A gift (unexpected) for me!A few days ago https://activerain.com/droplet/Jzv4 I wrote a blog about over-large mail stuffed in mailboxes, at least in mine. Click above to go to the blog and see a picture.WELL.... Now the largest ever has come. I practically had to pry it out of the box
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09/15/2025
I love this picture! I married the boy years later and he passed away 3 years ago this weekend. All who knew him loved him and miss him. This blog is in his memory. Here's the original one. https://activerain.com/droplet/7S5bLook at the little boy standing there strutti
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08/31/2025
This is lovely! As is everything in this Searcy Art Gallery Historic home located at 300 E. Race, Searcy AR.Gifted by old Phoenix Club heirs is this china cabinet plus desk space.And this chair that has this plaque on the back of it, shown below. The plaque says ARKANSAS SEARCY 1803 LA PURCHASE
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08/25/2025
Too much oversized worthless mail! It will not easily fit in mailboxes. Mail carriers must not like carrying the oversized mail. Makes me think of the history of mailboxes. My older house and most of our Searcy Arkansas older subdivisions still have little hanging mailboxes beside the front d
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08/15/2025
Buttons!!In my blog career we have never talked about buttons. What can you say about buttons? I just read an interesting article about buttons. First Security Bank's weekly email had an article about buttons that I found interesting and had never heard of. Keisha Pittman McKinney wrote about
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08/12/2025
Looks bad, doesn't it? I was driving by this old house and noticed the condition of it. Built in 1901, so says the Course House info about it. That means it is about 124 years old! What is going on? Is it another one getting prepared to "bite the dust"? So I hurry home and start my research a
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08/09/2025
What's next? Mayfair Hotel is changing hands. Here are a few of the old pictures and one made today! It is almost 100 years old! I put this view on a blog a few years ago. 2009 I believe it was. Pull up that blog and see the pictures and read an interesting story about one of its original
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07/30/2025
Cattail DitchA few days ago I stopped at a store, opened my car door, stepped out and saw this grown up ditch with what in it!!! Cattails! You often see them while traveling down a road but don't stop. This time I was already stopped! They were very attractive and a few, very few, were reacha
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07/26/2025
Old Junior HighSeems as if I spend a lot of time now going through old saved things. Sometimes the memories are delightful and other times the memories are not pleasant at all. So it was with these two discoveries. Way back on Dec. 30, 1981 the Searcy Junior High shown above burned. I had a s
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07/23/2025
Baths in Searcy AR??Public Baths? Searcy AR? Surely Not!!But look at this old, old postcard! See the sign on the side of a building on the left side? If you are confused about where you are it is Spring Street looking North. Imagine that on the left side, just before the first building, woul
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07/14/2025
