April 8, 2009

When completed in 1973, the Ozark Folk Center State Park, located outside Mountain View (Stone County), consisted of sixteen craft demonstration areas, a welcome center, a sixty-unit lodge, a restaurant, food outlets in the craft area, a conference center, a gift shop, and a performance auditorium. This auditorium, shown here, originally seated 1,060 but has been reduced to a 1,000-seat capacity. Local talent performs there on a regular basis, in addition to occasional national and international stars.