Walking through History at the Daffodil Festival

Ouachita County Historical Society Quarterly arrived today and promised a Walk Through Time. The Winter 2015 issue is filled with historic information so that the volume may be kept as a resource for all who love history, especially Camden, Arkansas, History.

Teresa Harris, one of the contributors to OCHS and a friend with whom I have reconnected through historical research, compiled the Walk Through. While she admits in her notes that she chose to document and compile for her own interest, the project grew and can now be used as historians learn more about the "evolving of Camden" as a city.

Perhaps there is no way to be 100% accurate when trying to compile information from multiple sources, especially as the sources are often dated well after the date of the event in question.

With much appreciation, I salute Teresa for this exhaustive and informative Walk.

Upcoming for Camden is the annual Daffodil Festival, March 11 - 13, 2016. Among the multiple events during the weekend is the Cemetery Walk in Historic Oakland Cemetery. The event is a crowd pleaser with re-enactors who "portray the connecting stories of early inhabitants and settlers." Tours run continuously every fifteen minutes, 9AM - 4 PM, Fri & Sat.

 My family members buried there include Julia Sonora Ritchie Greening and family, Thomas Bullock Gordon II is buried beside his cousins George Garnett Ritchie and Charles Andrew Ritchie,the graves located near the CHS Gazebo. All three boys died as infants. The story of "Little Tommy" is a chapter in the family history saga THE HOUSE ON HARRISON STREET which will be launched during the Camden Daffodil Festival. (See BLOG link to the right - The House on Harrison Street)