Author Archives: Granger Meador
Landscaping Lamentations
The green thumbs of the former owners of Meador Manor should be stained red, given the poisonous and polluting species they planted. In the early 1990s, they completely reworked the yard, and admittedly it looked good when I bought the … Continue reading
The Elastic Heart of Youth
The elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time. Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Almost all of my childhood belongings were sold off over time in garage sales, given to younger … Continue reading
The World at Our Fingertips
Polly Hotchkiss, Field Enterprises Educational Corporation representative #5592514, was 46 years old when she made the sale. It was March 9, 1968 when she convinced a 31-year-old mother in the Western Village neighborhood of Oklahoma City to invest $228.35 for … Continue reading
Before Jurassic Park came Farwells
I first visited Farwells Dinosaur Park in 1970, when I was four years old. For almost 40 years, it was one of the more bizarre tourist attractions near Eureka Springs, Arkansas. My parents had bought a tiny one-bedroom cabin on … Continue reading
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