There were three of them here yesterday morning. I was able to take these pictures from the deck and not alarm them much. They had followed a group of does up the hill (it IS that time of year) and they were on their way back down to the Bayou Gulch bottoms, pausing along the …
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A systematic study of stenciled hand prints in European Upper Paleolithic cave art (like in the picture above) indicates that most of them were likely made by women. This comes as a surprise as most have assumed that this rock art was associated with hunting magic and was executed by men. Dale Guthrie call your office. …
An Heirloom
A couple of years ago, I posted about my mother’s family’s history of manufacturing patent medicine. That post showed a 1930s photograph with a Nash’s Chill & Liver Tonic advertising sign, and I said I had long wanted to find a bottle. I mentioned this in an off-hand remark to my cousin Clifford Toney when I …
Big Spring
On another field trip taken while in Arkansas last month, Connie and I drove to the Missouri Ozarks to see the Current River near the town of Van Buren. When I was a kid our family did lots of camping and canoeing here before it became a National Scenic River and the National Park Service …
A Rowan Oak Bonus
I was going to put this in my post last week on Faulkner’s Rowan Oak, but I had so many photos in the post already that Blogger was getting balky and I was afraid I would lose the whole thing. After I had finished walking through the house, I went back to my car, got …
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“Deserves” got nothin’ to do with it. Clint Eastwood as William Munny in Unforgiven
Local Color
I figured as long as I was doing a post on a Mississippi subject, I probably should add in some pictures that show the local atmosphere. Here is a picture of the statue to the Confederate war dead on the town square in Oxford, in front of the Lafayette (pronounced luh-FAY-ette) County courthouse. I had …
Rowan Oak
I have recently returned from another extended stay in Arkansas. While there I was able to do a few interesting field trips, one of which was a visit to William Faulkner’s home, Rowan Oak, in Oxford, Mississippi. The house and grounds are owned by the University of Mississippi. Access to the grounds is free and …
Meleagris gallopavo
Yesterday afternoon I took Cash for a walk in the Hidden Mesa Open Space area located about 15 minutes southwest of us. We had a good time, or at least I did as I found five prehistoric sites as we were walking along the trail. Cash spent a lot of time giving me “Can we …
More Blackfoot Cave
Weekend before last I spent both days excavating at Blackfoot Cave that I posted about last month. The find of the weekend was this section of what appears to be a bison mandible. If you look closely you can see the top surfaces of the teeth pointed down toward the photo scale. It hasn’t been officially …