This is actually a rant written while I'm mad and ready to vent that anger. Most of us live in houses that possibly predate all this obsession with privacy. We've been in the same house for 22 years and even then just transferred the electric utility account to the new address. Our electric com
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09/13/2010
Remember when the phone was attached to the wall or at least the cord was always attached to the phone which might sit on a table. I remember buying myself a 25' telephone cord to attach to the phone so that I could walk around the house or kitchen while talking to folks. I even bought a 25' co
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09/12/2010
Did you see the old guys sitting on this porch chatting and watching the people walk by? The next one had some sitters too. Can you see the last time this tank was used? The old guys sitting on the bench under the porch knew everyone who came by to fill up their tank. They also knew the guy w
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09/10/2010
A friend alerted me to this house's demise. She said she drove by and noticed activity and then the next day the whole house was gone. There's nothing but an empty lot. The house was bought about two years ago by the First Presbyterian Church who probably will turn the lot into a parking lot.
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09/07/2010
This little building has always had charm and just didn't seem to fit. Now I know why. It's old! It has been a dentist office at the end of Spring Street across from Spring Park and across from First Baptist and a block away from The Mayflower Hotel. Here's the way it looks today. And here's
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09/06/2010
We forget. We forget some of the great stores that we used to have in our town. I remember Magic Mart but my memory is sorta vague. Here's a great shot taken from an old high school annual ad that shows it at 3003 East Race Street in Searcy Arkansas. What came before Magic Mart? What came aft
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09/04/2010
My vehicle automatically pulled over and stopped yesterday at the SW corner of Spruce Street on the court house square. My vehicle almost knows when blog material crops up. And this time a student, Dave Towell, graphic design major at Harding University, was on the scaffold working on the 4th m
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09/01/2010
