About White County, AR

It's that time of the year again!

TREASURE HUNT! THE GREAT ARKANSAS TREASURE HUNT!

Who can resist looking at it to see if you can claim a prize? I found a Barbara Duncan above but it's not me. That's not where I live.

By going to the website www.artreasurehunt.com you can check to see if your name is on the list. Unclaimed property (not real estate) such as uncashed checks, abandoned bank accounts, utility deposits, and various other things are reported to the Auditor of State Unclaimed Property Division. If you find your name you can file a claim to "claim" the treasure.

Last year the state paid out about 7.3 million in belated claims and this year 56,000 new names were added to the list. Try it. Even if you're not from Arkansas, there may be something for you!!

Walking through my house I was suddenly blinded by the colors of the rainbow on my furniture and on my carpet and floors. It's sorta like a sign. Lighten up. Be happy. Rainbows are everywhere. I ran to get my camera because after all, blogging about a rainbow could be inspirational if I were talented enough to write an inspirational blog.

Then I noticed something. There's dust in this rainbow on my antique chest........ BUT, the dust has the lovely colors too!

And how often do you find the perfect rainbow colors inside your home?

These pictures are like a Norman Rockwell painting. Rockwell could have made a great magazine cover. It would show very deserving small-town soldiers visiting home and posing beside the bank. He'd have put in the weeds growing beside the sidewalk, the car in the background, the wrinkles in the uniforms, and even the cracks in the street.

My dad, at my wedding, wore his tie poked into the shirt like these guys. He never wore a tie but when he put one on for the big night, I was quite frankly mortified. Evidently, according to these guys, it was a fashion during WWII, for which my father was drafted. I'd never seen such a fashion.

Rockwell would have made the sign in the back readable. I'll have to depend on Searcy Arkansas historians to tell me what the sign said. They can also name the guys if they know them.

This picture is showing our queen of Searcy, Corrine Hart, who grew up in Searcy and helped Searcy grow up. She lived to be over 100. She is Anita Fuller's mother and Anita supplied this photo.

Where is she posing? I think it is the statue that is on the Court Square. I went there today and took a picture of Searcy as it is today. I got the statue seat, the lamp and possibly the three windowed building in the background.

I'll wait for my Searcy experts to tell me whether I'm right or not. This picture shows the South side of the Court Square.

The lamp post certainly looks similar.

It's great to go in and explore the history of Searcy in White County Arkansas.

I can almost see Corrine sitting on this pedestal and flinging her purse on the pedestal also.

We have friends who have lived in the same house for years and a house which used to be in the country.

Driving to visit them seemed to take a long time a long time ago. After all, it was in the country.

Now the city has grown out to meet them. But they have certain privileges because they are "grandfathered in." For one thing, they have a lovely horse barn and corral for the horses.

They can keep a donkey or a horse and still walk to the grocery store. Their latest pets are chickens. We rode over to the house and saw chickens roaming free. They remarked, "They'll come home to roost." When the rooster starts crowing early in the morning, however, they may have a few angry neighbors calling.

It's a wonderful set-up, the country right in town! They have found their gold at the end of the rainbow!