Barbara Duncan's blog

Check this out. It is such a good example of dress and behavior in the early 50s at high schools probably all across the country.  This one was from a yearbook of Searcy AR High School in 1952.  Check out the saddle shoes and folded bobby socks, skirt and sweater outfit and probably a little scar...

Here's the front view! Here is the back view! Don't they both look so complex!The age seems to be around 100 years old and made in about 1921.  It belongs in a museum which we hope White County can establish before too much longer.  Its story is interesting.  Robert and Pam Edwards were just gift...

Found! Extremely old eyeglasses and case with the doctors name on the case. It reads that he was an Eye, Ear, Nose & Throat physician in Searcy AR. Searcy has this fantastic history book written by Raymond Lee Muncy in 1976 that we always search.Muncy's book tells us that John L. Jones was a gene...

Clippings!! Note the dates....1953, 1955....a long time ago!!I discovered these tucked into my late hubby's graduation certificate.  It made me think of how we will probably have no more of these old treasures because newspapers are not prevalent like they were back then.  Moms always read the pa...

These are especially unusual for a canister set. Looks like carved wood and there are four of them labeled flour, sugar, coffee and tea.  They nestle into the largest one. I found them at a yard sale in Searcy AR. They have a hard-to-read label on the bottom that reads Kiln Dried Monkey Pod (that...

Found at Carport Sale!What are these things?  Seller responded they were tee markers.  I had never seen or heard of a "tee marker."  Question time!  I asked several folks about how they were used and I am still not sure but intrigued. But the interesting thing was their being from our popular gol...

So sad to see historic marker gone. Here's a picture of how it has looked in the past to welcome folks to Searcy and perhaps brag a little.  It dates back to at least the mid 1960s and held a Yarnell's Ice Cream sign and was probably put up by Yarnell's. I have tried to find an older picture of i...

History documents that people, especially tobacco chewing men, used to sit around in a group and needed to spit.  Thus, the solution was a thing to spit in, a spittoon.  They were built with a wide, funnel shaped top and heavy base so they would not tip over easily.  They were common in public pl...

 The house was built in 1969 in Searcy Arkansas and is now for sale. The actual date that this Sheila Parsons painting was done is not known.  But it is signed by Parsons and has been saved throughout the years.Who is Sheila Parsons?  A google search (https://www.arkansasheritage.com/arkansas-art...

I had to love this special meeting after having not seen Lora since the 1980's when I was doing art instruction and real estate! She is on the left in the pictures above and my real estate partner/daughter, Valerie, is on the right.Note my special shirt.  It is my "motorcycle jacket" and it takes...