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QueenOfHearts

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We crisscrossed from Northeast Wyoming to Southwest WY the first year. We arrived in the area of Devil's Tower via Rapid City, SD. I was quite taken with just the overall feel of Wyoming, I know that sounds touristy and all but, give me a break, I'm from Arkansas:) Although I live in the Ozark Mountains, Devil's Tower was just and beautiful place but the feeling of isolation was definitely there. There isn't much around, as far as what I could tell. We passed thru several small towns and it reminded me of going back in time. Everyone we came across was so polite and courteous, so kudos to the residents of Wyoming for being so hospitable. We spent the next week or so working our way west-southwest and ended up in Jackson, WY on the western border. We then came back southwest thru Rock Springs, Laramie, then Cheyenne before crossing back into Colorado. We spent a couple of days in the Rocky Mountain National Park, our hotel was in Longmont, CO but we spent most of our time in Estes Park. We toured the Stanley House and drove over to the Continental Divide. It was the best vacation we ever took, hands down.
Oh oh so you are from the Ozarks huh? They did a show on discovery I think called Clash of the Ozarks, seriously entertaining! All about these three families that own large swaths of land and have for generations but disagree about bringing the area into the 21st century. Some want to retain the "old way" of life and the other wants to development to push forward. Did you see that show? Do you know if things truly are how they were portrayed? The name of one of the families was the Russel clan and if by chance you have NO stinkin idea what im talking about well then disreguard :disillusionment:
 

ghost19

"Have I run too far to get home?"
Sep 25, 2011
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Oh oh so you are from the Ozarks huh? They did a show on discovery I think called Clash of the Ozarks, seriously entertaining! All about these three families that own large swaths of land and have for generations but disagree about bringing the area into the 21st century. Some want to retain the "old way" of life and the other wants to development to push forward. Did you see that show? Do you know if things truly are how they were portrayed? The name of one of the families was the Russel clan and if by chance you have NO stinkin idea what im talking about well then disreguard :disillusionment:

I remember that show. It was set over in the Hardy, AR area which is over on the other side of the state. I'm in northwest Arkansas, Hardy is over in northeast Arkansas, about 4.5 hours from here. I've been thru that area, but not in a while. It's pretty mountainous all across the northern part of Arkansas. The setting of the show is accurate. If you go east of where I live just one county, you get into a very rural type of terrain and it remains that way all across the northern sections of the state. There are a few larger towns but overall it's very sparsely populated all across the northern part of the state. Harrison, AR in Boone County is about halfway between the area I live in and Hardy, AR and it's the largest town between the area where I live and Hardy. Harrison is all of 13k people, so once you go east of Fayetteville where I live, there aren't any "cities" until you get to Jonesboro, AR on the other side of the state. The drive over to Hardy takes quite a while, it's all scenic highway for the most part, some four lane, but mostly two lane state highways and before GPS it would have been easy to get lost on your way to Hardy. The whole drive across the northern part of the state is rural and very scenic. The Clash of the Ozarks show is typical Hollywood "reality" show drama which isn't very accurate. Most people in towns like Hardy are a bit standoff-ish, but no more than I figure people in small towns in other states are.

The area of Arkansas I live in is quickly becoming a metroplex type area. The cities of Fayetteville, Springdale, Rogers, and Bentonville continue to grow with a combined population of around 250k. It's getting harder to tell when you leave one city and enter another, but this area is the exception rather than the norm. Most of Arkansas is predominantly rural consisting of clusters of small towns.
 

pegasus216

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Okay, I'll get the questions ready.
Hope it's okay if I repeat some questions as this thread is long, and it's hard to see what's been asked already!
Also, I may need a reminder Sunday morning!

It's ok with whatever you come up with, repeat or not. You have a whole wee to think about them, so that is good!
If I can hold it on my brain long enough, I'll remind you!
 

QueenOfHearts

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I remember that show. It was set over in the Hardy, AR area which is over on the other side of the state. I'm in northwest Arkansas, Hardy is over in northeast Arkansas, about 4.5 hours from here. I've been thru that area, but not in a while. It's pretty mountainous all across the northern part of Arkansas. The setting of the show is accurate. If you go east of where I live just one county, you get into a very rural type of terrain and it remains that way all across the northern sections of the state. There are a few larger towns but overall it's very sparsely populated all across the northern part of the state. Harrison, AR in Boone County is about halfway between the area I live in and Hardy, AR and it's the largest town between the area where I live and Hardy. Harrison is all of 13k people, so once you go east of Fayetteville where I live, there aren't any "cities" until you get to Jonesboro, AR on the other side of the state. The drive over to Hardy takes quite a while, it's all scenic highway for the most part, some four lane, but mostly two lane state highways and before GPS it would have been easy to get lost on your way to Hardy. The whole drive across the northern part of the state is rural and very scenic. The Clash of the Ozarks show is typical Hollywood "reality" show drama which isn't very accurate. Most people in towns like Hardy are a bit standoff-ish, but no more than I figure people in small towns in other states are.

The area of Arkansas I live in is quickly becoming a metroplex type area. The cities of Fayetteville, Springdale, Rogers, and Bentonville continue to grow with a combined population of around 250k. It's getting harder to tell when you leave one city and enter another, but this area is the exception rather than the norm. Most of Arkansas is predominantly rural consisting of clusters of small towns.
Well first and foremost thank god you at the very least knew what I was referencing. I'm sure if I wasn't so keen on the idea of the shows premise I could have come to that same conclusion all on my own but hey a girl can dream. Thanks for taking the time to break down the surrounding area which truly does give me a mental image that really helps tie a lot of things together. Atleast your description of the area backs up the moonshining claim seeing as how it is so rural. Appreciate you taking the time!
 

ghost19

"Have I run too far to get home?"
Sep 25, 2011
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Well first and foremost thank god you at the very least knew what I was referencing. I'm sure if I wasn't so keen on the idea of the shows premise I could have come to that same conclusion all on my own but hey a girl can dream. Thanks for taking the time to break down the surrounding area which truly does give me a mental image that really helps tie a lot of things together. Atleast your description of the area backs up the moonshining claim seeing as how it is so rural. Appreciate you taking the time!

Funny you mention moonshining. This is a true story from what my great-grandfather told me way back when I was a kid. Both sides of my family are from southern Arkansas originally, right at the foot of the Ouachita Mountains, an area called the Caddo Valley. Back during Prohibition there was a series of trails leading up into the mountains from the towns of Caddo Gap, Hopper, and Norman (formerly known as Womble)..always found that to be a interesting name for a town. Anyway, the mountains around that area back then were, and still are very rugged terrain. These mountains are also dotted by hundreds of small caves, not very deep caves, but from the stories we were told as kids, the Caddo Indians used them for storing goods. If you took off walking west thru the mountains from this location you wouldn't cross the path of any towns until well into the southeastern part of Oklahoma, it's very isolated. Some of my relatives and other people in the area took to setting up moonshine stills in the mountains in order to supply the city of Hot Springs, AR. The town of Hot Springs used to be a popular "vacation" place for gangsters like Al Capone, Bugs Moran, and Lucky Luciano. The demand for liquor was very high in Hot Springs, so there was a lot of moonshine coming out of the area where I grew up as it was only about forty miles as the crow files from Hot Springs. Well, eventually the Government got word of the influx of alcohol coming from our neck of the woods into Hot Springs and they decided to send in a group of IRS "revenuers" out of the Little Rock office to shut the operation down.

This group of eight revenuers met up at the post office in Caddo Gap, AR and armed with rifles, pistols, and intelligence they had received from a bootlegger they had caught transporting the moonshine to Hot Springs, they started up into the mountains, some of them on horseback, and the others in a horse drawn buggy. My grandfather, who lived right in Caddo Gap all of his life, told me that night there was a prolonged series of gunshots and what sounded like explosions up in the mountains just west of town. The next morning the post master arrived to open the post office in Caddo Gap and found the horse drawn buggy tied up to the post out front. In the buggy were the bodies of all eight revenuers, all shot several times, with a note proclaiming "They got two of us. Let this be the end of it." The story was also covered in an old historical magazine in that area called "The Looking Glass" but my grandfather, not given to tall tales, told me that the State Police took the bodies back to Little Rock and that was the end of it. No other revenuers were sent into the mountains, no follow up investigation was initiated, and no charges were ever filed against anyone. My grandpa never actually said who was involved as far as which families but he said it was no big secret to anyone in town. Coincidentally, this happened around 1930 which would have made my great-grandfather 20 years old at that time. I never thought to ask him if he was in on it, he never seemed the type that would hurt anyone, but from what my great-grandmother told me, he was not someone to trifle with when he was a young man..lol. I've always found that story interesting but also a bit chilling. Have a good week ma'am.
 

GNTLGNT

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1. Do you have anything unique hanging on your walls?-a guy with no arms and no legs...I call him Art

2. What was your favorite thing to do as a kid?-ride bikes and go plinking with whatever gun I could lay my hands on....

3.Do you live in a house or apartment?-house

4. What was your first job?-mowing lawns

5.What is your favorite dish your mom makes/made?-creamed onions

6.What is your favorite place to go in the summer? I.E beach, park, etc.-ball park

7. Is your kitchen table round or square?-I have a kitchen table?

8. What kind of vehicle do you drive.-1999 Jeep Cherokee Sport on a six inch lift...I call her Pigzilla.....

9. Who is your favorite cartoon character?-Hossnpepper

10. Do you have a favorite t-shirt that you wear?-one of my King Kon shirts
 

do1you9love?

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Feb 18, 2012
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Geez, I am so far behind. :down: Apologizing in advance.... but here are several week's worth.

SUNDAY SURVEY(April 12, 2015)
1. Do you play a musical instrument? If so, which one/s? If not, and you could, which instrument?It’s been a long time, but piano and clarinet.

2. Have you ever used the "Magic 8 Ball" to make a decision? Doesn’t everyone? Just kidding, but I did dress up as a Magic 8 Ball when I was pregnant on Halloween,

3. If you could choose one famous person to have never existed, who would it be? Can’t disrupt the threads anymore. Just have to move forward.

4. If you got to go back in time for a day, what date or time period would you choose? Sometime in the Roaring 20’s in a speakeasy!

5. What's your favorite charity? SPCA

6. What brand of athletic shoe do you wear? LOL Flipflops!

7.If there was a movie made about you, what would it be called? What actor/actress would you want to play you? No ideas on the title. I used to be told I resembled Jami Gertz (ie:Lost Boys area) so if she is looking for work…

8. If you could resurrect a TV show that no longer airs new episodes, which one would it be? (assuming it would be just as good if not better than it was) Greg the Bunny.

9. Other than death or illness of yourself or ones you love, what is your biggest fear? I have always had a recurring dream that I am driving my car thru the mountains and I slide off a curve. Yes, I have to drive in the mountains more than I would like.

10. Would you trade the ability to read words for the ability to read minds? Nope.
 

do1you9love?

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Sunday Survey, 19 April 2015

1. What is the oldest thing you own? I have several antiques. I collect Depression Glass , so that’s old. And I have a steamer trunk that my great-grandfather brought over from Italy. And a china press that was given to my mother when she was young by a very old neighbor. No real idea of any of the ages except the Depression glass.

2. What durable good did you acquire most recently? ("Durable good" meaning something you use, like a car, computer, or shirt,notsomething you consume, like groceries, alcohol, or toner cartridge.) New clothes before my vacation.

3. How often do you pray? (If you don't pray, the answer is "zero.") Frequently.

4. Rate from 0 to 10 what you look for in a massage, 0 being you doan get no steenkeen massage, 10 being a massage that calls for a pretty fair level of pain. I would say a 6. I want to feel that they are working the muscle, but please don’t hurt me. I will usually feel sore later if it was a good one.

5. If you were isolated without real human contact, would you get by okay or get crushed by loneliness? Nope. I will not be happy.

6. Would things run better if you were in charge? ("Things" can be anything you want where you're not in charge now.) Some things, definitely. Other things, no thank you!

7. Would it bother you if your offspring took up with someone of a different race? (If you don't have offspring, pretend.) Not at all.

8. You've just won the big money prize. Your checking account just increased by millions. After the celebration, what's the first thing of real value that you spend money on? I will help relieve all close family debt, then travel with family.

9. Do you tend more to want to be completely comfortable or do you think that a little suffering is good for the soul? This one is hard. I want to be comfortable, but I do believe that the experiences are what make a person and if you have never suffered then you might be ready for what else life will throw your way.

10. Would you like to travel in space? Nope. In space, no one can hear you scream.
 

do1you9love?

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And finally, for Sunday, 4/26...

1. Do you have anything unique hanging on your walls? Lithographs I have won on cruises.
2. What was your favorite thing to do as a kid? Ride my Green Machine!
3.Do you live in a house or apartment? House
4. What was your first job? Pre-list enumerator for the 1990 Census. That means in the summer of 1989, I drove around certain areas with a very generic map and marked where houses were and distributed census info. To this day, I can read a map like no one else.
5.What is your favorite dish your mom makes/made? Oyster dressing for Thanksgiving.
6.What is your favorite place to go in the summer? I.E beach, park, etc. The Outer Banks, NC – anytime from Feb to Dec.
7. Is your kitchen table round or square? Rectangular.
8. What kind of vehicle do you drive. Subaru in the winter. Sebring Convertible in the summer.
9. Who is your favorite cartoon character? Scooby Doo.
10. Do you have a favorite t-shirt that you wear? Used to, but it’s long worn out and gone.
 

skimom2

Just moseyin' through...
Oct 9, 2013
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8. What kind of vehicle do you drive.-1999 Jeep Cherokee Sport on a six inch lift...I call her Pigzilla.....
That's my husband's dream car--lol. He's been searching high and low for a 1998-2000 Cherokee that's not a mess. We had a '97 a few years back, but it was totaled when we were hit by a truck that didn't think red lights applied to her. He's been in mourning ever since.
 

AchtungBaby

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1. Do you have anything unique hanging on your walls? Stephen King movie posters.

2. What was your favorite thing to do as a kid? Read and write songs

3.Do you live in a house or apartment? House

4. What was your first job? Cutting my grandparents' lawn.

5.What is your favorite dish your mom makes/made? Lasagna

6.What is your favorite place to go in the summer? I.E beach, park, etc. Beach.

7. Is your kitchen table round or square? Square

8. What kind of vehicle do you drive. Chevrolet Equinox

9. Who is your favorite cartoon character? Brian Griffin

10. Do you have a favorite t-shirt that you wear? My U2 shirts.
 

The Nameless

M-O-O-N - That spells Nameless
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1. Do you have anything unique hanging on your walls?
2 paintings from my Brother

2. What was your favorite thing to do as a kid?
Play football (soccer)

3.Do you live in a house or apartment?
House

4. What was your first job?
Shop Assistant

5.What is your favorite dish your mom makes/made?
Chicken & bacon pie

6.What is your favorite place to go in the summer? I.E beach, park, etc.
I'm not keen on being hot so nowhere really

7. Is your kitchen table round or square?
Don't have one

8. What kind of vehicle do you drive?
Don't have one (well, I have a bicycle - just about, that's ready for the scrapheap)

9. Who is your favorite cartoon character?
Principal Lewis from American Dad

10. Do you have a favorite t-shirt that you wear?
My earl tip Penguin polos
 

Lord Tyrion

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1. Do you have anything unique hanging on your walls? An autographed photo of Olivia Munn.

2. What was your favorite thing to do as a kid? Play video games.

3.Do you live in a house or apartment? House.

4. What was your first job? Tutor in high school.

5.What is your favorite dish your mom makes/made? Chicken Mole (Mexican sauce).

6.What is your favorite place to go in the summer? I.E beach, park, etc. Forrest trails.

7. Is your kitchen table round or square? Square.

8. What kind of vehicle do you drive. Honda Accord.

9. Who is your favorite cartoon character? Homer Simpson.

10. Do you have a favorite t-shirt that you wear? Back to the Future T-Shirt.
 

CriticAndProud

Not actually dead, just very inactive.
Aug 26, 2013
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1. Do you have anything unique hanging on your walls? A big canvas print of the original "Mad Max" poster *drools*

2. What was your favorite thing to do as a kid? Watch movies, make movies.

3.Do you live in a house or apartment? House.

4. What was your first job? Haven't had a job yet.

5.What is your favorite dish your mom makes/made? Not sure.

6.What is your favorite place to go in the summer? Cinema, or, the bush.

7. Is your kitchen table round or square? Rectangular.

8. What kind of vehicle do you drive. One of those cars from the Flintstones, where your feet stick out the bottom. ;;D

9. Who is your favorite cartoon character? Batman, voiced by Kevin Conroy.

10. Do you have a favorite t-shirt that you wear? My Mighty Boosh shirt.