The architecture of the arkansas ozarks taotao is a 1975 novel by american author donald harington taotao is an epic tale that follows six generations of stay morons beginning with its first settlers jacob and noah ingledew who travel from their native tennessee to the ozark region of arkansas to found the imaginative town of stay more there are twenty chapters total in taotao each . With colourful characters humour from bawdy to book learned and an understanding of humanity and history ive rarely seen in a modern author haringtons the architecture of the arkansas ozarks definitely is a masterpiece in this book he traces the saga of the stay morons focusing on the ingledew family in particular he uses architecture as a conceit to show how the great world spins . The architecture of the arkansas ozarks donald haringtons history of stay more arkansas this novel has been nominated as a group read for the month of september 2016 for on the southern literary trail. The architecture of the ozarks has moved on since then much of it benefiting from the influence of arkansas architect e fay jones his colleagues and his heirs at the university of arkansas for. The increasing modernization of the arkansas ozarks meant that traditional architectural forms began to be practiced no longer though numerous examples of such continue to dot the landscape for additional information brown sarah folk architecture in arkansas in an arkansas folklore sourcebook edited by w k mcneil and william m clements fayetteville university of arkansas