Marian Daniel Ingram responded to our earlier blog about funeral homes. I loved her email and the picture that she sent. Here goes.... This picture is the first Daniel Funeral Home which was on Market Street where a telephone company is located. Rudolph Chandler had a funeral home there befor
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10/26/2010
You know who always writes and is famous for writing "I AM NOT MAKING THIS UP." Dave Barry, a Pulitzer Prize winning humor columnist and author, is famous for writing that. One of our Arkansas Democrat Gazette columnists wrote about how Barry was coming to Arkansas to make a speech and she, being
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10/24/2010
The old song has to come to mind when looking at this picture. The little boy stands there strutting his stuff. Never mind that his pants were too big, his shirt a bit small. His smile was large and genuine. One little girl is linked to him. The people in the picture, in case you are curiou
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10/23/2010
A blog friend sent me a map of Searcy drawn in 1886. Only a few things are still around that existed at the time of the map. One thing is Cumberland Presbyterian Church. Here's the map. Note the church is on the corner of Race and Spring. (You can disregard the yellowed jail. I don't know w
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10/20/2010
This is a ghost story blog that I wrote on ActiveRain on October 28 2007. That is three years ago!! But I never forget a good ghost story. Unfortunately the link below no longer works but I found the story at this link. http://www.arkansasparanormal.net/History%20-%20Quitman.htm You can be sur
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10/17/2010
Probably 35 years ago I rescued a batch of photographs of houses in Searcy Arkansas that the husband of this lady had designed and built. The pictures were nice and clear black and white and the floor plans were included. This particular house sold and I gave the old photo to the buyer. He is n
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10/15/2010
Preparations for the squirrel hunting trip start at least two months in advance. Several guys plan to visit the woods and if they don't forget their guns they plan to shoot squirrels. (I'm sorry Nutsy. But really, Nutsy, your relatives don't have to fret. Each guy has a noisy four-wheeler so th
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10/14/2010
In 1987 this house was for sale. It was offered for a mere $38,500. There are chairs on the porch, flowers in the yard, and of course the original wrought iron decorative pillars. Fast forward to today. Race Street has grown busier and more crowded and the house has become more and more lonely
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10/13/2010
I always liked this building. This picture comes from an old Searcy High School annual, year not remembered. Knowing how the Searcy Sleuths get bored and desire a challenge I'm not going to tell where it is or where it was and see if you can tell me. So you tell me if you remember it?
10/10/2010
We have a beautiful new subdivision in Searcy Arkansas with houses that are the ultimate in high-style. It's called The Dominion and is located right in front of Searcy Country Club. Money has flowed generously toward developing the site and the landscaping has had lots of thought and preplannin
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10/08/2010
