WHEN DOES "HOME" BECOME "GHOST TOWN"?

A couple  of days ago we posted about Lewisville, Arkansas.  I wanted to add more pictures, focusing mainly on the seemingly abandoned print shop and the architecture of the buildings surrounding the town's primary intersection.

To get a true sense of the town, you have to know that all of the pictures in this post and our last were taken within a two or three-block radius of the intersection.  For example, in this picture you can see the reflection of the unconventional-architecture building in the second photograph in the last post.

The print shop from the exterior:

Maybe the lack of legible signage led to its demise?

(Nope, can't post without at least one ghost sign!)

Anyway, the interior is what really caught my eye.  I got the moody picture at the top of the post, but Mark took these crisp interior shots:

and another ghost sign:

At the very end we practically ran, getting mostly texture pictures.

While Wikipedia has virtually nothing about Lewisville, there is an interesting history of it at the Encyclopedia of Arkansas.

(The discussion of "Old Lewisville" and "New Lewisville" necessitated by the extension of a railroad line in the Encyclopedia of Arkansas history reminded me of a scene in the multi-generational novel The Roots of the Olive Tree, which I realized over time was set in Corning, California, between the areas where Mark and I grew up.)

Finally, back to the issue of never seeing everything you want to . . .  As I was preparing the last post, I discovered that Lewisville is only 23 miles from Hope, Arkansas - where Bill Clinton was born - so that would have been interesting.

Thinking about that, and the fact that Lewisville and Stamps, Arkansas are only five miles apart, I realized that Clinton and Maya Angelou had lived in such close proximity.  Here are links to Clinton talking about choosing Angelou to deliver a poem at his first inauguration.