Re: [DL] Stranded in Arkansas

["james wallace" <yelost1@hotmail.com>]

ok dude here it is,

the basic layout of the state is pretty simple, at that time period and 
today, the northern part of the state down to the capital, which would be 
little rock, is of the ozark mountains/hills/plateau and its cold in the 
winter a wet nasty cold that a friend of mine who moved here said was worse 
than when he lived in Alaska, but he may just be a puss.  and in the summer 
its hot and humid, melt your balls in your pants type of weather.  in the 
spring and fall we have about three days of survivable weather.  from little 
rock south and i am not shitting you here, all of a sudden it turns into 
flatlands, they might roll a little but the sheer altitude drop from the 
mountains to the plain is astounding. we were coming out of the moutains one 
day when we came to a huge outlook overlooking whichever city we were headed 
to at the time, i forget which, and i could see the humidity hanging over 
the place.  so it was about five times worse there than it was in the 
ozarks.  now the state itself was infected with some kind of spiritual 
magnet because it slowly drains the will to live right out of you, and if 
for some reason you escape, everything can be going great, then bang the 
cold cruel hand of arkansas drags you back in taking everything that you 
gained when you left.  trust me i have seen it happen time and again. as for 
historical data, don't have the room, but the state in the 1800's was 
scarcely populated, really scarcely, made up of mostly farmers. the state 
has had wealthy people but most were just getting by. there are books on the 
subject if you really want to know.  one historical black mark that arkansas 
has is its racial division, you might try working on that and if that's not 
it we have a wonderful reputation for incest that you can run with.  and 
deliverance is a great movie to base something off of.

check out books on the history look at the local library or britanica.com or 
something as for folklore i have lived in the ozarks all of my life and i 
have not heard of any. that would be 25 years of not hearing anything, sorry 
happy hunting.

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