Madison County is in northwest Arkansas. Fayetteville is in the same area. THE University of Arkansas is at Fayetteville. Several other colleges carry the UofA name, and then a location, but there is only one real University of Arkansas.
The census of 2000 showed Madison County with a population of 14,243, of whom 95.94% were white. That demographic is not unusual in mountain areas of the South. Mountainous land is not cotton land, therefore, few white mountaineers back in the old days owned slaves. Mountain areas were more Unionist than were downslope regions. The mountainous part of western Virginia split from Virginia early in the U.S. Civil War (so-called).
Madison County has one designated city – Huntsville, which is the county seat. There are two towns – Hindsville and St. Paul – and 12 communities. The county also has 21 townships, including Alabam, California, Kentucky, Venus and War Eagle.
In the “Huntsville Massacre” of Jan. 10, 1863, Union soldiers shot nine suspected Confederate sympathizers, killing eight. The Civil War (so-called) was a nasty piece of business away from battlefields, especially in Arkansas, Missouri and Oklahoma. Ante bellum politics and armed irregular forces – Confederate and Union – contributed to general killings and extralegal executions. The Outlaw Josie Wales does not stray far from what people did to each other during those times.
John Henry Selman, Sr., was born in Madison County in 1839. He served for a time with the 22nd Texas Cavalry and reportedly deserted before the Civil War (so-called) was over. Selman became a bad man and a lawman in West Texas and New Mexico. On Aug. 19, 1895, El Paso Constable Selman shot and killed outlaw/gunfighter/attorney John Wesley Hardin, shooting Hardin one time in the back of the head and three times in the torso as Hardin lay dead on the floor of the Acme Saloon. Eight months later, U.S. Marshal George Scarborough shot and killed Selman in an alley in El Paso.
Ronnie Hawkins was born in Huntsville. He later formed a band called The Hawks and played with Bob Dylan. One of Dylan's songs is John Wesley Harding, "a friend of the poor," who "traveled with a gun in every hand."
Orval E. Faubus, former governor of Arkansas, was born in Coombs Community in Madison County.
Here is a picture of a dirt road in a Madison County, maybe Arkansas.
http://ih0.redbubble.net/image.9030612.3797/flat,550x550,075,f.jpg
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Wednesday, May 11, 2016
Tuesday, June 5, 2012
Don't these people have anything better to do?
Well ... No.
‘Springsteen favored to write new US anthem: poll’
“Twenty-two percent of Americans think veteran rocker Bruce Springsteen should compose a new US national anthem to replace ‘The Star-Spangled Banner,’ suggests an online poll released Monday.
“That's more than the 19 percent who think country legend Dolly Parton is up to the task, or the 18 percent who favor soulman Stevie Wonder, according to the poll for the CBS current affairs show ‘60 Minutes’ and Vanity Fair magazine.
“Eleven percent named venerable singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, 10 percent favor movie soundtrack composer John Williams, eight percent voted for rapper Jay-Z and five percent named pop diva Madonna.
“Pollsters telephoned a random sample of 1,026 adults nationwide between April 27 and 30 for the poll, which had a margin of error of plus or minus three percentage points.
“Based on a poem by Francis Scott Key describing the British naval bombardment of Fort McHenry in Baltimore, Maryland during the War of 1812, ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ has been the official US national anthem since 1931.
http://news.yahoo.com/springsteen-favored-write-us-anthem-poll-215026210.html
(Let’s recap: 22 percent is more than 19 percent, more than18 percent, more than 11 percent, more than 10 percent, more than 8 percent and more than 5 percent.
(Let’s recap, Part 2: “Twenty-two percent of Americans think …” No, 22 percent of 1,026 adults said in a poll … My guess is, the “think” part played no role in the poll.
(Let’s recap, Part 3: Responses indicate the thought level of the 1,026.)
‘Springsteen favored to write new US anthem: poll’
“Twenty-two percent of Americans think veteran rocker Bruce Springsteen should compose a new US national anthem to replace ‘The Star-Spangled Banner,’ suggests an online poll released Monday.
“That's more than the 19 percent who think country legend Dolly Parton is up to the task, or the 18 percent who favor soulman Stevie Wonder, according to the poll for the CBS current affairs show ‘60 Minutes’ and Vanity Fair magazine.
“Eleven percent named venerable singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, 10 percent favor movie soundtrack composer John Williams, eight percent voted for rapper Jay-Z and five percent named pop diva Madonna.
“Pollsters telephoned a random sample of 1,026 adults nationwide between April 27 and 30 for the poll, which had a margin of error of plus or minus three percentage points.
“Based on a poem by Francis Scott Key describing the British naval bombardment of Fort McHenry in Baltimore, Maryland during the War of 1812, ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ has been the official US national anthem since 1931.
http://news.yahoo.com/springsteen-favored-write-us-anthem-poll-215026210.html
(Let’s recap: 22 percent is more than 19 percent, more than18 percent, more than 11 percent, more than 10 percent, more than 8 percent and more than 5 percent.
(Let’s recap, Part 2: “Twenty-two percent of Americans think …” No, 22 percent of 1,026 adults said in a poll … My guess is, the “think” part played no role in the poll.
(Let’s recap, Part 3: Responses indicate the thought level of the 1,026.)
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