father's newspapers before earning a bachelor's degree with emphasis on journalism from Arkansas State University at Jonesboro in 1958. His writing career included stints on three daily newspapers before he returned to southeast Missouri to begin publishing papers of his own at Bonne Terre, Jackson, Marble Hill, and lastly Puxico, which is a short drive from Mingo National Wildlife Refuge and Lake Wappapello. Puxico has been his home for twenty-five years.