Joplin Regional Airport. Joplin Regional Airport is located approximately 7,6 kilometers (4,7 miles) north of Joplin and about 34,2 kilometers (21,2 miles) southeast of Pittsburg.
The Rebel's star died in February 1968 at age 36, and though his passing was not a media event, it was front page news, certainly in Cleveland, Ohio. The Plain Dealer ran the headline, âActor Nick Adams Found Dead,â near the bottom of its front page.
Most of these stories were later collected in a 1972 book, published after Hemingway's death, titled The Nick Adams Stories. They are, for the most part, stories of initiation and adolescence. Taken as a whole, as in The Nick Adams Stories, they chronicle a young man's coming of age in a series of linked episodes. The stories are grouped according to major time periods in Nick's life.