There is a huge gathering every year in Helene Ark for jaz and blues. This wall was painted depicting many of the players. I believe it was painted in 1989 if I recall correctly. It is put on by King Biscuit and this last year they had over 100,000 people come.
Forrestdale Church and cemetery are one of many examples of small old churches that remain throughout the south. This one appeared no longer used but the cemetery was still being used. It dates back to the late 1800's. From my understanding of Arkansas, you can still bury family on your property. We saw several instances of this and had thought it was perhaps old burial grounds but was told otherwise.
What a gorgeous sunset. Appears the jets from the local base may have been doing some flying and left there trails in the sunset.
We saw seperate calf houses in one of the other states, here they have seperate rooster houses.
There are swamps all over the state and some have the tree stumps as shown above. This one was fairly clean some are all green due to algae.
Kudzu is seen growing up the towers above. You can see it also laying like a blanket over the rest of the trees and bushes. It is said to grow a a foot a day and in ideal conditions it can grow 60 feet a year. I came from Japan as a nice plant but seems to love the conditions in the south. You don't want to stand still to long you could be the next reclaimation project. It covers houses left unoccupied for length of time. Take a look at www.alabamatv.org/kudzu for more info.
This is the 1896 Pillow Thompson house in Helene Ark. We took a tour and were the only people due to the lateness in the season. We spent at least 1 1/2 hrs listening to the history of the house and the area.
The area around the window is all cut colored glass - click twice on the photos to see how pretty it is.
This early food warmer is an area above the radiator that has shelves and doors. It was used to keep food warm before serving.
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