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Winter Dawn over Lake Roosevelt

Published: February 15, 2012

Winter Dawn over Lake Roosevelt

A Winter sky and stone pavilion overlook Lake Roosevelt at central Arkansas’s Petit Jean State Park.

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Abandoned Shangri-La

Published: February 12, 2012

Abandoned Shangri-La #1

Abandoned Shangri-La #2

A double-feature today: Two shots of an old church or school (or both) near the shores of Lake Ouachita in the Tompkin’s Bend / Shangri-La area. You may remember that Shangri-La was a fictitious place in the novel Lost Horizon - which I read as a kid, and was then delighted to learn there was a place on Lake Ouachita with the same name.

In the story, those who lived in Shangri-La never grew old … but since this is actually down the road from there, I guess the magic doesn’t reach that far.

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Belleville Bricks

Published: January 30, 2012

Belleville Bricks (Color)

An old building in Belleville, Arkansas. (You can see a detail shot of that arched window here.) Belleville is a small town on Hwy 10, a few miles northwest of Danville. A B/W version and map is below…

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Forgotten in Scott

Published: January 27, 2012

Forgotten in Scott (BW)

An old cotton depot in Scott, Arkansas – for lack of a better term. This building is located next to train tracks and would have stored bailed cotton waiting to be shipped out. There’s a nice museum of cotton-boom era relics and the related history in the little town of Scott – but the town is practically a museum itself with all these old cotton gins and associated buildings. See a color version and a map of Scott below…

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