| A First Travelogue The 10th Year Wedding Anniversary Little Rock, Arkansas August 3rd, 4th, and 5th of 2007 |
| Saturday morning, while it was cool, the first place we stopped to visit was the Old State House. This was a first visit for both of us, and it had a larger variety of things than either of us expected. A history of the building itself, artifacts found on the grounds, a large collection of first ladies clothing, a special collection of Indian artifacts, and beautiful 'reproduction' rooms with some original furnishings. For more on its place in Arkansas history, visit the Old State House. A couple of facts: The State House served as the state capitol until 1911 and is the oldest standing capitol West of the Mississippi River. In 1912, it was loaned to a medical school which set up pens to test pigs with Anthrax. In the 1990s, it was used as the setting for Bill Clinton's various political announcements, like winning a 2nd term for President. |
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 The first wife of a former President to ever be elected Senator, and the first wife of a President to ever run for President. |
 Evidence that even Hilary wasn't always a snappy dresser. |
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 Sorry for the flash! Effigy: a representation of an animal or human form. |
“Imagine my chagrin...when I visited such museums as Peabody at Harvard, the National Museum at Washington, D.C., the one at the University of Michigan, the Heye Museum of the American Indian at New York and found...that their finest and most valuable Indian displays had been sent from Arkansas. Specimens are there that can never be found again in our state. They were sold to the big museums for a nominal sum. They are not like a crop of cotton or corn that can be grown again...when these go out of the state they are lost forever.... Do we want to send our ... students to another university in order to learn something of the first inhabitants of Arkansas?” — Sam Dellinger  |
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| Sometimes I see things on tours that just strike me as funny...On the right is a picture of a seating room with tall windows, high ceilings, hardwood floors, antique furnishings, and a spinning wheel. A what?! I'm pretty sure that spinning was messy work, and no one was doing it in the sitting room. Not at the capitol anyway. I doubt any governors wife made her own clothes completely from scratch. Bought bolts of cloth, sure, MADE the cloth? Not! In the photo on the left is a fine example of a tea set and what I call 'Victorian' style furniture. Now outward displays of affection weren't really permitted long ago, so I'm wondering if maybe instead of the 'love seat' if this piece was called the "keep your distance" seat. Hehe! |
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 If you have any knowledge of old homes, you know kitchens were built in a separate building because of the fire hazard. So this quaint set up isn't accurate, but it's real purty. However, I'd like to shake whoever put the icebox RIGHT NEXT TO THE STOVE! Moron. |
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 This picture is of an old stuff. :-D Look how tall the baseboard is on the wall! |
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 View of the Arkansas River from the back windows  A beautiful element that was probably functional as well for ventilation.  I always look up, you never know what you might miss! |
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