Cream Castle, Arkansas History, and the Mississippi Delta

26/08/2016 15 min

Cream Castle, Arkansas History, and the Mississippi Delta

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...in which Rex and Paul talk about their constant pursuit of good southern food with only the purest research interests, the Cream Castle in Blytheville, Revis Edmonds and his article on the Cream Castle in the Arkansas Historical Quarterly, the mobile barbecue stand in the parking lot at the Hays store and Penn barbecue in Blytheville, Paul's suggestion that the Arkansas Historical Association (AHA) adopt barbecue, if not his hometown of Imboden, as the theme for its 2017 meeting, new AHA president Mark Christ's quest for the best Arkansas hamburger, Civil War arguments about events that might not have taken place and the plaques commemorating them, the Battle of the Bees, Rex's phantom memories of broadcasting a football game he didn't do, when Miss Arkansas Elizabeth Ward became Miss America in 1982, and the upcoming meeting of the Delta Council and Rex and Paul's plans to eat their way through the Mississippi Delta on the way to and from the meeting.