Little Rock, a block in history

Meanwhile, back at Little Rock, Arkansas, where there is so much to see and do, we also went to a great museum!  It included , well, the entire block was of homes that were there long before the museum, back in the 1800's, yep folks, they were older than me!

This little cabin is in the actual spot!  Hard to believe it is still standing, kinda lends credence to what was built in the past, it was made to last!  Not like today in our throw away society. Of course it was one floor, small windows, walls the wind blew through and a path to walk when you had to tend to business!  :*)  Here is another house that actually faces the street.  We learned that houses build back then only had windows in the front to impress folks, Whoa, not this gal, I would impress them around the back too, I like lotz of light!  Glass was hard to get back then, so maybe my statement would be a little hasty if I were living in that time, ya think???  Or I could put Sweet William to work on another job, like that would happen for windows!!!

Here is the back of one of the houses, strange looking, huh?

Oh, did I tell you that the kitchen wasn't even in the house??  You could handle it tho., cause you would have a cook, yeah baby, sounds good to me!  She would even have her bed right there and could keep warm in the winter, but whoo~we would the summers be miserable for her!  How about that Murphy's bed!!

Here is another house from the front, this would have been a moderately wealthy family.

They had nice fireplaces, but no closets, because every door in a house was taxed, you can see the closet on the left.  The doors weren't attached to the house, voila, NO TAX!!  Didn't we move here from England to get away from taxes?  What happened??

Any one know what this little gizmo is?  Tell ya later!

Now if you were a gypsy like us, when you came to a town you would look up the local bar, notice the bars on this 'bar', it use to get pretty wild and the bars were put on to keep the bar keep safe, as well as the money he collected,  notice the points at the top, thus the name. Smart, and cool, yah?  But we wouldn't go there for the drink, but for the food.

This little gal was our docent, and showed us what kind of folks we would be dining with, from mountain men to cattlemen,gunslingers, gamblers, etc., and you always got a sort of stew like stuff.  The pot was never cleaned, yukko, they would just add new and keep cooking, now isn't that exciting?  Guess it would be if you were eating jerky stuff and dried corn for months!!

However, IF.... you were a lady, you wouldn't go into places like that and would be sat at a table with a table cloth, a real plate, not metal, and a nice cup. Whew, am I glad of that!! But..... you ate out of the same pot as the rest, again I say YUKKO!!!!!

This is an eagle feather fan, made by the Quapaw Indians, wouldn't you feel like such a lady fanning yourself with one of these?  Being an eagle bus owner, I certainly would!!

Now here ya go! If ya wanna be noticed, just strapped these babies onto your legs gals!  Just kidding, these were used in various  Indian dances, all those poor turtles, hope they made soup out of them and didn't just kill them for their shells, and knowing the Indians I'm sure they did.  I would love to hear the sound they make, but they had them  in a glass enclosure, so no go. I would have been fun tho.

Well folks, hope you enjoyed our little journey, and we aren't done with Little Rock yet, so tune in next time for the adventures of .... the gypsy people!  Till then, Hugs, prayers and smiles to all, Arlette & Bill too, and the Sassy 

Forgot to tell you  what that Gizmo was, sorry, it is something used to wind your yarn after it was all done with whatever they did to it back then, they didn't hardly go to Wal~mart , now could you!