In search of adventure, we headed to Fort Smith, just over an hour west of where we’re staying. Our first stop was the Fort Smith Museum of History. It’s a typical local history museum, with displays on things that happened in the city, but since Fort Smith actually is a city, there were some interesting things to see.
I thought the local TV studio that has been entirely rebuilt in the museum was fun.
And this massive camera which functioned essentially as a copy machine was interesting.
They had a lot of verbiage on Judge Parker, the “Hanging Jude” who ruled the town and sentenced 160 people to death in 21 years. Of those 160 people, 79 were hanged. The museum included this valuable information.
The museum was interesting enough to beguile a couple hours. For lunch we went to Blue Embers Smokehouse, which I found on the Internet. It was excellent, and if we find ourselves in Fort Smith in the future, we’ll probably go back.
And since we were in town, we swung by the Planter’s Peanuts factory and took some photos.
It was a hot day, so we skipped the National Historic Park — and anyway the federal morons would have made us wear masks even though nobody was wearing them anywhere else in town. But we had fun and pretty much exhausted the adventure opportunities in the city.