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• Craftsmanship Article: Mandolin Maker, John Wynn
John Wynn, mandolin maker of Ozark, Missouri, defined Ozark culture with one word: self-made.

Wynn went on to describe the region — not as a generic off-shoot of Appalachia — but rather a place where diverse peoples came together without the support of developing technology and industry.

It was a place where folks had to "make do" with what they could and to rely upon one another as well as themselves.

The results are embodied in the hill traditions of craftsmanship, storytelling, music — the ways of life now celebrated and archived on these pages.
John Wynn, in his Ozark, Missouri, workshop, displays a handcrafted banjo.