I wrote a blog about Searcy's own Joe Webb a few years back. Here's the link to the blog if you want to read all about Rodger's Perfection, the horse, and his trainer. Rodger's Perfection was the world's champion walking horse.Right now there is a book written by Joe Webb in 1967 called "The Ca
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07/31/2015
This picture was forwarded to me from Searcy Supreme Sleuth Anita Hart Fuller. She grew up in Searcy and everyone assumes that she knows everyone who was once in this town. And she almost does!This appears to be at a train depot and we do have several expert railway sleuths. The ladies behind
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07/29/2015
I was teaching school. Specifically, I was teaching Art in Searcy High School, Searcy AR. There was a class to be offered in Atlanta Georgia that taught lots of good and fun things regarding teaching art. One was caricatures and how to do them. We all love caricatures, don't we? So I spent a
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07/25/2015
I wrote a blog last week about the pleasure I receive when passing by the little old English Tudor filling station in Bald Knob. Lots of Sleuths have responded and I now have more pictures, more knowledge, and new friends. It is on the Historic Register, was built around 1930 and was operated b
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07/20/2015
When my kids were little they would have waded into this ditch and brought me a few cattails home for me to put in a big vase on the floor. I loved them.....the kids too of course!I have not seen a decent bunch of cattails in years and years but there in Bald Knob AR a few days ago I found this
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07/17/2015
Each time I drive through Bald Knob Arkansas I admire this property. It must have once been a filling station but who ever heard of an English Tudor filling station?The building is brick with Tudor trim. It even has a curved outside doorway that probably led to the outdoor bathrooms. Doors pro
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07/16/2015
While searching and getting rid of hundreds of vinyl recordings, I came across one that was different. I thought that I had heard of this name, Teddy Redell, but also thought it was spelled differently. Teddy Riedel was famous in White County and I was fortunate to hear him play and sing two ti
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07/13/2015
The newspaper said today that there are three houses on East Market Street that will be torn down for more parking for Harding University. I always like to keep a picture of the ones going down. We can't keep houses forever but perhaps we can keep the pictures forever.Here they are. 912, 914 a
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07/05/2015
It is not that I can't remember all these folks. It is because film technology was not as easy back then and the picture is not so clear. Larry DeGroat (who can forget him?) is on the left and he is the one who shared this picture. He also was instrumental in getting the Searcy Board of REALTO
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07/02/2015
