Alice Chambers
Owner, Publisher & Editor
Alice is the founder and owner of Life In The Ozarks. Her natural curiousity and a true interest in the people, places and events that make the Ozarks region unique was the fuel that started Life In The Ozarks. It is that endless passion that continues to drive her to grow and expand the reader base for the Life In THe Ozarks Publication.

Alice enjoys meeting people of different backgrounds, traveling and going to festivals, concerts and plays. Alice says "Publishing and writing was a natural for me since reading has also been a favorite interest for me for most of my life. I tend to enjoy mysteries and historically based novels. For many years, reading took me places I had never been and perhaps would never go. As an adult, I have traveled to many of the places I read about and still enjoy reading about. I also enjoy writing and have books, creative non- fiction and fiction, I am working on."

In 1988, Alice moved to the Ozark Mountains and fell in love with the folklore, music and traditions. After a time, she went to work at the White River Current in Calico Rock, Arkansas. Barbara DeAngeles, who had worked for the Chicago Sun Times, was the owner and publisher at that time and quickly became a dear friend. She later left the Current to pursue another career and be a part of the original Stone County Ironworks in Mountain View, Arkansas. (It has since changed ownership.) After ten years, I returned to the newspaper business at the Van Buren County Democrat, in Clinton, Arkansas. After working there for more than five years and the Fairfield Bay News for a short time - she made the decision to follow her dream. "It has been my hearts desire for some time to start a publication that would be more than something you would read one time and throw away. I dreamed of a publication that would be read and passed along to another to be read, or kept to be read again...a source of interesting information of the Ozark region of Arkansas...about people, places and events of the past, present and future of the Ozarks....to keep the stories and traditions alive and to share the history from a different point of view." With the encouragement of friends and her husband, Larry, she made a commitment to publish "Life In The Ozarks." In October 2003 the first issue was published and was welcomed by readers. As they say, the rest is history.

"My hope is that everyone will enjoy reading Life In The Ozarks as much as I have enjoyed publishing, editing and writing it. It is also my hope that the stories and traditions will continue on for generations to come."