Hello! Just to let you know that the stories are wonderful that everyone is posting. My Mother and Grandparents were from Hot Springs and I love hearing about things there, it makes me feel even closer to them. I was never fortunate enough to get to go there, but leaving Texas at a very young age and coming to CA, is about the extent of my traveling. I really love your stories though and hope people post more of them. God bless, Wanda Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2007 1:55 PM Subject: Re: [ARCRAWFO] Strawberries > >>Hi folks, > > > I just thought I'd share my memories of my aunt and father talking about > picking strawberries for their grandfather, James Steele who had a farm > near Bonds Special. The farm was near Frog Bayou. A Bayou in AR is > another image I've had a hard time picturing--especially in the hilly NW > part of AR. They'd take their strawberries to Bond's Special then load > them > on the train. Since my dad and aunt were born at the turn of the century, > then I'd guess they were talking ca 1910-1925. > > Nancy Corder Halvorson > Santa Fe, NM > > > > >> > Actually Billie, you can only envision growing strawberries in the hill >> > part of Crawford County. Where I live strawberries were the first crop >> > grown on "new ground". That means lots of stumps and in one field on >> > top of the side bluff down stream on Big Frog south of Lancaster I got >> > to help Tom Tabor plant his new crop of Strawberries. Each of us >> > carried a bucket of top soil so we could put out enough dirt to plant >> > them. >> > >> > You might like to know that today that area mostly grows houses. >> > >> > Gail >> > >> > -----Original Message----- >> > From: arcrawfo-bounces@rootsweb.com >> > [mailto:arcrawfo-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Billie >> > Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 9:02 PM >> > To: arcrawfo@rootsweb.com >> > Subject: [ARCRAWFO] Strawberries >> > >> > >> > I love all this talk about the strawberries; thank you guys for sharing >> > all this info. When you live in the Texas Panhandle, it's hard to >> > imagine what my ancestors were doing back in Arkansas. Billie >> > >> > ------------------------------- >> > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> > ARCRAWFO-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > ------------------------------- >> > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> > ARCRAWFO-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > >> >> >> >>------------------------------- >>To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>ARCRAWFO-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >>quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ARCRAWFO-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message