A few years ago when my wife and I visited the park, Richard was doing crowd control, that is, entertaining on the line...for the saloon. Don't know what he's doing nowadays. He and his wife are both retired educators, and they authored many, many books about storytellling and Ozarks folktales in the later 1980s and into the early to mid 1990s. They were published by August House of Little Rock, some are still in print, but many are not.
