Last-minute race develops for Supreme Court

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3. It's a little off topic but, I've got to ask you

Do you remember anything from your Arkansas History class in grade school? I remember we had a textbook that was waaaaay out of date. It ended with Governor Francis Cherry, I think, who preceded Orval Faubus. That was quite a while before I was even born. So no mention even of Little Rock Central High.

But I do have some fond memories of that book, though--- stories of the Caddo, Quapaw and Osage Indians; the story of Petit Jean, a female French explorer who posed as a boy; stories of Spanish Louisiana; William Woodruff, founder of the Arkansas Gazette; early governors Sevier, Izard, and Yell; statehood in 1836; the Civil War and the Battle of Pea Ridge; the Brooks-Baxter War and Reconstruction; exotic pictures of the Arkansas River, Crowley's Ridge and Lake Chicot; and almost no mention of Northwest Arkansas.