From the Darkroom: Springfield journalist Lucille Upton gets 1978 Ozarks Heritage Award

Springfield-Greene County Library District
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Lucile Morris Upton receives the 1978 Ozarks Heritage Award. Upton is currently featured in the State Historical Society of Missouri's Celebrating the National Women in Media Collection: Southwest Missouri Edition display at The Library Station.
Lucile Morris Upton receives the 1978 Ozarks Heritage Award. Upton is currently featured in the State Historical Society of Missouri's Celebrating the National Women in Media Collection: Southwest Missouri Edition display at The Library Station.

Lucile Morris Upton receives the 1978 Ozarks Heritage Award. Upton is currently featured in the State Historical Society of Missouri's Celebrating the National Women in Media Collection: Southwest Missouri Edition display at The Library Station.

Lucile's lifelong passion for the Ozarks and its history shaped her career as a journalist and writer. She grew up in Dadeville, Missouri, attended college in Springfield, and later became a newspaper reporter in Denver, Colorado, and El Paso, Texas. She later began a long career editing the Over the Ozarks column for Springfield Newspapers, which focused on the history of Springfield and the Ozarks region.

This image is presented in partnership between the Springfield-Greene County Library District and the Springfield News-Leader. For more historical images of the Ozarks visit: thelibrary.org/fromthedarkroom.

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