Colleen Haynes Rongey The life of Colleen Haynes Rongey. The story of a little girl growing up in the backwoods of the Arkansas Ozark mountains. See photos of the 1930s and war years of the 1940s. This (mostly) true story, Ozarks Baby, by Colleen Haynes Rongey, will be out in bookstores late 2007. Watch this website for updates on her story. Newcoa Newsletter For and about Newton County, Arkansas...her individuals, families and landmarks... established to collect, connect, share and bond...to keep memories of Newton County alive... to recollect and revisit the old, and greet the new...through Newcoa Newsletter...". Out in book form late 2007, Ozarks Trails & Tales, by Colleen Haynes Rongey, will feature more mountain stories.