Well my friends... since my last blog .. I have been broke down on the side of the road, rescued by Homer, stood up Jerry, didn't get to dig in the dirt, besieged by storms of evil and violent intent
, ran over my dog, called Jerry's son by mistake about 15 times, turned away from the Sizzler because of no power, guided a bewildered Jerry to a motel which actually had power and vacancy, went for KFC but had to settle for Taco Bell because KFC was hit by a tornado and had to have structural work done to it.. and finally found something that Arkansas had to offer besides heartburn, sunburn, horseflies, and mosquitoes to Jerry
... whew! I'm worn out, how bout y'all?
It is the Lockie curse that has plagued me for most of my life... I have these nasty little critters
I call gremlins, who follow me around, to create chaos in an otherwise really pretty dull and predictable life. Just let me make a plan.. pick up a pencil and make a list of things to do today.. and they are all over me like white on rice!
But anyway.. Jerry was all for sightseeing for a while and so I took him to the famous Judge Issac C. Parkers courthouse and took a tour of the basement jail and then the jail they built at a later date.. and the actual courtroom itself.. all of the furnishing are reproductions I suppose.. but they sure looked the part to me if they were.
Then over to the gallows he had specially built.. they are built to hang 6 people at a time. hehehe.. He wasn't know as the Hanging Judge for nothing ya know! He was the last word in law on the border back when Oklahoma and Arkansas were filled with outlaws and hostile indians. He hired the men to find them and when they brought them in.. he listened to their pleas and the evidence and then .. strung 'em up if they were guilty.. He sentenced 136 men to be hung by the neck until dead and 2 women.. the women were never hung, because of a higher court appeal ruling.. but they did the crime and he sentenced them to the same punishment he would have a man.. He was the first supporter of equal rights for women I suppose.. he was a libber!!!
Before we went to the Park.. we stopped off at another great historical site here in my world.. Miss Laura's Social Club.. which in short was a bordello run by a lady by the name of Miss Laura.. it has since then been a restaurant and now a museum of wonderful things that were a part of life back then.. I made a slide show.. but I am also going to put them into an album uploaded here to Multiply if you would like to see them with captions as to what they are.
Jerry is back in Pennsylvania, I am still sitting waiting for the rain to quit for more than 24 hours so I can go and search for my diamond that is waiting for me.. and Iggwad is still just.. Iggwad!
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