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.
The purported grave of “Little John” – the possible namesake of Petit Jean Mountain. If you don’t know the tearful (and somewhat ridiculous) story of the young lovers Adrienne Dumont and Chavet, here is one of the many places you can read a summarized version on the ‘net.
Personally, I’ll tell you that this whole story is as fictitious as the one told in Gone with the Wind was – and I do not believe this is an actual grave at all. See this site for why …
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…
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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