AGP - Gravin' with Friends

Gravin' with Friends

Kathy Fuller (left), Larry Burwell (right), and Tootie Dennis (back).

Leaving Amarillo, Texas, my home, on 27 of April, heading across Oklahoma into Arkansas. Crossed Ft Smith and found the right highway for Paris, Logan County, Arkansas. Logan is a very lovely area of Arkansas and incudes the highest point in Arkansas, Mt Magazine.

Larry Burwell is the County Coordinator for Logan County and has always been a very involved and consistant CC. He and I had spoken on the phone and e-mailed our hope for plans of Gravin' as many cemetereis as was possible in Logan County. Especially, the infamous McKendree.

An added treat was Kathy Fuller, the CC for Little River, Sevier, & Hempsted Counties. She had so kindly volunteered to met Larry and I and help any way she could.

The motel in Paris was comfortable and Kathy was in one side of the motel and me on the other side. But we spent most of our time working in her room. Kathy had downloaded and prepared maps of many cemeteries in Logan couty. She had the county well mapped and driving directions to those we thought we could photograph in the area of Paris. Each day, Kathy, would down load the photos to a disk that she, Larry and I had taken each day. Then give them to Larry to upload as he had time.

Larry was in transition. He was in his last weeks as a teacher and it was his last year of teaching...he was retiring. He would drive from his home in Boonesville to meet us each day as soon as he finished his dayof teaching and off we would go. We had some wonderful adventures in the cemetereis in Logan County.

I will remember those 4 days with great happiness. This is us at one of the local resturants. It had rained that day, can you tell by the hair?? Kathy Fuller in the left of the photo. Larry Burwell and me at the back. It was raining frogs that day. But it cleared off and we did get in a little Gravin'. I learned a lot from Kathy. First and foremost how to pronounce Sevier County...it is not pronounce Seever, Texas talk, but like seiver as in a seiver fever. More in edisode 2.