Category Archives: Arkansas

Two views of Lee Creek from the highway bridge in the park. The shot on the left is looking east. It was in the trees on the left that I saw my lifer Yellow-throated Warbler on my first visit in … Continue reading →

Several members of my family I decided to do something educational and enriching — then gave up on that idea and drove into Little Rock to see Clinton’s library. The building is widely considered to look like a double-wide trailer … Continue reading →

On a pleasant spring Thursday, I took a 10-mile canoe trip down the Buffalo National River with my wife and daughter, two brothers-in-law, and a sister in law. We rented three canoes. The outfitter took us down 20 miles of … Continue reading →

I took a road trip to this state park. It wasn’t worth it. It consisted of this courthouse, built in 1869, which had a lousy museum of local junk inside. There were six other people in the park — an … Continue reading →

There was a fort on this site for a few years during the early 1800s, but the fort for which the town is named was established in the 1830s when settlers thought there would be trouble after Andrew Jackson’s “Indian … Continue reading →