Search for your town on ebay and find treasures? Presbyterian Church. Searcy Arkansas 1910.

I am glad you found that post card.  I wondered what the church looked like that someone had said used to be there.  Can you imagine mud being 4 inches deep in the Searcy area?  The street I grew up on, now named E. Woodruff,  was muddy when it rained.  I remember that as a little child.  That was why it was called "Mud Street".  As time went on, the city worked on the street and made it better.

Ludean, wasn't Woodruff St. at one time called "South Line Street"???  I had relatives that lived on the west end of that street...so they lived on "West South Line"  I always thought that was funny.

Yes, Billy, it was named E. S. Line, but all I knew for a long time was "Mud St."  When I talk to the older than me folks from Searcy, they also knew it as Mud St.

Yes, I saw that, Barbara.  That looked pretty deep, too.  I don't know how deep it got on Mud Street, but was glad when they improved the street.

I'll have to say the old church, the one that burned, was certainly a lot more interesting in structure than the one they build on W. Arch.  

Bob and I gave our Sr. Recital there in l954:  Bob - piano, me - violin.  Jamie Jones, in her newspaper column "reviewing" it, called it the musical event of the season.    I need to go back in that church next time I'm in town....I have lots of pictures from the recital..I'd like to see if it looks the same now.

Right, i believe the newer building was originally a WWII chapel, wasn't it?

Our recital was given in the spring of l954 at that second church, 400 W. Arch. 

 A couple of former pupils of Mrs. R.A. Ward have "found" her grandson, who is now a grown man and a big radio personality on Memphis radio.  He was flabbergasted at how beloved his grandmother was in Searcy, and esp. beloved by so many of her piano/violin students.   We are having a reunion of as many of her former puplis as we can find......on Jan. l6th at the Dixie Cafe in Searcy.   Our oracle, Dorothy Warden, also a pupil will be there so a good article will be forthcoming.    Luke would do well to come, too.  ll:00 a.m.