Searcy High School Building built in 1908. Picture from the past.

My friend Paula took photos with a camera she'd won sometime in the 40's. The assignment was for Girl Scouts and she was to take photos of buildings in Searcy AR. She dutifully went around snapping photos and we've been featuring them on this blog.

Here's another one. It is a school building. I looked it up in Ray Muncy's "Searcy Arkansas: A Frontier Town Grows Up With America" book and he says it was built in 1908 and called it Searcy High School. His book, by the way, was written in 1976 to celebrate the American Revolution Bicentennial. Dr. Muncy was a favorite history professor at Harding University and he was commissioned (I believe) to do this book on the history of Searcy.

But he didn't have Paula's pictures! They are special and newly discovered, aren't they, Paula? This one has spooky shadows and old cars and looks like quite a few bikes parked in the front.