FORGOTTEN AUGUSTA

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The History of the Methodist Church in Augusta, Arkansas By Anne Eldridge Sources: History of the Augusta Methodist Church by Mrs. John...

When the Spirit Came to Gregory By Raymond Boyles with Commentary by Rebecca Boyles In doing some research for another story I ran across...

"The day of rejoicing came after all the hard work when in 1913 the membership moved into this lovely, sacred, brick structure"

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...

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 -...

Bonny Gregory Before the Coronavirus, and before the 2020 Flu, Arkansans in 1878 had something else to worry about: yellow fever. The...

"We're holding, year in and year out, the largest concentration of Mallards in North America." ~ Boyd Wright, 2016 Mallard Masters was...

EPILOGUE—The Pilgrimage Dr. Herbert L. Lunday, July 2017 Part II / Conclusion I began sharing stories.... I was already a freshman at...