QUESTION: I live on Vimy Ridge Road in Saline County, near Benton to be exact and am wondering if the name of the street has any Civil War significance. We’ve got a Civil War marker in the neighborhood and I was just wondering…? Thanks, Mel.
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QUESTION: I do think Arkansas is the absolute best, the very, very, very best and I think everyone who lives here would agree with me. Recently, I had the opportunity to visit amazing Hot Springs Village for the first time. It is truly an arresting place. I was struck by the land, there is so much of it and so much of it seemingly left untouched. My host, another native Arkansan told me that HSV is the largest gated community in the United States. It’s big, but is it really that big?
Thanks, Rockin’ Arky
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QUESTION: Plainclothesman, is there such a thing as Argenta, Liberia? Thanks, Paolo.
SKINNY: Well Paolo, I don’t know if there is such a thing or place called Argenta, Liberia, but I thought you’d like know that Victoria Tolbert, the wife of the former President of Liberia, President William Tolbert was from Argenta, Arkansas. According to Kenneth C. Barnes, author of Journey of Hope: The Back to Africa Movement in the 1880’s, “Mrs. Tolbert was the daughter of Isaac David who at the age of five emigrated with his family from Argenta (now North Little Rock, Arkansas)” to Liberia……
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