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Some of the richest farmland in America surrounds Eudora, the Chicot County town that was the subject of last Sunday's column. That column focused on the crime problems that likely will speed up population losses that have beset Eudora for the past 40 years. Dozens of small towns across the Arkansas Delta find themselves in the same boat.
Arkansas Game and Fish Director Austin Booth is this week's guest on the Southern Fried Podcast.
In April 1930, an 18-year-old farm boy named Crown Cox was hunting near the Little Missouri River in western Pike County when he noticed a rock with a dark red coloration. About a month later, D.F. Short, a section foreman for the Missouri Pacific Railroad, was blasting rock near the Antoine River in Pike County when he picked up a similar specimen.
Like many children in a landlocked state, my sister and I wanted to go to the beach each summer. Our father, who spent long weeks during the school year traveling Arkansas and selling athletic goods to high school coaches, didn't want to drive any farther than he had to once summer arrived.
I'm not much of a cook, but I'm looking at recipes and getting hungry. Those recipes are in Crescent Dragonwagon's delightful 30th anniversary edition of "Dairy Hollow House Soup & Bread: A Country Inn Cookbook," which was released by the University of Arkansas Press in 2021.