Ladies from Searcy ARWay back in the 1970s Searcy had a lot of Chicken Cooking Queens. I loved seeing their newspaper clippings and as I have complained about before, we were lovely ladies but had no names. We were called by our husband's names in the clippings. In the one above, 1973, notice M
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07/15/2024
There is a book about the history of McRae AR. Inside I found the picture above from so many years ago and was fascinated to see the way it used to look. Notice the businesses around it. I wrote a blog about it. Click https://activerain.com/droplet/5WWvto read the blog.
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07/12/2024
Who remembers Arni Anderson? He was a very good artist and was a Harding College (now University) graduate. He attended and then taught Art at the school during the years of 1972 through 1976. A very good memory for all of us left in Searcy is the coming of McDonald's restaurant to our town. T
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07/07/2024
Girl's Football Searcy ARHere's an old Searcy Citizen photo from 1973 that I saved and recently came across. Why did I save it? Someone very close to me is in it and mama's always clipped pictures.But pictures get lost or mixed up so I just now discovered that I had done a blog about this a few
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07/02/2024
Historic building Kensett ARKensett AR is a very close neighbor to Searcy AR.....almost like a subdivision in the town of Searcy. But is is so peacful there with little traffic and some very historic places to see. The pictures above show one.Every time I go to Kensett, I admire this building a
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06/30/2024
Help! Help! Help!Are you loving these new MLS home descriptions? I can barely read through them. Artificial Intelligence is overdoing it, in my opinion! What do you think?Can you successfully read through these?Escape to your own slice of paradise! This remarkable property offers everything yo
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06/27/2024
Searcy Lions vs. Beebe BadgersMemories sometime just fall in your arms....so it seems. This old program did that to me. Hubby's name is in this football line up. Way down at the extreme bottom it gives a possible date of 1955! Who won? Someone from the Searcy Sleuths may remember. I was not
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06/23/2024
What was a Monitors Club?I like looking through old yearbooks from Searcy AR and have a fairly nice collection of them . During the mid 50s and early 60s they included a Monitors Club with members and officers. Notice they had a treasurer along with the other normal officers. Did they have dues
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06/22/2024
Original watercolor honors Mr. OrtcotterIt has been over 20 years since Searcy lost Ed Ortcotter but probably lots of Searcy residents remember him. His profession was painting houses but he also loved painting pictures and took art lessons. The one above was done by Searcy artist, Terry Willia
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06/12/2024
Terry Williams with framed picture!Terry Williams has been an artist in Searcy AR since around 1971 and has had frame shops in several places in town. Right now he operates at the Mayfair Hotel. He graduated from Harding College around that time. He once had a studio in this house.....now gone
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06/06/2024
