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2009 

      A recent newspaper article pointed out that cell phones have now surpassed the households opting for landlines.  Fewer and fewer families are having landlines.  They are dropping the landlines and choosing cellphones only.  Verizon Communications Inc reported 39 million landline customers i...
05/16/2009
Here's another great old picture taken at Armstrong Springs, White County Arkansas.  Armstrong Springs had a hotel where people came and stayed to drink the healing waters of the springs.  Ruby Nell Woodson Moye loaned me the picture of this picture of the Armstrong family, Ruby's relatives on h...
05/15/2009
It was my pleasure to receive a call from the owners of this house built in 1947 and loved and pampered by the same family for 63 years!  The family added on a second bath and they moved the rock wall, built the bath and put the rock wall back.  They added onto a bedroom and once again moved the ...
05/13/2009
    This photograph of our old Smyrna Church on Highway 36 West taken in 1981 ? by one of the Armstrongs from Armstrong Springs was loaned to me by Ruby Nell Woodson Moye.  She found it as she was cleaning out her desk and going through things long forgotten.  The church is now undergoing restora...
05/12/2009
New camera for Mother's Day!  Great.  I've been using my old Sony Mavica for years and I do love the thing. The floppy discs are reusable!  The camera is good and heavy feeling so it's easy to hold it steady. But time marches on and I go to a party once in awhile and wanted a smaller camera so it...
05/11/2009
Mother's Day 2009.  Lots of our mothers have been passed on for a long long time as has mine. I'm feeling a very strange "Thanks, Mom" this year and this day. She could have named me Flossie May. She could have named me Bessie Lou. She could have called me Minnie, ie. in Minnie Pearl. I could be ...
05/10/2009
My son-in-law has a hobby of model rocketry.  His name is Mark Canepa and he has written two books about rocketry.  He travels to rocket launches and photographs, launches his own rocket and writes for the rocketry magazines.  He published this article about a big launch that was going to take pl...
05/07/2009
The Woodson family from Searcy Arkansas is shown in this portrait.  There were three girls and 2 boys.  The girl on the left is Ruby Nell's mother.  Her mother was an Armstrong from Armstrong Springs, a community that had a hotel and lots of activity around the 1917 era. The detail in this pictu...
05/06/2009
    What is this?  A keg party?   Surely not but that little child is sitting on what looks like a keg! This picture was shared by Ruby Nell Woodson Moye and shows some sort of gathering at Armstrong Springs, White County Arkansas.  Armstrong Springs was a community of some size with people comin...
05/05/2009
    One of our RE/MAX agents was going through her desk and found several great old pictures of her relatives.  She said I could share them on my blog.  This first one is the Armstrong Springs Ball Team from 1917.  Her dad, Noel Woodson, is the one on the right on the back row.  The agent's name ...
05/03/2009