A Jug Full of MemoriesThe Historic Benjamin Clayton Black House is having an exhibit called Artisans and Collectors of Searcy. Here is an item displayed by one artist named Irene Crouch. In my long art loving background I have never seen one of these and she has three of them in her display.
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05/24/2023
Old, old picture of the Methodist Church.While digging through my treasures, I found this picture of the Searcy Methodist Church. Look at the mud in the road in front and the long fence in front of it. I have forgotten wheather that was a house or another church in the background. Perhaps someo
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05/21/2023
Happy 100th Birthday.....We don't know the exact day of birth. We do know that it takes a good while for a house to be completely born. So therefore we go to the courthouse records and see what has been recorded. This house was born in 1922 says the courthouse. It is located at 2496 Gum Sprin
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05/17/2023
Searcy AR Art Gallery, 300 E. Race, is the location of the Benjamin Clayton Black historic home that is on the Historic Register. They are having an interesting exhibit that begins May 19 through July 19, 2023. Debbie Higgs, Director, is presenting the very first Artisans and Collectors of Searc
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05/12/2023
Everyone's Dream House for sale right now.Who doesn't love a wrap around porch, a two story country style house, a tall chimney for a lovely fireplace, a two car garage, and an attached pary house? It includes a workshop that was used as an RV and used car business. Note that long concrete path
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05/08/2023
1951 American Legion Post Searcy AR Team.Perhaps you can provide names. The article does not supply the names.This article was published in the Three Rivers Edition of the Arkansas Democrat- Gazette newspaper on July 31, 2005. It was saved and loaned to me by Super Sleuth Anita Fuller when she
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05/06/2023
Interesting Map of White County.I had a surprise in my mail.....a very interesting 1911 map of White County. It was sent to me by Jim Bohannon, a Searcy native and friend of my husband's. He enjoys maps and especially railroad information. He said he enjoyed my recent blog about the Letona d
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05/02/2023
Hotel in distance from Depot, still standing. Just sold again.Letona Arkansas is a little distance from Searcy AR and has been a popular small town for a long time. The main reason for the first picture above was to publicize the MFNA depot. A hotel shows behind it! Of course, with a train co
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04/21/2023
Never before have I seen one of these and every person that I ask says the same. Found at an estate sale, borrowed for this blog! It appears to be an oil painting of a soldier done on a very thin scarf. Size is about 14" x 14".Here's the overview. It has lots of folds because it has been fold
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04/11/2023
We have shown several pictures in the last few weeks that were taken by REALTOR M. D. Faith in Searcy AR. The pictures were taken around 1979 or 1980. Here are four more, pretty close neighbors. For greater detail, enlarge them. Here is our court house again but one thing is strange in this p
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04/10/2023
