This is video from the summer of 2005 at the Ivan Bright famn near Hope, Arkansas. Two watermelons are picked from the field. The first ends up on the ground in pieces. The second weighs in as the largest watermelon in the world.
Gilt-Edge 78rpm DJ recording of the Stewart Family of Blytheville, Arkansas singing "4 O'Clock in the Morning". The group was featured on KLCN in Blytheville. Group leader V.F. "Pappy" Stewart is best known for writing "Just Out of Reach". The vocal on this is by Bethyl Stewart Brown.
Herndon-Pharr Funeral Home held a ribbon-cutting in September in Hope, Arkansas. New owners Terry & Wendy Pharr are joined by their friends to open a new chapter in a business that began in 1898.
Rev. French Stroughter introduces local Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Angielynn Taylor at the annual Martin Luther King, Jr. program at Providence Missionary Baptist Church in Hope, Arkansas. This is only a segment of the address.
Dr. Chuck Welch, chancellor of the University of Arkansas Community College at Hope, Arkansas makes the keynote address at the annual meeting of the Hempstead County Economic Development Corporation meeting on August 29, 2007 in Hope, Arkansas
Veteran KWKH Louisiana Hayride act Harmie Smith sings "Weary Trouble On My Mind". This RCA-Victor single is backed by "Tomorrow Begins Another Year", the first composition credited to Webb Pierce. It is thought Webb is on this record.