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Jun 19, 2023

Does your language have a word that means "a piece of log bitten off the stump by a bear"? One of the L.A. Indian languages did! And when one of the early explorers to this area asked one of the Indians, "What's that?" he replied with this word, which then became the name for a body of flowing water! What stream or...


Jun 19, 2023

I tell people that I can usually remember three of the four items I went to pick up at the grocery store. It's the fourth one that always stumps me!

So when I learned that Mercedes Ray, program director for the Social Work Program at SAU was going to be speaking on how to improve your memory, I had to go and listen. And...


Jun 19, 2023

"When the Lord is developing someone, all of life is a school," wrote Henry Blackaby. Bro. Joe Owens is proof of that, as are most of us if we would stop and think of Romans 8:28. The pastor of Macedonia Baptist Church is an example of how God uses His followers in ways they might never have expected.

Bro. Joe didn't...


Jun 19, 2023

One of the surprising things about life in Lower Arkansas is that you never know what a surprising "back story" the person your talking to may have. A retired real estate guy may have been the drummer for one of the hottest pop groups in the region. The children's librarian may have lived everywhere from Pickles Gap...