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Besides being a painful way to improve the mind, mistakes also can hop us down into fascinating rabbit holes where we meet new friends.

As it tends to in our current era, New Years Eve 100 years ago was an event variously observed among Arkansans with the imbibing of mass quantities of intoxicating beverages, or by avoiding or even denouncing intoxication, or by pretending to eschew intoxicants while consuming them quietly behind closed doors.

Oh my, look at your hands. If only they could talk, what would they say to you?

Oh my, look at your hands. If only they could talk, what would they say to you?

A century ago this week, the Ukrainian National Chorus performed two concerts in Little Rock.

The long saga of efforts to restore and preserve Pine Bluffs melancholy Saenger Theater is well known, and so it wont amaze Friend Reader to read that todays still glorious ruin is not the original Saenger.

Your troubadour has a not especially historic reason for selecting todays Old News — an automotive item from the Sept. 17, 1922, Arkansas Gazette.

Labor Day 1922 was fraught.

If ever I am assigned to cover the rare flowering of a fine elderly citizens Queen of the Night, somebody please stand beside me during the watch party and every so often lean in to whisper, "Be careful."