I don't have a photo from Arkansas. The first time I was there, was passing through on the trips to Arizona as a child. We went south and across Oklahoma and north Texas, into New Mexico and then into Arizona on those trips.
The next time I was there was to present a training for AARP at a legal aid program in Little Rock. I am not sure of the date, it was post Clinton, they were starting on Bill's Presidential Library when we were there. It was after 2000 and before 2005 when I started recording the hotels I have stayed in.
While we lived in Lexington Kentucky, we drove down to Memphis Tennessee to see one of the first US exhibits of items recovered from the Titanic, on the trip back from there, we drove north, crossed the Mississippi river and drove through a sliver of Arkansas.
I am glad I have been there, and I see little reason to return. Well there is an art museum, funded with Walmart billions.
Why is Arkansas pronounce Arkinsaw? After all, Kansas is not pronounced Kinsaw! Only in America!
ReplyDeleteWhen I was just a little hamster, I thought Arkansas was a province of Kansas. As for why this is so, well... people from there do talk funny.
DeleteJust one of the great mysteries of American English.
DeleteI have the same question as Yorkshire Pudding.
ReplyDeleteTo keep it from becoming too sassy?
DeleteAn English friend of ours thought it was pronounced Are-Kansas wanted to see it. I never have.
ReplyDeleteI have heard that pronunciation.
DeleteI would like to see that art museum you mentioned. I hear good things about it.
ReplyDeleteOne reason to go there.
DeleteI have never been there and probably never will.
ReplyDeleteYou haven't miss much.
DeleteI don't know it just sounds like another one of those states that doesn't sound very exciting. Maybe one day when my whole entire bucket list is shot.
ReplyDeleteTHey say this museum is worth the visit. https://crystalbridges.org/
DeleteI have read good compliments about that museum.
ReplyDeleteIt is certainly well funded.
DeleteWait...its not "Ark and Saw"? So much for being the most interestingly named state...
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