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    Growing Up on 5th Street - "Cloud Nine"
    Michelle Lane
    • Jun 3, 2020
    • 2 min

    Growing Up on 5th Street - "Cloud Nine"

    By Butch Hurford As I Start my last little story I will remind you about living with my grandparents. They didn’t know anything about...
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    Growing Up on 5th Street - "Street Getting Shorter"
    Michelle Lane
    • Jun 2, 2020
    • 2 min

    Growing Up on 5th Street - "Street Getting Shorter"

    By Butch Hurford As I was getting older I’m running out of Fifth Street stories. I want to tell you about the neighborhood grocery...
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    Growing Up on 5th Street - "McCrory Friends"
    Michelle Lane
    • Jun 1, 2020
    • 2 min

    Growing Up on 5th Street - "McCrory Friends"

    By Butch Hurford As we got older our games on 5th st. changed. We went from toy cars to real ones. I was surprised one night when PaPa...
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    Growing Up on 5th Street - "The Shoe Shop"
    Michelle Lane
    • May 31, 2020
    • 2 min

    Growing Up on 5th Street - "The Shoe Shop"

    By Butch Hurford Before I get to the shoe shop story, I will tell you about swimming in the White River. The river is about 5 blocks from...
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    Growing Up on 5th Street - "Continuing in the Neighborhood"
    Michelle Lane
    • May 30, 2020
    • 2 min

    Growing Up on 5th Street - "Continuing in the Neighborhood"

    By Butch Hurford As not being a good writer and not remembering like I should, I failed to mention these families, the Drennans and the...
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    Growing Up on 5th Street - "My Hero"
    Michelle Lane
    • May 29, 2020
    • 1 min

    Growing Up on 5th Street - "My Hero"

    By Butch Hurford When I was ten or eleven I met the Simmons family. The boys were all older. John was 4 years older. He taught me a lot...
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    Growing Up on 5th Street - "New Friends"
    Michelle Lane
    • May 28, 2020
    • 2 min

    Growing Up on 5th Street - "New Friends"

    By Butch Hurford As I ventured down 5th Street,I met a new friend, Lynn. Both of us got to go to the movies on Saturday. It was always a...
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    Growing Up on 5th Street - "My Cousin"
    Michelle Lane
    • May 27, 2020
    • 1 min

    Growing Up on 5th Street - "My Cousin"

    By Butch Hurford Before I go further down 5th Street, I need to tell you about my cousin Leola. We both lived with our grandparents under...
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    Growing Up on 5th Street - "The Harvest"
    Michelle Lane
    • May 26, 2020
    • 1 min

    Growing Up on 5th Street - "The Harvest"

    By Butch Hurford As I got older Mama let me go next door to play with my first friend. His name was Doyle. Doyle and I played together...
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    A History of Faith - First United Methodist Church
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    • Apr 5, 2020
    • 3 min

    A History of Faith - First United Methodist Church

    The History of the Methodist Church in Augusta, Arkansas By Anne Eldridge Sources: History of the Augusta Methodist Church by Mrs. John...
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    A History of Faith - Gregory Revival 1941
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    • Apr 3, 2020
    • 2 min

    A History of Faith - Gregory Revival 1941

    When the Spirit Came to Gregory By Raymond Boyles with Commentary by Rebecca Boyles In doing some research for another story I ran across...
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    A History of Faith - Ward Chapel A.M.E.
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    • Apr 1, 2020
    • 2 min

    A History of Faith - Ward Chapel A.M.E.

    "The day of rejoicing came after all the hard work when in 1913 the membership moved into this lovely, sacred, brick structure"
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    "You think you cut it a little short?"
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    • Mar 30, 2020
    • 1 min

    "You think you cut it a little short?"

    We were so excited to find this picture of Tom Turner's Barbershop in the 1950's! Some of you - millenials and those not originally from...
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    Meeting of the Minds - Early 1960's
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    • Mar 1, 2020
    • 1 min

    Meeting of the Minds - Early 1960's

    Mr. Robert Buckles sent us a treasure trove this week and we’ll be posting a lot of photos in the following weeks! We LOVE this photo -...
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    Fever Excitement: A Historical Outbreak Hits Augusta
    forgotten augusta
    • Feb 26, 2020
    • 5 min

    Fever Excitement: A Historical Outbreak Hits Augusta

    Bonny Gregory Before the Coronavirus, and before the 2020 Flu, Arkansans in 1878 had something else to worry about: yellow fever. The...
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    Is it "Flight Day" yet?
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    • Nov 21, 2019
    • 1 min

    Is it "Flight Day" yet?

    "We're holding, year in and year out, the largest concentration of Mallards in North America." ~ Boyd Wright, 2016 Mallard Masters was...
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    THE OLD HOUND DOWN THE BEND
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    • Nov 19, 2019
    • 4 min

    THE OLD HOUND DOWN THE BEND

    EPILOGUE—The Pilgrimage Dr. Herbert L. Lunday, July 2017 Part II / Conclusion I began sharing stories.... I was already a freshman at...
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    THE OLD HOUND DOWN THE BEND - Part VII
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    • Nov 12, 2019
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    THE OLD HOUND DOWN THE BEND - Part VII

    Memories of Buckeye Deer Camp As told to Herbert L. Lunday by Herbert H. Lunday in 1985 Comments and Epilogue by Dr. Herbert L. Lunday ©...
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    THE OLD HOUND DOWN THE BEND - Part VII
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    • Nov 11, 2019
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    THE OLD HOUND DOWN THE BEND - Part VII

    Memories of Buckeye Deer Camp As told to Herbert L. Lunday by Herbert H. Lunday in 1985 Comments and Epilogue by Dr. Herbert L. Lunday ©...
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    THE OLD HOUND DOWN THE BEND - Part VI
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    • Nov 10, 2019
    • 2 min

    THE OLD HOUND DOWN THE BEND - Part VI

    Memories of Buckeye Deer Camp As told to Herbert L. Lunday by Herbert H. Lunday in 1985 Comments and Epilogue by Dr. Herbert L. Lunday ©...
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