Special to the Saline River Chronicle FAYETTEVILLE – A very interesting first-person look at the Japanese-American Internment Camps in Southeast Arkansas has been published by the University of Arkansas Press. “Jerome and Rohwer: Memories of Japanese American Internment In World War II Arkansas,” edited by Walter M. Imahara and David E. Meltzer, is a 228-page…
This is the wonderful time of the year when once upon a time a tradition of the Sixth Grade at Eastside Elementary School loaded up on two to three school buses for a day-long excursion to Arkansas A&M College. What a day trip that was. It was talked up for weeks. I mean weeks ahead…
Special to the Saline River Chronicle A very esoteric look at New York’s Avant guard lifestyles by the collection and writings of former Bradley County resident was a part of the 81st Annual Meeting of the Arkansas Historical Association last week. The AHA met on Zoom for the 20-minute scholarly presentations in lieu of meeting in…
Oddly enough, it was a reply from a friend, whom I daily rode the yellow school bus with up on Highway 15 to East Side Elementary that came up with this Pastime. Jo Ann Castleberry Pyle, now an El Dorado businesswoman, came up with a mention about these reading primer subjects, “Alice and Jerry and…
Recently when all the cyber talk on various Warren Facebook pages was humming about Wayne’s Confectionary, someone out of the blue, recited the phone number for Wayne’s. The questioner, I presume, got it correct. That number, sadly, has been reassigned since Wayne’s is no longer in business. But I knew, when the person who posted…
As promised here is a more insightful look into the cast, their lines, actions and some hijinks of the Junior Play in the spring of 1972. The Junior Play for the Class of 1973 was done in the Spring of 1972. Ms. Eloise McFarland, the sponsor for both the Pine Cone (yearbook) and newspaper (The…
Mark Scobey, 67, Warren native, long time Hog ticket manager, dies The headlines, if there were still old-style newspapers, like those past generations have known, would be carrying such a bold pronouncement of the sudden and unexpected death of a really, fine ambassador of this state who died this week. Mark Scobey, 67. quietly yet very…
Now it’s been more than 50 years since I was tasked into working in the tomatoes – or ‘maters as my childhood friends will say back in Bradley County. But each of us, whether there now or a thousand miles away at other work – can and will attest that the work in the tomato…
Special to the Saline River Chronicle OCEANSIDE, CA – Chrystal Norton Cochran, a Warren native who has done modeling on the West Coast, now has a Getty Image video of her and her new puppy, Xena Princess Warrior, on the Getty Image site. Getty Image sites are often used in commercial art, in such ways…
A real treat often came between Christmas and New Year’s was when Warren businesses handed out calendars for the year ahead. Almost every drugstore in downtown Main Street gave away some sort of free calendar to be public back in the day. The most popular was the mass produced Cardui Calendar – a flimsy newspaper-like…
Special to the Saline River Chronicle Fayetteville, Arkansas – The most recent issue of Arkansas Libraries, the official magazine of the Arkansas Library Association, has published a story by Maylon Rice, a Warren native, who is a Trustee Emeritus of the Fayetteville Public Library. Rice’s story appearing in the Fall/Winter issue of Arkansas Libraries is…
The scribbler of these Pastime memories sometimes, like all of us, get a little bit “down” as this pandemic continues; as the holiday season approaches; and we start seeing more names we know on a personal first-name basis in the obituary columns across this state. The last couple of weeks have been an emotional roller-coaster…
Now this Pastime is not meant to be a history lesson as much as a Happy Birthday greeting. December 18th Bradley County turns 181 years old. Happy Birthday to Bradley County! Getting the technical out of the way, on December 18, 1840, Bradley County was formed from the much larger Union County on pre-drawn, pre-territorial maps.…
A Pastime of my past surfaces each Christmas. It is more about an event and yet the culinary treat that came my way for simply moving a few card tables and pieces of furniture around, makes me write this after a half century of memories. Of my many duties as a Printer’s Devil at the…
A man of many talents, one intense love – for the City of Warren, Ark. This is a sad Pastime, sorrowful only in that a good man has died and left his indelible marks on the red brick streets of Warren. My mentor, the late Robert L. (Bob) Newton Jr., who could write such tributes…
This is a Pastime of reading pleasure and memories of pages filled by books of famous Americans. There was a small, but compact collection of little orange/red backed books found on a shelf under the east window of the children’s section in the old Warren Public Library. That collection still fills my memories – even…
The Arkansas State Fair just closed this past weekend with record crowds and a revived and crowded midway and stock barns filled with exhibits. This Pastime is about a long yellow school bus ride to and from the Capitol City to witness the Arkansas State Fair in about 1967-68 with Mr. John Briggs at the…
Nancy Jo Rice Loveless, age 67, of Cabot, AR passed from her earthly life Thursday October 21 at UAMS. Born July 24, 1954 in Crossett, AR. From Tupperware Lady to farmer to florist to pharmacy technician she was a jack of all trades and mastered them all with the exception of conquering cancer. Most recently…
This Pastime is another installment in the ladies-ready-to-wear shops that once proliferated along Main Street in downtown Warren. And a big Airstream trailer parked in the alleyway behind Main. The alley ran from Cypress to Church. The shiny metal Airstream trailer was indeed, in its day, one of the snazziest travel trailers ever produced in…
It’s that time – a Pastime that comes around every October when most regular sports take a “back seat” at least temporarily to the Major League World Series. Each fall, years ago, if you could ‘sit still’ and “listen,” Wayne’s around such baseball lovers as Paul Whitaker, Jimmy Russell, Wayne Wisener, Hugh Allen Jones, Tommy…
A recent column about Mary Lou Martin’s fantastic chili dogs at Lumberjack football games got me thinking and somewhat challenged by the younger generation discussing the merits between Wayne’s Confectionary and The Corral. Wasn’t Wayne’s and The Corral about the same, one younger generation questioner probed? No. I quickly stated. The two restaurants were not…
