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
A Frontier Town Grows Up With AmericaYes, I know. It's a rather ragged book but it IS almost 50 years old. It was written in 1976 by Dr. Raymond Muncy and has received lots of wear and tear from being read and loved the whole time. I was reminded of this while going through a stack of old Whit
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06/02/2024
Mistaken IdentityI stumbled upon these three guys in an antique shop and stared and stared. I thought the one with the bangs was a Beatle. Then the owner said they were the three stooges from way back. A little research tells me that their heyday was in the 1930s and 1940s. So I didn't rememb
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05/26/2024
Searcy AR?This does not look like Searcy AR! Looks like a big city! Definitely Searcy AR is changing. I went to a meeting in this brand new First Security Bank building and was very impressed. We were told to enter the double doors on the west side of the building. We had to check in and the
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05/23/2024
Rediscovered!Here is what has been tucked away in my bookcase for years and years. It is in a shadow box and had things sorta covering it. I thought, "WOW! I forgot this and it has real meaning after all these years!"Here is a close-up of what is in the frame.And here is a closer close-up with
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05/15/2024
I borrowed this picture which was on MLS saying that it has just sold. I did a blog about this house several years ago regarding its history and its changes. Look at these older pictures.All right, the house today is at the corner of Arch and Olive and that is not a sidewalk in front but the st
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05/04/2024
Front of 1855 built home in Searcy ARI wrote a blog a few weeks ago begging for this house to be saved......not bought at foreclosure auction and torn down as so many of our historic houses have been! Click https://activerain.com/droplet/HG5S for blog . It has now been bought by a person w
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05/02/2024
This sign is a recent gift. There was an estate sale at a house near the airport. This sign was part of the sale. No one bought it so it was a gift for this ole blog queen.So now I need some Searcy Sleuths to give me the history of the sign. Searcy had an air taxi? How did it work? Who owne
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04/29/2024
