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OCTOBER 2012
Down Memory Lane
Arkansas travel the 'view' and beyond The old folks packed up the van and took off for their annual Labor Day trip to Mt. View, Arkansas. Ray and I were gone a week. This year this navigator routed us a few extra miles to venture into Walmart Country to check out the Crystal Bridge Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas. Walton’s youngest daughter, Alice, 64, shared some of her $81 billion worth – third richest woman in the world by contributing to the Walton Family Foundation that built a museum to share her lifelong collection of art. After that we took in some shows in Branson.
I have written about Mt. View before. In the early years folks in the Ozark town were isolated and their main entertainment was going to town and play music. Doris That tradition Butt still holds, but now musicians have moved to town to join them, tourists that come to play and folks like us come just to listen. Any night you can find a group jamming somewhere around the courthouse. On weekends there may be a dozen or so groups. Sonin-law Frank’s father, Francis, has taken to playing the fiddle in his retirement years and we often listened to the group he
chose to join. While listening to a group play a gentleman began talking with me and shared he put videos on YouTube. Later, when we went to a little RV park church service Francis joined the musicians. There was my chatting friend taking a video. Francis can now be seen on YouTube. (YouTube then Court Square Church 09-02-12). It is a good time with daughter Jennie and Frank, who live in Arkansas and asked us to join his family outing at Mt. View years back. This year was special. Jennie and Frank realized that early retirement should have more value than surfing on their computers, so they decided to take in foster children. We met Johnny, 11, a very
polite boy trying to please everyone, and David, 6, who was never quiet and always moving. (not their real names). Normal kids. Johnny created the biggest smile of the trip. As he held the car door for me, he kept asking if it was all right to close the door. Then he commented, “You overlap and I wasn’t sure when to shut it.” We also made a visit at the Ozark Folk Center State Park located in Mt. View where there are cabins with various skilled craftpersons at work. I treated myself by purchasing cute cups with different farm animals drawn on them from the potter. They are almost spill proof when I go to my recliner where I check the news on Good Morning America. One problem, I realized that
when I ate my cup full, I ate two-and-half cups of cereal. It took four hours of mountain curves and roller coaster ups and downs to get to Bentonville to visit Crystal Bridge. Now considered one of the top art museums in the nation, it was impressive and will remain that way, for the Walton Family Foundation has given it $1.2 billion to keep purchasing works and $20 million to offer free admission. When we were about half way through it we stopped at a lounge area. There we found three note books with individual pages of art work there. We looked through them. It was a lazy way to see most of the 450 works displayed there. When Alice Walton bids on art works from her Texas home
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