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...gone to look for America

A diary of a thirty-day odyssey across America in May 2014, eschewing all interstate highways in favor of secondary roads through small towns and villages.

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Wednesday, May 7 - Memphis To Arkansas

5/7/2014

 
Before we left Memphis this morning we visited the National Civil Rights Museum. I anticipated that we would spend maybe an hour there, and then get on the road. Well, we were there until three in the afternoon! It was an amazing, moving, fascinating, place. I can't imagine a more a beautiful and comprehensive history of slavery and the Civil Rights Movement! The presentation is dynamic. The building is beautiful. The people helpful and gracious. I think this place alone is worth a trip to Memphis. Forget Disneyland...take your kids here. Let them learn something important.

Well...

Leaving Memphis, we headed to Arkansas intending to drive just a few hours and then finish the drive to Eureka Springs tomorrow. We stopped to eat at a diner in Harrisburg Arkansas called Witt's End, where we had one of the best catfish dinners EVER! But beyond the food, this place was...well, have you ever seen the movie Bagdad Café? This place is the Bagdad Café of Arkansas. (If you've never seen the movie, you must. It's a scream.)

We got great advice on our travels from the locals, and met owner Karen Witt and her family. What a friendly lady! She sent us on our way with a couple of fry pies on the house for a late dessert.

Tonight we're staying in Cherokee Village, and will journey on to Eureka Springs tomorrow. Beautiful Ozarks.

Nighty night, all.

(Can you believe I didn't take one picture today? I'll try to make up for it tomorrow.)
Benjamin Vise
5/8/2014 10:04:40 pm

Ah, that catfish!! I can taste it, now...good old cornbread breading and all (probably hush puppies, too, I would imagine...although--Wah!--I can't eat them any more! Fun to hear about your discoveries in my "hinterland," though. Yes, you are in the hinterland, too, of much of the civil rights struggle--Little Rock, of course, was explosive when I was only about 9 yrs. old and the integration crisis happened. My next up brother was a student there when it all happened....but I, of course, didn't have a clue!
Enjoy them Ozarks for me, pals!!!!!!


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    Patti Auber

    Recently retired, child of the '60s, ready for my next adventure.

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