Travel: August 2006 Archives

While looking for info about Dinosaur World (a place we visited sometime around 1970, I came across The Arkansas Roadside Travelogue, a website devoted to odd and interesting things the author has found in his travels around the Land of Opportunity. For example:

• Little Rock's Ray Winder Field, for 70 years home to the Arkansas Travelers of the Texas League, (and my all-time favorite minor-league ballpark).
• Monte Ne, once a resort southeast of Rogers founded by radical Progressive William "Coin" Harvey. In its heyday, Venetian gondolas ferried guests across a lagoon from the train station to the lodge.
• Possible explanations for the name Toad Suck Ferry.
• A place near Lepanto in northeastern Arkansas where two rivers cross.
• What really happened when Keith Richards was pulled over in Fordyce, Arkansas.

It's a fun site to explore, in the same vein (although not as thorough or focused) as Kevin Walsh's Forgotten NY.