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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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- Apr 4, 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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- Apr 2, 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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- Mar 31, 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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- 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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- 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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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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- Nov 20, 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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- Nov 18, 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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- Nov 12, 2019
- 2 min
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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- 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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- Nov 10, 2019
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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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