Listen " Purple Hull Pea Festival, Highway 67, and Arkansas Archeology "
Episode Synopsis
...in which Rex and Paul talk about their trip into Southwest Arkansas to attend the annual Purple Hull Pea Festival in Emerson and talk about old U.S. Highway 67, the Arkansas "nervous hospital," Sling Blade, Billy Bob Thornton, Perla, the Acme Brick Company and Brickfest, the Keeney Food Market and cafe in Malvern, Paul's father's sausage recipe, Imboden, Paul's father's trick of restoring old hamburger meat to the appearance of edibility, butcher's caps and aprons, the Morrilton Packing Company, B and B Grocery, Breitweiser's Meat Market in Benton, the essential role of fat in the creation of sausage, the DeSoto Bluff Trail in Arkadelphia, Hernando DeSoto's driver's license, the Hunter-Dunbar Expedition, Ouachita Baptist University, Rex's Eagle Scout project, Henderson State University's collection of Caddo artifacts, the Arkansas Archeological Survey, Ann Early, and achievements in interpreting Native American experiences in Arkansas.
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